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Encounters within and beyond gates: Decoding co-presence patterns in Chinese housing estates through proximity-based social network analysis 门内与门外的相遇：通过基于接近性的社会网络分析解读中国住宅小区的共同存在模式

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103694

Yufeng Yang , Laura Vaughan

Housing developments naturally shape opportunities for people to encounter each other through their co-presence patterns, further determining their social vitality. Analysing co-presence patterns thus offers a promising evidence pathway from housing development design to its social effects. This study investigates whether China's gated and non-gated housing developments differ in their co-presence patterns, and if these differences are associated with their housing characteristics. The co-presence data were collected through walk-by observations at six paired gated and non-gated housing developments, and 120 co-presence networks were constructed using proximity-based social network analysis. Results indicated the non-gated estates had significantly higher levels of co-presence and social mixing, with smaller tendencies towards centralisation and clustering of social group types. Housing characteristics (e.g., enclosure degree, density, location, housing price) significantly correlated with co-presence attributes. However, after controlling for other socio-spatial factors, enclosure degree failed to explain the co-presence parameters significantly. These findings suggest that it is not the enclosure parameter alone that determines people's potential co-presence but the overall housing form. Simply dismantling the gates might not substantially change the way people use previously gated developments. This paper provides a fresh perspective on comprehending the social impacts of gated housing.

住房开发自然地塑造了人们通过共同存在模式相遇的机会，进一步决定了他们的社会活力。因此，分析共住模式提供了一条从住房开发设计到其社会影响的有希望的证据途径。本研究探讨了中国的封闭式和非封闭式住宅开发是否在共同存在模式上存在差异，以及这些差异是否与住房特征有关。通过在6个成对的封闭式和非封闭式住宅开发项目中进行步行观察，收集了共同存在数据，并使用基于邻近性的社会网络分析构建了120个共同存在网络。结果表明，非封闭小区的共同存在和社会混合水平显著较高，社会群体类型的集中和聚集倾向较小。住房特征（如封闭程度、密度、位置、房价）与共存在属性显著相关。然而，在控制了其他社会空间因素后，圈闭度并不能显著解释共存在参数。这些发现表明，不仅仅是围护参数决定了人们潜在的共同存在，而是整体住房形式。简单地拆除大门可能不会从根本上改变人们使用以前封闭的开发项目的方式。本文为理解封闭式住宅的社会影响提供了一个新的视角。

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Environmental justice analysis of the spatial evolution in island rural tourism destinations: A case study from Pingtan Island, China 海岛乡村旅游地空间演变的环境正义分析——以平潭岛为例

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103695

Jianying Wang , Qi Sun , Lilin Zou , Yaqun Liu

Exploring the characteristics of spatial evolution and alienation in island rural tourism destinations is a significant research topic in human geography. Based on the widely recognized “production-living-ecological” concept in the international community, this paper explores the spatial evolution process of island rural tourism destinations, conceptualizes the threefold dimensions of environmental justice in the spatial evolution of island rural tourism destinations and develops a corresponding indexes system. The results indicated that between 2006 and 2024, the production, living, and ecological spaces in Beigang underwent continuous transformation and integration. The number of single-function spaces gradually decreased, while the number of multifunctional productive spaces gradually increased. Due to the intervention of tourism development activities, various single-function spaces transformed into each other or evolved in an orderly manner into composite-function spaces. The spatial function integration was mainly characterized by the superposition of production-production spaces, the integration and expansion of living-production spaces, and the orderly evolution of ecological-production spaces. The spatial alienation in Beigang represents an ideological manifestation of unfair distribution of environmental benefits and environmental burden among different groups. It is a material manifestation of the gradual occupation and deprivation of resources, discourse, and rights essential for the survival and development needs of residents after the intervention of tourism. Therefore, the authorities have taken measures such as recognizing the status of vulnerable groups and renovating the settlement environment to mitigate environmental injustice.

