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{"title":"Understanding the value of retail accessibility in private housing markets: A study from Turin, Italy","authors":"Marco Del Nibletto ,&nbsp;Giulio Zotteri ,&nbsp;Marta Bottero ,&nbsp;Federico Dell’Anna","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103212","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103212","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous urban studies have explored the relationship between urban amenities and real estate value. However, a notable gap exists in the literature concerning the specific impact of retail activities on housing values, particularly within European contexts. This study addresses this gap by examining the relationship between housing values and accessibility to different retail typologies, expanding the research stream to a European city by applying the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) model. The results indicate that accessibility to shopping retailers, bars and restaurants has a positive effect. In contrast, accessibility to convenience retailers and traditional markets has a negative impact. No significant relationship is observed between housing values and accessibility to supermarket retailers. Furthermore, this study shows that retail accessibility typologies impact differs in different urban areas. These findings provide useful implications for planners and policymakers, highlighting the need for strategic support for the retail sector in safeguarding and enhancing the investments of investors and families.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103212"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705460","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":"Exploring the moderating effect of private green space on the relationship between density and housing prices","authors":"Jungseok Seo ,&nbsp;Jeongseob Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of private green spaces on housing prices and their moderating effect on the relationship between housing density and prices in Seoul, South Korea. Our research finds a negative relationship between housing density and housing prices, suggesting that higher density typically depresses property values. The creation of private green spaces within residential complexes can generate an additional “green premium” when designed on a large scale with continuity and without the presence of automobiles. This study also suggests the potential of such green spaces in alleviating some of the negative effects of high density on housing prices. This research contributes to the discourse on sustainable and compact urban development, advocating for policy interventions that encourage the inclusion of private green spaces in high-density residential projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103231"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705459","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":"Spiraling up: Sense of place with co-creation experiences insights from Crow Island Beach Park, Sri Lanka","authors":"Lakshika Meetiyagoda ,&nbsp;Susantha Amarawickrama ,&nbsp;P.K.S. Mahanama ,&nbsp;Astrid Ley","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103219","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103219","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Researchers highlight that one significant intrinsic motivation for taking part in co-creations is a sense of place. Vice versa, some scholars indicate an enhanced sense of place can be achieved through community participatory strategies and place-making. However, there is a noticeable absence of empirical investigations into this seemingly reciprocal relationship. This study uses the Crow Island Beach Park development in Sri Lanka as a case study to explore the relationship between co-creation experience and the sense of place. Following an exploratory research design, data was collected through in-depth interviews with a purposive sample of sixteen members engaged in the beach park development. Subsequently, thematic and inverted pyramid-based co-occurrence analysis was employed within a qualitative research approach. The findings unveil a reciprocal relationship between the sense of place and the co-creation experience, marked by a spiraling-up dynamic. The findings further indicate variations in participants’ sense of place and co-creation experiences, providing valuable insights for planners, environmental managers and policymakers aiming to utilize active community participation for sensible and sustainable place-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103219"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651570","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":"‘Precarious power’: Implicit infrastructures and electricity access in Witsand, Cape Town (South Africa)","authors":"Romeo Dipura ,&nbsp;Elmond Bandauko ,&nbsp;Robert Nutifafa Arku","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103228","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103228","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For the poor residents in Witsand, an informal settlement on the periphery of Cape Town, electricity access is an everyday struggle, where households circumvent Eskom's vouchers and prepaid meters to adapt electricity to their lived realities. In this paper, we argue that in a context where Eskom electricity provision is often exclusionary, residents deploy diverse strategies to challenge this form of infrastructure violence. Drawing on over twenty months of ethnographic work, complemented with participant observations and semi-structured interviews, we demonstrate how resident-made electricity connections prove a critical and implicit part of the electricity infrastructure system. Building from a sociotechnical approach to infrastructure, we use the notion of ‘precarious power’ to explore the mix of agency and precariousness that are entangled in the everyday practices of ordinary people making electricity connections. We highlight that in improvising electricity access, residents in Witsand exercised their agency to circumvent and appropriate Eskom electricity. This paper contributes to an understanding of urban residents' everyday infrastructural experiences through an analytical frame that is neither dismissive of their agency nor celebratory of their struggles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103228"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651569","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":"A comprehensive framework for assessing spatial conflicts risk: A case study of production-living-ecological spaces based on social-ecological system framework","authors":"An Huang ,&nbsp;Yan Wang ,&nbsp;Ying Xiang ,&nbsp;Yueqing Xu ,&nbsp;Li Tian ,&nbsp;Guiyao Zhou ,&nbsp;Yuan Zhuang ,&nbsp;Ling Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103218","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Against the backdrop of rapid global urbanization, the expansion of urban-rural spaces has led to conflicts among production-living-ecological spaces, resulting in a progressive decline in global ecological well-being. Coordinating spatial conflicts to minimize the reduction in ecological