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{"title":"Group identification and political trust: A study on the influence and action mechanism of village leadership on farmers’ participation in public affairs","authors":"Guanqing Xu,&nbsp;Yaqiu Su,&nbsp;Yuchun Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103645","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103645","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Farmers are the backbone of rural societies, increasing their participation in public affairs is crucial for effective rural governance. Leadership is key to the success of community collective actions, with village leaders acting as essential agents in mobilizing residents. Using field survey data from 2023, this study empirically examines how village leadership influences farmers' participation in public affairs and the mechanisms behind it. The results show that: (1) Enhancing village leadership has a positive effect on motivating farmers to participate in village public affairs; (2) Mechanism analysis indicates that village leadership can promote farmers' participation in public affairs by strengthening their group identification and political trust; (3) The positive influence of village leadership is more pronounced in villages with collective industries and incentive systems but is weakened in contexts where strong clan networks or high levels of bureaucratic “administrativization” exist. This study proposes an improved analytical framework for analyzing how village leadership affects farmers’ participation in public affairs, considering community group identity and trust in village leaders as underlying mechanisms. It also enriches the empirical literature on village leadership within the field of rural governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103645"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419348","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}

{"title":"Uncommon characteristics of coastal landscape pattern stability in Guangdong Province and its quantitative causation with regional economic development","authors":"Kanglin Chen ,&nbsp;Yushi Li ,&nbsp;Jianzhou Gong","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103647","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103647","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid industrialization and urbanization have significantly affected the coastal landscape pattern stability (CLPS) serving as a notable feature of global change. This study quantitatively analyzed the transfer paths and underlying characteristics of CLPS across different coastal areas in Guangdong Province from 1985 to 2020 through the gravity transfer model, standard deviational ellipse, hotspot analysis and the space-time cube model. Additionally, the nonlinearity and causation between CLPS and regional economic development were quantitatively explored using a nonlinear regression model, the spatial inconsistency index, and the geographical convergent cross-mapping (GCCM) model. The main findings are as follows. (1) The general transfer path of the CLPS predominantly shifted back and forth from southwest to northeast over time, with significant shifts observed between 2000 and 2005 and from 2010 to 2015. Notable variations in the transfer paths of the CLPS were evident across different coastal areas throughout the study period. (2) The proportion of oscillating cold spots reached 71.25 %, indicating an increasingly fragmented pattern and a declining grade of CLPS. New cold spots primarily emerged in the southeastern part of the Western Coastal Zone (WCZ) and Eastern Coastal Zone (ECZ). (3) Nonlinear regression analyses revealed an inverted “U-shaped” relationship between CLPS and annual GDP at the county level, and the average annual GDP thresholds for the ECZ, Middle coastal zone (MCZ), and WCZ were 300, 600, and 30 million yuan/year, respectively. A significant lack of coordination in the spatial distribution between CLPS and regional economic development, characterized by poor consistency in their geographical distributions (Type I of the <em>SI</em> index accounting for 63.50 %–69.42 % in the MCZ). (4) Regional economic development was identified as the driving factor behind the changes in CLPS (with an average causal influence coefficient <span><math><mrow><mi>ρ</mi></mrow></math></span> ≈ 0.3), while CLPS exhibited only a weak reciprocal effect on regional economic development (with an average <span><math><mrow><mi>ρ</mi></mrow></math></span> ≈ 0.09). Additionally, the relationship between CLPS and county-level per capita GDP generally exhibited the characteristics of a distinct stage-dependent Kuznets Curve. These findings on the dynamics and internal relationships of CLPS are valuable for future integrated coastal management and high-quality development during extensive industrialization and urbanization along the coast of Guangdong Province and similar coastal regions worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103647"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419346","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}

{"title":"Dispossessing the vulnerable or building resilience? Assessing the long-term impacts of rural land expropriation on poverty alleviation sustainability in China","authors":"Hui Du ,&nbsp;Yan Cai ,&nbsp;Qingyong Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China has made remarkable achievements in alleviating poverty over the past decades. However, the sustainability of these gains remains uncertain, especially for rural households affected by land expropriation. Existing studies have predominantly focused on the short-term impacts of land expropriation on household income, leaving a critical gap in our understanding of the long-term repercussions. Using the 2018 China Rural Residents Survey which covered 295 villages and 9596 households in 31 provinces, this study investigates the poverty reduction effects of rural land expropriation in China from the perspective of vulnerability, elucidating the mechanisms through which land expropriation impacts the vulnerability of rural households to poverty. Empirical results show a significantly negative impact of land expropriation on poverty vulnerability. This indicates that land expropriation does not necessarily plunge affected households into poverty; on the contrary, it helps reduce their vulnerability to poverty. This result holds across multiple robustness checks and after addressing potential endogeneity concerns. Land expropriation influences poverty vulnerability primarily by affecting investment in human capital and participation in non-agricultural employment. The effects vary by age and regional conditions. It has a more pronounced impact on older populations and a stronger poverty-reducing effect in eastern provinces. These findings highlight the importance of improving compensation and designing targeted support policies—particularly in education and employment—to safeguard the well-being of landless farmers and ensure the sustainability of poverty alleviation efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103633"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419347","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}