探索海岛乡村旅游地的空间演化与异化特征是人文地理学的重要研究课题。本文以国际上公认的“生产-生活-生态”概念为基础，探讨了海岛乡村旅游目的地的空间演化过程，概念化了海岛乡村旅游目的地空间演化中环境正义的三个维度，并构建了相应的指标体系。结果表明：2006 - 2024年，北港的生产、生活和生态空间经历了持续的转型与整合。单一功能空间数量逐渐减少，多功能生产空间数量逐渐增加。由于旅游开发活动的介入，各种单一功能空间相互转化或有序演化为复合功能空间。空间功能整合主要表现为生产-生产空间的叠加、生活-生产空间的整合与拓展、生态-生产空间的有序演化。北港的空间异化是环境利益和环境负担在不同群体之间分配不公的意识形态表现。它是旅游介入后，居民生存和发展所需的资源、话语、权利逐渐被占领和剥夺的物质表现。因此，当局采取了承认弱势群体地位和改造住区环境等措施，以减轻环境不公。

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Enterprise migration trajectories in metropolitan areas: The role of life cycle stages and agglomeration externalities 都市圈企业迁移轨迹：生命周期阶段和集聚外部性的作用

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103693

Peiyuan Zhang , Jiaming Li , Wenzhong Zhang

The locational choices of enterprise migration and the structure of urban industrial space are significantly influenced by agglomeration externalities. Building upon an extended theoretical framework that integrates the firm life cycle, agglomeration economies, and value-chain fragmentation, this study analyzes the micro-level migration data of enterprises in Beijing from 2008 to 2016 to reveal the non-linear and multi-path nature of intra-metropolitan relocation. The results show that firms continuously adjust their locational strategies through a dynamic balance between diversification and specialization rather than following a linear trajectory. In the early stages of the lifecycle, enterprises tend to relocate to diversified agglomerations. During their growth and maturity phases, enterprises prefer relocating within diversified agglomerations, particularly to industrial advantage regions to capitalize on specialization and economies of scale. Furthermore, enterprises exhibit heterogeneity in their inter-agglomeration migrations: service industry enterprises grow towards diversified environments, while manufacturing enterprises move towards more specialized areas. In the decline phase, enterprises tend to distance themselves from industry-specific agglomerations to avoid competitive pressure and innovation inertia, with industries such as software and IT services, real estate, etc., returning to diversified agglomerations like CBD and Haidian Park for innovation activities. These findings refine and extend Duranton and Puga's (2001) “nursery cities” hypothesis by revealing that firm migration is a continuous process of adaptive rebalancing between diversification and specialization. The study contributes a generalized framework for understanding the spatial logic of firm migration in service-oriented metropolitan economies and provides policy insights for promoting industrial upgrading and sustainable urban restructuring.

企业迁移的区位选择和城市产业空间结构受到集聚外部性的显著影响。本文基于企业生命周期、集聚经济和价值链碎片化的扩展理论框架，对2008 - 2016年北京市企业迁移的微观数据进行了分析，揭示了城市内部迁移的非线性和多路径特征。结果表明，企业通过多元化与专业化之间的动态平衡不断调整其区位战略，而不是遵循线性轨迹。在生命周期的早期阶段，企业倾向于向多元化的集群迁移。在企业的成长和成熟阶段，企业倾向于在多元化的集群内搬迁，特别是向工业优势地区搬迁，以利用专业化和规模经济。企业间集聚迁移表现出异质性：服务业企业向多元化环境发展，制造业企业向专业化环境发展。在衰退期，为避免竞争压力和创新惯性，企业倾向于远离特定行业的集群，软件和IT服务、房地产等行业回归CBD、海淀园区等多元化集群开展创新活动。这些发现完善并扩展了Duranton和Puga（2001）的“托儿所城市”假说，揭示了企业迁移是一个在多样化和专业化之间进行适应性再平衡的连续过程。该研究为理解服务型都市经济中企业迁移的空间逻辑提供了一个广义框架，并为促进产业升级和可持续城市结构调整提供了政策见解。

