Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2024.10.006
Yi Sun , Ji Chen , Ye Yuan , Shuangliang Liu
With the advent of an aging society, grandparents' involvement in childcare is becoming increasingly common, saving families and society huge nursing costs. Residential open space (ROS) is a common place for grandparents' outdoor childcare activities, influencing the health of grandparents and children. However, existing research on the ROS environmental needs of intergenerational users is still insufficient. This study regards grandparents and children as a cohesive entity, based on environment behavior theory, and constructs a research framework for the ROS environmental elements needs for grandparent-child rearing. Taking a residential area in Tianjin as an example, four types of grandparent-child rearing are identified based on the age of the children. Through interviews with grandparents and observation of outdoor activities involving grandparent-child rearing, significant differences in the needs of ROS environmental elements such as enclosure feeling, pet control, and adult fitness equipment among different types of grandparent-child rearing were found, stemming from different caregiving patterns. This study provides important implications for constructing supportive childcare environments and promoting physical activities and childcare education among intergenerational populations.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2024.10.002
Yuetong Li , Songyang Lyu , Qizheng Gao , Seungil Lee
This paper reveals the mechanisms by which the spatial structure of morphological polycentricity (MP) affects the subjective well-being (SWB) in China, focusing on the distribution of economic activities. Using panel data for 21 provinces in China from 2010 to 2020, we compare the effects of dynamic MP, measured using nighttime light data, and static MP, measured using demographic data, on SWB. Our findings reveal that, as regional economic benefits enhance and megacities form, the adjustment of MP spatial policy becomes increasingly significant in improving SWB. Notably, dynamic changes in MP exhibit a more pronounced effect on the satisfaction and confidence aspects of SWB. Moreover, increased urban-rural income inequality moderates this relationship, diminishing the positive impact of MP on SWB among rural households. Regional analysis indicates that in economically advancing areas and emerging megacities, adjustments in MP spatial policy are increasingly crucial for improving SWB. Central regions experiencing economic growth exhibit a greater need to balance economic agglomeration with population dispersion to optimize well-being outcomes. The empirical evidence provided suggests the potential benefits of adopting harmonized development strategies and indicates that incorporating the socio-economic context into spatial planning may contribute to the optimization of well-being.
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Effectively assisting urban designers in developing resilient urban areas requires innovative approaches. Moreover, using spatial analysis is necessary to assess the effectiveness of the conceptual design depending on different specifications. Even though these concepts are closely related, they have been done separately. To overcome these limits, in this paper, a decision tool is created using the Grasshopper for Rhinoceros 3D software as a core component of a flexible system to generate the urban structure and optimize land use. The tool includes several processes for analyzing urban distribution using spatial analysis, such as accessibility and visibility. The approach was systematically applied and evaluated in a simulated environment using BenGuerir's Green City as a case study. Therefore, it established an efficient infrastructure network facilitating seamless pedestrian movement. It also allows the creation of diverse building types in key locations to suit people's requirements based on urban planning rules to sustainably conserve the area by balancing resources, activities, and people in space.