{"title":"Exploring the socioeconomic composition of transit-adjacent gentrification","authors":"Tzu-Ling Chen,&nbsp;Li-Shan Su","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103627","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103627","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study delves into the phenomenon of transit-induced gentrification, examining its manifestation around Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations. Transit-induced gentrification, characterized by rising housing prices due to improved accessibility, is explored through the lens of various stages identified around MRT stations. Employing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to scrutinize socioeconomic features, the study unveils distinctive patterns across gentrification stages. The research underscores a prevalent late-stage gentrification trend in downtown transit catchment areas, while outward regions exhibit early and middle-stage dynamics. PCA outcomes spotlight the “vulnerable population” as a crucial factor in the early stage, signaling potential displacement concerns. In contrast, both the middle and late stages are defined by the pervasive influence of “significant gentrification.” This study provides nuanced insights into the evolving landscape influenced by transit infrastructure, emphasizing the importance of recognizing gentrification stages for effective urban planning. As Taipei's MRT continues to shape the city's spatial structure, understanding these dynamics becomes paramount for sustainable and inclusive development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103627"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419349","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}

{"title":"‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested logics of formalization of street trading in Harare and Kumasi","authors":"Elmond Bandauko ,&nbsp;Lewis Abedi Asante","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the contested logics of spatial formalization of street trading in Harare (Zimbabwe) and Kumasi (Ghana), two cities shaped by the complex interplay of rising urban informality, colonial legacies, and modernist urban aspirations. Both cities have witnessed increasing tensions between state-driven urban planning initiatives and the everyday spatial practices of informal street traders, who rely on public spaces for their livelihoods. We argue that the spatial rationalities of urban officials in both cities fundamentally clash with the spatial practices and survival strategies of street traders. Urban authorities view spatial formalization as a governing technology aimed at exerting control over urban space, often justifying it through discourses of order, modernity, and economic development. This logic aligns with broader efforts to sanitize and regulate public spaces, reinforcing exclusionary urban policies that seek to marginalize informal trade in favor of structured, state-sanctioned economic activities. However, from the perspective of street traders, these formalization efforts are experienced as acts of displacement, economic dispossession, and spatial exclusion. Traders contest these interventions by developing their own adaptive strategies, including informal negotiations with authorities, strategic mobility, and collective resistance. However, bold resistance to spatial formalization is more prominent in Kumasi compared to Harare due to different political environment. Our study contributes to scholarly discourse on the power dynamics, urban governance tensions, and the everyday struggles of informal workers in the face of state-imposed spatial formalization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103632"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145365661","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}

{"title":"How can green mountains and clear waters transform into mountains of gold and silver? Exploring the effects of Yangtze River protection policy on land market in China","authors":"Zhonghua Huang ,&nbsp;Xuejun Du ,&nbsp;Sheng Wang ,&nbsp;Junhua Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103622","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103622","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We estimate the Yangtze River protection policy’ effect on land values and its economic benefits, based on the quasi-experimental and spatial difference-in-differences hedonic approaches. We found that the prices of land within 3 km distance to the Yangtze River are 13.5 % higher after the policy of Yangtze River protection. This effect is driven by river proximity land with increasing economic vitality for industrial firm entry, service business growth and recreational amenities improvement after the policy. We also found the significant benefits in land market after the policy. The policy implication is that governments should mitigate the spatial inequality of protection policy by using the land value capture taxes funding cross-subsidies, optimize the policy appraise and implementation, and capture the land prices premiums. We focus on the effect of Yangtze River protection on residential land market, while the wider effect of protection policy on different categories of property markets needs further study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103622"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145365660","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}

