Urban containment policies have emerged as popular policy tools to alleviate urban sprawl worldwide. This study investigates how the strictness of China's incremental construction quotas affects urban expansion and how local governments utilize their limited agency in land supply to respond to policy constraints. Through a set of difference-in-differences models with continuous treatment, we find that an increase in policy strictness leads to a significant decrease in urban expansion, but the sensitivity to policy strictness varies with city size and administrative level. We also find that local governments facing stricter incremental construction quotas expand land supply sources and adjust the use types, and such responses have uncertain impacts on the sustainable development of cities. These findings suggest that the national government needs to carefully balance the diverse consequences of urban containment policies, not only to support the flexible innovation of local land resources control and management, but also to be alert to local unsustainable behaviors due to short-term interests.
{"title":"How do local governments respond to national urban containment policies? Evidence from China","authors":"Shihao Zhu , Longfei Zheng , Daquan Huang , Yanxu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103320","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103320","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban containment policies have emerged as popular policy tools to alleviate urban sprawl worldwide. This study investigates how the strictness of China's incremental construction quotas affects urban expansion and how local governments utilize their limited agency in land supply to respond to policy constraints. Through a set of difference-in-differences models with continuous treatment, we find that an increase in policy strictness leads to a significant decrease in urban expansion, but the sensitivity to policy strictness varies with city size and administrative level. We also find that local governments facing stricter incremental construction quotas expand land supply sources and adjust the use types, and such responses have uncertain impacts on the sustainable development of cities. These findings suggest that the national government needs to carefully balance the diverse consequences of urban containment policies, not only to support the flexible innovation of local land resources control and management, but also to be alert to local unsustainable behaviors due to short-term interests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103320"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420605","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-16DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103328
María Jesús Rivera
In line with a conceptualisation of pro-rural migration as an open-ended process that extends to the post-migration experience, this paper explores how pro-rural migrants elaborate the decision to move to a rural place, how they initiate their relocation and how they experience life in the new place. To do this, the paper analyses the narratives of pro-rural migrants regarding their migration process in two different contexts of rurality in Spain: the region of Castilla y León and a coastal area in Andalusia. Thus, the paper reconstructs migrants' narratives by connecting the pre-migration context with the post-migration experience. The paper reflects how pro-rural migration, and the post-migration experience can play different roles in migrants' lives, depending on their contextuality. In our case: an old dream, the unexpected, salvation and the search for a way of life. By identifying the differences and common elements, the paper contributes to a fuller comprehension of pro-rural migration as a dynamic process and to a better understanding of the meanings of counter-urbanisation.
{"title":"Unravelling stories of pro-rural migration: From the pre-migration context to the post-migration experience","authors":"María Jesús Rivera","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103328","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103328","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In line with a conceptualisation of pro-rural migration as an open-ended process that extends to the post-migration experience, this paper explores how pro-rural migrants elaborate the decision to move to a rural place, how they initiate their relocation and how they experience life in the new place. To do this, the paper analyses the narratives of pro-rural migrants regarding their migration process in two different contexts of rurality in Spain: the region of Castilla y León and a coastal area in Andalusia. Thus, the paper reconstructs migrants' narratives by connecting the pre-migration context with the post-migration experience. The paper reflects how pro-rural migration, and the post-migration experience can play different roles in migrants' lives, depending on their contextuality. In our case: an old dream, the unexpected, salvation and the search for a way of life. By identifying the differences and common elements, the paper contributes to a fuller comprehension of pro-rural migration as a dynamic process and to a better understanding of the meanings of counter-urbanisation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103328"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420610","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103309
Yiting Jiang, Jin Duan, Yushan Zhang
Traditional villages are often seen as complex social and spatial systems that reflect deeply rooted cultural and relational dynamics. Urbanization and modernization threaten vernacular spaces in traditional villages, risking the loss of place identity and complicating preservation efforts. Indigenous social relationships form the backbone of social interaction and spatial organization in these communities, shaping how space is utilized and transformed. However, the research on how local people reshape rural space from the perspective of social relationship is still insufficient. Drawing on social space theory and informed by observations and first-hand narratives, this study develops a framework to analyze the relationship between social relations and spatial transformation in spontaneous rural reconstruction. Taking Fuling Village in Fujian, China as a case study, it explores how shifts in kinship, territorial, and religious dynamics influence spatial configurations before and after reconstruction. The study highlights changes in residential patterns, clan networks, and religious spaces across different spatial scales. The findings reveal that the reconfiguration of organizational relationships and shifts in social interaction patterns are key drivers in reshaping spatial allocations and formations. This has sparked local creativity, but also highlighted identity crises and emerging inequalities, calling for attention to local forces to ensure integrated heritage preservation and the long-term sustainability of these communities.
