{"title":"Spatial Mobility Under Crisis: Policy Responses and Migration Dynamics in Five Countries","authors":"Lidan Lyu, Mengyao Cheng, Yu Chen, Xinwei Min","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09734-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09734-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines how public health crises—particularly the COVID-19 pandemic—have reshaped migration governance and spatial mobility across five countries. Focusing on the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, China, Brazil, and Ghana, the study analyzes policy responses and their implications for migration dynamics. We identify recurring and context‑contingent migration patterns across the five studied countries during the pandemic. Our findings suggest that national responses are shaped by factors such as the epidemic trajectory, economic status, healthcare systems, political structures, and urbanization and demographic characteristics. These policy choices, in turn, reconfigured spatial mobility patterns by constraining transnational and internal movements in uneven ways. These interactions are intrinsically linked to each country’s pre-existing migration patterns and policies. This study provides insights into the complex relationships between crisis-driven mobility control and migration governance, underscoring the long-term implications of pandemic responses for vulnerable populations in diverse, globalized societies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual Inequality: Exploring Visual Differences in Street Advertising across Economic Communities","authors":"Qianlong Shi, Jing Zhang, Xinping Zhang, Yan Wei","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09716-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09716-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Street advertisements, as an important component of urban landscapes, implicitly convey the economic conditions and social status of different regions through their visual features. This implicit inequality in information not only depends on the type and content of the advertisements but is also directly influenced by their visual features. However, previous studies have mainly focused on analyzing the differences in the content, type, and quantity of advertisements across communities with varying economic levels, while less attention has been given to the disparities in the visual features of advertisements across such communities. To address this issue, this study uses street view images from sample points in Xi’an and applies computer vision techniques to identify and calculate the salience, area, brightness, contrast, and color difference of advertisements. Finally, statistical methods and correlation analysis, combined with housing price data from the sample points, are used to analyze the relationship between advertisement visual features and community housing prices. The study results indicate that: The results of the Tukey Honestly Significant Difference post-hoc test indicate that the salience and area of advertisements are significantly higher in high-price communities compared to low-price communities (<i>p</i> < 0.01). In contrast, the color difference between advertisements and their background is significantly greater in low-price communities than in high-price communities (<i>p</i> < 0.05). The results of the correlation analysis further support these findings, showing a significant positive correlation between advertisement salience, area, and housing prices (<i>p</i> < 0.01).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paulo de Almeida Correia Jr., José Carpio‑Pinedo, Borja Moya‑Gómez, Ana Condeço‑Mehorado
{"title":"Correction to: Modal Accessibility Gap in Curitiba (Brazil). Dynamic Analysis Considering Time and Spatial Variations","authors":"Paulo de Almeida Correia Jr., José Carpio‑Pinedo, Borja Moya‑Gómez, Ana Condeço‑Mehorado","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09732-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09732-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12061-025-09732-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145210397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying Scale Effects and Driving Factors in Recreation Service Spatial Interactions: A Multidimensional Assessment and Hierarchical Management Framework for the Yangtze River Delta","authors":"Liangjian Yang, Jinhe Zhang, Lijia Guo, Jieyi Tao, Xiaobin Ma, Peijia Wang","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09725-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09725-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study proposes a multiscale evaluation framework for recreation services (RS) based on the Environment–Opportunity–Potential (EOP) model, aiming to better understand the dynamics and drivers of RS across spatial scales. Using the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region of China as a case study, this research assesses the RS levels from 2010 to 2020 based on the Environment Opportunity and Potential (EOP) framework. We investigated the trade-offs and synergies among multiple dimensions of RS and analyze their driving mechanisms at varying spatial scales. Key findings include: (1) The YRD exhibits a distinct spatial pattern characterized by higher values in the southeastern areas and lower values in the northwest, and the average level decreased by 5.85% over the past decade. (2) The direction and magnitude of trade-offs and synergies among different RS dimensions are scale-dependent, with spatial scale exerting a more pronounced influence on these interactions than temporal scale. (3) RS exhibited significant spatial clustering across all scales, with High–High clusters primarily located in southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Zhejiang. These hotspots showed strong spatial associations with transportation corridors, though their dependence on urban centers declined over time. (4) Socioeconomic factors play a critical role in shaping RS, but their effects vary significantly between grid and administrative scales in both direction and magnitude. Based on these findings, we propose a multiscale RS management framework (city-county-grid) to guide spatial planning and policy formulation. This framework helps align RS development with local contexts and supports sustainable recreational planning in rapidly urbanizing regions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technological Window, Technological Catch-up and Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from China","authors":"Yuanxi Li","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09727-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09727-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The 4.0 technologies provide a technological window for regions to promote their innovation level and achieve leapfrogging. Using the panel data of China’s cities in the period from 2004 to 2021, this study finds the significantly positive impacts of technological window in technological innovation and technological catch-up and that these impacts are amplified by knowledge spillovers. Dividing regions into complex regions and simple regions based on their knowledge complexity, the roles of technological window and knowledge spillovers show heterogeneity. Complex regions are more sensitive to utilize technological window and knowledge spillovers to accelerate innovation and catch-up, while the technological window is less efficient for simple regions and these regions are difficult to absorb frontier knowledge spillovers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Air Pollution on Older Migrants’ Intentions To Settle in the Destination Cities in China","authors":"Jiarong Zheng, Cuiying Huang, Ye Liu","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09719-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09719-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rapid increase in the number of older migrants in China has highlighted the need for a nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing their settlement intentions. However, previous research on older migrants’ settlement intention in China tends to neglect