Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103843
Ding Ma , Canpeng Li , Ming Liu , Lili Deng , Honglin Zhu , Mats Sandberg , Zhengdong Huang
This study aims to understand a nuanced intra-urban PM2.5 distribution pattern and provide insights into the environmental consequences of urban development. Inspired by the impact that the urban-rural divide has had on nation-wide urbanization progress, the study approaches urban areas as a series of hotspots and non-hotspots, applying Zipf's law-ruled spatial clustering method on nighttime light data. We found that PM2.5 concentrations and exposures in China decreased notably from 2005 to 2020, affirming the efficacy of that country's air pollution control policies. However, the difference in exposure between hotspot and non-hotspot regions indicates that outside-hotspot PM2.5 exposures across most cities consistently exceeded within-hotspot ones, despite the observed declining trend in exposure disparity during the 15-year time span. The diminishment in exposure disparity primarily stems from the reduction in PM2.5 levels rather than targeted equity measures. All of these outcomes point to the importance of integrating air quality management with broader city planning, economic, and health policies.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103844
Haotian Wang, Zidong Yu, Xintao Liu
Urban odours play a crucial role in shaping the development and liveability of urban environments. While existing research has focused on classifying and evaluating urban odours, there is a relative dearth of studies that examine odour factors from human perception. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating the spatial distribution of urban odour perception reported by people and evaluating the correlation between these perception and various urban environment factors, including social, natural, and built factors. Using social media and multi-source spatial data, our research innovatively utilizes olfactory-related sentiment analysis to map odour perceptions, integrates a multi-dimensional environmental framework underexplored in odour research, and constructs a data-driven pipeline employing a three-step approach: firstly, keyword extraction and text sentiment analysis are utilized to map the spatial distribution of odour perception; secondly, global and local regression analysis is employed to explore the relationships between odour perception scores (OPS) and multidimensional factors of the urban environment. Thirdly, utilizing hierarchical clustering to group regions that exhibit consistency in odour perception and its influencing factors. The findings reveal distinct spatial patterns in odour perception, with significant associations to factors like population density, air pollutant concentration, and building density. Spatial clustering further identifies regions with consistent odour perception profiles, highlighting key environmental drivers that shape these patterns. These results provide a foundation for understanding the spatial distribution of odour perception and offer actionable insights for urban planning and governance. This study not only enhances the understanding of urban odours but also provides a data-driven framework for addressing perception-related urban challenges in future research.
{"title":"Data driven analysis of urban odour perception: Geospatial insights from Hong Kong","authors":"Haotian Wang, Zidong Yu, Xintao Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103844","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103844","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban odours play a crucial role in shaping the development and liveability of urban environments. While existing research has focused on classifying and evaluating urban odours, there is a relative dearth of studies that examine odour factors from human perception. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating the spatial distribution of urban odour perception reported by people and evaluating the correlation between these perception and various urban environment factors, including social, natural, and built factors. Using social media and multi-source spatial data, our research innovatively utilizes olfactory-related sentiment analysis to map odour perceptions, integrates a multi-dimensional environmental framework underexplored in odour research, and constructs a data-driven pipeline employing a three-step approach: firstly, keyword extraction and text sentiment analysis are utilized to map the spatial distribution of odour perception; secondly, global and local regression analysis is employed to explore the relationships between odour perception scores (OPS) and multidimensional factors of the urban environment. Thirdly, utilizing hierarchical clustering to group regions that exhibit consistency in odour perception and its influencing factors. The findings reveal distinct spatial patterns in odour perception, with significant associations to factors like population density, air pollutant concentration, and building density. Spatial clustering further identifies regions with consistent odour perception profiles, highlighting key environmental drivers that shape these patterns. These results provide a foundation for understanding the spatial distribution of odour perception and offer actionable insights for urban planning and governance. This study not only enhances the understanding of urban odours but also provides a data-driven framework for addressing perception-related urban challenges in future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103844"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103842
