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{"title":"Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations","authors":"M.E. Singer ,&nbsp;A. Rosenthal ,&nbsp;S. Shapira ,&nbsp;S. Natour ,&nbsp;I. Porat ,&nbsp;M. Negev","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103535","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the strong relationship between climate change, infrastructure, and health outcomes, the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and on health are commonly studied separately. The current study addresses this gap by examining the pathways through which critical infrastructures impact climate-related health risks among vulnerable individuals and the everyday adaptation practices they adopt in response. Data from ten focus groups (n = 69 participants) with vulnerable Jewish and Bedouin residents of urban and rural environments in the Negev region of Israel were systematically coded and analyzed. Participants identified categories of public and private physical and service-related infrastructure that were vulnerable to climate change, the pathways through which climate-infrastructure interactions affected health outcomes, and the ways in which participants navigated these risks. These findings highlight the direct and cascading pathways through which the malfunction or absence of critical public and private infrastructures impact the climate-related health risks that vulnerable individuals experience and the practices they adopt to cope with these effects. The results imply that understanding critical infrastructures' failures and individuals’ subsequent coping mechanisms are key to explaining and addressing climate vulnerability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103535"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144780172","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":"Towards high-quality territorial spaces: Theorizing space quality and measuring its social-spatial inequities","authors":"Jinlong Yan ,&nbsp;Yongqiang Liu ,&nbsp;Renfeng Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103537","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103537","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Under the dual demands for a better life and sustainable development, shaping high-quality territorial space is both a policy goal for local governments and a public pursuit. However, the limited focus on territorial space quality (TSQ) methods and theories may misguide decision-making and hinder high-quality space development. This study preliminarily establishes a theoretical framework, conceptual model, and assessment system for TSQ, offering policymakers a practical and interpretable decision-support tool for quantifying the spatial distribution and social-spatial inequities of TSQ. The results showed that high-quality territorial spaces were primarily located in high-altitude mountainous and urban central areas, whereas low-quality territorial spaces were mainly located in agricultural and urban-rural fringe areas. Notably, only 20 % of the population had 83 % of the opportunities for high-quality territorial spaces. Minors and working-age groups faced greater challenges in obtaining matched quality spaces than the elderly, demonstrating the problem of social distribution inequities. Besides, 31 % of the population's demands for matched territorial spaces remains unmet, showing significant spatial heterogeneity, particularly in central urban, northern agricultural regions, and southern rural settlements, demonstrating the problem of spatial distribution inequity. Therefore, we recommend that policymakers shift from traditional quantity-, structure-, and function-oriented approaches to a quality-demand-driven paradigm to address TSQ inequities more effectively. Our findings help to clarify the gap between existing territorial space and the desired high-quality territorial space, providing insights for human-centered spatial governance and planning to support more equitable and sustainable territorial development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103537"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144773240","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":"Intersecting perspectives: A participatory street review framework for urban inclusivity","authors":"Rashid Mushkani ,&nbsp;Shin Koseki","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103536","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103536","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban demographic changes, evolving multiculturalism, and heightened tourism flows have underscored the importance of designing public streets that serve heterogeneous populations. Despite municipal policies advocating equity and universal access, many streetscapes still fall short of accommodating the wide-ranging practical and cultural differences that exist among diverse user groups. This paper introduces and applies a participatory methodology—“Street Review”—designed to capture how individuals from varying social positions evaluate an array of streets within a multicultural metropolis. Grounded in the context of Montréal, known for its overlapping layers of historic and modern neighborhoods, multilingual communities, and continual inflows of short-term visitors, this framework draws upon qualitative interviews, focus groups, and a systematic rating of street images by 12 participants. The analyses focus on perceived inclusivity, accessibility, aesthetics, and practicality for both long-term residents (post-occupancy) and newcomers or suburban visitors (pre-occupancy). Findings from examining 20 selected streets (represented through 60 vantage points) indicate that most streetscapes offer moderate levels of user-friendliness, with only a handful of locations scoring especially low on supporting vulnerable populations or signaling cultural welcome. A smaller subset approached higher performance in certain areas but rarely satisfied all participant groups. In situating these results within global debates around inclusive urban design, public space, and the interplay of tourism with social equity, we illustrate how group-based deliberations can generate constructive insights and spotlight deeper conflicts rooted in identity, memory, and everyday mobility. These reflections inform planners and policymakers in striving for streets that address the convergence of diverse user experiences and emerging global challenges in urban policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103536"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144773239","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":"Containing urban sprawl in China: A cross-city evaluation of urban development boundaries using U-Net deep learning","authors":"Qiaoran Yang ,&nbsp;Jinzhu Wang ,&nbsp;Yong Liu ,&nbsp;Yihao Zhang ,&nbsp;Wenze Yue","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103534","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103534","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs) have been used in developed countries to manage urban sprawl, but China's introduction of Urban Development Boundaries (UDBs) is a more recent development. However, the effectiveness of UDBs in China, with its vast territory and spatial disparities, remains unclear. This study evaluated UDBs' effectiveness in containing urban growth by combining historical data from Landsat images with predictive simulations from the U-Net Deep Learning model, focusing on eleven cities that piloted UDBs in 2014. The results show that UDBs are expected to promote more compact urban growth in the long term (2022–2035) compared to the pilot phase (2014–2022). Starting from the year of introducing UDBs, many cities continued to experience leapfrogged and scattered development patterns. But U-Net simulations predict that UDBs will encourage infill development and curb piecemeal and leapfrog sprawl by 2035. While UDBs improve urban aggregation and regularity, irregular and fragmented boundary delineation under stringent land quotas may limit their ability to curtail sprawl. Cities like Beijing and Suzhou, with limited developable land within UDBs, may experience spillover growth. These findings highlight the need for continuous assessment and context-specific policies to maximize UDB effectiveness. The study demonstrates that the U-Net model offers a scalable and adaptable approach for simulating urban growth, providing valuable insights for managing urban containment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103534"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144773234","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":"Students go to schools in new districts! public high school relocation as intrapreneurial education provision in China","authors":"Zihang Zhou,&nbsp;Jianfa Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103533","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103533","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how China's public education system employs entrepreneurial strategies to promote urban development while balancing welfare needs and market pressures. It challenges the conventional appropriation of neoliberal urban entrepreneurialism - characterized by public-private partnerships dominating urban governance - and argues that, in the Chinese context, internal entrepreneurial efforts within the public sector drive local policymaking. This study extends the concept of intrapreneurialism, which emphasizes how public sectors undergo internal advancements, adaptations, and reconfigurations with strategic objectives, as a sub-model of urban entrepreneurialism in Chinese social provision. A conceptual framework is developed to illustrate how Chinese municipalities navigate educational reforms to support new town development and cultivate a business-friendly environment within school catchment zones. This framework identifies education policy intentions and the responses of schools and families as critical indicators of municipal intrapreneurial strategies. Using a case study of secondary education in Xiangyang City, central China, we find that intrapreneurial education provision underscores the continued dominance of public actors - urban governments and public schools - in accommodating market forces and parental aspirations. The strategic relocation of public high schools has intensified competition for scarce public resources and amplified state-society relations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103533"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144724855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The urban‒rural income gap, green innovation and urban carbon emissions: An empirical study in the Yangtze River Delta, China","authors":"Dongsheng Yan ,&nbsp;Pingxing Li ,&nbsp;Xin Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The simultaneous achievement of reducing income inequality and carbon emissions is of great practical importance for developing countries. Based on panel data in the Yangtze River Delta of China, this study quantitatively explores the effect of the urban‒rural income gap on carbon emissions and its underlying mechanism. The results indicate that the widening urban‒rural income gap significantly increased carbon emissions, and this effect exhibited significant spatiotemporal heterogeneity. An increase in the urban‒rural income gap leads to an increase in carbon emissions by inhibiting green innovation, but the effects of different innovation behaviors exhibit notable differences. In addition, both marketization and government behavior have substitution effects with the urban‒rural income gap in affecting carbon emissions. These findings provide new explanations for the relationship between income inequality and carbon emissions, and can support decision makers in the tasks of synergistically narrowing income inequality and overcoming environmental challenges during economic growth. By ensuring reasonable cooperation between an efficient market and a well-functioning government, developing countries can establish a balance between fairness and efficiency in the context of high-quality green economic growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103525"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144724856","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":"Revealing the correlation between the morphology of rural settlement clusters and their accessibility to facilities: A human-centered perspective","authors":"Juan Tang ,&nbsp;Weifeng Qiao ,&nbsp;Houxing Gao ,&nbsp;Chen Li ,&nbsp;Xiaoqing Song","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103519","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103519","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Facilities profoundly shape human settlement systems as determinants of quality of life and organizers of spatial structure. However, morphology-accessibility correlations within rural settlement clusters (RSCs) remain underexplored, constrained by urban-biased settlement cluster delineation and fragmented facility accessibility analysis. This study systematically investigates the correlation mechanisms between RSC morphology and multi-facility accessibility from a human-centered perspective. Using Hubei Province, China as a case, we first delineated RSCs via a spatial clustering method—DBSCAN, with subsequent quantification of morphological attributes—scale, shape, and layout. Accessibility to production, living, and ecological facilities was then assessed through path distance analysis. Morphology-accessibility correlations were statistically examined using ridge regression. RSCs are critical meso-scale