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Response of carbon balance change and carbon imbalance risk to trade-off and synergy of urbanization-ecological construction in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103669

Haoran Gao , Jian Gong , Jiakang Liu , Teng Ye

With growing population pressures and development demands, many key ecological zones are undergoing rapid urbanization and ecological reconstruction, reshaping regional carbon balance (CB) and global source–sink patterns. However, carbon emissions (CE) and carbon sinks (CS) remain poorly understood in ecologically fragile regions. This study focuses on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), establishing an integrated CE-CS-CB assessment framework and proposing a carbon imbalance risk (CR) index to reveal CE-CS-CB dynamics and identify CR level at both grid and county scales. An Urbanization-Ecological construction Trade-off/Synergy (UETS) index was developed to quantify urban–ecological interactions, while spatial econometric models were employed to explore response of carbon system evolution to UETS. Results show a strong CS potential in the southeastern region, but the gap between CE and CS has widened, with total CB declining annually. Spatial CB results indicate notable transitions from CS to CE in Lhasa city, Xining city and western Sichuan Province, aligning with high-risk CR zones. From 2008, UETS improved due to ecological protection investment, but weakened after 2015 under accelerating urbanization. Spatial lag model (SLM) results reveal a significant negative impact of UETS on CB and a positive impact on CR, suggesting that stronger urban–ecological synergy may not necessarily lead to enhanced CS. Significant spatial spillover effects highlight the urgency of transboundary carbon governance in QTP. This study proposes the need for cross-border carbon governance, recommend adopting differentiated and multi-scale strategies to alleviate imbalances and enhance carbon security, especially in risk sensitive areas.

随着人口压力和发展需求的增加，许多重要生态区正在经历快速的城市化和生态重建，重塑了区域碳平衡和全球碳源-汇格局。然而，在生态脆弱地区，碳排放（CE）和碳汇（CS）仍然知之甚少。利用城市化-生态建设权衡/协同（UETS）指数量化城市-生态相互作用，利用空间计量模型探讨碳系统演化对UETS的响应。结果表明，东南地区具有较强的碳排放潜力，但碳排放与碳排放之间的差距逐渐扩大，碳排放总量呈逐年下降趋势。在空间上，拉萨市、西宁市和川西地区的碳排放从高碳向高碳转变显著，与碳排放高发区一致。从2008年开始，由于生态保护投资，UETS有所改善，但在2015年之后，随着城市化进程的加快，UETS有所减弱。空间滞后模型（SLM）结果显示，UETS对城市生态承载力具有显著的负向影响，而对城市生态承载力具有显著的正向影响，表明城市生态协同效应的增强不一定会导致城市生态承载力的增强。显著的空间溢出效应凸显了QTP跨境碳治理的紧迫性。本研究提出了跨境碳治理的必要性，建议采取差异化和多尺度战略来缓解失衡，增强碳安全，特别是在风险敏感地区。

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Beyond objective features: Integrating subjective perceptions to decipher urban vitality via multimodal machine learning 超越客观特征：通过多模态机器学习整合主观感知，解读城市活力