{"title":"The spontaneous spatial restructuring of traditional village based on an analysis of social relationship: A case in Fuling, Fujian China","authors":"Yiting Jiang, Jin Duan, Yushan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103309","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103309","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional villages are often seen as complex social and spatial systems that reflect deeply rooted cultural and relational dynamics. Urbanization and modernization threaten vernacular spaces in traditional villages, risking the loss of place identity and complicating preservation efforts. Indigenous social relationships form the backbone of social interaction and spatial organization in these communities, shaping how space is utilized and transformed. However, the research on how local people reshape rural space from the perspective of social relationship is still insufficient. Drawing on social space theory and informed by observations and first-hand narratives, this study develops a framework to analyze the relationship between social relations and spatial transformation in spontaneous rural reconstruction. Taking Fuling Village in Fujian, China as a case study, it explores how shifts in kinship, territorial, and religious dynamics influence spatial configurations before and after reconstruction. The study highlights changes in residential patterns, clan networks, and religious spaces across different spatial scales. The findings reveal that the reconfiguration of organizational relationships and shifts in social interaction patterns are key drivers in reshaping spatial allocations and formations. This has sparked local creativity, but also highlighted identity crises and emerging inequalities, calling for attention to local forces to ensure integrated heritage preservation and the long-term sustainability of these communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103309"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143403626","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103287
Shruti Syal
This study is the first in-depth analysis of regulatory overlap in Water Sanitation Hygiene (WaSH) provision in urban ‘informal’ settlements. Using a mixed methods approach to map the spatial and functional footprint of government agencies, identify operational gaps or overlaps in agency activities, and examine its sources and consequences, this paper makes a case for regulatory overlap as a major challenge because it cripples infrastructure/service providers, not just users. Over 2012–2019, I conducted field observations at 20 settlements in Delhi, India, content analysis of 14 relevant city and national legislations, policies and plans, and interviews with (i) 56 settlement residents, (ii) 13 officials from the water, planning, shelter and municipal authorities, and (iii) 8 NGOs. I classified the emerging examples of regulatory overlaps into three categories: similar functional jurisdictions and adjacent spatial jurisdictions, different functional jurisdictions and similar spatial jurisdictions, similar spatial and functional jurisdictions. I found that overlaps result in burdensome transaction costs for Delhi's shelter authority, unintended public health and environmental impacts, and a diffused provider network that further fragments WaSH access. Overlaps were sourced to the disconnects between various legislations, or between legislations and other instruments—plans, programs, legal orders—that expanded the mandates of government agencies without updating corresponding legislations. This study suggests the need to take a network approach to understand the many international, national, and local actors dictating WaSH access in ‘informal’ settlements, and the instruments guiding them. Without that, waste will keep cycling from toilets to drains to public spaces, from one jurisdiction to another.
