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{"title":"Explaining housing rents: A neural network approach to landscape image perceptions","authors":"Xiaorui Wang, Jihui Yuan, Yangcheng Gu, Daisuke Matsushita","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103250"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142756895","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":"Secondary cities at the residential housing frontier: Examining the determinants of private renters’ residential satisfaction in Ghana","authors":"Stephen Leonard Mensah ,&nbsp;Seth Asare Okyere ,&nbsp;Louis Kusi Frimpong ,&nbsp;Alex Boakye Asiedu ,&nbsp;Mariama Zaami ,&nbsp;Matthew Abunyewah","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103234","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103234","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decades of political ambivalence, housing injustice, and a neoliberal housing sector aided by the government’s lax approach to housing provision have meant that, private rental housing remains the predominant sector for housing urban residents and their shifting geographies into secondary cities. Residential satisfaction in urban areas provides an important socio-spatial view of the housing sector in secondary cities and its implications for the inclusive and sustainable development of small and medium-sized cities. Yet, a large set of studies into the private rental housing sector has paid little attention to the influence of housing services (i.e. satisfaction with maintenance services, utility services and privacy) on residential satisfaction amongst private rental households. Using an ordinal logistic regression model and based on a sample size of 246 private rental households, this paper examined the influence of sociodemographic and housing services (i.e. satisfaction with maintenance services, utility services and privacy) variables on residential satisfaction amongst private rental households living in Cape Coast, Ghana. The chi-square test revealed a significant relationship between duration of stay (<em>χ</em>^<em>2</em> = 15.908, p = 0.003), satisfaction with maintenance service (<em>χ</em>^<em>2</em> = 98.477, p = 0.000), satisfaction with utility services (electricity and water) (<em>χ</em>^<em>2</em> = 45.934, p = 0.000), satisfaction with privacy (<em>χ</em> ² = 41.252, p = 0.000) and residential satisfaction. Further, the logistic regression analysis also showed a significant negative relationship between maintenance services (β = −3.928, p &lt; 0.001), utility services (electricity and water) (β = −1.033, p &lt; 0.001), privacy (β = −2.716, p &lt; 0.01) and residential satisfaction. The findings call for the attention of both researchers and policymakers to recognize the inseparable relationship between housing and the broader built environment and to address challenges confronting the rental housing sector—considering that the quality of the residential environment is directly linked to the quality of life and the socio-physical well-being of residents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103234"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142745341","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":"The effect of social capital on migration aspiration and migration capability: Insights from northern Ethiopia","authors":"Aradom Gebrekidan Abbay ,&nbsp;Hossein Azadi ,&nbsp;Weldebrhan Ayalew ,&nbsp;Zbelo Tesfamariam ,&nbsp;Solomon Hishe ,&nbsp;Tekeste Birhanu Lakew ,&nbsp;Misghna Gebrehiwot ,&nbsp;Tafesse W. Gezahegn ,&nbsp;Kamran Nasirahmadi ,&nbsp;Astrida Miceikienė ,&nbsp;Chi Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103236","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103236","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The decision to migrate is an important economic decision to make. Push factors, such as poverty, drought, lack of jobs, etc. are expected to play a role in forcing the youth to migrate. In the study area, however, youths of similar economic, demographic, and geographic background are observed to have different migration propensities. This paper examines the role of social capital in fostering migration aspiration and migration capability. The study employs both qualitative and quantitative data collected using a cross-sectional research design. In order to account for a potential interdependence between migration aspiration and migration capability, the seemingly unrelated bivariate probit model is used to analyze the data. After controlling some socio-economic and demographic variables, the results show a positive effect of social capital on both migration aspiration and migration capability. The findings indicate that broker influence (relative to job search) and age have a lower effect on the desire for migration, while Christianity has a higher effect relative to other religious beliefs. Findings indicate that farmers and the unemployed have lower migration ability compared to students. The presence of previous immigrants in the family also has a lower effect on migration ability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103236"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746022","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":"Measuring the role of land consolidation to community revitalization in rapidly urbanizing rural China: A perspective of functional supply-demand","authors":"Yanfeng Jiang ,&nbsp;Hualou Long ,&nbsp;Yu-ting Tang ,&nbsp;Wu Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103237","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103237","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of land consolidation in regional development has been a popular topic in the fields of land system science and rural studies for facilitating rural revitalization. Although many conceptual and methodological advances have focused on quantifying the role of land consolidation at the macro- and meso-levels as well as the supply-demand of ecosystem services, addressing its role at the micro-level from the supply-demand perspective remains an open challenge. To address this gap, we develop an integrated conceptual framework to analyze the interrelationship between land use functions and structures and identify the demand from community revitalization for land use functions (LUFs). Using the Dongheng Community in rural China as a case study, an index system is established to measure the role of land consolidation from the perspective of functional supply and demand. The results indicate that the pattern of LUFs’ supply-demand in Dongheng Community has changed considerably since the beginning of the land consolidation program, in which the supply-demand gaps in the industrial production function are the most obvious. In addition, strategies from the perspectives of land use function/type conversion, enhancement, and supplementation have been proposed to narrow the functional supply-demand gap in Dongheng Community. Interestingly, the mismatch of functional supply and demand during the land consolidation program did not seem to have led to the decline of Dongheng, but rather to spur its revitalization and in situ urbanization. Moreover, policy recommendations are proposed in light of the case area. These findings offer new insight into the correlation between land use and rural development at the micro level, potentially contributing to the enhancement of land consolidation initiatives and the amelioration of rural concerns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103237"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746025","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":"Cultural reinvention or cultural erasure? A study on rural gentrification, land leasing, and cultural change","authors":"Jiexiang Zhao,&nbsp;Jiangang Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103233","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gentrification has become a major force in shaping rural China, but less understood is why the processes and outcomes of gentrification vary so much from village to village. There is a growing academic interest in rural gentrification, but most of this research treats land primarily as an economic variable, while the cultural aspect of rural gentrification has also not been fully discussed. Based on a comparative study of tourism-led rural gentrification and charity-led rural gentrification, this paper explores the interrelationships among rural gentrification, land leasing and cultural change. It finds that during the process of gentrification, both villages undergo cultural changes characterised by aestheticisation, commercialisation and segregation. However, while Bei Village experiences disconnection from the land and cultural erasure due to tourism-led gentrification driven by private interests, Nan Village benefits from reconnection with the land and cultural reinvention supported by charity-led gentrification with a focus on the public good. The differences between the two villages are closely linked to the drivers of gentrification, cultural attitudes, spatial rent gap, and the different roles of local government. This study highlights the need to carefully examine the primary drivers of gentrification in different rural areas, while recognising land as a crucial cultural element beyond its economic, property and livelihood aspects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103233"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746023","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":"The impact of mega shopping complexes on the survival of nearby local businesses: A case study of the seoul metropolitan area, South Korea","authors":"Mingu Kang ,&nbsp;Heeyeun Yoon","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of mega shopping complexes (MSCs) on the survival of adjacent businesses in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA), South Korea, from 2008 to 2023. Using mixed-effects Cox models, we analyzed three prevalent industrial sectors in commercial districts: food service, beauty, and recreation businesses. We found that MSC affects local businesses differently, depending on the services they offer. In food service businesses, only pubs face the risk of business failure due to the entry of MSC. Conversely, general restaurants, cafés, and beauty businesses showed no significant statistical impact. Recreation businesses are divided into two types based on the similarity of their services to those offered by MSC. After MSC entry, close proximity to the MSC yields a negative effect on establishments offering similar services, while benefiting those offering distinct services. This finding suggests that policies should focus more on enhancing the competitiveness of local businesses to effectively utilize the increased visibility rather than solely limiting the spillover effect of the MSC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103245"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142746024","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":"Infrastructural violence and urban development in African cities: The case of Takoradi Central Market in Ghana","authors":"Kahad Adamu ,&nbsp;Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah ,&nbsp;Dorothy Siaw-Asamoah","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are undergoing socio-spatial transformations, including mega retail/marketplace infrastructure projects. While often celebrated, these projects also present adverse socioeconomic and environmental consequences, which we illustrate by turning to the Takoradi Central Market (TCM) in Ghana as a case study. Herein, we deploy infrastructural violence as a lens to interrogate these consequences by probing the nature and forms of violence resulting from (re)developing the TCM and the underlying institutional logics, processes, and practices reproducing them. Our findings suggest that the forms of violence experienced by traders from the TCM redevelopment manifest through marginalization, abjection, and deprivation. More crucially, we illuminate that these embodied forms of violence from the TCM infrastructure are co-constitutive and structural. That is, they are reproduced through the country's prevailing institutional logic and practices around urban planning and development, including centralized and technocratic infrastructure planning processes that are deeply embedded in tokenistic/symbolic participatory planning and partisan politics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103232"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142721026","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":"A