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{"title":"Revitalizing oil-gas resource-based cities: Unveiling spatial heterogeneity and life cycle dynamics of sustainable development capacity","authors":"Siwei Xi ,&nbsp;Kejia Yan ,&nbsp;Bo Zhang ,&nbsp;Ying Li ,&nbsp;ChengHe Guan","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103649","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103649","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Oil-gas resource-based cities (OGRBCs) are facing significant sustainability challenges, marked by ecological degradation and social demographic issues. However, studies on land use efficiency, spatial typologies, and development stages of OGRBCs remain insufficient. This study assesses the capital structure and sustainability of China's OGRBCs using an enhanced Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI) accounting framework and multi-source statistical data. The results reveal notable spatial heterogeneity in sustainability and capital concentration across regions and development stages of OGRBCs. Regionally, sustainability follows a higher degree of capital concentration in the eastern and central regions compared to the western and northeastern regions, despite the latter's vast land areas. Across development stages, wealth performance follows the sequence of “regenerative &gt; grown-up &gt; growing &gt; recessionary.” In regenerative OGRBCs, human and produced capital transform resources from a “curse” to a “blessing” for socio-economic development, while recessionary OGRBCs indicate pathways to reduce resource dependence. These findings advance understanding of sustainable urban development and provide empirical support for transformation strategies in resource-based cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103649"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145467619","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":"Identification of urban functional zones in mountainous cities based on multi-source data and voting ensemble methods: A case study of Chongqing, China","authors":"Meiling Zeng ,&nbsp;Yuechen Li ,&nbsp;Tao Lu ,&nbsp;Bo He ,&nbsp;Zihua Qian ,&nbsp;Fang Wang ,&nbsp;Qiao Huang ,&nbsp;Rongxiang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103648","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103648","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The identification of urban functional areas is crucial in urban planning, development, and resource management. Existing studies predominantly focus on cities located on plains, with relatively few studies having been conducted on functional area identification in mountainous cities. Hence, in this study, we propose a framework for identifying functional zones in mountainous urban areas based on multi-source data fusion and majority voting ensemble methods. This framework integrates features from multiple sources including building morphology, point of interest (POI) tag attributes, and high-resolution remote sensing imagery. Dimensionality reduction of features is performed using recursive feature elimination (RFE) and principal component analysis (PCA). Subsequently, the dimensionality reduced feature data are used to train the base model, before functional area classification is performed using the majority voting method. In our case study of the central urban district of Chongqing, this method achieves overall accuracies of 85.74 % and 82.04 % for primary- and secondary-level functional zone identification, respectively. This demonstrates the applicability and superiority of multi-source data fusion methods in complex terrains. This study provides important support for improving urban functional zone identification accuracy and optimizing urban planning and management. Moreover, it offers a valuable reference for functional zone identification in cities with similar terrain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103648"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145467609","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":"Fragmented landscapes or fragmented futures? Multi-scale mechanistic insights into cultivated land fragmentation in mountainous areas","authors":"Rui Yang ,&nbsp;Li Pan ,&nbsp;Zhixi Zhu ,&nbsp;Yi Wang ,&nbsp;Yi Zhong","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultivated land fragmentation has long constrained economic-social development, particularly in mountainous regions. Classifying mountain types and analyzing the spatial heterogeneity and multi-scale mechanisms are essential to mitigation. Taking Guizhou Province, China as a case study, this study develops a geomorphic zone-county-township classification framework based on slope, elevation and terrain relief, identifying seven types: non-mountainous (NM), purely hilly (PH), semi-mountainous (SM), quasi-mountainous (QM), apparently mountainous (AM), Type II completely mountainous (ⅡCM), and Type I completely mountainous (ⅠCM). Integrating GIS, remote sensing and DEM data, and applying the entropy weight method to combine multi-dimensional indicators, the study analyzes the multi-scale mechanisms of farmland landscape fragmentation (FLF) in Guizhou's mountainous areas from 1990 to 2020. The results reveal that: (1) At the geomorphic-zone scale, eastern Yunnan and western Guizhou karst plateau subregion and low mountainous river valley subregion in southern Guizhou have the highest CLF, driven by both natural conditions and human activities; (2) At the county scale, ⅡCM and AM counties have the most severe FLF, SM counties show the fastest growth, and a sensitivity threshold emerges when the proportion of mountainous area reaches 80 %–95 %; (3) At the township scale, spatial heterogeneity is evident, with NM and ⅠCM townships experiencing accelerated fragmentation, while PH townships exhibit localized reverse trends, showing declines in FLF even as county-level averages increase. The study offers a transferable multi-scale classification framework and proposes scale-based farmland consolidation strategies, providing references for managing FLF in mountainous and hilly regions worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103662"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145520767","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":"A blessing or a curse Intercity networks and urban economic resilience: A U-shaped relationship and empirical evidence from Chinese enterprises","authors":"Kang Wu ,&nbsp;Jiazhuo Song","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper constructs intercity networks using network analysis, based on data from enterprise capital investment records across cities in China. We then examine the mechanisms through which intercity networks influence economic resilience, using data from 265 Chinese cities from 2008 to 2021. The results show that: (1) The intercity network has evolved into a