Toward effective urban regeneration post-COVID-19: Urban vitality assessment to evaluate people preferences and place settings integrating LBSNs and POI
Jinliu Chen, Kunlun Ren, Pengcheng Li, Haoqi Wang, Pu Zhou
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Abstract
COVID-19 brought tremendous disruption to daily life, accelerated urban digital transformation, and prompted sustainable improvement in socio-spatial development. The emergence of analytic technologies stimulates possibilities for integrating socio-spatial relationships, and new urban research methods and assessment systems are required, which are rarely discussed in recent studies. To bridge the research gap, this study proposes a measurement framework that combines Location Based Social Networking Services (LBSNs) and POI data to test the effectiveness of urban regeneration projects. Specifically, the study quantifies urban vitality to evaluate people’s preferences and place settings integrating by objectively utilizing LBSNs with social media (Weibo check-in and Dianping data) and POI data. This study focuses on 153 regeneration projects in Suzhou, China, from 2019 to 2021 and categorizes urban regeneration projects into four types: (1) community, (2) commercial, (3) public space, and (4) industry. Further, a binary logistic regression model was conducted to analyze the effects of different regeneration measures on urban spatial vitality. The research findings show that combining LBSNs data with POI data can effectively assess the transformation in urban vitality with spatiotemporal analysis. The results indicate that commercial and community regeneration projects significantly impacted urban vitality, and cultural-related renovation measures are critical in improving urban vitality. The systematic urban regeneration measurement framework could promote the regeneration efficiency and rationalization of decision-making, providing a basis for understanding complex socio-spatial relationships and ensuring sustainable urban developmeng sustainable urban development significantly.
期刊介绍:
Environment, Development and Sustainability is an international and multidisciplinary journal covering all aspects of the environmental impacts of socio-economic development. It is also concerned with the complex interactions which occur between development and environment, and its purpose is to seek ways and means for achieving sustainability in all human activities aimed at such development. The subject matter of the journal includes the following and related issues:
-mutual interactions among society, development and environment, and their implications for sustainable development
-technical, economic, ethical and philosophical aspects of sustainable development
-global sustainability - the obstacles and ways in which they could be overcome
-local and regional sustainability initiatives, their practical implementation, and relevance for use in a wider context
-development and application of indicators of sustainability
-development, verification, implementation and monitoring of policies for sustainable development
-sustainable use of land, water, energy and biological resources in development
-impacts of agriculture and forestry activities on soil and aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity
-effects of energy use and global climate change on development and sustainability
-impacts of population growth and human activities on food and other essential resources for development
-role of national and international agencies, and of international aid and trade arrangements in sustainable development
-social and cultural contexts of sustainable development
-role of education and public awareness in sustainable development
-role of political and economic instruments in sustainable development
-shortcomings of sustainable development and its alternatives.