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{"title":"Spatial pattern of rural authenticity and its relation to urbanization: Insights from Henan Province, China","authors":"Siwei Hu ,&nbsp;Yongsheng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103291","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103291","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A key issue in advancing rural revitalization is determining how to manage rural system functions in the context of rapid urbanization. Here we developed a conceptual framework of rural authenticity for evaluating rural system functions and examining their interactions and relations to urbanization at the county level in Henan Province, China. Our study demonstrated spatial patterns of 16 rural authentic functions and found significant synergies in 67% of pairs of functions. Five rural authentic function bundles named Suburban Integration, Cultural Leisure, Intensive Agriculture, Water-Agriculture, and Ecological-Tourism were identified and linked to the dominant functions strongly shaped by social-ecological factors. Based on a locally weighted regression analysis, we found that the rural authentic function was generally decreased with the increasing level of urbanization, but varies for different dimensions of urbanization. Population urbanization followed by land urbanization had the greatest trade-off intensity with the agricultural production function at 0.651 and 0.602, respectively, and also high with the ecological regulation function at 0.551 and 0.541. Our study provides useful information on rural system function and urbanization management through the lens of authenticity to help Henan Province and other developing regions advance rural revitalization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103291"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137764","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":"Rising South, shrinking North: Paradoxically increased unevenness in the global urban economic system","authors":"Zhenyu Huang ,&nbsp;Minghong Tan ,&nbsp;Xue Yang ,&nbsp;Xue Wang ,&nbsp;Liangjie Xin","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103254","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103254","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The urban economy, a more definitive indicator of city size than merely the urban population, encompasses both the population and per capita gross domestic product (GDP). This study employs nighttime light imagery to identify the scopes of 11,946 cities worldwide. For the first time, it evaluates the trend of evenness in the global urban economic system (UES) over the past three decades. The finding reveals an increased unevenness in the global UES, with the top 20% of cities accounting for approximately 80% of the global GDP. Moreover, there is a significant regional disparity in the city rank changes within the global UES. In Asia, many cities have significantly raised their ranks, while most cities in Europe and North America show the opposite trend. Among developing countries globally, the number of cities in the top 20% grew at a rate of 30.29%, while the number of cities in the top 20% of developed countries declined by 23.75%. Despite the significant economic growth of some developing cities (mainly in Africa and Asia), it has not mitigated the trend of increasing unevenness in the global UES.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103254"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137741","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":"Promoting carbon neutrality through ultra-low energy buildings in China: Evidence from evolutionary game theory","authors":"Yuechao Chao ,&nbsp;Na Deng ,&nbsp;Yahui Du ,&nbsp;Gang Yao ,&nbsp;Zhihua Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To address the urgent need to reduce global carbon emissions and mitigate climate change, China has prioritized the promotion of ultra-low energy consumption green buildings as a key strategy for advancing national carbon neutrality goals. This study explores the critical role of ULEC buildings in supporting these goals by establishing a collaborative framework among the government (GOVT), green real estate developers (GRED), and housebuyers (HBs). Employing a tripartite evolutionary game model informed by current Chinese policies and regulations, this research simulates the dynamic interactions and stable strategies among these stakeholders. Our findings indicate that adjusting land purchase costs and implementing carbon emission fines effectively incentivizes government engagement in cooperative projects, with optimal land valuation identified between 800 and 850 $/m² and carbon emission penalties between 28 and 32 $/t. Subsidies emerge as essential for encouraging active participation from GRED and HBs, yet careful calibration of subsidy levels is recommended to ensure sustainability. This study contributes valuable insights into policy formulation, highlighting actionable strategies to accelerate the development of ultra-low energy consumption green buildings as part of China's path to carbon neutrality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103281"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137805","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":"Producer-oriented and consumer-oriented alternative food networks and rural revitalization in China: Distinct trajectories and variegated impacts","authors":"Meiling Wu ,&nbsp;Qian Forrest Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103289","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103289","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Alternative food networks (AFNs) have been increasingly perceived as an engine for rural revitalization, yet AFNs can differ in their founding motivations, operational methods, and organizational forms, which thus produce varying economic, social, and environmental outcomes. Despite this, the complexity of AFNs in the role of rural revitalization remains surprisingly under-researched. This study, drawing a distinction between producer-oriented and consumer-oriented AFNs in China, explores the dynamics of how producer-oriented and consumer-oriented AFNs are formed and give rise to distinct trajectories of rural revitalization. When AFNs prioritize producers' pursuit of alternatives to conventional agrifood systems over merely catering to urban consumers’ instrumental needs, AFNs can then become a catalyst for rural revitalization by driving the transformation of the agrifood economy, the benefits of which are subsequently leveraged to enhance the living environment and community fabric. This study has significant implications for the role of AFNs in facilitating rural development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103289"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A multi-perspective