strategy of building a beautiful and harmonious countryside: Reuse of idle rural residential land based on symbiosis theory","authors":"Zhenglin Wang ,&nbsp;Cheng Wang ,&nbsp;Haojian Dou ,&nbsp;Guishan Cheng ,&nbsp;Jia Zhang ,&nbsp;Xiaoyan Lei ,&nbsp;Xinyue Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103238","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In most of China's rural areas, there lies in a misallocation conflict between abundance of idle rural residential land (IRRL) and the scarcity of land used for the construction of beautiful and harmonious countryside (CBHC). It's a key challenge to effectively utilize and allocate these idle construction land resources to promote CBHC. This study developed a theoretical framework employing symbiosis theory to establish symbiotic system among multiple rural stakeholders, applied the selection principle of symbiotic interface to create the criteria for the IRRL reuse, and selected one IRRL to verify the construction strategy of public spaces. Using Silong village in Chongqing as a case study, the study unveiled the process and allocation mechanisms governing IRRL reuse from a patch-level perspective. The findings demonstrate that: (1) rural multi-subjects can use IRRL as a symbiotic interface to foster symbiotic relationships; (2) 26.92% and 73.08% of IRRL were allocated to public space and industrial land, respectively; (3) 57.14% of the IRRL for public space can serve residents across multiple village groups; and (4) retaining the original landscape pattern, enhancing infrastructure and incorporating local culture elements are principles for reusing IRRL in the development of public spaces. This study holds significant theoretical and practical implications for advancing CBHC, contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and providing a Chinese sample for other developing countries worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103238"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142721027","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":"Spatial-temporal characteristics and transfer modes of rural homestead in China","authors":"Guangjin Tian ,&nbsp;Tong Lin ,&nbsp;Wanlong Li ,&nbsp;Yanning Gao ,&nbsp;Tao Xu ,&nbsp;Wenquan Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The exact number of rural homesteads in China is still unclear, and issues such as idle homesteads and “one household with multiple homesteads” are prevalent. These problems hinder rural economic development and the realization of common prosperity. This study calculated the rural homestead area (RHA) and per capita homestead area (PRHA) of 31 provinces and 8 geographical regions from 2009 to 2022, then analyzed the spatio-temporal changes of homestead area, per capita homestead area and per household homestead area. Finally, the typical homestead transfer modes in the eight regions of China were systematically studied and a national homestead transfer mode was proposed. The results show that: (1) From 2009 to 2022, RHA showed a trend of increased fluctuation. The change in RHA can be divided into two phases: rapid increase (2009–2019) and slow decrease phase (2020–2022). (2) Rural homesteads were primarily concentrated in East, Central, Southwest, and Northwest China. The distribution of RHA is affected by regional geographical conditions, rural population, economic structure, culture and policies. The growth rate of RHA in China displays a spatial pattern of “fast in the West, moderate in the central regions, and slow in the East”. (3) The PRHA of China increased yearly, and shows a significant spatial distribution characteristic of “larger in the North and smaller in the South”. China had a severe phenomenon of “one household with multiple homesteads”, with 466.15m²/per household in 2022. In most provinces, the per household homestead is in a state of moderate exceeded standards, while in Tibet and Hainan, it is extremely exceeded. (4) Northeast, Northwest, Central China, and the Qinghai-Tibet region, predominantly use the reclamation mode, while North and South China primarily adopt the rental mode; East China and the Southwest are more suited to the mortgage mode, and Central and North China can also facilitate land transfer through replacement mode. These findings are helpful to provide the data basis and theoretical basis for the reform of the homestead system for governments in different regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103230"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142707365","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 does digital economy affect urban-rural integration? An empirical study from China","authors":"Xuewei Zhang ,&nbsp;Chuanglin Fang ,&nbsp;Haitao Ma ,&nbsp;Xiaqing Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103229","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103229","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban-rural integration (URI) plays a significant and irreplaceable role in promoting China's ongoing modernization. The digital economy (DE) has increasingly provided new opportunities for the development of URI. Despite these advancements, few studies have delved into the interaction between DE and URI. To address this gap, this paper explores the impact of DE on URI in China and examines the underlying driving mechanisms. Specifically, the study constructed a measurement system for URI across six dimensions (population integration, industrial integration, land integration, ecological integration, public integration, and science and education integration), after which we undertook a regression analysis. The results showed that: first, DE significantly promoted URI; second, the promotion effect of DE on URI was more pronounced in China's eastern region, non-border regions, large cities, and cities with a per capita GDP exceeding 100,000 CNY; and third, DE affects URI through three paths (labor transformation, green technological innovation, and financial resource allocation). Based on the theoretical evidence provided by our findings, we also draw out a series of policy recommendations for improving URI in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103229"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705461","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}