有效地协助城市设计师开发具有弹性的城市地区需要创新的方法。此外，根据不同的规格，利用空间分析来评估概念设计的有效性是必要的。尽管这些概念密切相关，但它们是分开进行的。为了克服这些限制，本文使用Grasshopper for Rhinoceros 3D软件作为灵活系统的核心组件创建了一个决策工具，以生成城市结构和优化土地利用。该工具包括使用空间分析来分析城市分布的几个过程，例如可达性和可见性。该方法以BenGuerir的绿色城市为例，在模拟环境中进行了系统的应用和评估。因此，它建立了一个高效的基础设施网络，方便行人无缝移动。它还允许在关键位置创建不同的建筑类型，以满足人们基于城市规划规则的需求，通过平衡空间中的资源，活动和人员来可持续地保护该地区。
{"title":"Enhancing urban design performance through parametric analysis: Insights from the Green City of Ben Guerir, Morocco","authors":"Houda Er-Retby , Abdelkader Outzourhit , Abdellah Nait-Taour , Mohamed Oualid Mghazli , Hicham Mastouri , Mohamed El Mankibi , Mostafa Benzaazoua","doi":"10.1016/j.jum.2024.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jum.2024.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effectively assisting urban designers in developing resilient urban areas requires innovative approaches. Moreover, using spatial analysis is necessary to assess the effectiveness of the conceptual design depending on different specifications. Even though these concepts are closely related, they have been done separately. To overcome these limits, in this paper, a decision tool is created using the Grasshopper for Rhinoceros 3D software as a core component of a flexible system to generate the urban structure and optimize land use. The tool includes several processes for analyzing urban distribution using spatial analysis, such as accessibility and visibility. The approach was systematically applied and evaluated in a simulated environment using BenGuerir's Green City as a case study. Therefore, it established an efficient infrastructure network facilitating seamless pedestrian movement. It also allows the creation of diverse building types in key locations to suit people's requirements based on urban planning rules to sustainably conserve the area by balancing resources, activities, and people in space.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45131,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Management","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 247-263"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2024.09.007
Jaime Adriano Gutiérrez-Nava , Elena María Otazo-Sánchez , Alma Delia Román-Gutiérrez , ArturoOtilio Acevedo-Sandoval
Several indicator and index frameworks have been reported to assess management efficiency and promote transparency, facilitating decision-making and innovation. However, they cannot be applied in cities with limited information, making them impractical. This study proposes a Sustainable Urban Water Management Index (SUWMI) for such cities, selecting six AquaRating indicators plus two indexes recommended in the Sustainable Development Goal 6, yielding a simplified and practical version for diagnosing the management performance rate of the Water Operating Systems (WOS) in cities. Conceptual and mathematical models were defined for SUWMI, and the eight selected terms were hierarchized based on a decision tree with the participation of an expert panel and further multicriteria decision-making methodology by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to calculate the weighting parameters. The selected indicators represent five categories on a percentage scale. The highly populated Puebla City Metropolitan Zone in Mexico was the case study. Information was gathered from five Water Operation Systems (WOS) from 2002 to 2020. The tap water area's coverage and physical efficiency improved despite the population growth due to an adequate political strategy after 2014. The SUWMI values of each WOS diagnoses its performance, highlighting their differences and providing a valuable tool for guiding urban water public policy programs. The paper proposes a simple, fast, and easy-to-calculate index that can be helpful for a broader cluster of cities and urban settlements with deficient available information, which is common in developing countries.
{"title":"Sustainable urban water management index for developing countries. A case study in Puebla City, Mexico","authors":"Jaime Adriano Gutiérrez-Nava , Elena María Otazo-Sánchez , Alma Delia Román-Gutiérrez , ArturoOtilio Acevedo-Sandoval","doi":"10.1016/j.jum.2024.09.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jum.2024.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several indicator and index frameworks have been reported to assess management efficiency and promote transparency, facilitating decision-making and innovation. However, they cannot be applied in cities with limited information, making them impractical. This study proposes a Sustainable Urban Water Management Index (SUWMI) for such cities, selecting six AquaRating indicators plus two indexes recommended in the Sustainable Development Goal 6, yielding a simplified and practical version for diagnosing the management performance rate of the Water Operating Systems (WOS) in cities. Conceptual and mathematical models were defined for SUWMI, and the eight selected terms were hierarchized based on a decision tree with the participation of an expert panel and further multicriteria decision-making methodology by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to calculate the weighting parameters. The selected indicators represent five categories on a percentage scale. The highly populated Puebla City Metropolitan Zone in Mexico was the case study. Information was gathered from five Water Operation Systems (WOS) from 2002 to 2020. The tap water area's coverage and physical efficiency improved despite the population growth due to an adequate political strategy after 2014. The SUWMI values of each WOS diagnoses its performance, highlighting their differences and providing a valuable tool for guiding urban water public policy programs. The paper proposes a simple, fast, and easy-to-calculate index that can be helpful for a broader cluster of cities and urban settlements with deficient available information, which is common in developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45131,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Management","volume":"14 1","pages":"Pages 105-120"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143548865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2024.09.001
