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{"title":"The spatio-temporal evolution and transformation mode of human settlement quality from the perspective of “production-living-ecological\" spaces--a case study of Jilin Province","authors":"Yujia Qin ,&nbsp;Lingzhi Wang ,&nbsp;Ming Yu ,&nbsp;Xiaowan Meng ,&nbsp;Yeting Fan ,&nbsp;Ziqiang Huang ,&nbsp;Ergu Luo ,&nbsp;Bryan Pijanowski","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Amidst rapid industrialization and urbanization, urban and rural human settlements have witnessed marked transformations, each exhibiting distinct developmental trajectories and challenges. Utilizing the “Production-Living-Ecological\" spatial theory within territorial planning, this study devises a comprehensive evaluation system for human settlement quality. It delineates the evolution of human settlement quality across 47 counties (districts) in Jilin Province from 1999 to 2020, elucidates the interplay among the three aforementioned dimensions, and identifies the prevailing modes of human settlement transformation. Key findings include: (1) Jilin Province has seen significant enhancements in human settlement quality. Notable shifts in this quality occurred in 2006 and 2015. The synergy and reciprocal influences among the production, living, and ecological dimensions have intensified, with coordination continually advancing. (2) Human settlement quality varies with higher levels in the east and south and lower levels in the west and north in Jilin Province, indicating a spatial clustering pattern. Living and ecological conditions are generally better in the east compared to the west, with noticeable economic-environmental mutual constraints in the west. (3) Given a certain socio-economic development threshold, the trajectory of human settlement quality sketches an overarching “S\"-shaped growth pattern. This can be categorized into the first phase of fluctuation, followed by the second phase of significant growth and the third phase of slowing growth. This research furnishes foundational insights for fostering green, low-carbon human settlements and promotes the exploration of harmonious interactions between humans and nature, particularly within the ambit of carbon peak and neutrality objectives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139738625","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":"Enabling planned urban settlements through land readjustment - A case study from Kigali, Rwanda","authors":"John Mugisha ,&nbsp;Ernest Uwayezu ,&nbsp;Nelly John Babere ,&nbsp;Wilbard Jackson Kombe","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa has been characterised by inadequate infrastructure services due to insufficient financing coupled with prohibitively expensive approaches to land acquisition from private owners. Land readjustment (LR) has been promoted as an approach that has the potential to overcome financial challenges but studies on LR design in the context of sub-Saharan Africa are scanty. Using Nunga LR project in Kigali, Rwanda, this study analyses the adopted LR model, highlighting its benefits towards enabling development of formal urban settlements and suggests improvements. The results show that Nunga LR model overcomes the challenge of assembling land for infrastructure, has resulted in development of settlements adjacent to the project area with similar standards, but faces drawbacks that include inadequate land and cash contributions, inequitable sharing of project costs, inadequate construction of roads, uncertainties, and conversion of land planned for green spaces and social infrastructure. Establishing equal land contribution ratio and a revolving fund, levying betterment charges, designating and subsidising plots for social infrastructure and social/affordable housing can help curbing those drawbacks. This study contributes to the discourse on the application of LR as an innovative approach to overcoming infrastructure dearth and enabling formal human settlements in rapidly urbanising countries. These findings have implications for urban planning in the context of cities in the global south, where the rate of urban growth is high but city authorities face constraints in timely providing infrastructure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139719724","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":"Revitalising rural areas through counterurbanisation: Community-oriented policies for the settlement of urban newcomers","authors":"Simona Zollet ,&nbsp;Meng Qu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rural communities throughout Japan, especially in the most peripheral regions, are experiencing rapid demographic, socio-economic, and environmental decline, with many facing the possibility of vanishing in the coming decades. To address these issues, the Japanese government has implemented various policy initiatives aimed at rural revitalisation, some of which focus on attracting newcomers to depopulating rural communities and encouraging counterurbanisation. The relocation of urban residents is therefore considered essential to the regeneration of rural and peripheral areas. This paper examines the characteristics and practical implementation of the <em>chiiki okoshi kyouryoukutai</em> (Local Revitalisation Cooperator, LRC) initiative, a well-established national level policy that supports rural revitalisation through counterurbanisation. The initiative offers aspiring urban in-migrants a salary and housing for up to three years, while also requiring them to engage in community-oriented and entrepreneurial activities. The study uses secondary and qualitative primary data to examine the socio-demographic characteristics of LRC members and the successes and challenges of the initiative in meeting its two key policy objectives, namely the settlement of newcomers and the development of local entrepreneurship. The results contribute to our understanding of contemporary urban-to-rural mobilities in Japan, particularly the way counterurbanisation is normatively framed as a process that should benefit both in-migrants and receiving communities. We conclude by delineating the broader potential of this kind of initiative as a rural revitalisation instrument that can be flexibly tailored to the needs of each community and that can facilitate newcomers’ integration. Concurrently, we also raise questions about the degree of success of the policy, particularly regarding its effectiveness in stimulating entrepreneurship and retaining newcomers in the long term.