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{"title":"Typological framework for motivations of digital nomads as gentrifiers in a small city: A case study of Dali, China","authors":"Weifeng Su,&nbsp;Ningjia Jin,&nbsp;Xiaolong Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103379","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103379","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Exploring the motivations of digital nomads as gentrifiers in small cities provides a fresh perspective to bridge the urban-rural dichotomy prevalent in the gentrification literature. Using Dali, China as a case study, this study deconstructs the motivations and underlying hierarchical structure of digital nomads as gentrifiers using the means-end chain (MEC) approach based on 41 soft laddering interviews. The findings suggest that the behavioral motivations of digital nomads to gentrify Dali are fundamentally based on existential authenticity, which can be categorized into three groups: wellness-oriented motivations, communitas-oriented motivations, and liberalism-oriented motivations. A typological framework based on two dimensions of mobility and abstraction hierarchy is constructed to understand the nuances and salient aspects of gentrifier motivation. This study balances the conventional wisdom that gentrifiers' need for social status and distinction is what drives gentrification. Practical insights are also offered into the sustainable destination construction and decision-making of digital nomads.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103379"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How high-standard farmland construction can affect farmers' grain cultivation behavior: Evidence from rural China","authors":"Dingde Xu ,&nbsp;Moxin Chen ,&nbsp;Ruisheng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To ensure national food security, China has implemented a high-standard farmland construction policy. However, it remains unclear whether the implementation of such farmland can facilitate adjustments in farmers' planting structures and enhance the propensity for grain cultivation. Utilizing survey data collected from 1125 farmers in Sichuan Province, China in 2024, this study employed the IV-Probit model to investigate the impact of high-standard farmland construction on farmers' grain cultivation behavior. The results revealed the following: (1) Approximately 11 % of farm households have engaged in high-standard farmland construction, with the constructed area averaging 9 % of their total cultivated land. (2) High-standard farmland construction significantly promotes farmers' grain cultivation behaviors through five distinct pathways: enhancing interconnected land transfers and high-standard farmland transfers, fostering the utilization of agricultural machinery and the adoption of production services, and reducing the incidence of farmland abandonment. (3) The effect of high-standard farmland construction on promoting grain cultivation behaviors is more pronounced in regions with abundant socialized service resources or relatively flat terrains. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of high-standard farmland construction and farmers' planting structure adjustment behaviors, thereby providing a reference for the formulation and improvement of relevant policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103384"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143714646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Balancing density and open space provision towards sustainable compact cities: Evidence from São Paulo, Brasília and Berlin","authors":"Patricia Mara Sanches ,&nbsp;André Mascarenhas ,&nbsp;Dagmar Haase ,&nbsp;Demóstenes Ferreira da Silva Filho","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cities worldwide face the challenge of balancing densification and open space provision. However, few studies investigate how urban morphology influences that balance across different cities and continents. We identified eight urban morphological types characterizing high-density residential areas in São Paulo, Brasília (Brazil), and Berlin (Germany) and assessed those morphologies using seven indicators: population density, housing density, Floor Space Index (FSI), Ground Space Index (GSI), average building height, Open-Space Ratio (OSR), and average number of people per built area. Our findings from the Brazilian cities showed that intense verticalization does not automatically ensure open space and high density. Vertical morphologies showed the highest FSI values but not the highest housing densities, and had low to moderate OSR values, comparatively. Three morphologies found in Berlin (Contemporary, Half-Open and Edge) balanced housing density and OSR best (127–147 dwellings/ha, 0.5 to 0.8 OSR values, on average). Berlin's Traditional type showed the best balance between FSI, GSI, average building height and OSR, with buildings ranging from 1 to 9 storeys. It also achieved the highest housing densities (188 dwellings/ha, on average), but at a cost of OSR. Those findings suggest that a compact city model with perimetral blocks (Half, Edge and Traditional types) could provide an optimum use of urban space, if open space provision is properly considered. We further discuss the advantages and implications of block-based urban planning and design (traditional in Berlin and other European cities) in contrast to plot-based (often observed in Latin American cities).