Ni Yan , Canxu Zeng , Na Zhang , Song Han , Yali Li , Makoto Yokohari , Zhengxu Zhou
While the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified counter-urban migration trends globally, with rural areas often portrayed as ideal havens, the post-migration realities and risks faced by rural in-migrants remain understudied. Addressing this research gap, this research investigates the neighborhood factors influencing risk perceptions of rural in-migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on four rural destinations in Dali, China. Using a mixed-method approach combining questionnaires, participatory mapping, and regression analysis, we surveyed 234 rural migrants. Our study incorporates objective measurements of neighborhood environments through Participatory GIS. Findings reveal that reduced life quality and economic income are the main perceived risks among rural in-migrants during the pandemic. Neighborhood factors significantly mitigating perceived risks include green spaces, accessible living services, government satisfaction, and strong local community networks. The study also identifies varying vulnerability levels among migrant groups, with migrant workers showing higher risk perceptions than entrepreneurs or unemployed individuals. This research addresses a critical gap in migration studies by examining post-relocation risks faced by rural in-migrants, especially during global crises. It provides empirical evidence on the role of neighborhood environments in mitigating migrants' risk perceptions, offering insights for enhancing rural community resilience. The findings contribute to our understanding of rural in-migration dynamics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, informing strategies for sustainable rural development and migrant integration in the face of future crises.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2024.10.003
Adiwan Fahlan Aritenang
The emergence of sharing economy, especially accommodation platform has enable people to rent and capitalize on their private properties by renting to others. However, with the covid-19 pandemic and proximity to first-tier city it is crucial to examine how these sharing accommodation properties survives.
The paper investigates how urban neighbourhoods, Airbnb characteristics and urban mobility restrictions determine rental occupancy rates in Bandung, a second-tier city, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines; (i) the dynamics of determinant factors of occupancy rates before and after the pandemic and (ii) the impact of mobility and spatial proximity to first-tier city on sharing accommodations’ occupancy rates. This study uses econometric and spatial analysis with more than 2200 Airbnb property listings registered between 2016 and 2020 in Bandung city.
Our study found a shift of preferences in a more urban direction and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) variables continuing with a slight decline in the pandemic. Comparison between before and during the pandemic suggests the persistent of high occupancy rate concentration only in in private listings, and located near to tourist attractions and a variety of amenities. Our finding calls for urban policies that limits the geographical distribution of short-term rental (STR) properties to avoid wider gentrification, safety risks, and pressure to the local housing supply.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2024.08.005
Kala Seetharam Sridhar, G. Shivakumar Nayka
Urban primacy in the Indian state of Karnataka is severe, since Bengaluru, the state's capital city, is more than eight times the size of the second biggest city. Our objectives in this paper are to investigate this primacy, estimating Zipf's law, understanding transport networks and inadequacies in municipal infrastructure, and adopting a non-conventional technique, i.e., that of surveying private firms, to understand how to alleviate the same.
Estimating Zipf's law, we find that Karnataka's primacy worsened during 2011-19. Using GIS maps, we find several road connectivity issues around smaller cities in the state of Karnataka. We find several gaps in municipal infrastructure such as roads, parks and storm water drains in the smaller cities. Based on a survey of 81 firms across selected 12 cities in the state (including Bengaluru), we find that their operation and maintenance costs are higher than investment costs, due to weak municipal infrastructure. The qualitative views of firms in the smaller towns regarding their disadvantages conformed to the objective evidence on their costs.
