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{"title":"Culture-led rural revitalisation in China: Relational practices of materiality, creativity, and sustainability","authors":"Junxi Qian,&nbsp;Yanheng Lu,&nbsp;Yinan Cai","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103557","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural Revitalisation is a prominent national policy agenda in China, which regards rural areas as a new frontier of development and governance. Culture plays an abiding and increasingly prominent role in this campaign, with policy objectives as diverse as the generation of economic value based on the assetisation of culture, capacity building for rural communities, the coordination between cultural and ecological conservation, and the provision of cultural goods to enhance communal cohesion. This paper engages with the existing literature on culture-led development and regeneration to understand culture as a source of economic value and a conduit of governance capacity, but cautions against its tendency towards conflating situated, dynamic, and more-than-human practices with state- and governance-centred epistemologies. Instead, the paper is informed by the relational approach of culture, which theorises culture as a relational network, a meeting point of plural human and non-human actors. This approach thus makes room for theorising the roles of non-state actors and interests, and examines how specific objectives are experimented to generate wellbeing for people and communities within specific relational entanglements. The empirical sections draw on a large depository of second-hand online materials collected with the data-mining method and probe into culture-led rural revitalisation in China along three themes – architectural materiality, arts/creativity, and sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103557"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144886078","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":"Artificial intelligence and global embodied carbon flow: Evidence from the application of industrial robots","authors":"Zhipeng Tang ,&nbsp;Shujuan Tang ,&nbsp;Jialing Zou","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), exemplified by industrial robots, holds significant potential for reducing global carbon emissions. However, its impact on global trade-embodied carbon flows remains ambiguous. Using instrumental variable methodology, this study empirically examines how industrial robot adoption in developing countries affects embodied carbon exports. The key findings are as follows: First, increased industrial robot usage in developing countries significantly boosts their embodied carbon outflows, with a 1-unit rise in robot adoption leading to an additional 0.262 thousand tons of embodied carbon exports. This effect is particularly pronounced in manufacturing and utilities, amplifying the risk of carbon leakage to other regions. Second, industrial robots disproportionately drive embodied carbon flows among developing nations. From an industry perspective, robot adoption primarily increases carbon outflows in medium-carbon-intensity sectors. Mechanism analysis reveals that these effects stem from three main channels: expanded production and trade scales, higher energy consumption, and reduced reliance on renewable energy. These findings challenge conventional wisdom by highlighting two critical risks: automation may inadvertently create new carbon leakage pathways within the developing world, and technological leapfrogging without complementary energy reforms could exacerbate climate inequities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103560"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144880149","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":"Measuring urban–rural integration through the lenses of sustainability and social equity: Evidence from China","authors":"Bingsheng Liu ,&nbsp;Chengfeng Qi ,&nbsp;Bin Xue ,&nbsp;Zhongqi Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103559","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103559","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid urbanization and industrialization worldwide have intensified urban-rural disparities, drawing resources and populations into cities and weakening rural communities. The global sustainable development agenda explicitly calls for stronger urban–rural linkages to bridge these gaps. In China, policymakers have recently elevated urban-rural integration in the national “rural revitalization” strategy, reflecting a recognition that long-term growth requires balancing urban and rural progress and ensuring social equity. Despite high-level commitment, empirical tools to evaluate integration and guide practice remain underdeveloped. A survey of 401 experts in urban–rural integration was used to develop an indicator system under three dimensions: economic development balance, social welfare equity and environmental governance coherence. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses distilled six key factors: environmental governance, economic structure, social security, public services, social equality, and economic efficiency. The results highlight that factors such as efficient land use, inclusive social security and psychosocial well-being are critical to the integration process. Notably, the prominence of social security and public service factors echoes recent policy goals of unifying social insurance for migrant workers and equalizing basic services across urban and rural areas. The framework was further validated using case data from 18 designated urban–rural integration demonstration zones, confirming its professional rigor and practical applicability. Overall, the proposed framework underscores how integrated rural–urban development advances China's sustainable development goals (SDGs) and social equity agenda. By linking economic, social and environmental indicators, it provides a systematic tool to monitor progress toward SDGs and common prosperity. This work fills a theoretical gap by framing urban–rural integration through a social-fairness lens and offers policymakers guidance on inclusive urbanization. In line with these findings, policy interventions should target key areas, such as rural housing, public services, digital infrastructure, land transfer mechanisms, and rural talent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103559"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144867369","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":"Trade-offs, synergies