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{"title":"Behavioural selection of farmer households for rural homestead use in China: Self-occupation and transfer","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the outflow of the rural population, the functions of rural homesteads in China have undergone transformation, leading to the reform of the rural homestead system. Strengthening investigations into rural homestead-use behaviours of self-occupation and transfer, considering the trend of rural transformation and the reform of rural homestead, are vital to providing adequate support to formulate and implement targeted institutions responsible for rural homestead use. Based on survey and questionnaire data from 299 villages in China in 2022, this paper addresses the characteristics of rural homestead-use from the perspectives of homestead self-occupation and transfer. The factors of both farmer households and villages were recognised using a hierarchical Logit model. The results revealed the following. First, household self-occupation played the dominant role in the state of rural homestead use in China, with the accompaniment of a low proportion of transfer in non-self-occupation homesteads. The proportions of self-occupation and transfer were found to vary significantly on different scales across provinces, villages and farming households. Second, there were different factors influencing the self-occupation and transfer behaviours of rural homesteads. Specifically, self-occupation behaviour was predominantly influenced by the degree of dependence on self-housing demand and homestead supply, and village demands for development more substantially influenced transfer behaviour. Third, under the context of both the rural transformation trend and <em>Rural Revitalisation Project</em>, it is recognised that the residential security function of homesteads is prioritised, followed by promoting the reuse of homesteads through comprehensive measures. This study will provide a scientific reference for the effective implementation of rural revitalisation and rural homestead system reform.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142002425","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":"Resilient planning pathways to community resilience to tsunami in Chile","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103158","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is growing urgency to develop resilient coastal communities worldwide due to an increase in destructive events. Many resilience assessment models, tools, and frameworks are being developed to guide planners and policy makers for planning resilient communities. However, many lack a multidimensional approach, while others disregard regional variations in indicators' importance, and neglect an adequate community involvement level. In turn, these factors hinder the development of a ‘Resilient Planning Pathway’ (RPP), or a set of planning strategies that consider key local environmental attributes and socio-cultural capacities. The RPP approach has been used in the context of vulnerable groups and urban and landscape planning worldwide. The objective of this study is to identify key resilience aspects to develop RPPs in Chilean coastal communities exposed to tsunami hazards. We used a cross-sectional participatory method with public servants and coastal communities which identifies regional variations in resilience dimensions, in order to define challenges for planners and policy makers. A systematic international literature review in Atlas.Ti revealed 78 resilience composite indicators and six resilience dimensions for tsunami hazards in Chile. Composite indicators were evaluated according to their importance and experience by 134 public servants within 42 coastal communities, revealing the aspects that guide the current development of RPPs. Public servants' responses are similar among macrozones and suggest that RPP development has focused on the physical, socio-cultural, and institutional dimensions, neglecting the ecological and economic dimensions. In contrast, the community opinions from 10 representative coastal settlements collected in 29 focus groups indicated that the importance of composite indicators varies among macrozones and with regards to the public servants' responses. This finding suggests commonalities and differences among macrozones regarding the challenges in developing Chilean coastal communities' RPPs. We believe that our methodological approach could help generate similar assessments in other world zones.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141991041","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":"Understanding regional structure through spatial networks: A simulation optimization framework for exploring balanced development","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The spatial structure inherently reflects a region's pattern and developmental processes. Understanding the rationality behind this structure and identifying optimization directions are pivotal for macro-level regulation of regional development and collaborative efforts. This study initiates a discussion on the composition and optimization mechanisms inherent in spatial structures. Adopting a spatial network perspective, we interpret the interaction dynamics within regional morphological structures as the consumption of resources through flows. We transform structural optimization into an equilibrium matching process of resources and establish a quantitative research framework that integrates network modeling, structural issue identification, and optimization strategies. Then, we selected the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as our empirical subject, and obtained three important results: (1) Before optimization, we identified structural spatial imbalance characteristics; (2) We explored the evolutionary trend of optimization and delineated four main optimization stages; (3) The spatial structure of the region was improved, and significant benefits in equilibrium and resource utilization was achieved. Finally, we discussed the feasibility of the framework and the necessity to integrate policy networks, hoping to assist regional managers in macro-governance and enhance the rationality of regional planning and coordination.