{"title":"Overregulated and Underserved: Regulatory overlap in infrastructure/service provision in Delhi's ‘informal’ settlements","authors":"Shruti Syal","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103287","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103287","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study is the first in-depth analysis of regulatory overlap in Water Sanitation Hygiene (WaSH) provision in urban ‘informal’ settlements. Using a mixed methods approach to map the spatial and functional footprint of government agencies, identify operational gaps or overlaps in agency activities, and examine its sources and consequences, this paper makes a case for regulatory overlap as a major challenge because it cripples infrastructure/service providers, not just users. Over 2012–2019, I conducted field observations at 20 settlements in Delhi, India, content analysis of 14 relevant city and national legislations, policies and plans, and interviews with (i) 56 settlement residents, (ii) 13 officials from the water, planning, shelter and municipal authorities, and (iii) 8 NGOs. I classified the emerging examples of regulatory overlaps into three categories: similar functional jurisdictions and adjacent spatial jurisdictions, different functional jurisdictions and similar spatial jurisdictions, similar spatial and functional jurisdictions. I found that overlaps result in burdensome transaction costs for Delhi's shelter authority, unintended public health and environmental impacts, and a diffused provider network that further fragments WaSH access. Overlaps were sourced to the disconnects between various legislations, or between legislations and other instruments—plans, programs, legal orders—that expanded the mandates of government agencies without updating corresponding legislations. This study suggests the need to take a network approach to understand the <em>many</em> international, national, and local actors dictating WaSH access in ‘informal’ settlements, <em>and</em> the instruments guiding them. Without that, waste will keep <em>cycling</em> from toilets to drains to public spaces, from one jurisdiction to another.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103287"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379116","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}
The enhancement of eco-social services provided by greenspace enhances human well-being and supports sustainable urban development. The United Nations has explicitly emphasized the need to "ensure the availability of greenspaces for urban residents" in SDG11. Nonetheless, with the current trends of urban sprawl and residential densification, greenspace shrinkage and degradation are accelerating, thereby diminishing its multifaceted benefits. These trends have also exacerbated inequalities and environmental justice issues. The disparity in greenspace exposure and its inequality across residential areas with varying densities has also been further exacerbated during this process. However, the specific magnitude and trend of change in this disparity were still poorly understood. To address this gap, we incorporated a random forest algorithm-based 30-m time-series greenspace mapping and an RSEI-based population-weighted exposure framework to quantify spatiotemporal variations in human exposure to greenspace across residential areas of varying densities in 154 cities at the patch scale. Finally, the Gini coefficient and MGWR were combined to assess the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of inequality in greenspace exposure and its influencing factors. Results indicated that greenspace exposure was greater in low-density residential areas than in high-density areas (0.72 vs 0.16), while equality was weaker (Gini coefficient:0.83 vs 0.61), both gaps have shown a tendency to narrow over time. Greenspace exposure equality was primarily driven by greenspace quality rather than its coverage ratio (Beta: −0.434 vs 0.40, P < 0.05). These findings contribute to our understanding of greenspace inequality in residential areas of different densities, suggesting directions for optimizing greenspace layout and offering new insights for sustainable urban development.
{"title":"Greenspace equity across variation in residential densities: Insights for urban sustainability","authors":"Junjie Wu , Lingzhi Wang , Bryan Pijanowski , Hichem Omrani , Anqi Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103310","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103310","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The enhancement of eco-social services provided by greenspace enhances human well-being and supports sustainable urban development. The United Nations has explicitly emphasized the need to \"ensure the availability of greenspaces for urban residents\" in SDG11. Nonetheless, with the current trends of urban sprawl and residential densification, greenspace shrinkage and degradation are accelerating, thereby diminishing its multifaceted benefits. These trends have also exacerbated inequalities and environmental justice issues. The disparity in greenspace exposure and its inequality across residential areas with varying densities has also been further exacerbated during this process. However, the specific magnitude and trend of change in this disparity were still poorly understood. To address this gap, we incorporated a random forest algorithm-based 30-m time-series greenspace mapping and an RSEI-based population-weighted exposure framework to quantify spatiotemporal variations in human exposure to greenspace across residential areas of varying densities in 154 cities at the patch scale. Finally, the Gini coefficient and MGWR were combined to assess the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of inequality in greenspace exposure and its influencing factors. Results indicated that greenspace exposure was greater in low-density residential areas than in high-density areas (0.72 vs 0.16), while equality was weaker (Gini coefficient:0.83 vs 0.61), both gaps have shown a tendency to narrow over time. Greenspace exposure equality was primarily driven by greenspace quality rather than its coverage ratio (Beta: −0.434 vs 0.40, P < 0.05). These findings contribute to our understanding of greenspace inequality in residential areas of different densities, suggesting directions for optimizing greenspace layout and offering new insights for sustainable urban development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103310"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143376607","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103321
Chiwei Xiao , Yuqian Liu , Yanzhao Yang , Jeffrey Chiwuikem Chiaka
Population concentration is a visible manifestation of the spatial pattern of demographic distribution, exerting significant impacts on local socio-economic and natural environment. Currently, population-analysis mainly focuses on administrative units, with limited attention given to borderlands characterized by rapid changes and complex geopolitical and economic environment, let alone drivers. Here, based on WorldPop (100 m and 1 km) datasets, we take population agglomeration index (PAI), population change amplitude (PCA), and relative change in population density (RCPD) as the three main indicators, use GIS spatial analysis and mathematical statistics to quantify the spatio-temporal patterns of population in the borderlands of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) during 2000–2020, and then reveal the underlying mechanisms through the geographical detectors. The result indicated population growth in the borderlands of MSEA has accelerated over the past 21 years. This growth has contributed to over 20% of the total population increase across the entire MSEA, and its increase amplitude is more than twofold. The population pattern of the borderlands is characterized by an increasing trend towards agglomeration, with spatio-temporal heterogeneity and significant country differences, particularly Cambodian. The drivers of population agglomeration in the MSEA's borderlands are dominated by natural environmental conditions, with land cover having the highest explanatory power for population agglomeration, especially cropland and forest. Understanding the border-prone characteristics of population and potential mechanism in MSEA can provide a reference base for local sustainable development and geopolitical and economic environmental changes in the borderlands, and promote the development of population geography.
