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Understanding regional structure through spatial networks: A simulation optimization framework for exploring balanced development 通过空间网络了解区域结构:探索平衡发展的模拟优化框架
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103155
Yaxing Li , Chuangchang Liao , Xiaoming Li , Renzhong Guo
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Yesterday's solution: Do national economic and technological development zones promote industrial development in typical developing regions of China? 昨天的解决方案:国家级经济技术开发区能否促进中国典型发展中地区的工业发展?
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103156
Zhicong Ye , Li Ma , Fengjun Jin
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Are robots crowding out migrant workers? Evidence from urban China 机器人是否挤走了农民工?来自中国城市的证据
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103154
Jiantao Zhou , Eddie Chi-Man Hui , Huiwen Peng
{"title":"Are robots crowding out migrant workers? Evidence from urban China","authors":"Jiantao Zhou ,&nbsp;Eddie Chi-Man Hui ,&nbsp;Huiwen Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The heated debate on automation versus labor pulls at the heartstrings of many in both academia and industry, as automation can trigger dramatic adjustments in the urban labor market. Yet, little is known about how migrant workers respond to such technological advances. To contribute to this debate, this paper empirically investigates the effects of automation (proxied by the exposure degree of industrial robots) on the settlement intention of migrant workers in urban China. Employing data from the <em>China Migrants Dynamic Survey</em> (CMDS) 2014–2017, our results reveal that cities with greater exposure to industrial robots are more likely to attract migrant workers to settle. Yet, the promotion of settlement intentions is more pronounced for migrant workers at the high and low tails of the skill distribution, leading to a U-shaped selection. Further analyses confirm that this nonlinearity is mainly due to the displacement of routine-intensive occupations, the reinstatement of high-skilled machine-complementing occupations, and the indirect boom in service-related occupations at all skill levels. In addition to economic incentives as the decisive impact channel, mechanism analyses found that the resulting labor market adjustment simultaneously enhances the social integration of migrant workers, acting as a secondary impact channel on the willingness of migrant workers to settle. Our findings raise concerns about the polarization of skills and wages among migrant workers despite their general benefit from automation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"152 ","pages":"Article 103154"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141952807","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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Unveiling age-friendliness in smart cities: A heterogeneity analysis perspective based on the IAHP-CRITIC-IFCE approach 揭示智慧城市的年龄友好性:基于 IAHP-CRITIC-IFCE 方法的异质性分析视角
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103153
Lingli Li, Dezhi Li, Shenghua Zhou, He Huang, Guanying Huang, Lugang Yu
{"title":"Unveiling age-friendliness in smart cities: A heterogeneity analysis perspective based on the IAHP-CRITIC-IFCE approach","authors":"Lingli Li,&nbsp;Dezhi Li,&nbsp;Shenghua Zhou,&nbsp;He Huang,&nbsp;Guanying Huang,&nbsp;Lugang Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Smart cities for the elderly are crucial for advancing inclusive smart cities amidst urbanization and population ageing. While the age-friendliness of smart cities is increasingly emphasized, differences across various fields of age-friendliness in smart cities remain unclear. In the context of smart city construction gradually shifting to a people-centered approach, it is also urgent to carry out refined assessment and heterogeneous analysis of the perceptions and needs of different groups of citizens. This paper delves into the evaluation of age-friendliness in smart cities (AFSC). And the heterogeneity of age-friendliness of various fields of services in smart cities is explored, as well as the AFSC deviation in perceptions between elderly people and non-elderly people. First, the main fields and evaluation indicators of AFSC are identified. Then, the AFSC evaluation model is established which is combining the improved Analytic Hierarchy Process (IAHP), the CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) and improved Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation method (IFCE). Finally, a case study is conducted in Nanjing, China. The results show that the AFSC of Nanjing has a score of 61.41, which indicating a favorable level. Furthermore, heterogeneity analyses showed that there are significant variations in age-friendliness across different fields within the city: smart life and consumption, smart recreation and entertainment, smart transportation and mobility have a favorable level of AFSC, while the other fields are deficient. The overall AFSC score for non-elderly citizens is significantly higher than that of elderly citizens, and elderly citizen’ perceptions of AFSC vary according to elements of their personal physical condition and elements of their personal socio-economic status. In addition, the study proposes differentiated enhancement of AFSC in all fields, accurate enhancement of AFSC by identifying specific elderly citizens, and integrated enhancement of AFSC by adopting multi-dimensional measures. This study reveals age-friendliness in different fields of smart cities, clarifies the perceived heterogeneity of age-friendliness of smart cities among different groups of citizens, and enriches the intersection research of smart cities and age-friendly cities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 103153"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141950981","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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Population shrinkage and its influence on housing prices: A mediation perspective based on commercial amenities 人口萎缩及其对房价的影响:基于商业设施的调解视角
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103151
Mingke Xie , Zhangxian Feng , Haoming Guan , Feilong Hao , Shijun Wang , Xiaodong Chang