the role of air pollution. Using data from the 2017 and 2018 China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), this study examines whether the severity of air pollution affects older migrants’ intentions to settle in the destination city. The research presents two contributions to the literature. First, we provide the first systematic evidence on how air pollution shapes older migrants’ settlement decisions in host cities. Second, in response to the disparities in health status and adaptive capacities observed between older migrants and working-age groups, we develop age-specific policies designed to address their elevated vulnerability profiles. Findings demonstrate that urban air pollution adversely impacts older migrants’ settlement intentions, with each one-unit rise in the Air Quality Index (AQI) reducing their Likelihood of permanent settlement by 0.1% points. Additionally, our research reveals that older migrants with agricultural <i>hukou</i> status, higher educational attainment, lower income, longer migration duration, and less exposure to air pollution in their hometowns are more vulnerable to air pollution’s negative impacts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effectiveness of China’s Farmland Protection Planning Moderated by Economic Forces during the Past Decade (2010–2020)","authors":"Yihao Chen, Xiao Tu, Ying Li, Taiyang Zhong","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09718-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09718-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Land use plans are closely associated with landscape changes. Since the 1990s, China has implemented quota-based farmland protection planning to attenuate farmland loss and ensure food security. However, existing literature has primarily focused on compliance with planning blueprints, rather than on the varying impacts of planning on farmland use and underlying mechanisms. To bridge this gap, this study argues that China’s farmland protection planning was implemented as a “soft constraint”, with its impacts moderated by economic forces. This study examined this hypothesis by taking National General Land Use Plan (2006–2020) as a case study. Employing a two-way fixed-effects model, robustness checks and heterogeneity analysis, this study convincingly assessed the plan’s effectiveness by comparing outcomes across prefectures with varying protection targets and different economic driving forces. Results suggest that the planning significantly reduced farmland loss by aligning with economic forces, although farmland area quotas were not fulfilled either nationwide or in most prefectures. Moreover, the planning was more effective in regions with higher benefits and lower opportunity costs of plan implementation, thereby amplifying the spatial shifts of farmland. These findings deepen the understanding of what determines planning effectiveness, helping researchers and policymakers evaluate the implementation and spatial variance of other land use policies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145078890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Differences in Daily Travel Patterns of Traditional and Ride-hailing Taxis Via Spatial-temporal OD Data: A Case Study of Jinan, China","authors":"Xinyue Gu, Xintao Liu","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09728-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09728-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rapid proliferation of ride-hailing services has fundamentally reshaped urban mobility landscapes, challenging the operational paradigms of traditional taxi industries. While existing literature extensively explores the spatial and temporal patterns of ride-hailing, critical gaps persist in understanding the granular differences in daily travel behaviors between these two modes. This study addresses this gap through a data-driven analysis of traditional and ride-hailing taxis in Jinan, China, leveraging high-resolution spatial-temporal origin-destination (OD) datasets. By employing geostatistical modeling and efficiency metrics, we systematically quantify disparities in service coverage, trip distribution dynamics, and operational efficiency across six days of continuous observation. Results reveal that ride-hailing services not only double the trip volume of traditional taxis but also exhibit superior spatial adaptability, extending coverage to peripheral urban areas with a greater service radius. Temporal analysis reveals ride-hailing’s optimized resource allocation, characterized by lower idle time during off-peak hours compared to traditional counterparts. Efficiency assessments indicate that traditional taxis contribute more to inefficient travel, often replacing non-motorized transport modes. This inefficient travel mainly comes from unplanned trips to the city center for leisure activities. These findings provide insights into integrated mobility systems that harness ride-hailing’s spatial flexibility, supporting empirical study for more efficient urban transport planning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12061-025-09728-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145073577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hogeun Park, Harris Selod, Siobhan Murray, Gnanaraj Chellaraj
{"title":"Geography, Institutions, and Global Cropland Dynamics: An Assessment of the Drivers of Cropland Change at the Global Scale Using Satellite Imagery for 2003–2018","authors":"Hogeun Park, Harris Selod, Siobhan Murray, Gnanaraj Chellaraj","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09721-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09721-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper studies the dynamics of agricultural land use at the global scale as measured from space using satellite imagery between 2003 and 2018. It shows large global movements in and out of cropland and correlates these movements with biophysical, economic, and institutional variables. The empirical identification of these effects relies on a two-stage approach that disentangles the effect of local geography from national-level characteristics. Beyond the anticipated influence of local geographic factors (such as droughts leading to land degradation) or market access (such as proximity to cities facilitating cropland expansion), this study makes a substantial contribution by demonstrating the significance of national economic contexts and institutions. In particular, the research finds that income inequality, weak land administrations, land tenure insecurity, a bad business environment, and pressure on land resources are closely associated with cropland loss and land degradation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revealed Preferences for the Composition of Local Government Expenditures in US Cities","authors":"Dylan Jong, Philip McCann, Viktor Venhorst","doi":"10.1007/s12061-025-09711-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12061-025-09711-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the revealed preferences for the composition of local public expenditures. It analyzes how the combined system of local governments in US cities may attract people to move to their jurisdiction, captured by change in population and housing prices. The paper examines the complete local public fiscal composition, considering the constrained choice set, in which each expenditure decision affects the rest of the fiscal composition. Furthermore, it makes an explicit distinction between capital outlay and current operations expenditures. The results show that change in population and housing prices are complementary in capturing revealed preferences. Although they both suggest a preference for lower spending/taxes, and allocating spending towards parking facilities and investments in highways, they also reveal different preferences for the allocation of the expenditures. Expenditures on higher education are associated with population growth, whereas expenditures on airports are associated with higher housing prices. </p></div>","PeriodicalId":46392,"journal":{"name":"Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12061-025-09711-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}