and driving pathways between tourism cultural ecosystem service and multiple ecosystem services in ecological functional zone","authors":"Li Li ,&nbsp;Rundong Feng ,&nbsp;Guoling Hou ,&nbsp;Jianchao Xi","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103558","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103558","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tourism cultural ecosystem service (TCES) is crucial for promoting sustainable development in ecological functional zones, which face the dual challenge of conservation and livelihoods. However, the spatial and temporal interactions between TCES and other ecosystem services (ESs) are not yet fully understood. This study aims to address this gap by quantifying the trade-offs between TCES and five key ESs, while also identifying the impact pathways of these trade-offs. The Taihang Mountains were selected as a case study, using multisource data and structural equation modeling for analysis. The results indicated that between 2000 and 2020, the area of living space around scenic spots increased by 59.22 %, primarily due to encroachments into production and ecological spaces, leading to greater fragmentation. During this period, TCES, food production (FP), carbon storage (CS), and soil retention (SR) all increased by 7.14 %, 31.79 %, 78.68 %, and 26.13 %, respectively. However, water yield (WY) and habitat quality (HQ) decreased by 5.44 % and 0.33 %, respectively. TCES showed significant synergies with HQ, SR, and CS, especially in the southeastern part of the study area. In contrast, trade-offs were observed between FP and WY, primarily in the northern region. Notably, in 2010, revenue from scenic spots had a significant impact on the TCES–FP trade-off, as it intensified ecological space fragmentation and expanded production areas. By 2020, however, the level of development at scenic spots became a key factor in fostering synergies between TCES and CS, driven by increased landscape diversity and further fragmentation of living spaces. These findings provide important insights for the sustainable management and planning of landscapes in ecological functional areas, emphasizing the role of TCES in balancing conservation with development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103558"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144867368","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":"Alternative counter-urbanisation and the collage rural: Spatial reassembly in a peri-urban village in Guangdong, China","authors":"Xinhui Wu ,&nbsp;Xun Li ,&nbsp;Fan Mo ,&nbsp;Luan Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103544","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103544","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study reinterprets counter-urbanisation in China by examining how rural transformation unfolds through everyday spatial negotiations within a peri-urban village. Using Gangtou Village near Guangzhou as a case, it introduces the concept of <em>collage rural</em> to interpret fragmented and layered rural spaces shaped by villagers, governments, designers, and entrepreneurs. By analysing the three collaged spaces within the village (the old village, new village, and garden space), this article reveals multiple logics underpinning the production of rural collage, demonstrating how counter-urbanisation occurs alongside and in tension with processes of urbanisation, commercialisation, and ruralisation. Rather than a linear demographic shift, we propose the concept of alternative counter-urbanisation to describe local villagers’ selective adaptation of urban elements to preserve rural livelihoods and local rhythms, demostrating a non-urban living preference. The study calls for planning approaches in hybrid rural-urban zones of the Global South that embrace diversity and support incremental, collage-based transformations over top-down redevelopment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103544"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144867367","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":"Innovation in small municipalities: The case of waste management","authors":"Michel Xocaira Paes ,&nbsp;Marc E.B. Picavet ,&nbsp;Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103554","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103554","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Small municipalities are key to reducing waste and tackling climate change, but they often struggle to innovate and improve their capacity to deliver public services, especially in developing countries. This article explores how small municipalities can innovate in public service provision despite limited resources. Specifically, we analyzed municipal solid waste management (MSWM), a service typically overseen by municipalities and essential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The study is based on a single case: Harmonia, a small Brazilian municipality selected for its exceptional waste recovery performance – the highest in the country – alongside composting and prevention initiatives. Following an economic and environmental assessment of MSWM effectiveness, including GHG emissions, the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) was applied to analyze the political, social, and institutional factors that enabled innovation in Harmonia's MSWM system. Findings suggest that successful innovation in small municipalities tends to rely on small-scale initiatives that require neither advanced technologies nor major investments. However, this depends on long-term support from a landscape of actors and public policies to scale up and coordinate efforts across departments, overcoming resource limitations. In Harmonia, the effectiveness of prevention actions, home composting, and recycling was rooted in decades of environmental education, social engagement, public awareness, and collaboration with other levels of government. These technological and management efforts led to costs (US$24.40 per inhabitant/year) and emissions (37.02 kg CO₂eq per inhabitant) significantly below the national average (US$35.70 and 396.83 kg CO₂eq per inhabitant, respectively).