IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106235

Zuopeng Ma , Guolei Zhou , Jing Zhang , Yanjun Liu , Pingyu Zhang

{"title":"Demographic trends in China's northeast borderlands: Shocks from core-periphery relations and border effects","authors":"Zuopeng Ma , Guolei Zhou , Jing Zhang , Yanjun Liu , Pingyu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106235","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106235","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Border regions are not only the geographical margins of national sovereignty, but also the vanguard to advance cross-border cooperation. Their demographic trend is shaped by the interplay of core-periphery dynamics and geopolitical relations, with distinct geopolitical contexts inevitably giving rise to divergent trajectories in borderland population development. Considering locational uniqueness, this paper explores the contributing factors of the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of population in China's northeast borderlands. The results indicate that the China-DPRK borderlands exhibited more pronounced trends of demographic decline compared to the China-Russia borderlands. Furthermore, in the China-Russia borderlands, depopulation and aging deteriorated with the increase in the distance from the border, while the opposite was true for China-DPRK borderlands. The decline of borderland population could be attributed overall to the siphon effect dominated by core-periphery relations. Nonetheless, in the China-Russia borderlands, the border effect exerted a positive influence on population development, particularly in regions with a robust industrial foundation and abundant financial resources. This spatial effect adhered to the distance-decay principle, which to a certain extent mitigated the adverse impacts of core-periphery dynamics. In the China-DPRK borderlands, the border effect projected a negative influence on population development, and its inhibitory effect was particularly pronounced in industrial regions. Spatially, this effect gradually diminished with the increase in the distance from the border, which reinforced the adverse impacts of core-periphery dynamics on borderland population trajectories. These findings can serve as a foundational basis to formulate targeted population development strategies and optimize the spatial arrangement of populations in border regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106235"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144570863","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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Understanding the role of the policy advocacy elite in bureaucratic realms and policy diffusion: Insights from vehicle electrification initiatives in New Jersey (USA) 理解政策倡导精英在官僚领域和政策扩散中的作用：来自新泽西州（美国）汽车电气化计划的见解

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106225

Kevin Keenan, Mahbubur Meenar

{"title":"Understanding the role of the policy advocacy elite in bureaucratic realms and policy diffusion: Insights from vehicle electrification initiatives in New Jersey (USA)","authors":"Kevin Keenan, Mahbubur Meenar","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106225","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106225","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How do policy advocates participate in the policy diffusion process via interface with the constellation of policy-making systems and actors? This paper brings together geographies of policy diffusion and public administration theory of bureaucratic culture to analyze 17 interviews conducted with elites who advocate for vehicle electrification within the State of New Jersey, as well as 103 responses from household surveys in 3 communities. We advance several points. We conceptualize the policy advocacy elite, which exists outside of the bureaucracy but within its surrounding policy realm. Their existence in this liminal space situates them to disrupt organizational culture and traps that might otherwise stymie policy innovation. Through their interactions with a constellation of bureaucratic and community-based policy actors, the policy advocate elite have potential to both disrupt organizational traps emanating from the bureaucracy but also to produce reverse traps that originate in the communities. In both instances, an ontology of place may ground advocacy in disruptive potential.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106225"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144570988","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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Food politics and activist networks in the city: Reaching places food and policies don't 城市中的食物政治和活动家网络：到达食物和政策没有到达的地方

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106131

Maria Eugenia Trombini, Renata Motta

{"title":"Food politics and activist networks in the city: Reaching places food and policies don't","authors":"Maria Eugenia Trombini, Renata Motta","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>According to scholarship on the state-society relations that inform food and urban politics, social movements and civil society are key agents of change thanks to their ability to develop alternative food initiatives, organize networks, and influence public policies. Celebrated as a world pioneer in food governance and nutrition security, Belo Horizonte offers insight into the role played by activist networks, including institutional activism in food policies. Yet how can food politics connect alternative urban ecology aspirations with food justice in the city? In order to answer this question, we draw on focus groups with state actors and civil society organizations (CSOs) engaged in urban food systems since the 1990s to reveal the hybrid character of these initiatives, activist networks that transcend institutional boundaries, and broader socioecological transformation in the urban food system through agroecology. As the hunger crisis deepened during COVID-19, social movements and state actors devised initiatives to get fresh, ecological, nutritious, quality food to places it was not reaching in the city. Our investigation reveals, first, that over three decades, networks comprised of state actors and CSOs have played a key role in Belo Horizonte food policies and politics, connecting the peripheries with the core where public policies are made. However, food inequalities stemming from spatial segregation remain a challenge for more inclusive food policies. Second, by sampling participants who have been active in the city's food politics since the 1990s, our data shows the importance of tracing state-society networks over time, instead of focusing on critical moments of institutional building. Finally, the case of Belo Horizonte shows how local networks can influence public policies and actors at broader scales, even nationwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106131"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144564057","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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Leveraging augmented reality for historic streetscape regeneration decision-making: A big and small data approach with social media and stakeholder participation integration 利用增强现实技术进行历史街景再生决策：结合社交媒体和利益相关者参与的大数据和小数据方法