{"title":"Population shrinkage and its influence on housing prices: A mediation perspective based on commercial amenities","authors":"Mingke Xie ,&nbsp;Zhangxian Feng ,&nbsp;Haoming Guan ,&nbsp;Feilong Hao ,&nbsp;Shijun Wang ,&nbsp;Xiaodong Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103151","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103151","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effects of population shrinkage have become a new topic of concern. Existing research has explored the effects of population shrinkage on housing prices within specific cities, yet due to scale variations, the effects of population shrinkage on housing prices may exhibit uncertainty, are conclusions drawn at the micro level applicable to the macro level? Currently, there is limited exploration of the collective effects of micro mechanisms of population shrinkage on housing prices. In this paper, we outline the effects of population shrinkage on housing prices at both macro and micro levels. Subsequently, we propose to explore the general effects of population shrinkage on housing prices based on commercial amenities. Specifically, we analyze the spatial patterns and characteristics of population shrinkage and housing prices in 1235 Chinese shrinking counties. Furthermore, using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), we examine how commercial amenities mediate the relationship between population shrinkage and housing prices. This study contributes theoretically and empirically to understanding the impact of population shrinkage on housing prices, while also holds practical significance for regulating the effects of population shrinkage and stabilizing the value of real estate markets from the perspective of commercial amenities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 103151"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141950391","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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The spatial mismatch between foreign direct investment and street networks: Evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam 外国直接投资与街道网络之间的空间错配:越南河内的证据
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103152
Hyung Min Kim , Ha Minh Hai Thai
{"title":"The spatial mismatch between foreign direct investment and street networks: Evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam","authors":"Hyung Min Kim ,&nbsp;Ha Minh Hai Thai","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research investigates the spatial mismatch between the distribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the configurational characteristics of street networks in Hanoi's urban districts. Two indicators are employed to represent the connectivity of street networks generated by space syntax methodology, global integration for vehicular movements and local integration for pedestrian traffic. Findings reveal that FDI clusters have preferred areas highly connected by arterial roads, including traditional commercial centres and new suburban locations, confirming that FDI is spatially matched with vehicle-oriented street networks. However, the major FDI clusters have been established without tight connections to street networks for pedestrians. The findings shed light on the new spatiality of global capital accumulation that expedites an unsustainable, vehicle-oriented urban structure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 103152"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397524001528/pdfft?md5=3620d62925ff0a450a722c8d5a762e93&pid=1-s2.0-S0197397524001528-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141780312","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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Ontological pluralism in Saudi Arabia's sustainable urbanization framing 沙特阿拉伯可持续城市化框架中的本体论多元化
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103139
Abdulaziz I. Almulhim , Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
{"title":"Ontological pluralism in Saudi Arabia's sustainable urbanization framing","authors":"Abdulaziz I. Almulhim ,&nbsp;Patrick Brandful Cobbinah","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103139","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103139","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drawing on urbanization and counter-urbanization dialogues, this paper analyzes how urbanization shapes urban policy and economic opportunities as a way of understanding the ontological pluralism characterizing urban development in Saudi Arabia. Recent debates on urbanization in the global south frequently overlook the potential contribution of counter-urbanization narrative as many countries are undergoing an unprecedented level of urbanization. We use Saudi Arabian cities as a case study to illustrate how rapid urbanization can occur in an Arabian context without accompanying economic growth by analyzing population census data from 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. By looking at urbanization and counter-urbanization processes, the paper shows that these processes are already influencing and shaping urban policy in Saudi Arabia. It then discusses the implications of the urbanization and counter-urbanization processes as defining traits of urban policy, and thereby consolidating theoretic and agentic understandings of urban sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 103139"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623267","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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Untapped transformative potential in decentralised groundwater systems that improve households' resilience in India's water-scarce urban environments 在印度缺水的城市环境中,分散式地下水系统的变革潜力尚未得到开发,这些系统可提高家庭的抗灾能力
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103140
Nidhi Subramanyam , Social Awareness and Voluntary Education (SAVE)
{"title":"Untapped transformative potential in decentralised groundwater systems that improve households' resilience in India's water-scarce urban environments","authors":"Nidhi Subramanyam ,&nbsp;Social Awareness and Voluntary Education (SAVE)","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Off-grid, decentralised water infrastructures are increasingly being promoted to help cities meet their water delivery targets and build resilient water systems in the face of changing water availability. Against this background, this paper examines how integrating off-grid, decentralised groundwater systems with centralized piped supply helps water utilities and urbanites achieve transformative resilience under conditions of chronic water scarcity in the secondary city of Tiruppur, India. Empirical findings on users' water access practices from off-grid systems like municipal or private borewells to remain resilient, their role in the everyday governance of these systems, and the costs of building resilience through borewells—obtained through a participatory action research project where 94 households recorded month-long water access using a ‘water and waste calendar’—reveal that Tiruppur's public borewells are an affordable and mostly inclusive resilience building measure but are far from being transformative. Moreover, diverse arrangements for their everyday governance unevenly enable user participation, impose invisible costs on female members of borewell-reliant households, and create differentiation in service quality across the city. The paper argues that the potential to achieve transformative resilience through off-grid sources like borewells remains untapped in Tiruppur and concludes with some reflections to pursue just and inclusive resilience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 103140"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197397524001401/pdfft?md5=82d004900cc6ed17c49f9a64e04d4726&pid=1-s2.0-S0197397524001401-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623266","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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The effect and its mechanism of turning county (county-level city) into urban district on the economic development in regions with lagging urbanization: Evidence from Northeast and Southwest China 县(县级市)改市区对城市化滞后地区经济发展的影响及其机制:来自中国东北和西南地区的证据