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141979857","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":"Yesterday's solution: Do national economic and technological development zones promote industrial development in typical developing regions of China?","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the proliferation of special economic zones (SEZs) among emerging economies, their mixed performance has sparked discussions on contextual heterogeneity and underlying driving mechanisms. Characterized by an outward-oriented economy and industry-city interaction, the cross-stage establishment practice of China's national economic and technological development zones (ETDZs) is conducive to expanding existing research focused on cross-country analyses of SEZs. This study constructs difference-in-differences models to analyze the influence of national ETDZs on regional industrial development in the Yellow River basin, a typical developing region in China, from 2003 to 2019, evaluating their performance under a regional balanced development strategy and a within a lagging economic backdrop. The results indicate that (1) national ETDZs do not contribute to industrial growth and even exert a negative effect; (2) while they fail to perform better over time, their spatial spillover effect slightly benefits neighboring cities; (3) an optimal economic environment and proactive policy promotion can respectively mitigate and exacerbate their negative effects; (4) the inability to attract external enterprises and achieve industrial restructuring is the primary cause of the negative effect, highlighting a mismatch and discord between the economic and policy attributes of national ETDZs and evolving contexts. Based on these findings, recommendations are proposed to cultivate SEZs as suitable policy platforms and effective economic spaces.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141979782","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":"Are robots crowding out migrant workers? Evidence from urban China","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The heated debate on automation versus labor pulls at the heartstrings of many in both academia and industry, as automation can trigger dramatic adjustments in the urban labor market. Yet, little is known about how migrant workers respond to such technological advances. To contribute to this debate, this paper empirically investigates the effects of automation (proxied by the exposure degree of industrial robots) on the settlement intention of migrant workers in urban China. Employing data from the <em>China Migrants Dynamic Survey</em> (CMDS) 2014–2017, our results reveal that cities with greater exposure to industrial robots are more likely to attract migrant workers to settle. Yet, the promotion of settlement intentions is more pronounced for migrant workers at the high and low tails of the skill distribution, leading to a U-shaped selection. Further analyses confirm that this nonlinearity is mainly due to the displacement of routine-intensive occupations, the reinstatement of high-skilled machine-complementing occupations, and the indirect boom in service-related occupations at all skill levels. In addition to economic incentives as the decisive impact channel, mechanism analyses found that the resulting labor market adjustment simultaneously enhances the social integration of migrant workers, acting as a secondary impact channel on the willingness of migrant workers to settle. Our findings raise concerns about the polarization of skills and wages among migrant workers despite their general benefit from automation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141952807","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":"Unveiling age-friendliness in smart cities: A heterogeneity analysis perspective based on the IAHP-CRITIC-IFCE approach","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Smart cities for the elderly are crucial for advancing inclusive smart cities amidst urbanization and population ageing. While the age-friendliness of smart cities is increasingly emphasized, differences across various fields of age-friendliness in smart cities remain unclear. In the context of smart city construction gradually shifting to a people-centered approach, it is also urgent to carry out refined assessment and heterogeneous analysis of the perceptions and needs of different groups of citizens. This paper delves into the evaluation of age-friendliness in smart cities (AFSC). And the heterogeneity of age-friendliness of various fields of services in smart cities is explored, as well as the AFSC deviation in perceptions between elderly people and non-elderly people. First, the main fields and evaluation indicators of AFSC are identified. Then, the AFSC evaluation model is established which is combining the improved Analytic Hierarchy Process (IAHP), the CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) and improved Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation method (IFCE). Finally, a case study is conducted in Nanjing, China. The results show that the AFSC of Nanjing has a score of 61.41, which indicating a favorable level. Furthermore, heterogeneity analyses showed that there are significant variations in age-friendliness across different fields within the city: smart life and consumption, smart recreation and entertainment, smart transportation and mobility have a favorable level of AFSC, while the other fields are deficient. The overall AFSC score for non-elderly citizens is significantly higher than that of elderly citizens, and elderly citizen’ perceptions of AFSC vary according to elements of their personal physical condition and elements of their personal socio-economic status. In addition, the study proposes differentiated enhancement of AFSC in all fields, accurate enhancement of AFSC by identifying specific elderly citizens, and integrated enhancement of AFSC by adopting multi-dimensional measures. This study reveals age-friendliness in different fields of smart cities, clarifies the perceived heterogeneity of age-friendliness of smart cities among different groups of citizens, and enriches the intersection research of smart cities and age-friendly cities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141950981","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":"Population