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103362"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143714647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring public attitudes and altruistic intentions toward waste pickers as indicators of pro-environmental waste separation behavior","authors":"Metehan Feridun Sorkun,&nbsp;Şükrü Özen,&nbsp;Seda Can","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite being a critical component of the context surrounding recycling systems in many countries, the influence of waste picker presence on individual pro-environmental waste separation behavior has been mostly overlooked. Arguing that this influence depends on individuals’ attitudes toward waste pickers and intentions to help them, we explore these two constructs through qualitative and quantitative methods using a three-phase scale development process. We identify two dimensions of public attitudes: “Adaptation to Society” and “Contribution to Society,” alongside a unidimensional structure for intentions to help waste pickers. As expected, we find that public attitudes and intentions to help are significantly associated with waste separation behavior. We also reveal socio-demographic factors, such as political views and socio-economic status, that significantly relate to these attitudes and intentions. This study lays the groundwork for understanding how waste pickers, as a crucial contextual element, may shape pro-environmental waste separation behavior, while offering guidance to policymakers in designing more effective recycling programs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 103381"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Degree of technological relatedness, firm heterogeneity, and survival condition: Evidence from emerging high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta, China","authors":"Jili Xu ,&nbsp;Dong Li ,&nbsp;Anthony G.O. Yeh ,&nbsp;Shengjun Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103378","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study argues for nonlinear relationships between relatedness and survival conditions of emerging high-tech firms in regions by operationalizing the degree of technological relatedness (TR) as a mixture of relatedness and unrelatedness. It further examines how micro-level firm heterogeneity with regional embeddedness mediates the role of the meso-level degree of TR, with evidence from emerging high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta, China. It identifies a threshold for the role of the degree of TR and an inverted U-curve manifesting beyond the threshold point. The investigation particularly elucidates the mediating mechanisms through firm heterogeneity with regional embeddedness across the aspects of entrepreneurial condition, employment size, industrial chain segment, and industrial life cycle. This study contributes to evolutionary economic geography by embedding intra-firm capabilities as micro-foundations into meso-level relatedness and regional structural architectures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 103378"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Home: Developing and testing a scale","authors":"Xiaoli Yi ,&nbsp;Xiaoxiao Fu ,&nbsp;Bingna Lin ,&nbsp;Xiaomei Cai","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although home studies have received academic attention for many years, previous research has focused on immigrants by employing qualitative methods while ignoring the increase of short-term residents and their needs for homes. The current study explores home perceptions of foreign residents living in Shenzhen, China, and employs rigorous scale development procedures to develop a reliable and valid scale of home. Five dimensions of home, including bodily, material, vibrant, imaginative, and emotional homes, were identified and confirmed. The findings of the study confirm several traditional constitutive concepts and reveal a new constitutive concept - vibrant home. This study provides a pioneering measurement tool for quantitatively assessing home and expands the theoretical understanding of home. Theoretical and practical implications are also offered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 103374"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban land system change: Spatial heterogeneity and driving factors of land use intensity in Wuhan, China","authors":"Mengjing Fu ,&nbsp;Limin Jiao ,&nbsp;Jingling Su","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The direct impacts of urban expansion on ecosystems' sustainability has been discussed extensively, however, our understanding of the changes, consequences and drivers of land use intensity (LUI) in urbanizing areas remains inadequate, especially when LUI changes while land type maintains. We construct a framework coupling land cover and socioeconomic systems to examine spatial-temporal characteristics and drivers of the LUI in Wuhan City, China from 2000 to 2020. We find that the growth of LUI of Human-settlement Systems (HS) lags far behind the rate of its area expansion, showing low-density sprawl. The LUI of Cropland Systems (CS) was found to increase with the distance from city center unexpectedly for urbanization and planning reasons. The Forest Systems (FS) and Wetland Systems (WS) remain relatively stable. For the same land type, the locational factors, especially the distance from the city center, is a key determinant of land use intensity heterogeneity. This study provides insights into intensity rather than merely investigating the type change of land use, renders policy suggestions for efficient land use of each subsystem as well.