{"title":"Patterns and drivers of population in the borderlands of Mainland Southeast Asia","authors":"Chiwei Xiao , Yuqian Liu , Yanzhao Yang , Jeffrey Chiwuikem Chiaka","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103321","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103321","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Population concentration is a visible manifestation of the spatial pattern of demographic distribution, exerting significant impacts on local socio-economic and natural environment. Currently, population-analysis mainly focuses on administrative units, with limited attention given to borderlands characterized by rapid changes and complex geopolitical and economic environment, let alone drivers. Here, based on WorldPop (100 m and 1 km) datasets, we take population agglomeration index (PAI), population change amplitude (PCA), and relative change in population density (RCPD) as the three main indicators, use GIS spatial analysis and mathematical statistics to quantify the spatio-temporal patterns of population in the borderlands of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) during 2000–2020, and then reveal the underlying mechanisms through the geographical detectors. The result indicated population growth in the borderlands of MSEA has accelerated over the past 21 years. This growth has contributed to over 20% of the total population increase across the entire MSEA, and its increase amplitude is more than twofold. The population pattern of the borderlands is characterized by an increasing trend towards agglomeration, with spatio-temporal heterogeneity and significant country differences, particularly Cambodian. The drivers of population agglomeration in the MSEA's borderlands are dominated by natural environmental conditions, with land cover having the highest explanatory power for population agglomeration, especially cropland and forest. Understanding the border-prone characteristics of population and potential mechanism in MSEA can provide a reference base for local sustainable development and geopolitical and economic environmental changes in the borderlands, and promote the development of population geography.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103321"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143368249","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103318
Rui Liu , Xin Pan , Zuhua Xia , Juncheng Gou , Jialiang Han , Kai Cao , Decheng Wang , Changbing Xue
The accelerated urbanization process has led to an increasingly prominent phenomenon of the imbalanced distribution of urban green resources. Green equity, as a measure of this distribution issue, aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals advocated by the United Nations. In this study, we select Chengdu, a city with typical characteristics of urbanization in China, as our study area and approach it from the perspective of accessibility, introduce the Theil Green Equity Index to quantify green equity, employ the Support Vector Regression model to scientifically identify and locate potential patterns areas of urban parks, and aim to effectively optimize the spatial patterns of urban parks. The research reveals that although the accessibility of urban parks in Chengdu has significantly improved in recent years, there is still an issue of the uneven distribution of green spaces. Through the optimization solution proposed in the study, it is possible to achieve efficient enhancement of green equity under limited resource conditions. This can significantly reduce the green inequity issues in residents' daily lives caused by the uneven distribution of park resources. This study aims to develop a comprehensive framework for optimizing urban park distribution, providing planners with a scientifically grounded strategy to enhance sustainable development and promote green equity.
