Li Wang, Xueqian Ding, Mingxia Hong, Wenying Xiong, Yongzhong Tan
{"title":"Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform","authors":"Li Wang, Xueqian Ding, Mingxia Hong, Wenying Xiong, Yongzhong Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The reform of homesteads has a multidimensional impact on the welfare of farmers in different locations. Based on Sen's welfare function theory, this study constructs a welfare evaluation index system for farmers under the background of homestead reform from five aspects: living condition, economic condition, social security, community living, and psychology. Using the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to compare the changes in the welfare level of farmers in three different locations of villages before and after the reform of homestead, and using a multiple linear regression model to test the influencing factors that cause differential changes in farmers' welfare. The research results reveal the following: (1) The overall farmers' welfare level has greatly improved after the reform, with the total fuzzy index increasing from 0.491 to 0.712, an increase of 45%. The highest increase was in the social security, which increased by 51.8% after the reform. The overall farmers' welfare level has increased in the following order: remote villages, urban villages, and suburban villages. (2) In suburban villages, the improvement of living condition, economic situation, and social security welfare is the most observed, while in suburban villages is psychology. (3) Family characteristics have an overall negative impact on welfare. In urban villages, the main factors are change in housing area, rental income, and whether own urban housing; while suburban villages are housing area and rental income.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103190"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142427949","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":"Functional preference and spatial response of urban renewal entities in Beijing","authors":"Shan Xu , Boya Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the process of rapid urban renewal, quantitative research on functional preferences and spatial layout norms of multi-type urban renewal entities is crucial for optimizing spatial governance and promoting orderly control of urban renewal. We investigate urban renewal in Beijing from 2006 to 2021 using directional distribution, spatial autocorrelation, and hotspot analysis. The findings are as follows: (1) The functional preference of each type of entity differs. While most private companies and other profit-oriented entities concentrate on producer services and residential functions, policy-oriented entities dominate the urban regeneration of public service activities. (2) Every entity shows a significant agglomeration characteristic, yet exhibits a differentiated spatial response pattern. Those entities with stronger leasing ability prefer the central zone while others are the opposite. (3) Diverse types of entities have differentiated spatiotemporal evolutions. The spatial directional divergence of state-owned enterprises and scientific research institutes has increased between 2006 and 2021. This is mainly influenced by the policy of relieving Beijing of nonessential functions. However, the rest entities show a balanced spatial development trend with the difference in each direction becoming smaller. Furthermore, the center of gravity of profit-oriented entities has shifted from the suburbs to the central zone due to a combination of administrative and market forces, whereas the center of gravity of policy-oriented entities tends to move outward from the central zone.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103191"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357703","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":"Older adults’ decisions regarding mobility to age in place in medium- and high-rise multi-storey residential buildings in urban settings: A case study of South East Queensland, Australia","authors":"Sheik Basha , Jianqiang Cui , Yong Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103188","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103188","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Population ageing and urbanisation requires a more thorough understanding and monitoring of older adult residential mobility trends. Many older adults move to urban areas and previous studies have been carried out on ageing in place in traditional low-rise residential buildings. However, there is little in the literature about the important push and pull factors influencing older adult moves to medium- and high-rise multi-storey residential buildings in urban areas as they age. This case study research considered the housing migration model of push and pull factors used in elderly residential mobility and investigated the older adults' decision-making regarding mobility to age in place in medium- and high-rise multi-storey residential buildings in South East Queensland, Australia. The study revealed how the older adults expressed a desire to age in place in multi-storey residential buildings in urban areas and identified it as an important element of quality of life. Many older adults chose to move house to high density urban areas from low density urban areas between the ages of 65 and 84. The ‘pull’ factor to significantly influence the decisions of movers was a low maintenance property and lifestyle change from a large suburban home whereas the ‘push’ factor was upkeep difficulties of the house related to old age. This study makes empirical contributions to knowledge in ageing residential mobility trends in urban areas and concludes by providing policy recommendations for developing more effective housing, public spaces, transportation, and community activities and services for older adults, including highlighting a number of recommendations for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103188"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357704","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}
Chengxin Lin, Rixin Chen, Beizhu Wang, Xiaojuan Li
