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{"title":"Associations between neighborhood compactness, perceived accessibility to urban amenities, and mental distress of older adults in a high-density city","authors":"Jianxiao Liu ,&nbsp;Shuangzhou Chen ,&nbsp;Hung Chak Ho ,&nbsp;Linchuan Yang ,&nbsp;Zhikang Bao","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103397","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Neighborhood compactness has been identified as a sustainable approach for fostering social relationships. However, existing studies have not clearly demonstrated whether neighborhood compactness in high-density cities directly influences the mental distress of community-dwelling older adults, or whether it indirectly influences mental distress through perceived accessibility to urban amenities (PA). Using a composite score of three dimensions (depressive symptoms, loneliness, and social isolation) to measure mental distress, and applying a mediation model within a cross-sectional design involving 947 older adults (aged ≥ 60) with at least mild symptoms in Hong Kong, our findings suggest an indirect pathway between neighborhood compactness, PA, and mental distress. Neighborhood compactness was positively associated with PA (B = 7.791, p &lt; 0.001), and PA was negatively associated with mental distress (B = −0.12, p = 0.017). However, no direct impact of neighborhood compactness on mental distress was found. Moderated mediation analysis further indicated that neighborhood compactness and PA supported older females but not males. These results align with our hypothesis that (1) neighborhood compactness may not always be beneficial for older adults with mental distress in high-density cities unless compactness itself enhances PA and facility usage to support community-dwelling individuals, and (2) gender differences may result in varying interactions and perceptions of urban amenities and the built environment. To support the concept of “aging in place” in the future, urban plans aimed at enhancing neighborhood compactness and its social impacts should focus on addressing social inequality, including strategies to improve urban design, social participation, and gender-specific protocols, so that older adults can achieve better community awareness, environmental satisfaction, and facility usage, ultimately reducing mental distress.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103397"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142084011","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}

{"title":"Socio-spatial segregation in residents’ daily life: A longitudinal study in Beijing","authors":"Hongbo Chai","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103395","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103395","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Segregation studies based on human activity spaces have attracted increasing interest in urban geography and planning. Previously, most research employed variations in the geographical features of individuals' physical activity areas to ascertain social group segregation. A few studies have examined segregation based on one's activity space, comparing this over several years. This research conducts an empirical analysis based on people's activity space in Beijing to detect changes in segregation over time. We investigate activity space-based segregation among Beijing residents, separated into four housing categories for inner-city and suburban areas. The primary outcomes show residents living in different types of housing experience varying degrees of segregation when considering their activity spaces, which has progressed over the years. Furthermore, the findings show that the impact of changes in the built environment on the socio-spatial segregation of residents is gradually deepening, while the impact of institutional contexts such as <em>danwei</em> is gradually decreasing. In summary, this paper provides Beijing-based empirical evidence for this housing type differentiation and increasing segregation, which helps to enrich the understanding of activity space-based socio-spatial segregation of urban residents in China.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103395"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142084012","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}

{"title":"‘Generation Share’ versus ‘Generation Rent’: Analysing the spatial preferences of shared rental housing","authors":"Ling Li ,&nbsp;Kuang Kuang Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103398","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103398","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A growing number of young adults are choosing to live in private rental housing and sharing with unknown individuals in order to reduce their housing expenses. However, young housing sharers are generally treated as homogeneous to other renters in academic research and policy formation, leaving some of their unique housing issues unaddressed. This study examines how young housing sharers differ from their counterparts living in conventional or unshared rental housing. More specifically, we compare the spatial preferences of housing sharers to the spatial preferences of conventional housing renters, using a unique dataset of over 0.8 million private rental housing records collected in Shanghai, China. The results using a revealed-preference approach based on a hedonic pricing model demonstrate significant differences in their preference for location characteristics. Housing sharers are more willing to pay for proximity to employment centres and metro stations than conventional housing renters. Following the outbreak of Covid-19, the difference has narrowed to some extent, and housing sharers have moved further from employment centres. Rather, housing sharers are less concerned about access to public and private service amenities. The findings of this study contribute to our understanding of the recent housing tenure shift toward sharing among the younger generation and its potential impact on age-related segmentation in the housing market.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103398"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142084013","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}

