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{"title":"Impacts of global manufacturing transfer on energy intensity, consumption, and transition: An industry linkage perspective","authors":"Liming Ge ,&nbsp;Che Su ,&nbsp;Qianqian Cheng ,&nbsp;Heyun Zheng ,&nbsp;Zixuan Liu ,&nbsp;Yi Guo ,&nbsp;Pengbo Sun ,&nbsp;Pengfei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103410","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103410","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Manufacturing industry consumes a substantial amount of energy, and its international transfer plays a crucial role in shaping energy consumption patterns worldwide. However, the energy impacts of manufacturing transfer, particularly with regard to energy transition, have not been fully investigated. We present a theoretical framework based on industry linkage to elucidate the energy impacts of global manufacturing transfer. Subsequently, we empirically examine the energy impacts as well as the underlying mechanisms using panel data encompassing 43 countries from 2003 to 2017. Results show that global manufacturing transfer significantly increases overall energy consumption, decreases energy intensity, and promotes the transition torwads low-carbon energy system. Specifically, it decreases energy intensity in both the originating and receiving countries, promotes the low-carbon energy transition in the originating countries, but has no notable impact on the energy transition in the receiving countries. The energy effects are more pronounced in developed countries and in the post-financial crisis period.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103410"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143870015","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":"Optimizing vertical urban development: The role of a multidimensional assessment framework for balancing vertical growth and habitability","authors":"Han Wang ,&nbsp;Ping He ,&nbsp;Man Sing Wong ,&nbsp;Siu Wai Wong ,&nbsp;Yinghao Song ,&nbsp;Geoffrey Qiping Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid urbanization and population growth have driven vertical urban development in densely populated cities facing land scarcity. However, such pursuit towards high-density living often compromises the quality of the built environment and habitability, and accurately assessing its impacts is challenging, making it difficult for urban planners to identify optimal vertical growth strategies. Here we present a comprehensive assessment framework that integrates detailed 3D urban landscape models with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to multidimensionally assess customizable factors such as ventilation, thermal comfort, air quality, sunlight exposure, and urban aesthetics under different vertical growth scenarios. The framework is demonstrated through a case study to guide the vertical growth in a new development area in Hong Kong. Our simulations show that high-rise building clusters pose challenges such as strong winds, and trapped heat and air pollutants, but well-designed configurations of tall, slim buildings with adequate spacing can harness wind flow to improve thermal comfort and air quality. Despite a general deterioration of habitability being observed as vertical growth increases, there exists a threshold below which habitability is less impacted. This observation enables us to develop a Vertical Urban Habitability Index (VUHI) that can determine the optimal vertical growth by quantifying the trade-offs between increasing building areas and maintaining environmental habitability. The result shows that relaxing building heights by 7–13 % and plot ratios by 26–32 % beyond the government's benchmark can optimize urban development without compromising habitability. This framework not only serves as a reliable tool to guide vertical urban planning, but also facilitates benchmarking the habitability of different vertical cities, which enables knowledge sharing and identifies best practices for sustainable vertical development worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103424"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873627","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":"Housing finance and inequality: Mortgage debt in urban China","authors":"Jinqiao Long ,&nbsp;Liyuan Zhuang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103411","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103411","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mortgage credit has played a central role in driving housing market dynamics. The differentiation of the mortgage market is an important embodiment of housing inequality and a dimension of social stratification. Using the Chinese Housing Consumption Survey (CHCS) data, this study aims to understand the temporal dynamics of the mortgage market and factors influencing access to housing finance in urban China, which offers important insights into housing inequality in transitional economies. Since 2013, the use of mortgage loans to achieve homeownership has become the dominant source of housing finance in urban China, with intergenerational transfers remaining crucial in influencing the development of the mortgage market. Considerable variation is found in Housing Provident Fund participation, access to mortgages and the type of mortgage among different demographic and socio-economic groups. Institutional features, such as hukou status, hukou location, party membership and employer type are crucial for securing policy-based subsidies, influencing access to homeownership and therefore generating housing tenure inequality and housing wealth inequality. At the city level, state forces affect the acquisition of Housing Provident Fund loans, whereas market forces prompt reliance on commercial mortgage loans. The scrutiny of the housing finance systems contributes to the understanding of the formation of wealth inequality in transitional economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103411"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863755","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":"Utilizing complex networks and multi-scale analysis for spatial coordination and regional integration: Insight from the Pearl River Delta, China","authors":"Chenyu Fang ,&nbsp;Ran Chen ,&nbsp;Lin Zhou ,&nbsp;Xing Liu ,&nbsp;Shidong Ge","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103409","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103409","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The megaregion significantly influences spatial coordination and regional integration through complex interactions among cities; however, gaps persist in determining the roles of various administrative levels and in harnessing