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103676

Yueyi Tan , Jusheng Song , Yunxi Bai , Yan Li

Urban vitality serves as a critical catalyst for sustainable and inclusive urban development. However, the complex nonlinear relationships between built environment characteristics and vitality patterns, particularly the combined effects of objective urban features and quantified perceptual metrics, remain insufficiently explored. This study proposes an integrated evaluation framework that combines objective variables with subjective variables, encompassing community attributes, urban function, urban form, location, accessibility, visual perceptions, and emotional perceptions. Leveraging multi-source urban data, we develop a three-stage analytical methodology: (1) Random Forest models integrated with Shapley Additive exPlanations capture nonlinear associations; (2) Partial Dependence Plots decouple interaction effects; (3) Interpretative Structural Modeling reveals hierarchical dependencies, with Bayesian Network validating probabilistic causal pathways. Key findings establish average effect dominance by urban form variables, greatest cumulative importance by urban function variables, and mechanistically significant though moderated effects through visual and emotional perception variables. The effectiveness of built environment variables often exhibits threshold and interaction effects, as revealed by the Partial Dependence Plots analysis. Interpretative Structural Modeling reveals a five-level hierarchy among urban vitality and 14 key independent variables, and Bayesian Network analysis highlights that vitality is mainly shaped by functional mixing, which is jointly driven by the diversity and spatial clustering of urban facilities and the floor area ratio. This research advances a data-driven framework for deciphering urban vitality complexity, providing actionable intelligence for designing resilient, human-centered cities. The methodology offers transferable applications for evidence-based urban planning across diverse geographical contexts.

城市活力是可持续和包容性城市发展的重要催化剂。然而，建筑环境特征与活力模式之间复杂的非线性关系，特别是客观城市特征和量化感知指标的综合效应，仍然没有得到充分的探索。本研究提出了一个客观变量与主观变量相结合的综合评价框架，包括社区属性、城市功能、城市形态、地理位置、可达性、视觉感知和情感感知。利用多源城市数据，我们开发了一种三阶段分析方法：(1)随机森林模型与Shapley加性解释相结合，捕获非线性关联；(2)部分依赖图解耦了相互作用效应；(3)解释结构模型揭示了层次依赖性，贝叶斯网络验证了概率因果路径。主要研究结果表明，城市形态变量的平均效应占主导地位，城市功能变量的累积效应最大，视觉和情感感知变量的调节效应具有机械显著性。部分相关图分析表明，建筑环境变量的有效性往往表现出阈值效应和交互效应。解释结构模型揭示了城市活力与14个关键自变量之间的五层层次关系，贝叶斯网络分析强调了城市活力主要是由功能混合形成的，而功能混合是由城市设施的多样性和空间聚类以及容积率共同驱动的。本研究提出了一个数据驱动的框架，用于解读城市活力的复杂性，为设计有弹性的、以人为本的城市提供可操作的智能。该方法为跨不同地理背景的循证城市规划提供了可转移的应用。

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Beyond self-help: The spatial logics of insurgent infrastructure in urban Ghana 超越自助：加纳城市叛乱基础设施的空间逻辑

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103675

Desmond Gagakuma , Glenda Mejía , Reina Ichii

Residents of informal settlements in the Global South actively produce their own infrastructure in response to state failure, yet the academic and policy vocabulary used to describe these efforts often lacks spatial and strategic nuance. This paper challenges monolithic terms like ‘self-help’ by developing a new typology of grassroots infrastructure provision. We argue that community-led action operates according to one of three distinct spatial logics: an overwhelmed ‘Reactive Pursuit’, a proactive ‘Strategic Hub-and-Spoke’ model, and a fragmented ‘Ad-Hoc Patchwork’. We contend these logics are not random but are the probable spatial outcomes of a settlement's underlying political economy—the logics of social reproduction versus informal production—interacting with the materiality of infrastructure. Using a mixed-methods spatial analysis in two contrasting settlements in Kumasi, Ghana, we provide empirical grounding for this framework. Our analysis reveals how Aboabo, a residential community, successfully employs a ‘Strategic Hub-and-Spoke’ model for water, while Suame Magazine, an industrial hub, exhibits an ‘Ad-Hoc Patchwork’. For sanitation, both sites are trapped in a ‘Reactive Pursuit’ against systemic failures. By mapping these dynamics, our study offers a more precise language for understanding grassroots urbanism and provides a practical, spatially-explicit method for identifying critical “service deserts.” The findings call for a shift in policy from generalised support to context-aware interventions that strategically amplify these diverse spatial logics.