{"title":"Evaluating resilience and enhancing strategies for old urban communities amidst epidemic challenges","authors":"Chengxin Lin, Rixin Chen, Beizhu Wang, Xiaojuan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103187","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103187","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Epidemic outbreaks pose significant risks to sustainable urban development, underscoring the critical need to bolster the resilience of old communities, key to urban epidemic prevention. This study introduces a resilience evaluation system tailored for these communities, employs a cloud model-based fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) method, and selects Fuzhou City for a case study. It evaluates the resilience of three communities, Qixingjing Xincun (A), the Provincial Forestry Department's dormitory (B), and Wufeng Lanting community (C) across five dimensions. By employing system dynamics (SD) model, the study examines the interplay and impact mechanisms of resilience indicators, predicts trends and future developments, and proposes strategies to enhance resilience. Results indicate that: (1) community B exhibits the highest resilience, followed by A and C, validating the FCE method's efficacy; (2) resilience across all dimensions is on the rise, with no signs of plateauing observed; (3) enhancements in resilience are notably impactful in facility (A3), spatial (A1), environmental (A2) and resident resilience (A5) are extremely close to each other in terms of their impacts, while governance resilience (A4) exhibits minimal changes. Offering insightful contributions to the resilience study of old urban communities, this study serves as a guide for future practice in improving public safety and promoting urban development, and insights into universal urban challenges and resilience strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103187"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328031","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":"Does the size of the housing rental market stabilize regional economic fluctuations? Evidence from China's large- and medium-sized cities","authors":"Yu Kong, Junhao Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The influence of the housing rental market on economic operations is a significant concern. Particularly in China, the rental market has been undergoing a transition from being disregarded to being valued. Based on an analytical framework referencing the three-sector theory of metropolitan economic growth, this study explores the impact of rental market size on regional economic fluctuations and its influence channels using a panel of 69 large and medium-sized cities from 2010 to 2019. The results indicate that increased rental market size is significantly correlated with decreased regional economic fluctuations through housing sales and labor market channels. Specifically, house price depression, house investment stability, labor allocation, and employment stability effects are crucial channels through which the size of the rental market influences regional economic fluctuations. In addition, the marginal effect of rental market size on regional economic fluctuations is smaller in cities with higher economic development. The conclusions imply that policymakers should not focus on how to unilaterally expand the housing rental market, but should strategically compensate for the defects of regional housing rental–related institutional systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103189"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328032","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":"Pathways for future climate action planning in urban Ghana","authors":"Prince Dacosta Aboagye , Ayyoob Sharifi","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103186","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the face of rapid urbanization and urban climate vulnerabilities in the Global South, developing effective and suitable climate action plans have become imperative. Recent literature has critically examined climate action planning approaches in the Global South. In Ghana, the existing top-down approach to urban climate action planning is criticized as ineffective, unsustainable, and reactionary, emphasizing the need to continuously explore alternative effective context-based approaches. This study adopts a backcasting and participatory approach to explore prospective pathways for Ghana's urban climate action planning. We contextualize the pathways in two-fold; climate action pathways and social network pathways. The approach identified seven climate actions and distinct networks for collaboration, resource sharing, and knowledge/information flow relevant to Ghana's future urban climate action planning. The actions include three pro-adaptation actions, one pro-mitigation action, and three actions to achieve synergies from simultaneously implementing both adaptation and mitigation. It further reveals that aligning to a particular climate action can be influenced by an individual's age group (or generational cohort) or level of experience in climate planning. Lessons are drawn from the pathways to propose a conceptual framework to guide Ghana's future urban climate action planning. To achieve climate resilience in the cities of Africa and other Global South countries, our study provides evidence of a multi-stakeholder approach in prioritizing actions and enhancing social networks and interrelationships for climate action planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103186"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142314415","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":"Indigenous Urbanisation and Urban Indigeneity: Insights of embedded identity and contouring spatiality in Jharkhand, India","authors":"Bipin Kumar , Vijay Kumar Baraik","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103185","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103185","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Indigeneity in India and globally remains largely tied to rurality, and in urban spaces, as primary (re)negotiations of their urban affiliations, portrayals and experiences. This paper instead introduces a negligent trope of urban indigeneity, particularly as it manifests in often overlooked yet advancing urban spaces within the ‘indigenous geographies’ of the global south. Focusing on Jharkhand, an eastern state of India with a predominant tribal population, the paper explores cities and towns with strong indigenous character, embracing both their customary associations and contemporary socio-spatial formations. Employing a mixed-method approach, we examine their embedded urban social landscapes through tribal toponyms (landmarks or place names) and evolving urban socio-spatial interactions via demographic concentrations, both as indicators of growing integrations into indigenous urbanscapes. Findings suggest that despite their long-established histories and enduring identities, to a greater or lesser extent, urban tribals are increasingly adapting an outward-pushed urban socio-spatial formation. With shrinking urban cores and shifting social peripheries, indigenous cities and towns are reproducing a socio-spatial dialectic that impedes most urban-led social mobility and perpetuates the precariousness of urban indigeneity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103185"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270968","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}
