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Plausible or misleading? Evaluating the adaption of the place pulse 2.0 dataset for predicting subjective perception in Chinese urban landscapes

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103333

Jin Rui , Chenfan Cai

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Enhancing agricultural production and environmental benefits through full mechanization: Experimental evidence from China

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103332

Zhou Zhou , Zina A , Lulu Qu , Zhi Cao , Yuhao Zhang , Dong Zhao

{"title":"Enhancing agricultural production and environmental benefits through full mechanization: Experimental evidence from China","authors":"Zhou Zhou , Zina A , Lulu Qu , Zhi Cao , Yuhao Zhang , Dong Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103332","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103332","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Straw burning poses a significant threat to the environment and is a major governance challenge for many developing countries. Full agriculture mechanization production (FAMP) is an important measure to improve agricultural production efficiency and achieve agricultural modernization, playing a crucial role in mechanizing straw treatment. Based on agricultural production panel data and satellite remote sensing data in China, this study analyzes the effects of FAMP on farmers’ straw burning practices and their mechanisms using a staggered difference-in-differences (DID) model. The results indicate that FAMP directly reduces straw burning and indirectly reduces it by increasing the use of agricultural machinery and grain output. Heterogeneity analysis shows that in areas where large and medium-sized agricultural machinery is mainly used, where the terrain is flat and the concentration of farmland is high, FAMP exhibits a more pronounced effect in reducing straw burning. FAMP has brought significant environmental benefits by curbing straw burning and thereby reducing PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentration. Therefore, it is necessary to actively cultivate an integrated service market covering straw collection, storage, transportation, and final resource utilization, leveraging the important role of FAMP in promoting sustainable straw treatment. This study provides a useful reference for crop straw management and the formulation of sustainable agricultural development policies in developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103332"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420608","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}

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Will opening the gated community be perceived beneficial by residents? A comparative study of Beijing and Singapore

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103330

Guiheng Si , Ye Zhang , Weimin Zhuang

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Comparing the spatial structure of cities in East Africa, Europe and North America

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103329

Job F. Rosier, Peter H. Verburg, Jasper van Vliet

{"title":"Comparing the spatial structure of cities in East Africa, Europe and North America","authors":"Job F. Rosier, Peter H. Verburg, Jasper van Vliet","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103329","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103329","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding urban spatial structure is important as it reflects, among other things, the liveability, sustainability, and economic situation of a city. While considerable research has been done on urban spatial structure in North America, Europe, and China, cities in sub-Sharan Africa are chronically understudied. Yet, the largest urban population growth of our time is taking place in exactly these cities, and as a consequence these cities face large sustainability challenges. In this paper, we develop new land use maps for multiple cities in East Africa, and use these to compare the spatial structure of cities in this region with cities in Europe and North America. By using land use, building footprint, and population data, we calculate several metrics in order to quantify the differences between cities of across three continents. We find that cities in East Africa, on average, have smaller building footprints compared to cities in North America and Europe, but that regarding land use clustering, built-up density and population distribution the variations within regions are higher than between them. Overall, the results indicate that the spatial structure of East African cities is not consistently different from cities in other continents, yet the variability found between cities of the same region challenge the idea that there is such a thing as a generic model for urban spatial structure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103329"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420606","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}

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How do local governments respond to national urban containment policies? Evidence from China

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103320

Shihao Zhu , Longfei Zheng , Daquan Huang , Yanxu Liu

{"title":"How do local governments respond to national urban containment policies? Evidence from China","authors":"Shihao Zhu , Longfei Zheng , Daquan Huang , Yanxu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103320","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103320","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban containment policies have emerged as popular policy tools to alleviate urban sprawl worldwide. This study investigates how the strictness of China's incremental construction quotas affects urban expansion and how local governments utilize their limited agency in land supply to respond to policy constraints. Through a set of difference-in-differences models with continuous treatment, we find that an increase in policy strictness leads to a significant decrease in urban expansion, but the sensitivity to policy strictness varies with city size and administrative level. We also find that local governments facing stricter incremental construction quotas expand land supply sources and adjust the use types, and such responses have uncertain impacts on the sustainable development of cities. These findings suggest that the national government needs to carefully balance the diverse consequences of urban containment policies, not only to support the flexible innovation of local land resources control and management, but also to be alert to local unsustainable behaviors due to short-term interests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103320"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420605","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}

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Unravelling stories of pro-rural migration: From the pre-migration context to the post-migration experience

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103328

María Jesús Rivera

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The spontaneous spatial restructuring of traditional village based on an analysis of social relationship: A case in Fuling, Fujian China

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103309

Yiting Jiang, Jin Duan, Yushan Zhang

{"title":"The spontaneous spatial restructuring of traditional village based on an analysis of social relationship: A case in Fuling, Fujian China","authors":"Yiting Jiang, Jin Duan, Yushan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103309","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103309","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional villages are often seen as complex social and spatial systems that reflect deeply rooted cultural and relational dynamics. Urbanization and modernization threaten vernacular spaces in traditional villages, risking the loss of place identity and complicating preservation efforts. Indigenous social relationships form the backbone of social interaction and spatial organization in these communities, shaping how space is utilized and transformed. However, the research on how local people reshape rural space from the perspective of social relationship is still insufficient. Drawing on social space theory and informed by observations and first-hand narratives, this study develops a framework to analyze the relationship between social relations and spatial transformation in spontaneous rural reconstruction. Taking Fuling Village in Fujian, China as a case study, it explores how shifts in kinship, territorial, and religious dynamics influence spatial configurations before and after reconstruction. The study highlights changes in residential patterns, clan networks, and religious spaces across different spatial scales. The findings reveal that the reconfiguration of organizational relationships and shifts in social interaction patterns are key drivers in reshaping spatial allocations and formations. This has sparked local creativity, but also highlighted identity crises and emerging inequalities, calling for attention to local forces to ensure integrated heritage preservation and the long-term sustainability of these communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103309"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143403626","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}