全球南方非正式定居点的居民积极建造自己的基础设施，以应对国家的失败，然而，用于描述这些努力的学术和政策词汇往往缺乏空间和战略上的细微差别。本文通过开发一种新的基层基础设施提供类型，挑战了“自助”等单一术语。我们认为，社区主导的行动是根据三种不同的空间逻辑之一运作的：一种压倒性的“反应性追求”，一种主动的“战略中心辐射型”模式，以及一种碎片化的“临时拼凑”模式。我们认为这些逻辑不是随机的，而是一个定居点潜在的政治经济——社会再生产与非正式生产的逻辑——与基础设施的物质性相互作用的可能的空间结果。通过对加纳库马西两个不同聚落的混合空间分析，我们为这一框架提供了经验基础。我们的分析揭示了Aboabo，一个住宅社区，如何成功地采用了“战略中心和辐射型”的水模式，而Suame杂志，一个工业中心，展示了一个“特设拼凑”。在卫生方面，两个站点都被困在“反应性追求”中，以防止系统故障。通过绘制这些动态，我们的研究为理解基层城市化提供了更精确的语言，并为识别关键的“服务沙漠”提供了一种实用的、空间明确的方法。研究结果呼吁将政策从一般化的支持转向情境感知干预，从战略上扩大这些不同的空间逻辑。

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Unveiling rural transformation mechanisms: Quantitative evidence from 460 villages in China 揭示农村转型机制：来自中国460个村庄的定量证据

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103678

Qianxi Zhang , Zhi Cao

Achieving the global goal of curbing rural decline and promoting revitalization requires a clear understanding of rural transformation mechanisms for targeted regulation. However, rural transformation mechanisms at the village scale remain insufficiently understood owing to the scarcity of long-term data. This study integrates rural regional system, Post-Keynesian development, policy process, and human capital theories into an analytical framework, which is empirically tested using SEM and VAR models on multi-source spatiotemporal data (2000–2020) from 460 villages in Lingbao City, China. The findings reveal that rural transformation at the village scale results from the combined influence of policy, technology, and investment (fundamental driving forces), which in turn induce changes in rural economic, social, and cultural dimensions (direct driving forces), ultimately leading to fundamental shifts in the structure of population, land, and industries. However, transformation does not guarantee revitalization; decline risks persist due to divergent driver effects. Specifically, excessive investment in the primary industry hinders industrial upgrading, equitable labor returns, and the development of cultural facilities. Moreover, the cultural "prosperity" spurred by the construction of modern recreational venues may erode distinctive rural landscapes, contradicting the goal of comprehensive rural revitalization. The study recommends strengthening policy implementation supervision in the initial stage to ensure timely and accurate execution; increasing technical training and educational investment in the mid-term to enhance the overall skill level of the rural labor force; and focusing on supporting high value-added industries in the later stage to drive the transformation toward rural revitalization.

实现遏制乡村衰落、促进乡村振兴的全球目标，需要明确乡村转型机制，进行针对性调控。然而，由于缺乏长期数据，对村尺度的农村转型机制的了解仍然不够充分。本研究将农村区域制度、后凯恩斯主义发展、政策过程和人力资本理论整合到一个分析框架中，并利用SEM和VAR模型对灵宝市460个村庄的2000-2020年多源时空数据进行实证检验。研究发现，村级尺度的乡村转型是政策、技术和投资（根本驱动力）共同作用的结果，而政策、技术和投资又会引发农村经济、社会和文化维度的变化（直接驱动力），最终导致人口、土地和产业结构的根本转变。然而，转型并不能保证振兴；由于驱动因素不同，衰退风险依然存在。具体来说，第一产业的过度投资阻碍了产业升级、劳动力公平回报和文化设施的发展。此外，现代娱乐场所建设引发的文化“繁荣”可能会侵蚀乡村特色景观，与乡村全面振兴的目标相矛盾。研究建议加强政策实施初期监督，确保政策执行及时准确；中期加大技术培训和教育投入，提高农村劳动力的整体技能水平；并在后期重点扶持高附加值产业，带动乡村振兴转型。