well-being is a critical scientific issue urgently needing resolution in current national spatial planning. In fact, the existing studies concentrates on the mechanisms, conceptual implications, evolutionary processes, and optimization simulations of historical spatial conflicts, yielding significant achievements. However, spatial conflicts are irreversible. Compared to studying historical spatial conflicts, assessing spatial conflicts risk which refer to potential occurrence of future spatial conflicts can provide more direct and robust support for optimizing territorial spatial planning. Unfortunately, there is a lack of research on the theory and methods of spatial conflicts risk assessment to date. To fill this gap, take the Production-Living-Ecological (PLE) spaces as a case study, social-ecological system framework (advance in deconstructing complex systems) and the land use function theory (advance in spatial quantification) have been combined to systematically construct a comprehensive framework and method for assessing PLE spatial conflicts risk. This newly framework analyzes the formation mechanism of conflicts risk from the dimensions of spatial pattern and governance. Furthermore, a quantitative and refined assessment method for PLE space conflicts risk at the raster scale is developed based on this framework, coupling coordination degree model, and multivariate data. The feasibility of this framework and method is validated through a case study of Zhangbei County, Hebei Province in China, a typical county in an ecologically fragile mountainous area. Moreover, we establish adaptive selection strategy to PLE space optimization under different governance scenarios based on the assessment result of PLE space conflicts risk. Findings of this research contribute new theoretical and methodological insights into addressing spatial conflicts issues while we are facing a more complex regional and urban system and fragmented governance. The case study will serve as a reference for counties in the northern mountainous area of Hebei Province and similar ecologically fragile mountain counties in planning and controlling coordinated and sustainable development of PLE space.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103218"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651565","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":"Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania","authors":"Raymond Aitibasa Atanga ,&nbsp;Yun Wang ,&nbsp;Raphael Anammasiya Ayambire ,&nbsp;Chunrui Wang ,&nbsp;Mengmeng Xu ,&nbsp;Jingyuan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103208","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103208","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Across the Global South, many cities have forged sister city relationships with their peers across the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of sister city partnerships are with European and North American cities. The paper argues that although sister city partnerships have gained currency in southern cities, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, empirical evidence about their contribution to sustainable urban development remains patchy, thus needing attention. The paper further argues that the literature on North-South paradiplomacy involving emerging cities is lacking as scholarship on the subject is overly skewed in favour of the large and mega cities. Drawing mainly on qualitative interviews, observations, secondary data, and internet sources, the paper assessed the nature of North-South sister city partnerships and their contribution to sustainable development (SD) in emerging cities using the experience of Toledo-Tanga and Ieper-Wa sister city partnerships. The findings reveal that, the partnerships' initiatives in areas such as water and sanitation, education, healthcare, culture, environmental sustainability, recreation and local economic development align closely with specific SDG targets, illustrating how international municipal cooperation can contribute to the achievement of the global sustainability agenda. This alignment also underscores the relevance of the SDGs as a guiding framework for sister city partnerships. By pitching sister city partnerships against SD, the paper introduces an environmental dimension to the existing theoretical stance which only considers the cultural, social, and economic dimensions of sister city partnerships. Finally, the paper provides policy and practical recommendations for the promotion and application of sister city partnership as a strategy for achieving SD in the Global South.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103208"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651566","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 symbiotic pathways: Unveiling the evolution and key drivers of China's human-environment relationship","authors":"Mingying Yang ,&nbsp;Yufu Chen ,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Yang ,&nbsp;Wenkai Bao","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid urbanization increased human demand for natural resources, disrupting the balance between human and environment. This disruption led to regional environmental degradation, frequent natural disasters, and severe challenges in achieving sustainable development goals. In this context, fostering human and environment harmony is essential. However, research on quantifying their relationship and exploring the driving factors and mechanisms at a national fine spatial scale remains insufficient. This study endeavours to address this gap by constructing China's eco-environmental quality index (EQI) and human activity intensity (HAI) evaluation index systems with a 1 km resolution. Furthermore, the study utilizes the four-quadrant model and trend analysis to reveal the human-environment relationship, and employs the Bayesian network model to explore key drivers and underlying mechanisms influencing their relationship, aiming to foster harmonious human-environment interaction. Our results show that: (1) Both EQI and HAI increased over time, with their high values concentrated on the southeast side of the Hu Line but low on the northwest side. (2) The proportions of coordination and running-in areas increased while those of degradation and conflict areas declined, with 36.77% of the regions showing positive synergy during 2000–2020, indicating that China's human-environment relationship tended toward coordination. (3) Bayesian network analysis identified land use intensity, GDP, fraction vegetation coverage, and population density as critical factors affecting human-environment relationship. From a quadrant-based analysis, natural and eco-environmental factors including precipitation, water yield, and net primary productivity mainly influenced the spatial distribution of coordination and running-in intensity, while socioeconomic factors like population density and GDP primarily drove the spatial distribution of degradation and conflict intensity. This study finally proposed tailored management recommendations which would provide scientific support to facilitate the coordination and harmony of regional human-environment relationship.