IF 6.7 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105129

Ori Gershon-Coneal , Efrat Eizenberg , Yosef Jabareen

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The impact of urbanization on the alleviation of energy poverty: Evidence from China 城市化对缓解能源贫困的影响：来自中国的证据

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105130

Xin Qi , Jueying Chen , Jingyi Wang , Heguang Liu , Boyan Ding

{"title":"The impact of urbanization on the alleviation of energy poverty: Evidence from China","authors":"Xin Qi , Jueying Chen , Jingyi Wang , Heguang Liu , Boyan Ding","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105130","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urbanization is conducive to promoting the concentration of urban population and improving energy efficiency, which is an important factor affecting the sustainable development of China's society. Existing literature ignores the impact of urbanization on energy poverty, and the threshold effect between the two needs to be further explored. Using a panel dataset encompassing thirty Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2020, this study establishes both an urbanization index and an energy poverty index to delve into the impact of urbanization on energy poverty by employing the Fixed Effects Model. The Threshold Effect Model is used to explore the underlying mechanisms. The heterogeneous impact of urbanization on energy poverty is analyzed from five dimensions of urbanization. The research yields several key findings: (1) Promoting urbanization significantly contributes to mitigating energy poverty. (2) Economic and infrastructure-driven urbanization positively influence the alleviation of energy poverty. (3) When the level of technological innovation surpasses 14.716, heightened technological innovation amplifies the reduction of energy poverty through urbanization. In light of these results, there is a call for more targeted policies focusing on fostering technological innovation, economic and infrastructure-driven urbanization, to effectively combat energy poverty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141239197","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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Multi-dimensional urban segregation in João Pessoa, a coastal Brazilian northeastern city 巴西东北部沿海城市若昂-佩索阿的多维城市隔离问题

IF 6.7 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105161

Lucy Donegan, Felipe Tavares

{"title":"Multi-dimensional urban segregation in João Pessoa, a coastal Brazilian northeastern city","authors":"Lucy Donegan, Felipe Tavares","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urban segregation can happen in many dimensions. Its study reveals city inequalities to inform urban planning policies; access to green and leisure spaces can contribute to well-being and social mixing. Different studies underline different characteristics. However, studies in Latin America, especially north-east Brazil, explore few segregation dimensions. This paper investigates multi-dimensional socio-spatial patterns in a broader urban area of João Pessoa city, relating residential census information - as income, race/colour, literacy and types of dwellings -, space syntax street network centralities, and public leisure spaces access. Variables were correlated and characterized k-means groups for sectors and neighbourhoods. Results indicate spatial wealth patterns with more whites and literates living in more apartments in areas stemming from the city expansion to the coast beyond municipal boundaries. Impoverished areas concentrate further from the sea, with barely any access to large leisure areas, transitioned by the city centre and Bancários neighbourhoods. Income was related more to access to large leisure areas than city-scale street network centralities. K-means clustering indicated heterogeneous profiles as poorer clusters, despite lower street network centrality and little sanitation, were either the densest or sparsest. Meanwhile, areas with higher street network access exhibited intermediate-to-high rather than highest-income inhabitants. Findings indicate a need to look over municipal boundaries and distribute better city amenities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141240701","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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Political trust on the move: Chinese rural-to-urban migrants' trust in local government 流动中的政治信任：从农村到城市的中国移民对地方政府的信任

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105135

Chen Zhang , Kathryn S. Quick

{"title":"Political trust on the move: Chinese rural-to-urban migrants' trust in local government","authors":"Chen Zhang , Kathryn S. Quick","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>About 292 million rural-to-urban migrants live and work in cities in Mainland China, yet little has been known about the political attitudes of this large number of people. This study aims to address this gap by exploring Chinese rural-to-urban migrants' trust in county government of their new urban places of residence. Utilizing data from the China Family Panel Studies in 2014, we employed ordered logistic regression among rural-to-urban migrants and found that migrants' evaluations of government performance and their interactions with local governments (i.e., having conflicts with officials, being unfairly treated by officials, or having unreasonable delay at government institutions) significantly affect their trust levels. Migrants' socioeconomic status (i.e., income, employment status, and occupational prestige scales) and their experiences of facing discrimination by urban dwellers do not appear to affect migrants' trust in local government. Political trust is an important indicator which signals the quality of government relationships with rural-to-urban migrants and therefore merits additional policy attention, complementing the existing policies mainly focusing on migrants' economic and social improvements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141240703","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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Simulating dynamical evolution of citizen participation leveraging agent-based modeling: Experiences from nature-based solutions in China 利用代理建模模拟公民参与的动态演变：中国基于自然的解决方案的经验