Ngo Kien Thinh , Hesam Kamalipour , Nastaran Peimani
{"title":"Morphogenesis of forgotten places: A typology of villages-in-the-city in the Global South","authors":"Ngo Kien Thinh , Hesam Kamalipour , Nastaran Peimani","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103184","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainable integration of rural settlements into metropolises is one of the most challenging issues in the Global South. Due to rapid urbanisation, various villages, which often have underdeveloped infrastructure and amenities, have been incorporated into cities and have become Villages-in-the-City (ViCs). ViCs represent neighbourhoods that have not been designed by professionals, but they generally have strong social network and house millions of inhabitants. While the proliferation of ViCs within the cities of the Global South has been phenomenal due to their economic, spatial, and social integration with their urban environments, the morphogenesis of ViCs remains largely understudied. By analysing multiple case studies in the Global South using extensive urban mapping, the article puts forward a typology of ViCs characterised by their incorporation process. Four primary types, namely Separation, Oasis, Maze, and Sprawl, are illustrated based on two criteria: the relationship between ViCs and surrounding built-up areas, and incremental development within ViCs. The study raises an emerging question about the visibility of ViCs in relation to the politics of upgrading within cities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103184"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019739752400184X/pdfft?md5=00f075d0889ab10d3e6e1946a71a8a38&pid=1-s2.0-S019739752400184X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270967","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":"The impacts of housing purchase restriction policy on residential land supply in China","authors":"Liangjian Wang , Jingjing Zhou , Kunqiu Chen , Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103175","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Analyzing the impact of the housing purchase restriction policy on residential land supply is crucial for land and real estate market regulation. Although numerous studies have investigated the impact of the purchase restriction policy on the real estate market, there is relatively less research on their effect on the land transfer market. Herein, we examined the impact of the purchase restriction policy on the real estate market and the land grant market through the“price-volume” dimension using a panel of 273 cities from 2004 to 2018 in China. The results are as follows: (1)purchase restriction policy can have a significant impact on the real estate supply market (land grant market) in China; (2)the impact of the purchase restriction policy on the number of land sales is significantly negative, but there is a difference in the impact on the price of land sales; (3)the impact of the purchase restriction policy on the reduction of the number of land grants and the increase of the price of land grants is extremely significant in first-tier cities, with decreasing effects on second- and third-tier cities decreases in turn; (4) the purchase restriction reduces the number of land sales most strongly and lifts the price of land grants the most in the eastern city in China. The policy effect was significantly weakened in the central and western regions. In the western region, the purchase restriction even hit the land supply market, with a significant negative impact on both the volume of land sales and the price of land sales.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103175"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142169078","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":"Intermittent food deserts. Exploring the spatiotemporal dimension of the urban fresh food access in Chilean cities","authors":"Ana Zazo-Moratalla , Alejandro Orellana-McBride","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Food deserts in Chile present a singularity in the context of the Global South. Unlike other countries where food security is mainly achieved through informal trade, in Chile, weekly streets markets is the structural system providing fresh food. Supermarkets complement spatially and functionally street markets. Both systems and their temporal operation makes that the Chilean food deserts main characteristic is their intermittency. The purpose of this research is to analyze the Chilean food deserts to contrast them with the predominant North and Global South discourses and position the Chilean case internationally. Specifically, this article looks to analyze the importance of the spatiotemporal dimension in food access studies where a healthy diet depends on systems other than supermarkets characterized by intermittent operation over week. For this purpose, this article takes the Metropolitan Area of Concepcion as case. First, the research identifies the location and the socioeconomic groups associated with the different degrees of access from a static perspective based on the spatial distribution of supermarkets and street markets. Then, the dynamic analysis introduces the time dimension to reveal the variability of access patterns and the impact on vulnerable groups.</p><p>The intermittency of the food deserts positions Chile as halfway between the Global South and North models. The particularity of this model is that intermittently and regularly provides a healthy food environment within food deserts. Additionaly, it has the potential to be planned for overcoming structural inequalities in spatial fresh food access.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 103174"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397524001747/pdfft?md5=10f212ba1edd2c16aec32a3178238081&pid=1-s2.0-S0197397524001747-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142169079","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}