{"title":"How to lead the optimization of parks spatial patterns more comprehensively with the philosophy of green equity: A case of Chengdu","authors":"Rui Liu , Xin Pan , Zuhua Xia , Juncheng Gou , Jialiang Han , Kai Cao , Decheng Wang , Changbing Xue","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103318","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103318","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The accelerated urbanization process has led to an increasingly prominent phenomenon of the imbalanced distribution of urban green resources. Green equity, as a measure of this distribution issue, aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals advocated by the United Nations. In this study, we select Chengdu, a city with typical characteristics of urbanization in China, as our study area and approach it from the perspective of accessibility, introduce the Theil Green Equity Index to quantify green equity, employ the Support Vector Regression model to scientifically identify and locate potential patterns areas of urban parks, and aim to effectively optimize the spatial patterns of urban parks. The research reveals that although the accessibility of urban parks in Chengdu has significantly improved in recent years, there is still an issue of the uneven distribution of green spaces. Through the optimization solution proposed in the study, it is possible to achieve efficient enhancement of green equity under limited resource conditions. This can significantly reduce the green inequity issues in residents' daily lives caused by the uneven distribution of park resources. This study aims to develop a comprehensive framework for optimizing urban park distribution, providing planners with a scientifically grounded strategy to enhance sustainable development and promote green equity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103318"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143269646","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103308
Gaodou Liang , Lingdong Tang , Lili Zhang , Xiaoxiong Yang , Xuelan Tan
Guided by the concept of “people-centered,” methods for measuring spatial accessibility to medical facilities, rooted in behavioral geography and human-centered paradigm, have attracted significant scholarly attention and emerged as a critical focus in urban planning research. Enhancing spatial accessibility to medical facilities is an important public health in global and local policy frameworks. However, the effectiveness of improved spatial accessibility in addressing healthcare challenges remains uncertain, given the complexity of individual-level medical travel behavior. In this study, we developed a multimodal medical travel chain and proposed a spatial accessibility model that incorporates the characteristics of medical travel. We aim to provide a theoretical foundation for “people-centered” medical facility planning. The results indicate that: (1) Travel impedance affects both the travel limit threshold and modal share, thereby influencing preferences for medical travel behavior. Specifically, walking and cycling have lower modal shares due to their lower tolerance for travel impedance, whereas driving and public transportation demonstrate higher modal shares under high travel impedance conditions. (2) The variability in medical travel times results in temporal differences in spatial accessibility. Despite minimal fluctuations in travel times across different dates, a distinct tidal pattern emerges when examining various time intervals. (3) By introducing travel shares and selecting optimal travel limit thresholds and impedance coefficients, the spatial accessibility that reflects medical travel features can more accurately prevent localized overestimation or underestimation. Overall, we developed a research methodology that integrates medical travel features with spatial accessibility. This method provides insights into the spatiotemporal constraints experienced by residents and accesses the effectiveness of medical resource allocation strategies. It offers empirical evidence for optimizing the allocation of medical facilities in developing countries globally.
{"title":"Measuring spatial accessibility to medical facilities: Aligning with actual medical travel behavior","authors":"Gaodou Liang , Lingdong Tang , Lili Zhang , Xiaoxiong Yang , Xuelan Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103308","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103308","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Guided by the concept of “people-centered,” methods for measuring spatial accessibility to medical facilities, rooted in behavioral geography and human-centered paradigm, have attracted significant scholarly attention and emerged as a critical focus in urban planning research. Enhancing spatial accessibility to medical facilities is an important public health in global and local policy frameworks. However, the effectiveness of improved spatial accessibility in addressing healthcare challenges remains uncertain, given the complexity of individual-level medical travel behavior. In this study, we developed a multimodal medical travel chain and proposed a spatial accessibility model that incorporates the characteristics of medical travel. We aim to provide a theoretical foundation for “people-centered” medical facility planning. The results indicate that: (1) Travel impedance affects both the travel limit threshold and modal share, thereby influencing preferences for medical travel behavior. Specifically, walking and cycling have lower modal shares due to their lower tolerance for travel impedance, whereas driving and public transportation demonstrate higher modal shares under high travel impedance conditions. (2) The variability in medical travel times results in temporal differences in spatial accessibility. Despite minimal fluctuations in travel times across different dates, a distinct tidal pattern emerges when examining various time intervals. (3) By introducing travel shares and selecting optimal travel limit thresholds and impedance coefficients, the spatial accessibility that reflects medical travel features can more accurately prevent localized overestimation or underestimation. Overall, we developed a research methodology that integrates medical travel features with spatial accessibility. This method provides insights into the spatiotemporal constraints experienced by residents and accesses the effectiveness of medical resource allocation strategies. It offers empirical evidence for optimizing the allocation of medical facilities in developing countries globally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103308"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143269605","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103319