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103141
Yaojia Dong , Fuyuan Wang , Kaiyong Wang
{"title":"The effect and its mechanism of turning county (county-level city) into urban district on the economic development in regions with lagging urbanization: Evidence from Northeast and Southwest China","authors":"Yaojia Dong ,&nbsp;Fuyuan Wang ,&nbsp;Kaiyong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Does the County to Urban District (CTD) and the County-level City to Urban District (CLTD) policy, uniformly promote economic growth across regions with lagging urbanization? This study utilizes panel data from 74 counties (county-level cities) in Southwest and Northeast China, covering the period from 2006 to 2022. It assesses the influence of the CTD and CLTD on urban economic development by conducting a comparative analysis between provincial and non-provincial capital cities. Results indicate that: (1) Both the CTD and CLTD not only stimulate economic development in most cities in regions with lagging urbanization, but also yield diverse effects across different regions. (2) The economic impact of CTD and CLTD is more pronounced in Northeast China, where the average \"treatment effect\" reaches 0.553, compared to an average \"treatment effect\" of 0.267 in Southwest China, making the treatment effect value in Northeast China is twice that of Southwest China. The growth rate of urban economies typically stabilizes or declines after a specific number of years following policy implementation, indicating short-term shocks in the influence of CTD and CLTD on economic growth. (3) The CTD and CLTD have a strong promotional effect on the economic development of provincial capital cities, with a stronger growth effect compared to municipal districts in non-provincial capital cities. For instance, the peak value of the policy dynamic effect in JiuTai District is as high as 1.004, while that in JiangChuan District is only 0.333. (4) The influence of CTD and CLTD on economic development can be attributed to four factors: policy, infrastructure, industry, and investment. These factors encompass an increase in fiscal revenue and fixed asset investment, enhancement of industrial capabilities, and improvement of employment and education levels, thereby promoting sustainable urbanization development continuously at the habitat level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 103141"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141630062","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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Evolution of rural settlements and its influencing mechanism in the farming-pastoral ecotone of Inner Mongolia from a production-living-ecology perspective 从生产-生活-生态学角度看内蒙古农牧生态区农村聚落的演变及其影响机制
IF 6.5 1区 经济学
Habitat International Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103137
Yafeng Zou , Yufei Rao , Feng Luo , Chengfeng Yi , Pingping Du , Haiying Liu , Pinqi Wu , Yan Song , Yu Zhou
{"title":"Evolution of rural settlements and its influencing mechanism in the farming-pastoral ecotone of Inner Mongolia from a production-living-ecology perspective","authors":"Yafeng Zou ,&nbsp;Yufei Rao ,&nbsp;Feng Luo ,&nbsp;Chengfeng Yi ,&nbsp;Pingping Du ,&nbsp;Haiying Liu ,&nbsp;Pinqi Wu ,&nbsp;Yan Song ,&nbsp;Yu Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Revealing the evolutionary characteristics of rural settlements and the influencing mechanism bears significant implications for rural restructuring and revitalization. However, existing studies have paid inadequate attention to the farming-pastoral ecotone, with a limited exploration of the influencing mechanism from a production-living-ecology perspective. Taking Wuchuan County as a case, this paper reveals that the evolution of rural settlements is slow and the overall area of rural settlements decreases slightly. This is attributed to severe rural population loss and the challenges in rural homesteads withdrawal, stemming from the prevalent phenomenon of rural-urban circular migration driven by the villagers' pursuit of a better life. The conversion scale between rural settlements and non-irrigated farmland is larger than that between rural settlements and other land, and the rural settlements exhibit an expansion trend in urban fringe due to the ecological relocation projects carried by local government. Random distribution of rural settlements in the farming-pastoral ecotone occurs as a result of the huge per capita land area coupled with the proximity of agricultural cultivation and grazing. Although the spatial pattern of rural settlements in some villages has evolved towards clustered distribution, the issue of dispersed distribution of rural settlements remains prominent. The evolutionary states of rural settlements are jointly influenced by production convenience of agriculture and animal husbandry, living needs of education, medical care and transportation, and ecological environment. Given that the irrational states produce negative impacts on the rural production-living-ecology coordinated development, the proactive responses from policy makers are imperative to guide the evolution of rural settlements towards enhanced production efficiency, improved living standards and ecological aesthetics. This study contributes to uncovering the specific characteristics of rural settlements' evolution within the farming-pastoral ecotone and introduces a novel analytical framework for understanding its influencing mechanism. It provides a scientific guidance for optimizing rural settlements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 103137"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141583278","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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