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106214

Jinliu Chen , Pengcheng Li , Yanhui Lei , Yuxuan Zhang , Chuhao Lai , Bing Chen , Jian Liu , Marc Aurel Schnabel

{"title":"Leveraging augmented reality for historic streetscape regeneration decision-making: A big and small data approach with social media and stakeholder participation integration","authors":"Jinliu Chen , Pengcheng Li , Yanhui Lei , Yuxuan Zhang , Chuhao Lai , Bing Chen , Jian Liu , Marc Aurel Schnabel","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106214","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106214","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban regeneration through digital and intelligent technologies offers a critical solution to the challenges arising in rapid urbanization, such as resource misallocation, the revival of cultural heritage, and the pursuit of high-quality development. Despite its potential, this approach has been underexplored in current research. This research focuses on a historic streetscape to develop a framework integrating big and small data for Augmented Reality (AR)-driven regeneration decision-making. For big data analysis, SnowNLP was employed to conduct text mining analysis on spatial perception patterns extracted from user-generated content across social media platforms such as <em>Weibo</em> and <em>Xiaohongshu</em>. For small data, a comprehensive AR spatial demand questionnaire is developed to analyze visitors' and experts' opinions. By integrating big and small data into a GIS platform, a unified database is constructed, and the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression models are applied to assess the correlations between physical space elements and social media factors about AR demands. The findings indicate that the proposed research framework is highly feasible, revealing significant correlations between physical and social media elements and AR demands. Specifically, physical elements such as Scenic Spots and Government Agencies demonstrate strong correlations with AR demands. Likewise, the positive sentiment expressed on <em>Xiaohongshu</em> strongly correlates with increased AR demands. Furthermore, it is expected that findings from this study will be able to inform the relevant planning policies and strategies in AR-driven urban regeneration, offering theoretical foundations and practical guidance for creating digital and sustainable urban landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106214"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144564058","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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How residential environments affect depressive mood and stress among young adults in South Korea: The role of restorativeness 居住环境如何影响韩国年轻人的抑郁情绪和压力：恢复性的作用

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106165

Da-Hye Yim , Youngsang Kwon

{"title":"How residential environments affect depressive mood and stress among young adults in South Korea: The role of restorativeness","authors":"Da-Hye Yim , Youngsang Kwon","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Young adults with mental health problem are increasing sharply. Most of them live in cities to work and study, and their everyday environment would have influenced their mental health. However, little is known about these impacts. Green areas are beneficial for mental health, but providing parks in developed cities is challenging. The question arises whether built environment can support mental health.</div><div>This study examined how residential environment, including housing and neighborhood environment, help alleviate depressive mood and stress. The survey involved 301 young adults aged 19–34 in Seoul as most Korean young adults move to study and work. Restorativeness was used as a mediating variable, measured by the Perceived Restorativeness Scale. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling was used.</div><div>Natural environments, including parks and greenery, significantly increase PRS and reduce stress. Results show that housing quality, diversity of commercial facilities, pleasant streetscapes, management, and social infrastructure enhance restorativeness, which in turn reduce stresses, though not alleviating depressive moods. The use of the Entropy Index to objectively measure commercial diversity strengthened the robustness of the analysis. This suggests that young adults' favorite characteristics for commercial facilities were reflected in restorativeness. Furthermore, spending time in a restorative neighborhood environment alleviates the stress and depressive mood of young adults. In contrast, the transportation environment had little impact, indicating the importance of their perception of the built environment. This study highlights the potential of residential environments to foster restorative settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106165"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549855","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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How much does the introduction of micromobility in hilly cities improve public transportation services? A case study of Busan, Korea 在丘陵城市引入微型交通工具能在多大程度上改善公共交通服务？以韩国釜山为例

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106192

Hoe Kyoung Kim , Ahreum Kim , Younshik Chung

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Circular economy concepts for accelerating sustainable urban transformation: The case of New York City 加速可持续城市转型的循环经济理念：以纽约市为例

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106223

Anna Avdiushchenko , Christoph Johannes Meinrenken

{"title":"Circular economy concepts for accelerating sustainable urban transformation: The case of New York City","authors":"Anna Avdiushchenko , Christoph Johannes Meinrenken","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106223","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106223","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cities are crucial players in the pursuit of sustainable development. Therefore, urgent action is needed to reduce the over-extraction of natural resources (e.g., excessive material throughput) and the degradation of land caused by urbanization (e.g., the difficulty of implementing sustainable spatial planning in densely built urban areas). One way to facilitate such actions is to implement circular economy (CE) concepts in local policy. Based on document analysis, web-scanning research and semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 17 New York City (NYC) stakeholders, we explore the success of circularity progress in supporting such actions. Special attention is paid to policies and practices supporting minimizing the waste of resources and circular spatial planning. Interviewees included representatives of the NYC Mayor's Office responsible for sustainable development and circular economy actions. In addition, we collected opinions and insights of other local stakeholders involved in circularity initiatives in NYC. We find that while NYC shows clear ambitions to lead in CE, a system-wide approach to implementing circularity in policy still faces crucial obstacles. We conclude with recommendations for NYC to overcome these obstacles and to achieve accelerated, system-wide transformation towards a CE in NYC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106223"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549857","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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Ethnographic insights on the livability of migrant ready-made garment workers in peri-urban Bangladesh 民族志对孟加拉国近郊成衣工人宜居性的见解