shrinkage and its influence on housing prices: A mediation perspective based on commercial amenities","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effects of population shrinkage have become a new topic of concern. Existing research has explored the effects of population shrinkage on housing prices within specific cities, yet due to scale variations, the effects of population shrinkage on housing prices may exhibit uncertainty, are conclusions drawn at the micro level applicable to the macro level? Currently, there is limited exploration of the collective effects of micro mechanisms of population shrinkage on housing prices. In this paper, we outline the effects of population shrinkage on housing prices at both macro and micro levels. Subsequently, we propose to explore the general effects of population shrinkage on housing prices based on commercial amenities. Specifically, we analyze the spatial patterns and characteristics of population shrinkage and housing prices in 1235 Chinese shrinking counties. Furthermore, using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), we examine how commercial amenities mediate the relationship between population shrinkage and housing prices. This study contributes theoretically and empirically to understanding the impact of population shrinkage on housing prices, while also holds practical significance for regulating the effects of population shrinkage and stabilizing the value of real estate markets from the perspective of commercial amenities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141950391","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 spatial mismatch between foreign direct investment and street networks: Evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research investigates the spatial mismatch between the distribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the configurational characteristics of street networks in Hanoi's urban districts. Two indicators are employed to represent the connectivity of street networks generated by space syntax methodology, global integration for vehicular movements and local integration for pedestrian traffic. Findings reveal that FDI clusters have preferred areas highly connected by arterial roads, including traditional commercial centres and new suburban locations, confirming that FDI is spatially matched with vehicle-oriented street networks. However, the major FDI clusters have been established without tight connections to street networks for pedestrians. The findings shed light on the new spatiality of global capital accumulation that expedites an unsustainable, vehicle-oriented urban structure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397524001528/pdfft?md5=3620d62925ff0a450a722c8d5a762e93&pid=1-s2.0-S0197397524001528-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141780312","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":"Ontological pluralism in Saudi Arabia's sustainable urbanization framing","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103139","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103139","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drawing on urbanization and counter-urbanization dialogues, this paper analyzes how urbanization shapes urban policy and economic opportunities as a way of understanding the ontological pluralism characterizing urban development in Saudi Arabia. Recent debates on urbanization in the global south frequently overlook the potential contribution of counter-urbanization narrative as many countries are undergoing an unprecedented level of urbanization. We use Saudi Arabian cities as a case study to illustrate how rapid urbanization can occur in an Arabian context without accompanying economic growth by analyzing population census data from 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. By looking at urbanization and counter-urbanization processes, the paper shows that these processes are already influencing and shaping urban policy in Saudi Arabia. It then discusses the implications of the urbanization and counter-urbanization processes as defining traits of urban policy, and thereby consolidating theoretic and agentic understandings of urban sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623267","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":"Untapped transformative potential in decentralised groundwater systems that improve households' resilience in India's water-scarce urban environments","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Off-grid, decentralised water infrastructures are increasingly being promoted to help cities meet their water delivery targets and build resilient water systems in the face of changing water availability. Against this background, this paper examines how integrating off-grid, decentralised groundwater systems with centralized piped supply helps water utilities and urbanites achieve transformative resilience under conditions of chronic water scarcity in the secondary city of Tiruppur, India. Empirical findings on users' water access practices from off-grid systems like municipal or private borewells to remain resilient, their role in the everyday governance of these systems, and the costs of building resilience through borewells—obtained through a participatory action research project where 94 households recorded month-long water access using a ‘water and waste calendar’—reveal that Tiruppur's public borewells are an affordable and mostly inclusive resilience building measure but are far from being transformative. Moreover, diverse arrangements for their everyday governance unevenly enable user participation, impose invisible costs on female members of borewell-reliant households, and create differentiation in service quality across the city. The paper argues that the potential to achieve transformative resilience through off-grid sources like borewells remains untapped in Tiruppur and concludes with some reflections to pursue just and inclusive resilience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397524001401/pdfft?md5=82d004900cc6ed17c49f9a64e04d4726&pid=1-s2.0-S0197397524001401-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623266","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}