framework for assessing urban well-being, development, and sustainability","authors":"Adar Stern,&nbsp;Meidad Kissinger","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As urbanization continues globally, assessing the state of development, well-being, and sustainability of cities and towns is critical. Most previous studies have predominantly relied on a single assessment system, often aligned with a specific perspective. This paper presents a study aimed at advancing a multi-criteria framework for assessing urban settlement performance. The proposed framework brings together diverse perspectives, emphasizing various assumptions about what should be considered positive or negative for different aspects of urban development, well-being, and sustainability. The analysis initially explores the structure and content of this proposed assessment framework, adapting existing leading international approaches to local urban scales. Three themes are advanced, each emphasizing a somewhat different perspective: (a) the conventional approach, which prioritizes socio-economic factors; (b) an integrated approach that quantifies the quality of life and well-being, emphasizing the need for social, economic, and environmental indicators; and (c) a socio-environmental perspective, employing a ‘strong sustainability’ approach within the context of planetary boundaries. Here we examine the Israeli urban sector by analyzing 89 urban settlements of varying characteristics, including size, economic status, social and cultural-religious attributes, and geographical location aggregated into six clusters. Our analysis reveals a range of scores between and within each theme of the analyzed settlements and aggregated clusters. As expected, high socioeconomic towns and cities are receiving the highest scores based on the conventional theme and low income, and specifically minority towns the lowest. But within this theme, a range of scores are presented and no single settlement receives a perfect score. Embracing the integrated theme and using the socio-environmental theme results are changes, and leading settlements by one theme may rank lower by another. This work provides a unique perspective on development and may signal alternative directions for progress.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103269"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138629","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":"Reshuffling informal governance configurations: Active agency and collective actions in three regenerated neighborhoods in China","authors":"Nannan Zhao ,&nbsp;Yuting Liu ,&nbsp;Shenjing He","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103267","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103267","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Informal governance is associated with the collective actions of multi-scalar participants in neighborhood regeneration for the “right to the city”. As an alternative to the unitary state structure, the changing state-market-society relations in China provide fruitful material for understanding the informality in urban governance. Drawing upon Giddens's structuration theory, this paper identifies three interconvertible configurations of informal governance in China's neighborhood regeneration by elaborating on the interaction between community activists' structural constraints and their active agencies. The results are threefold: 1) Collective actions that take place at the community level are often subject to structural constraints, where governance configurations in relation to neighborhood regeneration policymaking are determined by the different disposable resources behind the intersubjective relationships of key actors. 2) The public affected by neighborhood regeneration can facilitate collective self-emancipation through engaging in insurgent practices, mobilizing the community, and creating the commons to escape market and state constraints. 3) Community actions not only shape a collective consciousness among proactive participants but also reflect the subversion of local policies and the reshuffling of informal governance configurations. Echoing the discursive shift towards participatory planning in China, this paper contributes to the literature on informality in urban governance by revealing the trajectories of informal governance reconfiguration through insurgencies, negotiations, and empowerment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103267"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143137807","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":"Beyond intentions: Transaction uncertainties and developers’ adoption of nonconventional housebuilding technologies","authors":"Godwin Kavaarpuo,&nbsp;Piyush Tiwari,&nbsp;Andrew Martel","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103295","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103295","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the need for the housing sector to be more innovative, there are limited empirical insights into the influence of uncertainty on innovative housebuilding technology adoption (whether as greenbuilding technologies or otherwise). In exploring the dimensions of uncertainty, this paper asks the following questions: does reducing uncertainty enhance adoption likelihood? Which dimensions of uncertainty, if reduced, will generate significant increases in innovation adoption likelihood among developers? These questions are examined using survey data from residential developers in Ghana and an extended version of transaction cost economics as the theoretical background. We extracted three dimensions of transaction-related uncertainties, which cumulatively explained 62% of the total variance of uncertainty. Only market demand uncertainties were related to adopting four of the six nonconventional walling materials examined. The probability of adopting these technologies increased by 9.3–14.1 percentage points with an increase in predictability of market demand. Increased predictability of housing supply-side conditions did not affect the likelihood of adopting any of the walling technologies. Our findings further reveal a contrast between adoption intentions and actual practices. The findings suggest that innovation policy should address the multidimensional nature of uncertainty concerning the specific technologies it seeks to influence their adoption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103295"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138466","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":"Dynamic evaluation and obstacle factor diagnosis of rural human settlements quality in the Dabie mountains old revolutionary Base area under the background of rural revitalization","authors":"Shengtian Jin ,&nbsp;Dandan Zhao ,&nbsp;Bingfei