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139714740","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":"Comparing the farmland preservation goals of the government and the public from insights of ecosystem services trade-offs: Evidence from Hubei, China","authors":"Min Song ,&nbsp;Mingdi Zhu ,&nbsp;Han Wang ,&nbsp;Yuxin Ji ,&nbsp;Tianyi Li","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The failure of developing targeted and effective farmland preservation policies, especially in the developing world, are partly attributable due to a lack of local-level information on the local government's and the public's goals of farmland preservation. This paper sought to address this shortcoming from insights of ecosystem services (ES) trade-offs. Utilizing eight counties in Hubei Province, China, as the case study area, we uncovered each county government's and its public's goals of farmland preservation based on ES trade-offs and diagnosed the consistency between the two. The results showed that provisioning services are the key ES that the local governments prioritized. However, the public's goals of farmland preservation in each county involved only non-provisioning services (i.e., regulating services, cultural services, and supporting services), with emphasis placed on cultural services. The local government failed to account adequately for the public's various needs. Moreover, the government's and the public's farmland preservation goals and their inconsistency were spatially distinct across the eight counties. These findings point to the need for the local government to involve the public's requirements and adapt to local context when setting spatially differentiated goals of farmland preservation and developing corresponding policies. Furthermore, it is necessary to promote the transformation of farmland use for sustainable intensification to provide provisioning and non-provisioning services that meet the goals of the government and the public.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139710098","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":"Assessing the joint economic effect of high-speed rail and enclave parks in the Yangtze River Delta region","authors":"Shaobo Wang ,&nbsp;Yutao Zhou ,&nbsp;Jianke Guo ,&nbsp;Kunyao Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The opening of high-speed rail (HSR) and the operation of enclave parks (EP) are both important cross-regional economic activities that play a pivotal role in promoting regional economic development<span>. This study modifies the previous single-dimension research paradigm of the HSR effects and EP effects, focusing on the synergistic relationship between HSR and EP in the process of urban economic development. We design a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) model based on the realistic background of the synchronized development of HSR and EP in the Yangtze River Delta region to test the joint impact of HSR and EP on the urban economy, and its heterogeneous performance and mechanisms. The results indicate that the joint impact of HSR and EP on the urban economy is superior to their individual impacts, confirming the synergistic effect of the HSR and EP. In addition, the joint impact of HSR and EP on the urban economy is heterogeneous. The joint economic effects of the HSR and EP are stronger in the fly-out cities of enclave parks. Core and large-scale cities benefit more from the synergistic economic effects of HSR and EP. In terms of the sequence of intervention, the operation of the EP after the opening of HSR can better accelerate economic growth. Finally, we demonstrate that HSR and EP can promote economic development synergistically by alleviating urban resource misallocation and that market development has an important moderating effect on the synergistic effect of HSR and EP.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675454","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":"Social capital and community-driven development: A multi-group analysis of migrant and indigenous informal settlements in Greater Accra, Ghana","authors":"Beatrice Eyram Afi Ziorklui ,&nbsp;Seth Asare Okyere ,&nbsp;Matthew Abunyewah ,&nbsp;Stephen Leonard Mensah ,&nbsp;Louis Kusi Frimpong","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In sub-Saharan African cities, community-driven development has emerged as a collective response to entrenched socio-spatial inequalities and inappropriate local development planning responses to the challenges of informal settlements. Social capital is considered to stimulate such community-driven initiatives. There are also claims that social capital can impede the sustainable development of informal settlements. Yet, none of these streams pay due attention to what forms of social capital and what urban social context social capital influences community-led informal settlement improvement. This paper sought to examine the influential role of bonding and bridging social capital on community-driven development (CDD) by comparing indigenous and migrant urban informal settlements in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a quantitative study with 300 participants in two informal settlements and using a robust multi-group analysis, the findings revealed that bonding social capital had a positive effect on CDD (<u>β = 0.27, p = 0.05)</u> in the indigenous informal settlement (Abese Quarter) but insignificant relationship (<u>β = -0.33, p = 0.36)</u> in the migrant informal settlement (Old-Tulaku). Contrarily, bridging social capital had a positive effect on the migrant (<u>β = 0.87, p = 0.05)</u> but not on indigenous informal settlements (<u>β = 0.07, p = 0.09)</u>. The paper concludes that the exploitation of social capital in bottom-up informal settlement improvement is more nuanced, and context-specific applications are imperative for research and practice. For policymakers and built environment professionals, the paper suggests leveraging social capital as a means (not ends) for building formal-informal collaborations through the co-production of bottom-up initiatives for inclusive and sustainable improvements to maximize the positives and minimize the negatives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019739752400016X/pdfft?md5=bd5992909c079e847cf27c6cbb837161&pid=1-s2.0-S019739752400016X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675453","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":"Living labs for user empowerment and value delivery in social housing upgrading processes","authors":"D.C.C.K. Kowaltowski ,&nbsp;V. Gomes da Silva ,&nbsp;C. Van Oel ,&nbsp;A.D. Granja ,&nbsp;E.A.D. Muianga ,&nbsp;S. Kabisch ,&nbsp;D. De Carvalho Moreira ,&nbsp;J.S.J. Koolwijk ,&nbsp;J. Pößneck ,&nbsp;P.T. Tzortzopoulos ,&nbsp;J. Soliman Jr ,&nbsp;M.E. Bridi ,&nbsp;A. Freeke","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Upgrading existing social housing (SH) requires user-centred participatory processes to promote values. Comparative case studies in Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK are presented. Living Labs (LLs) were conducted for the delivery of user values and to promote an informed decision-making process. Tools and LL activities were tested to engage stakeholders in the upgrading process, support the co-creation of solutions and address social and societal challenges. The main research aims were to facilitate SH upgrading processes focusing on the delivery of value for users, achieving end-user empowerment, as well as assessing participatory decision-making through LLs. Research goals were achieved in each case study setting. The evaluation of specific cases informed a conceptual framework and guidelines to facilitate upgrading through LLs in varied SH landscapes<strong>.