Yunzheng Zhang , Fubin Luo , Yizheng Dai , Chenyang Zhang
Amid mass migration and socio-spatial segregation, social inclusion has been emphasized in urban policy agendas globally. While previous research has explored the inclusion of migrants or different educational groups, few studies have combined education, the important factor influencing housing access, with migration, to explore multi-dimensional inclusion. Drawing on the sixth (Year 2010) and seventh (Year 2020) population censuses and multi-source housing data at the subdistrict level in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, this study investigates migrants' spatial inclusion patterns considering their educational backgrounds and examines the spatially varying relations between inclusion and housing. The findings reveal that from 2010 to 2020, inclusive areas for both less-educated and educated migrants in the two cities experienced an outward expansion. While crowded housing hindered spatial inclusion, with the strongest effects usually observed in Guangzhou's central areas but shifting from Shenzhen's central areas to urban peripheries during 2010–2020, tenure mix facilitated it, particularly in the two cities' suburban areas. Guangzhou exhibited distinct institutional powers, with right-of-use housing contributing to higher inclusion. However, Shenzhen was significantly shaped by market forces, supplemented by institutional and informal influences, with commodity housing, affordable housing, right-of-use housing, resettlement housing, and urban villages related to different dimensions of inclusion in distinct areas. This study contributes to the discourse on social inclusion by broadening its dimensions and provides valuable insights for promoting inclusive cities through housing policymaking.
{"title":"Changing spatial inclusion of migrants in Chinese cities: How housing matters","authors":"Yunzheng Zhang , Fubin Luo , Yizheng Dai , Chenyang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103319","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103319","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amid mass migration and socio-spatial segregation, social inclusion has been emphasized in urban policy agendas globally. While previous research has explored the inclusion of migrants or different educational groups, few studies have combined education, the important factor influencing housing access, with migration, to explore multi-dimensional inclusion. Drawing on the sixth (Year 2010) and seventh (Year 2020) population censuses and multi-source housing data at the subdistrict level in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, this study investigates migrants' spatial inclusion patterns considering their educational backgrounds and examines the spatially varying relations between inclusion and housing. The findings reveal that from 2010 to 2020, inclusive areas for both less-educated and educated migrants in the two cities experienced an outward expansion. While crowded housing hindered spatial inclusion, with the strongest effects usually observed in Guangzhou's central areas but shifting from Shenzhen's central areas to urban peripheries during 2010–2020, tenure mix facilitated it, particularly in the two cities' suburban areas. Guangzhou exhibited distinct institutional powers, with right-of-use housing contributing to higher inclusion. However, Shenzhen was significantly shaped by market forces, supplemented by institutional and informal influences, with commodity housing, affordable housing, right-of-use housing, resettlement housing, and urban villages related to different dimensions of inclusion in distinct areas. This study contributes to the discourse on social inclusion by broadening its dimensions and provides valuable insights for promoting inclusive cities through housing policymaking.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 103319"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143269076","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103304
Masatomo Suzuki , Hiroko Saito , Chihiro Shimizu
While the sectional ownership of condominiums leads to collective action problems, it has been unclear whether adequate condominium management practices are reflected in property values. This study fills this gap by investigating the price premium of the collective management of condominiums in the Tokyo metropolitan area, employing a novel dataset on the evaluation program for condominium-level management practices that started in 2022. We first found that properties with a higher overall management evaluation score exhibit higher transaction prices than those that have either achieved a low score or not yet been evaluated. The price premium is approximately 11% for properties satisfying 90–100% of the overall evaluation score than those that have not yet been evaluated. On the specific components of management practices, we then demonstrate that the “community-building” component, to which each resident is required to contribute more than the management company, contributes to the price premium. While newer condominiums experience price discounts due to a failure to establish systems as the foundation for future property management, older condominiums receive price premiums from achievements in property management. These results suggest that condominiums managed collectively through the contributions of each sectional owner are valued in the market for their long-term sustainability.
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