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103195"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651567","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":"Unregulated development of planned settlements: From plan to reality in Laulane, Maputo, Mozambique","authors":"Johan Mottelson ,&nbsp;Paul Jenkins","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103214","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103214","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper focuses on unregulated development of planned urban areas, using the Laulane neighbourhood in Maputo, Mozambique as a case study. The neighbourhood was established in the 1980s via a simplified form of urban planning and subsequently developed without enforcement of planning regulations. The study combines quantitative and qualitative analysis of street and plot structures of the original plan and recent satellite imagery of the neighbourhood to investigate the long-term urban development dynamics. The findings highlight that the neighbourhood retained a high proportion of public space and high access porosity compared to recently studied unplanned settlements in the same city. As such, the study argues that minimal urban planning can enhance mobility and increase feasibility of investments in infrastructure even if subsequent development is unregulated by the state. With this background, the study discusses the mechanisms that made the plan successful despite the limited local institutional capacity, including community participation as well as establishment of adequate space for mobility systems and land reserves for future urban development. Finally, the study argues that such measures are increasingly relevant for supporting sustainable urban development in contexts characterized by rapid urbanisation and constrained state capacity to administer the urban development, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103214"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651568","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":"Multi-scenario comparisons to identify the spatial distribution, land type, and effectiveness of cultivated land restoration in the main grain-producing area","authors":"Kunyu Liang ,&nbsp;Xiaobin Jin ,&nbsp;Shilei Wang ,&nbsp;Xinyuan Liang ,&nbsp;Bo Han ,&nbsp;Yinkang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103211","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103211","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultivated land protection plays a pivotal role in ensuring grain security. Although China has managed to halt the continuous decline in the total amount of cultivated land over the years, some of the complementary cultivated land is of poor quality. Therefore, China still needs to strengthen cultivated land protection by implementing cultivated land restoration (CLR). However, current studies on CLR have certain limitations, as they neglect the multidimensional perspective of cultivation suitability evaluation (CSE) and fail to prioritise specific types of secondary land for restoration. In this context, based on a theoretical analysis of the objects, connotations and objectives of CLR, focusing on the Chengdu Plain, China's primary grain-producing area, this study devised four CLR scenarios: the priority to sustainable use scenario (PSS), the priority to cost scenario (PCS), the priority to ecological health scenario (PES), and the comprehensive restoration scenario (CRS). These scenarios aimed to address three key questions about CLR: where to restore, what to restore, and how effective it is. The findings revealed that areas with high cultivation suitability values were located predominantly in flat regions with favourable natural conditions. Garden land and forest land emerged as the primary sources for CLR, with restored paddy field being more widely distributed, while restored irrigated land and dryland were concentrated in specific parts of the study area. Besides, the restoration of cultivated land led to a significant increase in grain production across all scenarios, with optimal resource allocation. Notably, the PSS scenario demonstrated the most promising results, resulting in a remarkable 59.20% increase in grain production. Therefore, we emphasise that the scientific CLR implementation is of great significance to cultivated land protection in China at this stage, and we advocate for conducting CSE and managing all potentially arable land (PAL) with a focus on sustainable use. Overall, this study offers valuable insights that can serve as a reference for other countries or regions facing similar challenges, such as limited per capita cultivated land and variations in land quality, regarding CLR and the sustainable management of agricultural land.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103211"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651563","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":"Reducing clients’ influence in property valuation: An exploration of a blockchain-based solution","authors":"Chibuikem Michael Adilieme,&nbsp;Rotimi Boluwatife Abidoye,&nbsp;Chyi Lin Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103217","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103217","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Clients' influence remains a significant issue in the property valuation industry, particularly in emerging countries like Nigeria, where existing solutions have proven ineffective. This study, therefore, considers blockchain technology as a medium for delivering information transparency and explores the application of a blockchain-based tool for reducing clients' influence in property valuation. Specifically, this study is pioneering in proposing, developing, and testing a blockchain-based solution for reducing client influence in property valuation, suggesting a promising avenue for increasing transparency in the process. This study involves several stages. Firstly, <em>propchain</em>, a blockchain-based mobile application, was developed and deployed on the Hyperledger Fabric Network, a permissioned blockchain network. The efficacy of the proposed solution was qualitatively tested by a single-round focus group held with valuers, bankers, and a loan customer who used the application to simulate a property valuation exercise for a mortgage. The findings suggest that blockchain technology could be a viable tool for reducing client influence in property valuations. However, specific challenges in the Nigerian context, such as data access, information verification, and stakeholder trust, present significant obstacles. These issues highlight the need for robust institutional support systems to enhance the efficacy of blockchain solutions in this domain. This study supports Levy and Schuck's (2005) assertion that increased information transparency can reduce client influence. Nevertheless, our research indicates that the successful implementation of blockchain in property valuation will require overcoming systemic barriers unique to the Nigerian environment. The implication of key findings is also discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"154 ","pages":"Article 103217"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651564","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}