Bao","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103256","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103256","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a rural revitalization context, promoting the continuous optimization of rural human settlements (RHS) is exigent. This article discusses the logical relationship between the rural revitalization strategy and RHS, constructs an evaluation index system for RHS quality in the Dabie Mountains Old Revolutionary Base Area (DMORA), describes the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of RHS quality in 47 counties (cities) of the DMORA from 2006 to 2021, reveals the interactions and coordinated development between various subsystems, and uses an obstacle degree model to identify the obstacle factors hindering the improvement of RHS quality. The results are as follows. (1) The overall level of the RHS quality index in the DMORA is not high, and it showed a continuous and stable upward trend from 2006 to 2021. However, the improvement speed of each county (city) is inconsistent, and regional differences are increasing. (2) From the perspective of each subsystem, during the research period, the quality index of rural production environment, rural living environment, and rural sociocultural environment showed an upward trend, and regional differences continued to increase. The rural ecological environment quality index showed a reduction in regional differences. (3) The degree of interaction between various subsystems of the RHS in the DMORA is gradually increasing, the level of coordinated development is slowly improving, and regional development is gradually balanced, but the overall level remains low. Therefore, it is necessary to further promote the coordinated development of various subsystems. (4) Per capita electricity consumption of rural residents; agricultural output value per land; proportion of output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery services; per capita total output value of rural agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery; and afforestation area are the main obstacle factors affecting RHS quality, and they are also the objects that need to be focused on and regulated. The research results have not only enriched the theoretical achievements regarding <span>RHS</span> research to a certain extent but also provided decision-making support for promoting the improvement of <span>RHS</span> quality in the DMORA.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103256"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138628","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":"Social network analysis of heterogeneous subjects driving spatial commercialization of traditional villages: A case study of Tanka Fishing Village in Lingshui Li Autonomous county, China","authors":"Yeqing Cheng,&nbsp;Xueyan Fei,&nbsp;Liusha Luo,&nbsp;Xiping Kong,&nbsp;Jinping Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103235","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103235","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural spatial commercialization has emerged as a focal point of interest in the field of rural geography. This study, Taking Tanka Fishing Village of Xincun Town in Lingshui Autonomous County of Hainan Province as a case, and based on the data and materials collected from field investigation and semi-structured questionnaire interview, analyzed the evolution process and characteristics of spatial commercialization, and examined the social network relationships and its underlying mechanism driven by multiple heterogeneous subjects utilizing Social Network Analysis. The aim is to provide practical guidance for the industrial transformation, upgrading, and preservation utilization of Tanka Fishing Village, as well as other traditional villages with similar profiles. The findings indicate that, firstly, as rural spaces transition from productivism to post-productivism and multi-functional countryside, the spatial commercialization of Tanka Fishing Village has also undergone a transformation from being predominantly fisheries to a fusion of fisheries and tourism, and subsequently to an integration of fisheries, tourism and culture. Secondly, the evolution of spatial commercialization within Tanka Fishing Village is a practical process where various heterogeneous subjects, including governments, businesses, village committees, Tanka people, and tourists, establish social relationship networks through a series of negotiations and strategic interactions. The social network relationship of heterogeneous subjects has gradually shifted from an ‘enterprise-driven cluster network’ to a ‘government-led tight network’ and ultimately to a ‘relatively balanced network driven by rural talents’. The role of external heterogeneous subjects, such as enterprises and government departments, in the social networks has progressively weakened, whereas the importance of internal heterogeneous subjects, including social groups and rural talents, has correspondingly increased. This shift has fortified the endogenous momentum of spatial commercialization in Tanka Fishing Village. Ultimately, strengthening government policy guidance, fostering innovative business models, encouraging villager participation, and refining the benefit-sharing mechanism are crucial strategies for promoting the sustainable commercial development and preservation of Tanka Fishing Village in Lingshui Autonomous County, China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103235"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180969","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":"From industry to education-driven urbanization: A welfare transformation of urbanization in Chinese counties","authors":"Luan Chen ,&nbsp;Minsheng Li ,&nbsp;Yaofu Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As China's urbanization advances, residents' demands for quality of life and enhanced public services have grown more prominent. This paper examines the shift in county-level urbanization drivers, focusing on a welfare-oriented, education-driven model that balances production with public service needs. Through statistical data, surveys, interviews, and big data analysis, a case study illustrates both macro and micro mechanisms of education-driven migration to county towns. Findings show that rural families increasingly view access to quality education and desirable school districts as rational, intergenerational investments. Government efforts to improve educational services and relax household registration restrictions have facilitated this transition from industry-led to education-driven urbanization. This study offers new insights into fostering urbanization by highlighting the equal importance of public services and employment opportunities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103248"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180970","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}