{"title":"Shame buffers and spatial risk-mitigation: Exploring the effects of social stigma on the locational strategies of illicit massage businesses and their customers","authors":"Sean M. Crotty,&nbsp;Xiaolu Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103391","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103391","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditional locational analysis in urban retail/business geography begins with the assumption that customers will visit retail locations that are most convenient, and that businesses that locate close to their customers’ residences or workplaces would be preferred to locations farther from those places. This assumption is problematic when applied to economic activities for which social stigma exists. In this article, we examine the influence of social stigma on the locational choices made by customers of illicit massage businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas metropolitan area. We introduce the concept of <em>shame buffers</em> – zones around the places to which each customer is most deeply socially embedded, their home, workplace, and other community spaces, where the customer would not engage in stigmatized behaviors for fear of being observed and facing social shaming. We then examine the validity of the shame-buffer concept by analyzing customers' mobility patterns for both legal and illicit massage businesses in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area (DFW metro).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103391"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142076106","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}

{"title":"Spatial intelligence and contextual relevance in AI-driven health information retrieval","authors":"Niko Yiannakoulias","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103392","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103392","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The evolution of large language models (LLMs) has already significantly influenced online health information retrieval. As these models gain more widespread use, it is important to understand their ability to contextualize responses based on spatial and geographic information. This study investigates whether LLMs can vary responses based on geographic and spatial context. Using a structured set of prompts submitted to ChatGPT, responses were analyzed to discern patterns based on prompt question and geographic identifiers included in queries. The analysis used word frequency analysis and bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) embeddings to evaluate the variation in responses concerning geographic specificity. The results provide some evidence that LLMs can generate geographically tailored responses when the query specifies such a need, thereby supporting localized information retrieval. Moreover, prompt responses exhibit an association between spatial distance and word frequency/sentence embedding differences between texts. This result suggests a nuanced representation of spatial information, which could impact user experience by providing more relevant health information based on the user's location. This study lays the groundwork for further exploration into the spatial intelligence of LLMs and their impact on the accessibility of health information online.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103392"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622824001978/pdfft?md5=926850a22b14d28f06128d137f2e3eca&pid=1-s2.0-S0143622824001978-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142076107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Encouraging cycling through the improvement of streetscape perception: A bottom-up investigation into the relationship between street greening and bicycling volume","authors":"Qiao Zhang ,&nbsp;Jin Rui ,&nbsp;Yufei Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103388","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103388","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Enhancing neighborhood greenery quality proves to be an effective tactic in encouraging active travel among residents. From a cyclist's perspective, this study quantitatively evaluates street greening quality and its association with cycling behaviors. Utilizing shared bicycle usage data and SegNet-analyzed Baidu Street Views on Xiamen Island, we quantified comprehensive street greening quality. We then employed Spatial Design Network Analysis and a street greening quality rating scale to assess accessibility and aesthetics. Subsequently, models were developed using OLS, spatial autocorrelation, and Moran's I statistical methods, complemented by a spatial heterogeneity analysis of factors influencing shared bicycle riding behaviors through the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) model. Our study reveals that in arterial and commercial districts, the appeal and variety of street greening elements are more crucial than their quantity. These quality indicators exhibit a polycentric, continuous spatial distribution, aligning with the overall street layout. Beyond the visual impact of greenery on cycling behavior, factors like richness, openness, and safety of streets, along with diverse facilities, significantly influence cycling route preferences. In contrast, uniform street elements can disrupt or even discourage cycling. This research, by analyzing the relationship between street greening quality and cycling intensity, offers valuable insights for policymakers in prioritizing the transformation of streets into bike-friendly zones. Additionally, we propose a pragmatic, bottom-up approach to developing bicycle-friendly urban environments, indirectly fostering healthier travel habits among urban residents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103388"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142076108","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}