IF 6.7 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105145

Li Dai , Qi Han , Bauke de Vries

{"title":"Simulating dynamical evolution of citizen participation leveraging agent-based modeling: Experiences from nature-based solutions in China","authors":"Li Dai , Qi Han , Bauke de Vries","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Incorporating citizen engagement in scaling up nature-based solutions (NbS) is a burgeoning and promising approach to foster localized, decentralized, and bottom-up project management strategies. While scholars have expressed heightened interest in citizen participation, there is a prominent lack of exploration into the dynamic and evolutionary nature of participatory behaviors. Reinforced by the theory of planned behavior and scale-free network, an agent-based simulation was constructed to simulate the citizens' behavioral changes and evolutions in engaging NbS projects under different conditions. The simulation results suggest that as information is disseminated and opinions are exchanged, the proportion of residents exhibiting silence and unwillingness to participate experiences a fluctuating increase, while the proportion of residents with willingness to participate undergoes a fluctuating decrease. Ultimately, the proportions of the three groups tend to stabilize. Relying predominantly on the formal government-led network has the potential to enhance neighborhood participation rates, whereas an overreliance on informal networks rooted in social ties and information dissemination can have notable detrimental effects on participation. This study offers insights into the evolutionary process of citizen participation in NbS projects, thereby contributing valuable recommendations for promoting the sustainable development of environmental projects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141240702","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 30-min city and latent walking from mode shifts 30 分钟城市和模式转换带来的潜在步行时间

IF 6.7 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105166

Lauren Del Rosario , Shawn W. Laffan , Christopher J. Pettit

{"title":"The 30-min city and latent walking from mode shifts","authors":"Lauren Del Rosario , Shawn W. Laffan , Christopher J. Pettit","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Greater public transport use may occur through meeting average travel times of 30 min or less, termed the “30-min city”. The quantification of public transport-related physical activity associated with the 30-min city is under-researched but needed to support policy interventions. In this study, latent walking steps associated with modal shifts from car use to public transport/walking are investigated using a synthetic population and trip planning tool in Sydney, Australia. Areas were identified where the largest opportunities for public and active transport investments could be made in terms of density of car commuters and potential physical activity. Analysis of socio-economics with mean potential steps and with mean travel times were also conducted. Mode shifts to public transport/walking that are within 30 min one-way commute time were associated with a mean of 1732 daily potential steps per car commuter. However, 57 % of car commuters do not have a potential public transport/walking alternative that can be made within 30 min, which supports the need to reorganise jobs and housing and/or invest in faster public transport modes. A focus should be on delivering interventions in areas with excessive commuting times. Interactive visualisations are presented to aid policymakers to encourage mode shifts to public transport/walking.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124003809/pdfft?md5=e463e587ecc02b5daae4002eeb25c469&pid=1-s2.0-S0264275124003809-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197210","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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Evaluating the relationship between walking and street characteristics based on big data and machine learning analysis 基于大数据和机器学习分析评估步行与街道特征之间的关系

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105111

Avital Angel , Achituv Cohen , Trisalyn Nelson , Pnina Plaut

{"title":"Evaluating the relationship between walking and street characteristics based on big data and machine learning analysis","authors":"Avital Angel , Achituv Cohen , Trisalyn Nelson , Pnina Plaut","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The relationship between walking and the built environment is gaining increased attention for promoting sustainable transport and healthy communities. However, while pedestrians engage with the street environment, walkability assessments often overlook human-scale characteristics, focusing mainly on the neighborhood-level. Furthermore, traditional studies on walkability rely on limited and time-bound methods. To address these research gaps and obtain insights into the connection between walking and the built environment, this study utilizes machine learning techniques to scrutinize mobile-app data on pedestrian traffic alongside street characteristics. Tree-based algorithms are deployed to identify the association between walking volume and built environment features at the street-level, spanning distinct time periods. The pedestrian traffic data was gathered in Tel Aviv, Israel, while accounting for seasonal variations, weekdays, and time of day. Examining 20 street-level characteristics across 8000 segments furnishes new insights into the relative significance of various characteristics for walking, as well as street profiles linked to greater vs. lesser pedestrian activity. Notably, time variables emerge as crucial, with street features varying in importance across different time definitions. The study offers implications for decision-makers and urban planners by informing them of pedestrians' behaviors and preferences at the street-level, facilitating more efficient infrastructure investments and supporting planning decisions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124003251/pdfft?md5=a8eb12adddf568551281be414faff93a&pid=1-s2.0-S0264275124003251-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197207","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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LiFE in the city: Behavioural changes can drive urban sustainability goals 城市中的 LiFE：行为改变可推动城市可持续发展目标的实现