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Diverging trajectories of built-up land dynamics for country groups by income until 2100 2100年以前按收入划分的国家组已建成土地动态的不同轨迹

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103677

Hang Yang , Lu Niu , Jasper van Vliet

The area of built-up land per capita (BPC) is a key indicator of land use efficiency, varying by an order of magnitude between countries. While previous studies have examined the effects of GDP and population, the influence of other socioeconomic factors on BPC has remained unclear, as well as potential differences across groups of countries by income. Using a fixed effects regression model, we analyze national-level BPC from 1985 to 2020 and identify significant relationships with GDP per capita, population density, human capital, household size, income distribution, and governance. Future projections under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios (SSPs) suggest that global BPC will increase between 1.2 times (SSP4) and 2.7 times (SSP5) until 2100. Combined with population dynamics, this rise will result in a substantial increase in total built-up land demand. The projected variations between scenarios in BPC are more pronounced in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. The disparities in built-up land across countries narrow under SSP1 and SSP5 but remain highly uneven in other scenarios. These findings underscore the impact of socioeconomic factors in built-up land projections and highlight trade-offs between human well-being, equity, and urban land consumption.

人均建设用地面积（BPC）是土地利用效率的一个关键指标，在各国之间存在数量级差异。虽然以前的研究考察了GDP和人口的影响，但其他社会经济因素对BPC的影响以及不同国家群体之间收入的潜在差异仍不清楚。本文采用固定效应回归模型，分析了1985 - 2020年国家层面的收入与人均GDP、人口密度、人力资本、家庭规模、收入分配和治理之间的显著关系。不同共享社会经济路径情景下的未来预测表明，到2100年，全球BPC将增加1.2倍（SSP4）至2.7倍（SSP5）。再加上人口的动态，这种增长将导致总建筑用地需求大幅增加。与高收入国家相比，低收入和中等收入国家的基本收入和收入估算情景之间的差异更为明显。在SSP1和SSP5情景下，各国建设用地差异缩小，但在其他情景下仍高度不平衡。这些发现强调了社会经济因素对建设用地预测的影响，并强调了人类福祉、公平和城市土地消费之间的权衡。

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Optimizing rural settlements in China through rural system resilience and socio-spatial kinships: A dual-scale approach at the administrative and natural village levels 通过农村系统弹性和社会空间亲缘关系优化中国农村聚落：行政和自然村层面的双尺度方法

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103670

Yiwei Geng , Xiaoshun Li , Jinxin Zhang , Zhehan Shao , Weiqiang Chen , Jiangquan Chen , Jumei Cheng

Rural settlements are reflections of rural production relations and social connections. It is crucial to integrate regional development goals with rural social ties (blood and geographical kinship) to optimize rural settlement patterns and achieve rural revitalization. In this context, this study systematically analyzed rural system resilience (RSR) and rural socio-spatial kinships (SSK). It proposed a rural settlement reconstruction scheme that uses RSR to determine development directions at administrative village level and SSK to guide reconstruction at natural village level. The results demonstrated the following findings. RSR exhibited a spatially diffusive effect driven by central nodes, with high value areas typically concentrated around township government centers. SSK spatial distribution correlated with villages identified by residents as high vitality key settlements. The restructuring scheme categorizes administrative villages into four types: adaptation transformation type, FA enhancement type, ES enhancement type, and general existence type. Natural villages are classified as central village, general village, and relocation merge village. Furthermore, this study discussed that SSK fosters endogenous rural dynamics through a “social kinship foundation–spatial kinship expansion” evolutionary pathway, with corresponding differentiated restructuring strategies proposed. This study has promoted our understanding of RSR and SSK in the reconstruction of rural settlements, and can provide planning guidance and practical insights for rural revitalization.