</strong></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397524000195/pdfft?md5=c69b2b0d11d9263a218b47dd87cc5d28&pid=1-s2.0-S0197397524000195-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675125","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":"How to become one? The modern bond of traditional villages in centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas in China","authors":"Xingguang Zhao ,&nbsp;Pengcheng Xue ,&nbsp;Fang Wang ,&nbsp;Yue Qin ,&nbsp;Xingwu Duan ,&nbsp;Zijiang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The protection and utilization of traditional villages have evolved from the individual to the regional level and have gradually formed a network. China has introduced a policy of centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas for traditional villages. Intervention in modern relationships has led to the reconstruction of connections between villages. It is necessary to explore the modern bonds between villages with historical connections. Using the existing 85 centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas and 8155 traditional villages as the research objects, this study depicts the geographical, cultural, and industrial ties of the centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas in 2010 and 2020 based on the information entropy model. In addition, it studies the traditional village network using the gravity model of spatial interaction to explore the evolution and boundary rationality of the centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas. Research has shown that (1) the cultural relationship between centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas has fluctuated over the past decade, and the industrial relationship has generally strengthened. (2) Historical and cultural relics such as architectural relics, intangible heritage sites, and cultural corridors are the main forces that maintain the cultural and industrial ties of villages. Socioeconomic factors generally have a negative impact, and a mechanism exists for the modern bond between centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas to change from cultural connections to industrial connections. (3) Existing centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas have good efficiency. However, there are problems with delineating boundaries in terms of limited county boundaries and large municipal boundaries. Therefore, building a </span>governance framework of a supercluster city and county coordination-centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas is proposed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675108","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":"Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China","authors":"Hengyu Gu ,&nbsp;Yangyang Jie","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While there has been considerable academic discourse surrounding urban housing prices, talent, and innovation, the mediating role of housing prices in influencing urban innovation through talent has received limited attention. Utilising a city-level panel dataset covering the period of 2005–2020, we investigate how housing prices affect urban innovation in Chinese cities, focusing on how this influence is mediated by talent concentration. The spatial analysis results demonstrate that the high-value areas of housing prices, talent concentration, and urban innovation are concentrated in urban agglomerations along the eastern coastal regions and provincial capital cities in the central and western areas, presenting spatial spillovers and spatial unevenness. The econometric analysis reveals a positive influence of talent concentration on urban innovation but negatively affects urban innovation through talent concentration. This negative mediating effect becomes more pronounced after 2010 and varies across city groups. In cities with an urban population below 0.291 million, housing prices positively affect innovation mediated by talent. However, the mediating effect turns negative in cities with an urban population above 1.243 million. These findings have significant theoretical and policy implications for comprehending the implicit influence of the housing market on urban development through the lens of talent concentration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675126","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":"Rural transformation in the hilly and mountainous region of southern China: Livelihood trajectory and cross-scale effects","authors":"Zhilong Wu ,&nbsp;Tian Zeng ,&nbsp;Hao Chen ,&nbsp;Xinmin Zhang ,&nbsp;Jiyu Yang ,&nbsp;Shengtian Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Rural transformation, as a complex and compound process, can be dissected into different scale systems yet has not been systematically explored. This study takes Ruijin city, a hilly and mountainous area, as the example to explore the dynamic process of rural transformation and its cross-scale effects from the perspective of rural livelihood. The results showed that (1) On regional scale, institutional guarantees and policy reform were important factors influencing livelihood trajectory in the long term. The “top-down” process of rural reform needs to be embedded in the bottom-up engagement. (2) On community scale, village function is shifting from the single production to multi-function, and only by steering to the comparative advantages may villages achieve the goal of rural revitalization. (3) On household scale, rural livelihood tends to be pluriactive and is gradually differentiating from traditional smallholding to vocational farming or non-agricultural work according to livelihood assets. Further more, there existed a gap between village development and rural livelihood improvement in that farmers shared limited benefits from village </span>industry development for multiple reasons. Therefore, a positive and inclusive rural transformation requires synergizing the government's top-down guidance with farmers' bottom-up livelihood needs in policy implementation, formulating an appropriate revitalization strategy according to the village category and development stage, and fostering the organic connection between village industry and small farmers through benefit sharing system construction and livelihood capital investment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139653236","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}