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 103380"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ice and snow tourism in China's ecological civilization era: The Altay, Xinjiang experience","authors":"Xiuyun Yang ,&nbsp;Jiayi Chen ,&nbsp;Fei Wang ,&nbsp;Qiuping Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The ecological civilization initiative in China is an ambitious initiative propelled by the central government. Through mechanisms such as ecological redlines and central environmental protection inspections, local governments are obliged to shift their development paradigms. This top-down approach presents both challenges and opportunities for resource-based cities that strive for sustainable development and conservation. This study employs a longitudinal case study of the transformation of Altay Prefecture in Xinjiang from a mining-dominated city to a vibrant ice and snow tourism destination. This paper highlights the challenges and opportunities faced by Altay in its journey towards sustainable tourism development. Altay initially struggled with its mining legacy, but it gradually navigated the trade-offs between preservation and growth amid its ecological constraints. In the final phase, strategies were adopted to harmonize environmental conservation with economic development despite challenges such as a singular economic structure, limited funding, poor infrastructure, human resource scarcity, and low resident engagement. Ultimately, Altay has emerged as a successful tourism destination and showcases how local aspirations can align with national ecological civilization directives to foster high-quality development and enhance regional ecological governance. This study enriches the literature by analysing local government strategies for achieving sustainable tourism development and offers insights into the transformation of resource-based cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 103375"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mexico's mass housing: An underexplored locus of informality","authors":"Alejandra Reyes ,&nbsp;Ariadna Reyes-Sanchez","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103373","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103373","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper discusses an array of irregular and informal practices related to the construction and inhabitation of mass housing built throughout Mexico. In speculative and financialized land and housing markets, builders expedited development to minimize costs and maximize profits, bypassing government legislation and codes even if often condoned by the state. In the face of the resulting structural and infrastructural deficiencies, as well as limited access to municipal services and economic opportunities, residents have resorted to informal means to address precarious living conditions, from improving their properties and running informal businesses to organizing crime watches and withholding mortgage payments. Field research in nine peri-urban developments in Mexico City and Tijuana sheds light on informal tactics pursued by developers, lenders, governments, and residents. Informality emerged first within formal institutions engaged in financing and building mass housing and evolved as a multidimensional mechanism allowing a better life for residents facing precarity. This analysis offers an updated, nuanced understanding around the blurred boundaries between formal structures and informal practices in the Global South, destabilizing the formal-informal dichotomy often employed in policy circles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 103373"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective","authors":"Yaya Tian ,&nbsp;Guanghui Jiang ,&nbsp;Wenqiu Ma ,&nbsp;Siduo Wu ,&nbsp;Yingying Tian ,&nbsp;Tao Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103370","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103370","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Promoting the multifunctionality of rural settlements is a viable means for maximizing the diverse value of rural areas and addressing the challenges faced in rural development. The configuration of rural population–land–industry elements play a crucial role in determining the type and level of rural settlement functions (RSFs). This study constructed a systematic \"input-output\" linkage framework that connects rural population-land-industry elements with RSFs from an efficiency perspective. Using Pinggu District of Beijing as an example, we measured the function output efficiency of 271 rural settlements and proposed differentiated pathways to enhance RSF output efficiency under input-output balance. The findings show that from 2009 to 2021, Pinggu District's rural settlements saw improvements in living and production functions, while ecological functions declined, widening regional disparities. The effects of population, land, and industry inputs on different functions varied significantly, with correlations changing notably across temporal dimensions. The average function output efficiency of rural settlements remained at a moderate level, indicating considerable room for improvement. Villages with low RSF output efficiency clustered in the southwestern region of Pinggu, while those reaching effective RSF output states mostly concentrated around the urban area and in townships such as JHH, XEZ, and ZLY. Villages near the urban area and southwestern industrial parks experienced a decline in scale efficiency, whereas those in mountainous townships faced constraints from the \"bottleneck effect\" of technological efficiency. To achieve sustainable rural development, future policymakers should enhance planning forecasts, implement reforms to the rural land system, and adjust to demographic trends to coordinate rural population–land–industry allocations. Additionally, these efforts should be applied regionally and categorically to promote the efficiency of RSF output.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 103370"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143637055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}