农村聚落是农村生产关系和社会联系的反映。优化乡村聚落格局，实现乡村振兴，关键是要将区域发展目标与乡村社会关系（血缘关系、地域亲缘关系）结合起来。在此背景下，本研究系统分析了农村系统弹性（RSR）和农村社会空间亲缘关系（SSK）。提出了行政村一级以RSR确定发展方向，自然村一级以SSK指导改造的乡村聚落改造方案。结果显示了以下发现。RSR表现出中心节点驱动的空间扩散效应，高值区主要集中在乡镇政府中心附近。SSK空间分布与被居民认定为高活力重点聚落的村落相关。重组方案将行政村分为适应转型型、FA增强型、ES增强型和一般存在型四种类型。自然村分为中心村、一般村和搬迁合并村。此外，本研究还探讨了乡村文化通过“社会亲属基础-空间亲属扩张”的进化路径促进乡村内生动力，并提出了相应的差异化重构策略。本研究促进了我们对乡村聚落重建中的RSR和SSK的认识，可以为乡村振兴提供规划指导和实践见解。

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How does digital transformation promote residents' consumption upgrading? - Evidence from China's supply and demand restructuring 数字化转型如何促进居民消费升级？——中国供需结构调整的证据

IF 7 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103679

Fengyu Qi , Panpan Zhang , Maomao Zhang , Dong Guo

Digital transformation (DIGT) can not only overcome multiple communication barriers in delivering goods and services, but also foster the emergence of new consumption patterns and better cater to residents' diverse preferences, thereby promoting efficient supply–demand matching. By integrating enterprise-level panel data from Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed enterprises with regional data across 30 Chinese provinces (municipalities) from 2013 to 2022, we investigate the impact and underlying mechanisms through which DIGT drives residents’ consumption upgrading (CONUPG). We find that DIGT can promote CONUPG, with a progressively increasing trend that shifts from western to eastern regions relative to the Hu-Huanyong Line. Heterogeneity analysis finds that the DIGT of large-scale and non-SOE enterprises promotes CONUPG, and the effect of DIGT on CONUPG is more pronounced in the eastern region. Mechanism analysis demonstrates that on the demand side, DIGT facilitates CONUPG by enhancing payment convenience and alleviating liquidity constraints. On the supply side, total factor productivity and commodity circulation efficiency serve as key transmission channels. Furthermore, the effect of DIGT on CONUPG via wholesale efficiency improvement is more substantial than that through retail efficiency. Besides, product quality significantly amplifies the positive impact of DIGT on CONUPG. Further analysis reveals that DIGT, influenced by digital transformation speed, promotes CONUPG only when it reaches a moderate level. Additionally, DIGT has a positive spatial spillover effect on CONUPG. These findings provide a solid theoretical foundation for advancing supply–demand structure adjustments to facilitate CONUPG.

数字化转型不仅可以克服商品和服务交付的多重沟通障碍，还可以促进新的消费模式的出现，更好地迎合居民多样化的偏好，从而促进高效的供需匹配。通过整合2013 - 2022年沪深两市a股上市企业的企业层面面板数据和中国30个省（市）的区域数据，研究了消费升级对居民消费升级的影响及其机制。研究发现，相对于沪环线，DIGT对CONUPG有促进作用，且有由西向东逐渐增强的趋势。异质性分析发现，大型企业和非国有企业的数字化转型促进了企业创新发展，且数字化转型对企业创新发展的影响在东部地区更为明显。机制分析表明，在需求侧，DIGT通过提高支付便利性和缓解流动性约束来促进CONUPG。在供给侧，全要素生产率和商品流通效率是关键的传导渠道。此外，DIGT通过批发效率提高对CONUPG的影响比通过零售效率提高对CONUPG的影响更大。此外，产品质量显著放大了DIGT对CONUPG的正向影响。进一步分析发现，受数字化转型速度的影响，DIGT只有在达到中等水平时才会促进CONUPG。此外，科技创新对科技创新具有正向的空间溢出效应。这些研究结果为推进供需结构调整以促进CONUPG提供了坚实的理论基础。

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