intermediaries between micro-scale (dwellings) and macro-scale (villages) analysis. Empirical results reveal significant correlations between RSCs’ morphological characteristics and accessibility gradients, with heterogeneity across different types of facilities. Smaller clusters correlate with higher agricultural facility accessibility, while larger clusters show stronger industrial facility accessibility. Improved access to living facilities like healthcare and commercial services corresponds to RSCs with more complex and irregular shapes. Better access to water areas correlates with more elongated clusters, while better access to forests correlates with more dispersed clusters. The observed morphology-accessibility correlations arise from decisions and actions of multiple human actors under evolving human demands, thereby developing a feedback loop of “demand prioritization—decision optimization—behavioral enactment—spatial restructuring”. This study contributes to current research by identifying rural settlement clusters and analyzing morphology-accessibility correlations, offering valuable insights for sustainable settlement design which harmonizes facility efficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103519"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720873","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":"Impacts of dual informalities on migrants’ social integration in megacities: A case study of urban villages in Guangzhou, China","authors":"Gengzhi Huang,&nbsp;Yanshan Yang,&nbsp;Jinnan Que","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103530","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103530","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper highlights the question of dual informalities in employment and dwelling in the context of migrant workers' social integration in urban China, with a focus on informal workers residing in urban villages in Guangzhou. Drawing on data from a survey of 350 migrants and 33 in-depth interviews conducted in two urban villages, the study explores how both work-associated and community-associated factors influence levels of social integration, which demonstrates the impacts of dual informalities on migrants' social integration. Job instability and lack of social security are detrimental to migrants' social integration, as stable jobs and coverage of social security are likely to bring about higher levels of social integration. The shortage of public space and poor public security in urban villages hinder migrants' social integration, as frequent use of public spaces and a stronger sense of community safety and inclusion are positively linked to integration. It is argued that dual informalities in employment and dwelling environments present migrant workers with greater difficulties in urban social integration. The paper concludes by contextualizing the challenge of migrants’ social integration within the growing trend of informality in global labor and housing markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103530"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The pricing of systematic liquidity risks in housing market","authors":"Junbeom Park ,&nbsp;Hoon Cho ,&nbsp;Hyeongjun Kim ,&nbsp;Kabjin Kim ,&nbsp;Jinhwan Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103532","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103532","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study focuses on systematic liquidity risks in the private real estate market, one of the least liquid and most data-constrained asset classes. Under a liquidity-adjusted capital asset pricing model framework, we estimate the three types of systematic liquidity risks and market risk using the Korean housing market's high-quality data. From the cross-sectional regression model and estimated betas, we demonstrate that liquidity risk has a significant impact on the real estate market, even at the local level. Our result remains robust to the expanded research area and alternative market portfolio. A deeper analysis reveals heterogeneity in how liquidity risks affect different groups of investors. Specifically, older individuals tend to be less sensitive to liquidity risks, likely due to their lower debt burdens and focus on preparing for old age. Conversely, during unfavorable market conditions, liquidity becomes a critical consideration for investors, with greater value placed on properties that are easier to sell. This suggests that the perception of liquidity risk is highly contingent on both demographic factors and prevailing market conditions. Additionally, hedonic price model analysis confirms that properties with higher liquidity risk face price discounts. Our findings underline the importance of liquidity considerations in real estate investment and policy formulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103532"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144720875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of audio-visual elements in Residential Location Choice","authors":"Luis Garzón ,&nbsp;Julián Arellana ,&nbsp;Luis Bravo-Moncayo ,&nbsp;Juan de Dios Ortúzar ,&nbsp;Jairo Ortega","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103516","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103516","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding how individuals perceive and value audiovisual elements in the urban environment is challenging but essential to model people's residential location choices. We investigate the willingness to pay for improved audiovisual attributes in a residential choice context, considering the effect of three latent constructs: noise sensitivity, sound pleasantness, and visual liveability. We complement the econometric estimation using individuals' socio-demographic and place location information. Data came from a stated choice experiment using a digital survey with immersive audiovisual techniques considering a set of scenarios from 36 different residential locations. A hybrid choice modelling approach revealed significant heterogeneity in the willingness to pay for residential choice location when respondents (i) considered different spatial combinations of audiovisual metrics; (ii) demonstrated sensitivity to noise and were exposed to high-energy fluctuations in sound pressure levels; (iii) lived near a particular place condition and matched a socio-demographic characteristic and (iv) preferences were allowed to be influenced by auditory and visual perceptions. Our findings have implications for housing location and policy, demonstrating the influence of subjective perceptions and individual and physical characteristics in the choice of residence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 103516"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144712924","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}