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106229

Sadika Haque , Md. Sahed Khan , Bentul Mawa , Md. Emran Hossain , Md. Nazmul Hoque , Nushrat Jahan Misu , Mohima Akter , Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar , Tabassum Wahid

{"title":"Ethnographic insights on the livability of migrant ready-made garment workers in peri-urban Bangladesh","authors":"Sadika Haque , Md. Sahed Khan , Bentul Mawa , Md. Emran Hossain , Md. Nazmul Hoque , Nushrat Jahan Misu , Mohima Akter , Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar , Tabassum Wahid","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106229","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106229","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Globally, low-income migrant households, particularly female laborers from urban areas, often have unrealistic lifestyle visions due to their inter-generational poverty in rural areas. However, millions of female ready-made garments (RMG) workers in Bangladesh, unable to tackle inherited poverty and marginalization, often arrive in Dhaka, the capital city known for its garment industry, with unrealistic aspirations. The study is an exploration how is the livability of these fighters of the economy in their new destination. This study introduces agency and power dynamics in assessing the urban livability of migrant RMG women in Bangladesh along with objective and subjective indicators using the qualitative data analysis. The study's data was gathered between June and November of 2022. The findings of this study revealed that migrant female workers face significant challenges in supporting their lives and are often subjected to unfavorable stereotypes. In addition to objective deprivation in terms of access to basic services (like water, energy, waste management, education, health, recreation, and public transport), they always feel severe social inferiority, lower self-esteem, low level of social safety and security, and identity crisis for which they would not even like to take part in the governance mechanism. They face psycho-social stress, for which they feel socially excluded, marginalized, and isolated, which tends to their lower social position. The key message here is that even after attaining some level of improvement in their objective aspects of urban livability, migrant women are more likely to face subjective experiences that jeopardize their urban livability in Dhaka city.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106229"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549856","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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(Not) in my backyard: Access to community gardens, neighborhood characteristics, and food deserts （不是）在我的后院：进入社区花园，社区特色和食物沙漠

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106226

Hao Chen , Haoluan Wang , Filippo Bora , Yingqi Hu

{"title":"(Not) in my backyard: Access to community gardens, neighborhood characteristics, and food deserts","authors":"Hao Chen , Haoluan Wang , Filippo Bora , Yingqi Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Community gardens have gained popularity worldwide not only as an alternative source of fresh food but also as a platform to promote sustainable urban living. In this study, we compile a unique dataset that consists of 1874 documented community gardens in 24 cities or metropolitan areas in the U.S. to examine the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and access to community gardens. We further investigate the spatial distribution of community gardens in the context of food deserts that are used to describe low-income neighborhoods with a lack of fresh food access. Our results show that several neighborhood characteristics, such as the share of Black populations, poverty rate, and housing unit vacancy rate, can systematically explain whether a neighborhood has community gardens. Notably, we find that community gardens may have limited capacity to address the issue of food deserts, given that the vast majority of current community gardens are in neighborhoods not identified as food deserts. Our findings provide new insights into the need for strategic urban planning and community-led initiatives to facilitate the construction of community gardens for a sustainable urban food environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106226"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144535863","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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Are people willing to pay for carbon neutrality? A survey from urban residents in Zhejiang, China 人们愿意为碳中和买单吗？一项来自中国浙江城市居民的调查

IF 6 1区经济学

Cities Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106210

Xuewang Dong , Huating Huang , Mengting Shao , Ruizhi Zhi

{"title":"Are people willing to pay for carbon neutrality? A survey from urban residents in Zhejiang, China","authors":"Xuewang Dong , Huating Huang , Mengting Shao , Ruizhi Zhi","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106210","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106210","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Consumer responsibility is an important theoretical perspective for realizing China's “carbon neutrality” policy goals. A theoretical model was developed based on the value-belief-norm perspective and the theory of planned behavior to estimate urban residents' willingness to pay (WTP) for carbon neutrality. Based on the contingent valuation method, a single-bounded dichotomous choice elicitation format was used in the questionnaire survey, and 2040 samples of urban family households in Zhejiang Province were randomly sampled. Subsequently, a binary logistic regression model was employed to estimate the carbon offsetting WTP among urban households, and the influencing factors were analyzed. The study revealed that urban households in Zhejiang Province were willing to pay $11.23 per month and household to achieve carbon neutrality, and the respondents' WTP for carbon offsetting was significantly affected by ascription of responsibility, subjective norms, age, income, and occupation. However, environmental values, attitudes, personal norms, an awareness of consequences, and education level did not significantly affect the respondents' WTP. Finally, this study provides supporting data and policy suggestions for the formulation of more effective and reliable carbon offsetting standards and the realization of carbon neutrality goals in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 106210"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144549858","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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