these interactions to facilitate regional integration. By integrating high-resolution mobile phone signaling data within a novel macro-meso-micro analytical framework, the study incorporates Degree Centrality, an improved Louvain algorithm modified to address the Matthew Effect (iLAME), and a Weighted and Normalized Gould-Fernandez (WNGF) to assess the influential roles, spatial structure, and brokerage interactions within the PRD. The result at the macro-level highlights regional imbalances within the PRD, notably the spatial mismatch between job opportunities and residential locations. At the meso-level, the community grouping result reveals discrepancies between administrative boundaries and actual community structures, suggesting that urban development has transcended traditional administrative limits. At the micro-level, the analysis accentuates the importance of brokerage roles played by multi-level administrative units. This comprehensive analysis underscores the necessity of constructing efficient transportation networks and reducing institutional distances to foster regional integration within the PRD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 103409"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143863756","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 Integration of the Built Environment -the case of displaced Pakistanis on the outskirts of Tehran","authors":"Taban Mossavi ,&nbsp;Mahmood Fayazi ,&nbsp;Zoheir Mottaki","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103407","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amid an unprecedented rise in global displacement, over 122 million individuals now face the challenge of adapting to unfamiliar cultural and living environments. Despite separate studies on post-displacement acculturation and the built environment, their intersection remains largely neglected. This study used grounded theory ethnography over three years to investigate a displaced Pakistani community near Tehran, their Iranian hosts and their respective dwellings, and the behaviors they harbor. Based on the findings, a model was developed to study post-displacement cultural integration of the built environment. The study explores acculturation outcomes in the built environment—integration, separation, and assimilation—shaped by internal cultural shifts and external factors like surroundings, legalities, and social context. The Pakistani population in particular, exhibited minimal cultural change, influencing their spatial organization and behavior settings. Furthermore, this model can assist practitioners and academics in addressing displaced population's built environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103407"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143848211","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":"Neighborhood environment, social support and subjective well-being of rural migrant women: A case study of Nanjing, China","authors":"Moli Gu ,&nbsp;Shuangshuang Tang ,&nbsp;Jianxi Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional gender norms and the household registration system in China have longstanding effects, creating unique characteristics and risks for the social support and subjective well-being of rural migrant women in urban areas. The neighborhood community, as their primary living and social space, plays a crucial role in providing social support and enhancing subjective well-being. However, few studies have focused on the social support and subjective well-being of rural migrant women against the special background of China, with even fewer exploring the mediating effects of the neighborhood environment. This paper constructs an analytical framework to explore the relationship between neighborhood environment, social support, and the subjective well-being of rural migrant women. Drawing on 2023 questionnaire data from Nanjing, China, we conducted regression analysis, propensity score matching, and mediation effect tests to investigate these relationships. The results show that emotional support, informational support, and social companionship positively impact rural migrant women's subjective well-being, whereas instrumental support exerts a negative effect. While the built environment generally hinders social support and SWB, the social environment plays a facilitating role, which we argue is due to the particular socioeconomic and built environments of China. Additionally, social support serves as a mediating mechanism linking the neighborhood environment to subjective well-being. Enhancing social support systems and optimizing community spatial planning is essential for improving the social well-being of rural migrant women.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103406"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843868","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":"Public attitudes toward state-led urban village rehabilitation in Shenzhen, China","authors":"Lin Jiang ,&nbsp;Yani Lai ,&nbsp;Yuzhe Wu ,&nbsp;Rong Wang ,&nbsp;Xiao Tang ,&nbsp;Xiaoming Li ,&nbsp;Ding Ma ,&nbsp;Renzhong Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>State-led urban village rehabilitation has emerged as an important approach in urban development, addressing the dilemma of inadequate housing supply and poor-quality aging buildings. Nowadays, it has evolved into a widely discussed public issue with far-reaching societal impacts. However, few research explores public attitudes toward such state-led urban rehabilitation initiatives using large-scale data sets. This study investigates how the state-led urban village rehabilitation project in Shenzhen, China, was discussed on Weibo, a Chinese platform similar to Twitter. By applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for topic modelling analysis and the Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique for sentiment analysis, the study analyses a substantial dataset comprising 790 Weibo posts and 2096 comments. This methodological approach has captured four main topics of public focus, including increasing rent and large-scale displacement, spatial transformation, inhabitants' interest, and capital and power relationships. The findings reveal spatial transformation and improvement of living conditions are significantly linked with positive attitudes toward urban village rehabilitation projects. Conversely, negative sentiments emerge from fears over the increased rent and the risk of displacement, the anger over the loss of residents' interests, and the critiques of profit-driven motives underpinning the capital and power nexus. This study further provides a valuable reference for evaluating and refining urban rehabilitation strategies regarding the protection of the inhabitants' interests and the promotion of social sustainability based on the most concerned factors of the public.