{"title":"Unrealised aspiration: Migrants’ intergroup relations in China","authors":"Mengran Xu ,&nbsp;Fulong Wu ,&nbsp;Zhigang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although migrants wish to make friends with local urbanites, they may not eventually realise their aspirations. This paper considers the mismatch between migrants’ intention and intergroup relations in China to reveal the gap between aspirations and outcomes. The instrumental variable results suggest that residing in migrant-concentrated neighbourhoods can lead to a gap between migrants’ aspired and real intergroup relations. This confirms the negative role of neighbourhood ethnic concentration in a domestic migrant context. Moreover, having a rural hukou indirectly hinders migrants from bridging the gap by lowering their socioeconomic status, demonstrating the disadvantage of rural migrants in the socialisation field. We highlight that migrants in China continue to face the challenges to achieving their integration aspirations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103381"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622824001863/pdfft?md5=84ceb58cffe855257c5f567e3ae3d27e&pid=1-s2.0-S0143622824001863-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142044565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sensing noise exposure and its inequality based on noise complaint data through vision-language hybrid method","authors":"Yan Zhang, Mei-Po Kwan, Haoran Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103369","url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to reveal urban noise exposure patterns and inequalities using noise complaint data and vision-language hybrid method. By applying a natural language processing model to 17,243 noise complaint records, we uncovered distinct patterns of traffic, industrial, and living noise exposures across residential communities. Our analysis of street view images near complaint locations, utilizing a Residual Network (ResNet) model and Class Activation Mapping (CAM), identified the key environmental elements of different noise sources. Notably, our assessment of noise exposure inequality across 9791 communities yielded a counterintuitive finding: contrary to previous studies in Western contexts, rich communities in China experience higher and more unequal noise exposure compared to average communities, with Gini coefficients exceeding 0.8. This unexpected result likely stems from China's unique rapid urbanization process. Our use of crowdsourced complaint data aligns more closely with human subjective perceptions of noise, offering a novel perspective on noise exposure inequality. These findings challenge existing assumptions about the relationship between socioeconomic status and environmental quality in urban China, and have significant implications for urban planning and noise management strategies in rapidly developing cities.","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142201631","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}

{"title":"Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China","authors":"Hao Wu ,&nbsp;Zhimeng Jiang ,&nbsp;Lianqi Zhu ,&nbsp;Anqi Lin ,&nbsp;Han Zhou ,&nbsp;Luyu Cen","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103387","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103387","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the Anthropocene, urban agglomeration is increasingly recognized as a crucial facilitator in advancing urbanization to more developed stages, requiring comprehension of the multiscale associations and couplings supporting urban agglomeration integrated development and eco-environmental systems. This study introduces a novelty research framework for analyzing the intricate associations and couplings between the degree of integrated development and eco-environmental quality in the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration (CPUA), which operates simultaneously at the city, county, and landscape scales. The results suggest that the CPUA degree of integration is moderately low, with areas exhibiting a high degree of integration comprising &lt;1% and predominantly located within the sphere of influence of core cities, such as Zhengzhou. Regions with high eco-environmental quality are located in regions with natural advantages in the northwestern, southwestern, and southeastern regions. It is worth noting that a generally inverse coupling relationship was observed between the urban agglomeration degree of integration and eco-environmental quality, exhibiting varied characteristics across different spatial scales and regional contexts. Stakeholders should focus more on environmental management and policy-making at the county administrative level. This study proposes a multiscale approach for revealing the complex associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems, offering valuable insights into the sustainable development of urban agglomerations that encompass natural, social, and economic dimensions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103387"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142012827","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}

{"title":"Discovering the spatial heterogeneous constraints of distance on migration from counties to Shenzhen in China","authors":"Ziyan Zhao ,&nbsp;Meihan Jin ,&nbsp;Jiayi Jin ,&nbsp;Leiyu Liu ,&nbsp;Yongxi Gong ,&nbsp;Yu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Distance holds significant importance in the decision-making processes of migration flows. Previous studies have predominantly adopted a global perspective to understand distance constraints. However, same spatial heterogeneity exists in distance constraints, and this heterogeneity contributes to understanding of the effect of regional characteristics in human migration. This study answers three questions: Does distance work for all counties in the same way? Why distance works for some counties but does not for others? And what makes distance decay differently among counties? We adopt geographically weighted regression, binary logistics regression, and random forest regression to analyze the migration from counties all over the China to <em>Shenzhen</em> to explore the spatial heterogeneity of distance decay. The results show that distance does not always work, and that demographics and transportation facilities are important determinants of whether distance works. For counties where distance works, distance decay is nonlinearly related to regional development. This non-linear relationship is due to the game between the appeal of intervention opportunities in the nearest new first-tier city, the constraints represented by the socio-economic development of the source county, and the attractiveness of <em>Shenzhen</em>. This further reflects the dynamic interplay between costs and opportunities, give and gain in the decision process of migration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103384"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142007095","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}