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103554"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144860330","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":"Marginalized but equal? An investigation of visible green equity disparities in marginalized residents' daily commutes and its potential green solutions","authors":"Jin Rui","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103556","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103556","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing quantification of green equity focused on static spatial measures, neglecting the dynamics of residents' behavior. This study introduces a novel method based on residents' daily commute trajectories to identify visible green exposure and equity, distinguishing between marginalized and formal settlements. We employed Lasso regression and LightGBM models to demonstrate the contributions of 2D green landscape patterns and 3D green morphologies to visible green equity, as well as the synergistic effects between variables. The results indicated: (1) Residents in marginalized settlements experience more equitable visible greenery compared to those in formal areas. (2) 3D green morphologies, 2D landscape patterns, and spatial patterns play roles of decreasing importance in influencing visible green equity, compensating for the neglect of 3D green morphology in existing conclusions. (3) Synergistic analysis revealed that diversified, dispersed, and low green spaces contribute to promoting visible green equity across all settlements. (4) Marginalized settlements can utilize fragmented small green spaces to reduce spatial segregation, while formal settlements need to focus on the soft boundaries between green spaces and housing. The inclusive green planning strategies proposed in this study consider the residential marginalization and the dynamics of residents' daily commute, offering new insights for differentiated neighborhood green planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103556"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144852458","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":"How does greenspace-oriented development induce growth? The Case of Beijing","authors":"Shi Qiu,&nbsp;Anrong Dang,&nbsp;Xiangyu Li,&nbsp;Jingxiong Huang,&nbsp;Yang Weng","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103539","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Concentrating urban densification around green spaces provides residents with numerous benefits, including ecosystem services like improved physical and mental health, mitigation of extreme heat events, enhanced biodiversity, and cleaner air. However, in the context of Greenspace-Oriented Development (GOD), it is still unclear whether and to what extent the construction of urban parks promotes land use densification. To address this issue, this study applies the Difference-in-Differences (DID) model combined with long-term, high-resolution remote sensing imagery to explore the spatiotemporal changes in development densities around four regional parks in Beijing, as well as the spatial heterogeneity of expansion intensity at different distance ranges. The results indicate that the spatial spillover effects of later-developed parks, such as Nanhaizi Country Park and Zhongguancun Forest Park, were significantly higher than those of earlier-developed parks like Olympic Park and Chaoyang Park. Park construction led to an increase in high-rise buildings with a clustering pattern, while low-rise buildings decreased and became more dispersed. Moreover, the expansion intensity around parks peaks in the 500–1000 m range rather than showing a simple inverse relationship with distance. This study helps to understand the spatial spillover effects and dynamic impacts of park construction on high-rise and low-rise buildings, providing theoretical foundations and policy recommendations for the coordinated development of parks and surrounding land use in the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103539"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144828704","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":"Coping with the “new normal”: assessing urban vibrancy resilience disparities through socioeconomic deprivation in New York City","authors":"Yunzhe Liu ,&nbsp;Meixu Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103543","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103543"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144827440","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":"River's End: The violence of indigenous riverine urbanization in the making of Indonesia's new capital","authors":"Vandy Yoga Swara ,&nbsp;Kei Otsuki ,&nbsp;Femke van Noorloos ,&nbsp;Michelle Kooy","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103555","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103555","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article analyzes the consequences of the state-led urbanization of riverine indigenous communities in Indonesia. Specifically, we examine how the development of urban water infrastructure in the context of the new capital city construction in East Kalimantan has changed indigenous relations with the river, and how this change further led to reconfigure indigenous people's relationship with their cultural heritage. Engaging with the political ecology of urbanization, indigenous studies, and infrastructural violence scholarship, and based on qualitative fieldwork including semi-structured interviews and participant observation conducted in 2022, 2023, and 2024, we conceptualize the process of change as indigenous riverine urbanization and show how it turns both materially and symbolically violent. Materially, the modernist interventions in water and heritage infrastructure cause the loss of access to and coexistence with the river; and symbolically, they force the indigenous communities to accept new ways of living as a new ‘museum’. We argue that such multifaceted violence is produced through a universalized narrative of inclusivity in state-led public infrastructure projects, particularly in water provision and cultural preservation. The infrastructure projects work to sustain existing inequalities while also allowing indigenous communities to undertake a broader cultural recognition strategy. We recommend shifting from inclusion approaches focused on compensation and recognition toward a planning approach that involves indigenous peoples as planners, integrating their knowledge into urban infrastructure planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 103555"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144826044","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}