This has implications for better policies for balanced regional development not only in Indian states, but also other geographies characterized by primacy. These are that transport networks be extensive, and municipal infrastructure be robust to encourage firm and resident location decisions, for distribution of economic activity equally across the urban hierarchy.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2024.08.006
Yinshuai Li , Nan Jia , Wen Song , Jie Cheng , Ruishan Chen
Sudden and unforeseen events, notably the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored and exacerbated pre-existing urban inequalities. These disruptions have disproportionately affected the most vulnerable sectors of society, thereby further aggravating existing inequalities. Addressing these inequality issues requires systematic research into academic community's response to significant global disturbances. Therefore, we have integrated bibliometric analysis with meta-analysis (quantitatively combines research results from systematic reviews) techniques, culminating in a research framework based on KNIME software (a software for creating data applications and services) and Python programming. Noteworthy for its open-source nature, scalability, and reproducibility, this framework tries to decode the developmental patterns and response characteristics of urban inequality research under sudden shocks. Additionally, it seeks to clarify its causal pathways, predict the emergence of new or strengthened inequalities, and provide effective suggestions to promote inclusive and sustainable urban development. Our findings indicate that the COVID-19 has exacerbated the existing urban inequality, attracting widespread attention in fields such as society and public health. Issues of fairness and justice of human health, resource allocation, urban resilience and vulnerability have become hot topics around COVID-19 related urban inequalities. Simultaneously, the sudden shocks have led to disparities in research areas and themes. Social, economic, and urban planning are the main drivers behind urban inequality, and particularly affecting vulnerable groups, including low-income populations and those living in remote regions. Before and after the COVID-19, the average global urban inequality are 0.57 and 0.61, respectively. Inequality issues are particularly severe in Africa and countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. The pandemic changed the focus of urban inequality to health and social issues, worsening inequality performance in these regions and deepening global gaps. Additionally, countries with high urban inequality are more prone to large-scale outbreaks and higher mortality rates. To this end, we advocate academia for in-depth research and comprehensive evaluation, focusing on vulnerable groups, providing integrated policy recommendations, supporting interdisciplinary exchanges and cooperation, and committing to find long-term sustainable solutions. These efforts aim to propose more comprehensive and reasonable solutions to alleviate and address complex urban inequality issues under sudden shocks.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2025.01.006
Praveen Maghelal , Zhizhao Li , Ahmed Alfarra , Pengyu Zhu
Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has a diverse population of 2.908 million, with 81% being non-Emiratis from various global regions. This diversity in demographics introduces a complex driving environment with varying skills and experiences, particularly as the majority rely on private vehicles. Road accidents are a leading cause of death globally, with the eastern Mediterranean region, including the UAE, reporting high fatality rates. In Abu Dhabi, the unique licensing policy allows residents from certain countries to obtain a UAE license without testing, potentially contributing to traffic violations and accidents. This study examines the relationship between the UAE's licensing policies and traffic violations in Abu Dhabi using responses from 354 participants surveyed across five vehicle inspections centers, providing insights for policy improvements. We find that: 1) switching of license reports better driving behavior and fewer traffic violations in comparison to those testing for their UAE license; 2) foreign drivers from the Eastern have a lower frequency of traffic violations, which may be related to cultural differences; 3) household size, income, and education correlate with traffic violations; and 4) irritable drivers have a significantly higher frequency of violations. Our findings challenge assumptions about the risks associated with license conversion and highlight the complex interplay of sociodemographic factors, driving behaviors, and local driving knowledge in shaping traffic violation patterns.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jum.2025.02.003
Chen Hua
This paper examines the key factors in evaluating a "good house." When designing and constructing a house, safety must be a priority throughout the entire process. Based on the characteristics of the intended user group, potential health and hygiene risks should be minimized, and the spatial configuration of living facilities should be thoughtfully planned. From a long-term perspective, the house should accommodate various user behaviors while balancing cost-effectiveness and visual appeal. Additionally, a well-equipped community with strong interpersonal relationships and a prime location contributes significantly to the overall convenience of a “good house.” Beyond its function as real estate, a house also holds cultural and financial value, both of which influence its evaluation. As societal needs evolve, factors such as energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, personalized design, and the ability to support multiple concurrent activities will increasingly shape the standards for evaluating a “good house.”
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