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Investigating the different roles of urban environment in long- and short-distance outdoor jogging: Evidence from Shanghai, China 城市环境在长距离和短距离户外慢跑中的不同作用：来自中国上海的证据

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103811

Ziran Ye , Xinyue Gu

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What are the differences between ecosystem services and residents’ perceptions? Insights from perception gap, heterogeneity, and cross-level driving mechanisms 生态系统服务与居民感知之间的差异是什么？从认知差距、异质性和跨层次驱动机制的见解

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103808

Huijuan Zhang , Li Peng , Yue Qiu , Zhonghao Ma

{"title":"What are the differences between ecosystem services and residents’ perceptions? Insights from perception gap, heterogeneity, and cross-level driving mechanisms","authors":"Huijuan Zhang , Li Peng , Yue Qiu , Zhonghao Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103808","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103808","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecosystem services (ES) are vital for human well-being and ecological security. However, current research often separates objective measurement from subjective perception evaluation, rarely considering both aspects simultaneously or analyzing their matching relationship in depth. This study moves beyond the traditional paradigm of objective or subjective dominance and proposes a spatially explicit cognition–ecology feedback conceptual framework. We developed an integrated approach that couples InVEST model outputs with questionnaire survey data to link objective ES supply with subjective perceptions, defining their difference as perception gaps. Taking the typical karst area of Huanjiang County, China, as a case study, we quantified the potential supply and farmers’ perception gaps of five key ES, namely, food provision (FP), water yield (WY), soil retention (SR), carbon sequestration (CS), and habitat quality (HQ). We then used a Hierarchical Linear Model to determine the cross-level driving mechanisms. The findings showed significant service heterogeneity and individual differences among the five ES. Perception gaps for FP and WY were generally positive, reflecting high demand and low supply. Meanwhile, those for CS and HQ services were predominantly negative, indicating low demand and high supply. The formation mechanism of perception gap was jointly driven by environmental values and household types at the individual level, and natural conditions and location factors at the village level. The study emphasizes that differentiated governance strategies are essential to bridge multiple types of perception gaps, thereby fostering a virtuous cycle of cognition and ecological sustainability through enhanced awareness, optimized service provision, and improved policy communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103808"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145323218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring sentiment dynamics and their driving factors in megacity residents’ environmental complaints through deep learning and multimodal data 利用深度学习和多模态数据分析超大城市居民环境投诉的情绪动态及其驱动因素

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103806

Anxin Lian , Yonglin Zhang , Yuying Liu , Yaran Jiao , Yue Cai , Zerui Wang , Xiaomeng Sun , Rencai Dong

{"title":"Exploring sentiment dynamics and their driving factors in megacity residents’ environmental complaints through deep learning and multimodal data","authors":"Anxin Lian , Yonglin Zhang , Yuying Liu , Yaran Jiao , Yue Cai , Zerui Wang , Xiaomeng Sun , Rencai Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103806","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As urbanization continues to accelerate, ecological challenges in cities have intensified, resulting in a growing number of environmental complaints from residents. Effectively exploring the potential public emotions behind complaints is helpful for improving the urban environmental governance capacity. However, most existing studies emphasize the drivers of environmental complaints, while giving limited attention to the mechanisms underlying residents' negative sentiment (RNS). In addition, the influence of the built environment on RNS remains insufficiently examined. Taking Guangzhou as a case study, this research applies the BERT model to conduct sentiment analysis on environmental complaint text data. Furthermore, a Light Gradient Boosting Machine-SHapley Additive exPlanation (LGB-SHAP) model is employed to characterize the nonlinear associations between RNS and its potential drivers. Results indicate that RNS is predominantly concentrated in the central built-up areas of Guangzhou, with stronger expressions observed during nighttime. Spatial overlap is evident between high-density complaint zones and RNS hotspots, highlighting critical areas for enhanced environmental surveillance. The plot ratio emerges as the strongest determinant of RNS. Moreover, the plot ratio often interacts with other factors, exerting either amplifying or mitigating effects on RNS within different threshold ranges. The influence of driving factors also varies across different land use types, where plot ratio and openness exert dominant impacts. This study integrates multimodal data to detect the emotional dynamics of residents’ environmental complaints and elucidates the driving mechanisms of RNS in relation to the built environment and socioeconomic factors, thereby providing a reference for more targeted and responsive urban environmental governance strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103806"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145324261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How the neighborhood amenity mix shapes urban vitality: An exploratory analysis from a rhythm perspective 社区设施组合如何塑造城市活力：节奏视角的探索性分析