IF 6.7 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105163

Zaheer Allam , Ashish Sharma , Ali Cheshmehzangi

{"title":"LiFE in the city: Behavioural changes can drive urban sustainability goals","authors":"Zaheer Allam , Ashish Sharma , Ali Cheshmehzangi","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) initiative, a pioneering approach initiated by India to propel sustainable urban development through targeted behavioural change. Positioned at the nexus of individual action and urban sustainability, LiFE underscores the potential of integrating lifestyle adjustments into the broader urban planning and policy-making framework. By examining the initiative's evolution from a grassroots movement to a key element of government policy, this paper highlights its innovative strategies aimed at promoting eco-friendly living and its significant impact on urban environments. Through case studies and an analysis of the initiative's alignment with global sustainability goals, we reveal how LiFE complements existing urban agendas by focusing on the micro-level actions of individuals and communities. This paper contributes to the discourse on sustainable urbanization by showcasing the critical role of behavioural change in achieving urban sustainability goals, thereby offering insights into the formulation of more holistic and effective urban policies. Significantly the paper articulates how LiFE's principles, through enhancing global policies and harnessing the power of technological advancements within the Smart Cities agenda, herald a new paradigm in urban sustainability efforts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124003779/pdfft?md5=7539155d038e5c70ff101a9e7dd25402&pid=1-s2.0-S0264275124003779-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197211","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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Segmented user demand forecasting for libraries in the 15-minute city considering users' preferences and spatial patterns 考虑用户偏好和空间模式，对 15 分钟城市图书馆的用户需求进行细分预测

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Cities Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105159

Sungmin Ko , Ie-jung Choi , Dong-guen Kim , Jungwoo Shin

{"title":"Segmented user demand forecasting for libraries in the 15-minute city considering users' preferences and spatial patterns","authors":"Sungmin Ko , Ie-jung Choi , Dong-guen Kim , Jungwoo Shin","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105159","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the conditions for using libraries in South Korea are improving in terms of the concept of a 15-min city, such as the expansion of public library functions and an increase in the number of libraries, the number of users per library is declining. This phenomenon represents the necessity of advancing the understanding of library use behavior from the policy aspects of facility planning, maintenance, and management. Hence, this study analyzes the effect of library services and distance on choices regarding library use and predicted changes in library use behavior through a choice experiment and a discrete choice model. The results reveal that library services, distance, and library-use status influenced library users' and non-users' decisions regarding library use. Through predictions of library use behavior, administrative districts that provide relatively low utility are identified, and the number of library users is estimated. Considering the impact of the interaction between library services and spatial patterns on potential users, it is possible to predict different library use patterns that can help make policy decisions regarding facility planning and management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197055","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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Unsupervised origin-destination flow estimation for analyzing COVID-19 impact on public transport mobility 用于分析 COVID-19 对公共交通流动性影响的无监督起点-终点流量估算

IF 6.7 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105086

Lan Zhang, Kaijian Liu

{"title":"Unsupervised origin-destination flow estimation for analyzing COVID-19 impact on public transport mobility","authors":"Lan Zhang, Kaijian Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The outbreak of COVID-19 caused unprecedented disruptions to public transport services. As such, this paper proposes a methodology for analyzing COVID-19 impact on public transport mobility. The proposed methodology includes: (1) a new unsupervised machine learning (UML) method, which utilizes a decoder-encoder architecture and a flow property-based learning objective function, to estimate the origin-destination (OD) flows of public transport systems from boarding-alighting data; and (2) a temporal-spatial analysis method to analyze OD flow change before and during COVID-19 to unveil its impact on mobility across time and space. The validation of the UML method showed that it achieved a coefficient of determination of 0.836 when estimating OD flows using boarding-alighting data. Upon the successful validation, the proposed methodology was implemented to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the mobility of the New York City subway system. The implementation results indicate that (1) the rise in the number of weekly new COVID-19 cases intensified the impact on the public transport mobility, but not as strongly as public health interventions; and (2) the inflows to and outflows from the center of the city were more sensitive to the impact of COVID-19.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197212","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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