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Overregulated and Underserved: Regulatory overlap in infrastructure/service provision in Delhi's ‘informal’ settlements

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103287

Shruti Syal

{"title":"Overregulated and Underserved: Regulatory overlap in infrastructure/service provision in Delhi's ‘informal’ settlements","authors":"Shruti Syal","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103287","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103287","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study is the first in-depth analysis of regulatory overlap in Water Sanitation Hygiene (WaSH) provision in urban ‘informal’ settlements. Using a mixed methods approach to map the spatial and functional footprint of government agencies, identify operational gaps or overlaps in agency activities, and examine its sources and consequences, this paper makes a case for regulatory overlap as a major challenge because it cripples infrastructure/service providers, not just users. Over 2012–2019, I conducted field observations at 20 settlements in Delhi, India, content analysis of 14 relevant city and national legislations, policies and plans, and interviews with (i) 56 settlement residents, (ii) 13 officials from the water, planning, shelter and municipal authorities, and (iii) 8 NGOs. I classified the emerging examples of regulatory overlaps into three categories: similar functional jurisdictions and adjacent spatial jurisdictions, different functional jurisdictions and similar spatial jurisdictions, similar spatial and functional jurisdictions. I found that overlaps result in burdensome transaction costs for Delhi's shelter authority, unintended public health and environmental impacts, and a diffused provider network that further fragments WaSH access. Overlaps were sourced to the disconnects between various legislations, or between legislations and other instruments—plans, programs, legal orders—that expanded the mandates of government agencies without updating corresponding legislations. This study suggests the need to take a network approach to understand the <em>many</em> international, national, and local actors dictating WaSH access in ‘informal’ settlements, <em>and</em> the instruments guiding them. Without that, waste will keep <em>cycling</em> from toilets to drains to public spaces, from one jurisdiction to another.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103287"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379116","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}

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Greenspace equity across variation in residential densities: Insights for urban sustainability

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103310

Junjie Wu , Lingzhi Wang , Bryan Pijanowski , Hichem Omrani , Anqi Liang

{"title":"Greenspace equity across variation in residential densities: Insights for urban sustainability","authors":"Junjie Wu , Lingzhi Wang , Bryan Pijanowski , Hichem Omrani , Anqi Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103310","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103310","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The enhancement of eco-social services provided by greenspace enhances human well-being and supports sustainable urban development. The United Nations has explicitly emphasized the need to \"ensure the availability of greenspaces for urban residents\" in SDG11. Nonetheless, with the current trends of urban sprawl and residential densification, greenspace shrinkage and degradation are accelerating, thereby diminishing its multifaceted benefits. These trends have also exacerbated inequalities and environmental justice issues. The disparity in greenspace exposure and its inequality across residential areas with varying densities has also been further exacerbated during this process. However, the specific magnitude and trend of change in this disparity were still poorly understood. To address this gap, we incorporated a random forest algorithm-based 30-m time-series greenspace mapping and an RSEI-based population-weighted exposure framework to quantify spatiotemporal variations in human exposure to greenspace across residential areas of varying densities in 154 cities at the patch scale. Finally, the Gini coefficient and MGWR were combined to assess the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of inequality in greenspace exposure and its influencing factors. Results indicated that greenspace exposure was greater in low-density residential areas than in high-density areas (0.72 vs 0.16), while equality was weaker (Gini coefficient:0.83 vs 0.61), both gaps have shown a tendency to narrow over time. Greenspace exposure equality was primarily driven by greenspace quality rather than its coverage ratio (Beta: −0.434 vs 0.40, P < 0.05). These findings contribute to our understanding of greenspace inequality in residential areas of different densities, suggesting directions for optimizing greenspace layout and offering new insights for sustainable urban development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103310"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143376607","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}

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Patterns and drivers of population in the borderlands of Mainland Southeast Asia

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Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103321

Chiwei Xiao , Yuqian Liu , Yanzhao Yang , Jeffrey Chiwuikem Chiaka

{"title":"Patterns and drivers of population in the borderlands of Mainland Southeast Asia","authors":"Chiwei Xiao , Yuqian Liu , Yanzhao Yang , Jeffrey Chiwuikem Chiaka","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103321","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103321","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Population concentration is a visible manifestation of the spatial pattern of demographic distribution, exerting significant impacts on local socio-economic and natural environment. Currently, population-analysis mainly focuses on administrative units, with limited attention given to borderlands characterized by rapid changes and complex geopolitical and economic environment, let alone drivers. Here, based on WorldPop (100 m and 1 km) datasets, we take population agglomeration index (PAI), population change amplitude (PCA), and relative change in population density (RCPD) as the three main indicators, use GIS spatial analysis and mathematical statistics to quantify the spatio-temporal patterns of population in the borderlands of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) during 2000–2020, and then reveal the underlying mechanisms through the geographical detectors. The result indicated population growth in the borderlands of MSEA has accelerated over the past 21 years. This growth has contributed to over 20% of the total population increase across the entire MSEA, and its increase amplitude is more than twofold. The population pattern of the borderlands is characterized by an increasing trend towards agglomeration, with spatio-temporal heterogeneity and significant country differences, particularly Cambodian. The drivers of population agglomeration in the MSEA's borderlands are dominated by natural environmental conditions, with land cover having the highest explanatory power for population agglomeration, especially cropland and forest. Understanding the border-prone characteristics of population and potential mechanism in MSEA can provide a reference base for local sustainable development and geopolitical and economic environmental changes in the borderlands, and promote the development of population geography.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103321"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143368249","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}

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