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103807

Qianyu Liu, Guangtian Zou, Yichen Luo

{"title":"How the neighborhood amenity mix shapes urban vitality: An exploratory analysis from a rhythm perspective","authors":"Qianyu Liu, Guangtian Zou, Yichen Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103807","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103807","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Neighborhood amenities, essential components of the built environment that support everyday life, play a pivotal role in enhancing urban vitality and advancing sustainable development. However, how the spatial co-location of neighborhood amenities—conceptualized as neighborhood amenity mix (NAM) —shapes urban vitality through synergistic effects across spatially heterogeneous urban development modes remains underexplored. This study constructs a framework consisting of 12 indicators across 3 dimensions—configuration, supply pattern, and spatial arrangement—to quantify the synergistic effects and co-location characteristics of NAM. By identifying rhythms of urban vitality from time-series data, the study classifies urban space into three development types. Furthermore, interpretable machine learning models are employed to uncover nonlinear relationships and threshold effects between indicators and vitality intensity. The results show that the proposed indicators explain an average of 61.86 % of the variance. Configuration and supply patterns exhibit consistent and critical effects, while spatial arrangements demonstrate pronounced heterogeneity. Threshold variations across development types underscore the context-dependent nature of neighborhood amenity planning. These thresholds offer data-informed support for developing locally adapted planning strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103807"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The non-linear relationship between neighborhood environment and residents' happiness: an empirical study from low-income communities in Beijing 邻里环境与居民幸福感的非线性关系——基于北京低收入社区的实证研究

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103804

Lei Kang , Caicai Liu , Delin Du , Wenzhong Zhang

{"title":"The non-linear relationship between neighborhood environment and residents' happiness: an empirical study from low-income communities in Beijing","authors":"Lei Kang , Caicai Liu , Delin Du , Wenzhong Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103804","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103804","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It is widely acknowledged that the quality of the neighborhood environment has an impact on residents' sense of happiness. However, the existing literature provides limited empirical evidence of the nonlinear effects of various attributes of the neighborhood environment on residents' happiness. To fill this gap in the knowledge, this paper employs an explainable artificial intelligence approach, namely, the GBDT-SHAP method. We conducted a case study of low-income communities in Beijing to explore the nonlinear and heterogeneous relationships between the neighborhood environment and the happiness of residents during the urban transformation process. The results show that residents in mature affordable housing communities report a significantly higher level of happiness compared to those in old unit communities and public rental housing communities. The subjective environment plays a more crucial role in influencing residents' happiness. Service facility satisfaction and natural environment satisfaction were identified as the most critical variables affecting residents' happiness, with social identification in the social environment having a more pronounced impact. Among the objective characteristics of the built environment, the POI entropy index and subway accessibility are the most important variables influencing residents’ happiness, with the crime rate in the social environment having a more significant effect. Service facility satisfaction and natural environment satisfaction were positively correlated with happiness. The relationship between crime rate and unemployment rate and happiness exhibits an inverted U-shaped pattern. Additionally, we investigated the differential impacts of community environments on various aspects of happiness among local and non-local residents.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103804"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Data-driven insights into flood disasters: Evaluating the impact on residents' emotions and living spaces in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region 洪涝灾害的数据驱动洞察：评估对京津冀地区居民情绪和生活空间的影响

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103803

Hanyu Yin , Cong Huang , Wenfang Tan , Rui Xiao

{"title":"Data-driven insights into flood disasters: Evaluating the impact on residents' emotions and living spaces in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region","authors":"Hanyu Yin , Cong Huang , Wenfang Tan , Rui Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103803","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103803","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Frequent urban floods pose growing threats to residents' daily lives, highlighting the need to better understand their impacts on human well-being and everyday living environments. Previous studies have primarily focused on identifying flood-affected areas and analyzing residents' emotional responses. However, they often overlook how disaster severity relates to emotional reactions and the varied flood responses of different living spaces—leaving the differentiated impacts on residents' daily lives insufficiently understood. To address this gap, the study uses nighttime light data to quantify flood severity and relates it to residents’ emotional responses captured from Weibo posts. It further evaluates the flood performance of different living spaces—identified via POI and street view images—revealing spatial heterogeneity across urban areas. The results show that residents in severely affected areas exhibited more negative emotions, and this tendency became even stronger during the later stages of the disaster. Differences in infrastructure and mobility demands are linked to quicker recovery in residential and industrial zones, while commercial and tourist areas recover more slowly. Urban villages are heavily impacted, and those with poorer building quality in suburban areas exhibit lower flood resilience. Overall, this study integrates multi-source data to analyze how flood severity relates to residents' emotional responses and the varying resilience of different living spaces, offering deeper insight into the impacts of urban flooding on residents' daily lives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103803"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dark kitchens and streetscapes: Exploring the location choices of ‘dark kitchens’ using street view imagery 黑暗厨房和街景：利用街景图像探索“黑暗厨房”的位置选择

