A Bibliometric Review on Applying Spatial Perception Technologies to Make Cities Livable

Against the backdrop of accelerating global urbanization, creating livable cities is critical for enhancing quality of urban life. Spatial perception can serve as a reference for livability evaluation while exploring how spaces are experienced. Recent breakthroughs in spatial perception technologies (SPTs) offer new pathways to quantify perception objectively but there is a lack of systematic reviews on how spatial perception research contributes to enhancing urban livability, thus hindering their scientific translation into practice. This research conducts a bibliometric review of 402 articles from Web of Science and Scopus, employing PRISMA guidelines for literature screening and CiteSpace for co-citation networks and keyword clustering. Key findings include: 1) Theoretically, Cognitive Psychology and environmental behavior theories underpin the perception-emotion-behavior continuum,