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103404"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143835290","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 built environment and multidimensional poverty: exploring accessibility as a mediator of spatial opportunity","authors":"James Gachanja ,&nbsp;Tianren Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While research has established links between the built environment and urban poverty, the mechanisms through which spatial opportunities influence multidimensional poverty remain poorly understood. This study examines how accessibility mediates the relationship between spatial opportunity and multidimensional poverty, while accounting for other built environment characteristics. Using household-level data, we applied structural equation modelling to analyse the complex pathways through which spatial opportunity affects poverty via accessibility, alongside considering the influence of density, design, distance to public transport, and diversity. The research reveals that accessibility plays a crucial mediating role, enabling spatial opportunities to translate into tangible reductions in multidimensional poverty. Specifically, while spatial opportunity alone may not guarantee poverty reduction, improvements in accessibility significantly enhance the potential positive impact of these opportunities. Furthermore, the study identifies distance to public transport as a factor positively associated with multidimensional poverty, and diversity exhibiting a negative association. The findings suggest that simply changing spatial opportunities may be insufficient for poverty reduction; accessibility plays a crucial mediating role that must be considered in urban interventions. The findings suggest that urban interventions aimed at poverty reduction should prioritise enhancing accessibility to existing and new spatial opportunities. This study advances our understanding of how built environment interventions can address urban poverty by highlighting the conditional importance of accessibility in shaping the relationship between spatial opportunities and poverty, and by underscoring the need for careful consideration of local context when designing urban interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103402"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143829892","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":"Dissecting transaction costs in neighborhood regeneration decision-making: Case studies in Chongqing, China","authors":"Taozhi Zhuang ,&nbsp;Hexin Yi ,&nbsp;Hongjuan Wu ,&nbsp;Yuhang Zhang ,&nbsp;Xinyue Fu ,&nbsp;Guiwen Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Neighborhood regeneration (NR) plays a vital role in promoting sustainable urban development. However, in China, the decision-making process for NR incurs high-level transaction costs (TCs), resulting in process inefficiencies that lead to project delays, terminations, and even severe social conflicts. Existing studies on NR decision-making downplay the significant role of TCs in the process, thus failing to address the problem essentially. Therefore, this study aims to decipher the critical TCs and their underlying causes in the NR decision-making process in China. Chongqing is selected as the case area, and two representative project types, namely government-dominated and market-dominated projects, are explored, respectively. Based on TC theory and the application of in-depth interviews, this study identifies TC types, pinpoints key specific TCs through scale measurement and two-mode social network analysis, and elaborates on their determinants through grounded theory analysis. The results highlight the presence of high-level TCs in NR decision-making, revealing the dilemma of market involvement, the impact of uncertainty on the government, and the role of asset specificity. Additionally, the study provides new insights into resident participation. Finally, policy implications are proposed to reduce TCs, thereby enhancing the efficiency of NR decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830029","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 phenomenological study of place attachment to food spaces: Expatriates and eateries in Dubai","authors":"Gopika Balakrishnan,&nbsp;Sahera Bleibleh","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103399","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The preservation of native food habits among Indian expatriates in Al Karama, Dubai, reflects a deep sense of place attachment, blending cultural continuity and spatiality in the context of migration. This study investigates how expatriates' place attachment from place of origin is expressed and experienced in place of residence, through exploring the case of Indian eateries in Al Karama fostering connections to expatriates' place of origin; and expanding to other expatriates' experiences and expressions around food spaces. By employing a phenomenological qualitative approach, including interviews with eatery visitors (50 visitors) and eatery owners (50 owners), photographic documentation, observations, and spatial analysis, conducted from 2022 to 2023, this research explores Indian expatriates' lived experiences and expressions of ‘home’, i.e., their place of origin, in their current place of residence, through the Indian eateries in Al Karama and examines whether and how these eateries built place attachment to place of origin or as an attempt to recreate such attachment in the place of residence. The findings reveal that Indian eateries function as practical expressions of place attachment, enabling Indian expatriates to experience cultural ties and emotional connection to their place of origin. The eateries are found to be significant places that offer more than just Indian food, functioning as places of identity, belonging, and social interaction for the Indian expatriate community living in Dubai through providing multitude experiences. Focusing on Indian expatriates and the Al Karama neighborhood, the findings highlight key dynamics of place attachment and spatial behavior trends that contribute to a broader understanding of place attachment among the Indian expatriate community in Dubai. Al Karama being a representative case of place attachment specific to Indian expatriates in Dubai, other areas such as Al Satwa, Al Rigga and Deira showcases examples of place attachment expression through food spaces among other experiences of shopping and cultural gatherings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 103399"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820967","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}