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103805

Donghyun Kim , Les Dolega , Jina Park

{"title":"Dark kitchens and streetscapes: Exploring the location choices of ‘dark kitchens’ using street view imagery","authors":"Donghyun Kim , Les Dolega , Jina Park","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103805","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103805","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rise of online food delivery platforms has led to the emergence of \"dark kitchens\", which operate without dine-in spaces. Several studies have examined the locational characteristics of restaurants, but the distinctive spatial patterns of dark kitchens compared to dine-in establishments remain unclear. To address this gap, we investigated the relationships between streetscape quality and the locational patterns of dark kitchens and dine-in restaurants, with a particular focus on identifying streetscape elements as potential differentiating factors. Streetscape quality, estimated through street view imagery, semantic segmentation, and perceptual deep-learning models and reduced into key components via principal component analysis, was used in negative binomial regression models to clarify how environmental features and socioeconomic attributes affect the distribution of dark kitchens and dine-in restaurants. Our findings indicate increased locational likelihoods of dark kitchens in areas with higher comfort, characterized by enclosure and sidewalk coverage, but decreased likelihoods in areas with high aesthetic quality. Notably, dine-in restaurants exhibit strong positive associations with both vibrancy and comfort, demonstrating their dependence on active and pedestrian-friendly streetscapes, whereas dark kitchens expand in efficiency-oriented environments by strategically prioritizing logistical accessibility over visual attractiveness. This study advances location theory and provides planning insights to adapt urban policies to emerging business models, responding to the ways digital platforms are reshaping the geography of food services. In practice, the study emphasizes the need for differentiated spatial strategies that balance delivery-oriented efficiency with preserving vibrant, pedestrian-centered retail environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103805"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention? 快递员能否成为预防犯罪的非正式监护人？

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103802

Shuli Zhou , Lin Liu , Han Yue , Kaiyin Yang , Jianjun Li , Guangwen Song

{"title":"Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention?","authors":"Shuli Zhou , Lin Liu , Han Yue , Kaiyin Yang , Jianjun Li , Guangwen Song","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103802","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103802","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, the surge of delivery riders for the Internet platform economy has drawn widespread attention and sparked debate regarding their roles in urban governance. While some reported their traffic violations and disorderly conduct, 93 % of news reports observed their beneficial acts in urban governance. Whether the delivery riders can act as informal guardians who may potentially prevent crime has yet to be explored quantitatively in existing literature. To fill the gap, using mobile phone big data, this study identified and quantified the spatial distribution of delivery riders in ZG city. Then, this study employed a zero-inflated negative binomial model to analyze the relationship between their spatial distribution and street crime. Results showed that nearly 15,000 delivery riders of ZG city were identified from a large sample of mobile phone trajectory data, and they are mainly concentrated in economically active areas with busy commerce and service activities and dense populations. The number of riders’ visits exhibits a significant negative association with street crime. This demonstrates that delivery riders can indeed act as informal guardians, which has not been previously reported in existing literature. This study enriches the theory of informal guardianship in the Internet platform economy era and highlights the social value of delivery riders in urban governance, offering practical insights for urban safety planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103802"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial entanglement of urban zonal indicators: A novel GIS-based metric for measuring geographically multivariate dependencies 城市地带性指标的空间纠缠：一种新的基于gis的测量地理多元相关性的度量

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103800

Shawky Mansour

{"title":"Spatial entanglement of urban zonal indicators: A novel GIS-based metric for measuring geographically multivariate dependencies","authors":"Shawky Mansour","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103800","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103800","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study introduced a spatial entanglement index (SEI) as a quantitative metric for systemic multilayer coevolution in urban environments. SEI integrates geographical variables through multivariate spatial entanglement calculus, incorporating temporal persistence, spatial proximity, and capacity thresholds. This integration is accomplished through non-parametric computation, validated by kernel density estimation and Q-Q plots. Applying the index for Kuwait's urban transition (2017–2025), Sentinel-2 Level-2A imagery was subjected to object-based classification to compute neighborhood-aggregated transitions and changes. The framework yielded significant insights: southeastern hotspots (SEI >34) exhibited strong entanglement between built-up expansion and green-space fragmentation; optimization surfaces indicated maximum entanglement when moderate increases in green space coincided with reductions in built areas; road and barren land expansion functioned as linear disentanglers; and temporal dynamics accounted for 40–60 % of the variance. Parallel coordinate plots illustrate that significant entanglement necessitates synchronized temporal capacity peaks. Overall, the SEI findings revealed a move to systemic coevolution assessment, dynamic temporal precedence, and unified diagnostic methods. This technique may offer a foundation for simulating cities and urban zones as interdependent systems, and provide planners with a transformative metric to address the inherently connected layer dynamics in sustainable interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"185 ","pages":"Article 103800"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145268797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Beneath the honor: Urban and rural income disparities in China’s poverty counties 荣誉之下是中国贫困县的城乡收入差距

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103799

Jingxian Wang , Yanyan Li , Min Yang

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