{"title":"Urban-rural integration in China: The role of the rural homestead transfer in different rural areas","authors":"Yongchao Zhang ,&nbsp;Hans Westlund","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103613","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103613","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Land system reform is a central component of the structural-economic transformation of rural China. The activation of rural land factors is consistent with urban and rural integration, which requires a balance between factors of land, labor and capital.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>We develop a theoretical framework of urban-rural factors that incorporates three components: land, labor and capital and estimate the effects of rural homestead transfer (RHT) by comparing three cases of different practices at different rural homestead transfer cases.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>In the first case, results suggest that rural labor can only choose emigration due to non-existing local industries. In the second case, the off-site replacement was successful with the optimal allocation and reorganization of land and industries. Nevertheless, the improvement of household living standard and comprehensive rural revitalization was insufficient. In the third case, the reform has achieved local industrialization and urbanization at “low level”. The land factor and the labor force were well integrated, resulting in return migration and livelihood diversification forms.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>the activation of land factors, return migrations of the rural labor and industrialization are critical factors for rural economic development. The promotion of coordinated development of these factors can positively affect household living standards and rural revitalization. This highlights the importance of place-oriented development strategies for comprehensive rural revitalization through the reform process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103613"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145327310","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}

{"title":"A blessing or a curse Intercity networks and urban economic resilience: A U-shaped relationship and empirical evidence from Chinese enterprises","authors":"Kang Wu ,&nbsp;Jiazhuo Song","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper constructs intercity networks using network analysis, based on data from enterprise capital investment records across cities in China. We then examine the mechanisms through which intercity networks influence economic resilience, using data from 265 Chinese cities from 2008 to 2021. The results show that: (1) The intercity network has evolved into a more decentralized and complex structure over time, while the relationship between intercity networks and economic resilience varies both regionally and temporally. (2) Under the impact of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, there exists a U-shaped relationship between intercity network position and urban economic resilience. (3) The heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that the U-shaped relationship between intercity network position and urban economic resilience becomes significant under the influence of the global financial crisis. This relationship is particularly more pronounced in non-central cities and those characterized by higher industrial diversity. (4) Corporate entrepreneurship is a key mechanism through which intercity networks influence urban economic resilience during the financial crisis. The relationship between intercity networks and economic resilience varies across cities and shock types. Therefore, we recommend that cities strategically leverage network positive externalities, tailored to their unique strengths and external conditions, to enhance market dynamism and foster economic resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 103616"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145327311","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}

{"title":"Insights into women's perceived safety: Empirical findings from intercept surveys","authors":"Sunhyung Yoo ,&nbsp;Sundeep Kumar Sheshadri ,&nbsp;Anoop Kumar Shukla ,&nbsp;Nam-Sun Kim ,&nbsp;Jinwoo (Brian) Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103626","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103626","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the relative importance of various factors in influencing women's perceived safety in public spaces. Using a quantitative approach with on-site intercept surveys, we aim to capture immediate perceived safety of street users across three distinct locations in the medium-sized Indian cities of Udupi and Manipal, each characterised by unique built environment features. Through statistical analyses, the study highlights the significant role of built environment characteristics, such as surveillance, the availability of safe shelters, and the proximity and reliability of transit services, in shaping women's perceived safety. Personal characteristics are also considered, with the length of local residency identified as the most influential individual factor. Based on these findings, the study recommends that policies aimed at enhancing women's perceived safety in public spaces prioritise improvements to surveillance infrastructure, safe shelters, and transit services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 103626"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145325788","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}

{"title":"Do the motivations behind home sales matter? Evidence from China's housing resale market","authors":"Yiqi Huang ,&nbsp;Weida Kuang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103625","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103625","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding seller motivations provides critical insights into housing market volatility and heterogeneous policy responses. Grounded in behavioral economics and life cycle theory, this study investigates how residential sellers' financial priorities influence transaction outcomes in China's resale housing market, with particular attention to policy interventions' moderating effects. Utilizing a unique transaction dataset encompassing 310,332 listings across 17 major Chinese cities (June 2016–October 2020), we establish three key findings: First, sellers driven by speculative and investment motives command 9 % and 4 % price premiums, respectively, while liquidity-constrained sellers accept 3 % lower transaction prices in exchange for 4 % faster sales. Second, sales motivations reflect cultural norms and demonstrate significant heterogeneity across seller demographics, housing segments and city locations. Third, exogenous shocks - particularly COVID-19 market contractions and Housing Purchase Restriction (HPR) policies - asymmetrically moderated motivational impacts: Short-term speculative motivation diminished due to dampening demand and price expectations while liquidity discounts intensified by 23 %, and long-term investment motivation was less affected, revealing loss aversion's differential operation across financial priorities. This study synthesizes adaptive expectations, cultural imperatives, and institutional shocks into a unified framework, advancing behavioral housing research while informing targeted policy design - suggesting that differentiated transaction taxes and liquidity facilities could more effectively balance market stability and household welfare than blanket restrictions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"166 ","pages":"Article 103625"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145325790","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}