more decentralized and complex structure over time, while the relationship between intercity networks and economic resilience varies both regionally and temporally. (2) Under the impact of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, there exists a U-shaped relationship between intercity network position and urban economic resilience. (3) The heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that the U-shaped relationship between intercity network position and urban economic resilience becomes significant under the influence of the global financial crisis. This relationship is particularly more pronounced in non-central cities and those characterized by higher industrial diversity. (4) Corporate entrepreneurship is a key mechanism through which intercity networks influence urban economic resilience during the financial crisis. The relationship between intercity networks and economic resilience varies across cities and shock types. Therefore, we recommend that cities strategically leverage network positive externalities, tailored to their unique strengths and external conditions, to enhance market dynamism and foster economic resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103616"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145327311","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":"Uncommon characteristics of coastal landscape pattern stability in Guangdong Province and its quantitative causation with regional economic development","authors":"Kanglin Chen ,&nbsp;Yushi Li ,&nbsp;Jianzhou Gong","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103647","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103647","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid industrialization and urbanization have significantly affected the coastal landscape pattern stability (CLPS) serving as a notable feature of global change. This study quantitatively analyzed the transfer paths and underlying characteristics of CLPS across different coastal areas in Guangdong Province from 1985 to 2020 through the gravity transfer model, standard deviational ellipse, hotspot analysis and the space-time cube model. Additionally, the nonlinearity and causation between CLPS and regional economic development were quantitatively explored using a nonlinear regression model, the spatial inconsistency index, and the geographical convergent cross-mapping (GCCM) model. The main findings are as follows. (1) The general transfer path of the CLPS predominantly shifted back and forth from southwest to northeast over time, with significant shifts observed between 2000 and 2005 and from 2010 to 2015. Notable variations in the transfer paths of the CLPS were evident across different coastal areas throughout the study period. (2) The proportion of oscillating cold spots reached 71.25 %, indicating an increasingly fragmented pattern and a declining grade of CLPS. New cold spots primarily emerged in the southeastern part of the Western Coastal Zone (WCZ) and Eastern Coastal Zone (ECZ). (3) Nonlinear regression analyses revealed an inverted “U-shaped” relationship between CLPS and annual GDP at the county level, and the average annual GDP thresholds for the ECZ, Middle coastal zone (MCZ), and WCZ were 300, 600, and 30 million yuan/year, respectively. A significant lack of coordination in the spatial distribution between CLPS and regional economic development, characterized by poor consistency in their geographical distributions (Type I of the <em>SI</em> index accounting for 63.50 %–69.42 % in the MCZ). (4) Regional economic development was identified as the driving factor behind the changes in CLPS (with an average causal influence coefficient <span><math><mrow><mi>ρ</mi></mrow></math></span> ≈ 0.3), while CLPS exhibited only a weak reciprocal effect on regional economic development (with an average <span><math><mrow><mi>ρ</mi></mrow></math></span> ≈ 0.09). Additionally, the relationship between CLPS and county-level per capita GDP generally exhibited the characteristics of a distinct stage-dependent Kuznets Curve. These findings on the dynamics and internal relationships of CLPS are valuable for future integrated coastal management and high-quality development during extensive industrialization and urbanization along the coast of Guangdong Province and similar coastal regions worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103647"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419346","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":"Dispossessing the vulnerable or building resilience? Assessing the long-term impacts of rural land expropriation on poverty alleviation sustainability in China","authors":"Hui Du ,&nbsp;Yan Cai ,&nbsp;Qingyong Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China has made remarkable achievements in alleviating poverty over the past decades. However, the sustainability of these gains remains uncertain, especially for rural households affected by land expropriation. Existing studies have predominantly focused on the short-term impacts of land expropriation on household income, leaving a critical gap in our understanding of the long-term repercussions. Using the 2018 China Rural Residents Survey which covered 295 villages and 9596 households in 31 provinces, this study investigates the poverty reduction effects of rural land expropriation in China from the perspective of vulnerability, elucidating the mechanisms through which land expropriation impacts the vulnerability of rural households to poverty. Empirical results show a significantly negative impact of land expropriation on poverty vulnerability. This indicates that land expropriation does not necessarily plunge affected households into poverty; on the contrary, it helps reduce their vulnerability to poverty. This result holds across multiple robustness checks and after addressing potential endogeneity concerns. Land expropriation influences poverty vulnerability primarily by affecting investment in human capital and participation in non-agricultural employment. The effects vary by age and regional conditions. It has a more pronounced impact on older populations and a stronger poverty-reducing effect in eastern provinces. These findings highlight the importance of improving compensation and designing targeted support policies—particularly in education and employment—to safeguard the well-being of landless farmers and ensure the sustainability of poverty alleviation efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103633"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How can green mountains and clear waters transform into mountains of gold and silver? Exploring the effects of Yangtze River protection policy on land market in China","authors":"Zhonghua Huang ,&nbsp;Xuejun Du ,&nbsp;Sheng Wang ,&nbsp;Junhua Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103622","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103622","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We estimate the Yangtze River protection policy’ effect on land values and its economic benefits, based on the quasi-experimental and spatial difference-in-differences hedonic approaches. We found that the prices of land within 3 km distance to the Yangtze River are 13.5 % higher after the policy of Yangtze River protection. This effect is driven by river proximity land with increasing economic vitality for industrial firm entry, service business growth and recreational amenities improvement after the policy. We also found the significant benefits in land market after the policy. The policy implication is that governments should mitigate the spatial inequality of protection policy by using the land value capture taxes funding cross-subsidies, optimize the policy appraise and implementation, and capture the land prices premiums. We focus on the effect of Yangtze River protection on residential land market, while the wider effect of protection policy on different categories of property markets needs further study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103622"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145365660","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":"Assessing the hollowing risk of rural settlements in China using a bottom-up and region-adapted framework","authors":"Cong Ou ,&nbsp;Yansui Liu ,&nbsp;Jieyong Wang ,&nbsp;Xuanchang Zhang ,&nbsp;Yaqun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103659","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103659","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prolonged and unidirectional rural-to-urban migration has intensified rural hollowing and led to the emergence of numerous “hollow villages”, posing a significant threat to the sustainability of rural development. However, the complexity of human-earth coupling makes it difficult to achieve a fine-scale assessment of this phenomenon at the national scale. To address this gap, a bottom-up and region-adapted assessment framework based on human-earth system theory and multiple open-access data sources is proposed to assess the dynamic patterns of rural settlement (RUS) hollowing risk in China over the past two decades. The results show that the vitality of RUS in China declined from 4.12 in 2000 to 3.12 in 2020, with approximately 50 % of RUS concentrating 80 % of the rural population. The area of rural residential land with high potential for land consolidation increased from 74,109.21 km² in 2010 to 95,420.31 km² in 2020, primarily concentrated in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain and the Northeast Plain. The intensification of RUS hollowing risk is mainly driven by the spatial spillover effects of urbanization and the level of socioeconomic development within counties. By leveraging publicly available data with a cost-effective assessment framework, this study not only provides scientific support for spatially refined rural planning and governance but also offers policy implications for promoting rational county urbanization under China's evolving development context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103659"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145467683","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 fragile states to fragile cities: institutional weakness and urban displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Emmanuel K. Manu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103668","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103668","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the underexamined role of institutional fragility in shaping urban displacement across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region experiencing rapid urbanization amid persistent governance challenges. Drawing on a panel dataset of 38 SSA countries from 2000 to 2024, the study applies Difference-in-Differences (DID) and Quantile DID (QDID) methods to examine how political instability, public sector weakness, and legal fragility influence displacement trends. The results show that political instability measured through political violence, refugee outflows, and net migration is strongly associated with rising urban displacement. Importantly, this relationship is conditioned by resilience factors: countries with stronger electricity access and higher public health expenditure experience less severe displacement pressures. Public sector weakness captured by government effectiveness, expenditure, and regulatory quality also increases displacement risks, though these effects vary depending on how fiscal resources are directed toward service provision. Legal fragility indicators such as weak rule of law, corruption, and limited voice further exacerbate displacement where institutional protections and services are absent. The quantile analysis highlights that the most severe effects occur in already vulnerable urban contexts. Policy recommendations call for context-specific responses, including resilience-oriented infrastructure, targeted legal reforms, improved data systems, and more inclusive public spending. The findings provide new empirical insights into the institutional roots of Africa's urban displacement crisis and offer a framework for designing adaptive responses to future risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103668"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614811","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 inclusion of domestic tourism migrants: Evidence from four destinations in China","authors":"Zengxian Liang ,&nbsp;Hui Luo ,&nbsp;Jie Sun ,&nbsp;Zidan Mao","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103665","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103665","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates social inclusion strategies and how they differ among various domestic tourism migrants. Through data collection in four Chinese destination cities, the current study: (1) develops a two-dimensional model of the social inclusion strategies of domestic tourism migrants, which includes four strategies (assimilate into local society, assimilate into parallel society, assimilate into reconstructed society, and non-assimilating); (2) identifies four groups of domestic tourism migrants (peripatetic visitors, amenity migrants, seasonal migrants, and full residents) based on their spatiotemporal mobility patterns; and (3) compares the variations in social inclusion strategies among different tourism migrants from different destinations. The results add to the body of knowledge on tourism migration and offer practitioners practical advice on how to make the destinations more appealing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103665"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145520769","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}