Hong Ni , Jinliu Chen , Pengcheng Li , Haoqi Wang , Xianchun Zhang
Urban vitality is crucial for sustainable growth amidst accelerating urbanization and resource disparities. Limited research has explored how regional cooperation can either foster symbiotic growth or exacerbate competitive siphoning, influencing urban vitality dynamics. This study addresses this gap by developing a machine learning-based text mining to classify regional cooperation affairs and applying the Bayesian Best-Worst Model to weigh urban vitality sub-dimensions, incorporating economic, social, and environmental factors. Using Ordinary Least Squares regression, Generalized Linear Model for lagged effects, and Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression, we analyze the spatiotemporal effects of regional cooperation on urban vitality in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) from 2012 to 2023, specifically distinguishing between pre- and post-COVID-19 dynamics. Our findings indicate: (1) Regional cooperation generally enhances urban vitality, with GBA cities showing resilience and sustained growth even during the pandemic, despite persistent spatial and temporal disparities. (2) Economic cooperation immediately increases social and environmental pressures, exhibiting a positive lagged effect. Institutional collaboration consistently bolsters social welfare and sustainability, highlighting the need for targeted governance; social cooperation also shows complex, sometimes negative, lagged effects on vitality. (3) Spatial heterogeneity reveals an evolving dynamic: a competitive siphoning effect was evident pre-pandemic, with core cities like Shenzhen showing limited gains. However, post-2021, core growth poles such as Hong Kong and Shenzhen derived significantly stronger vitality boosts from regional cooperation, suggesting a transition towards symbiotic growth. These findings underscore the importance of policies promoting equitable governance and deeper integration for balanced regional development and enhanced urban vitality.
{"title":"Symbiotic development or resource siphoning? Investigating the impacts of regional cooperation on urban vitality in the greater bay area pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Hong Ni , Jinliu Chen , Pengcheng Li , Haoqi Wang , Xianchun Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103842","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103842","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban vitality is crucial for sustainable growth amidst accelerating urbanization and resource disparities. Limited research has explored how regional cooperation can either foster symbiotic growth or exacerbate competitive siphoning, influencing urban vitality dynamics. This study addresses this gap by developing a machine learning-based text mining to classify regional cooperation affairs and applying the Bayesian Best-Worst Model to weigh urban vitality sub-dimensions, incorporating economic, social, and environmental factors. Using Ordinary Least Squares regression, Generalized Linear Model for lagged effects, and Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression, we analyze the spatiotemporal effects of regional cooperation on urban vitality in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) from 2012 to 2023, specifically distinguishing between pre- and post-COVID-19 dynamics. Our findings indicate: (1) Regional cooperation generally enhances urban vitality, with GBA cities showing resilience and sustained growth even during the pandemic, despite persistent spatial and temporal disparities. (2) Economic cooperation immediately increases social and environmental pressures, exhibiting a positive lagged effect. Institutional collaboration consistently bolsters social welfare and sustainability, highlighting the need for targeted governance; social cooperation also shows complex, sometimes negative, lagged effects on vitality. (3) Spatial heterogeneity reveals an evolving dynamic: a competitive siphoning effect was evident pre-pandemic, with core cities like Shenzhen showing limited gains. However, post-2021, core growth poles such as Hong Kong and Shenzhen derived significantly stronger vitality boosts from regional cooperation, suggesting a transition towards symbiotic growth. These findings underscore the importance of policies promoting equitable governance and deeper integration for balanced regional development and enhanced urban vitality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103842"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103845
Cille Kaiser, James Patterson
Renewable energy technology (RET) is expanding into new territories. Technological change, increasing demand, and siting constraints increasingly lead to RET development in already urbanized or industrialized landscapes. Here, the infrastructural context could make RET less visible and/or disruptive, but it could also exacerbate existing problems (e.g., environmental degradation) and create new social conflicts over the uneven impacts of energy transitions. It is therefore crucial to understand how these changing geographies affect the acceptability of RET. We examine the case of Dunkirk, France, where a controversial offshore wind project is being pursued in a complex socio-industrial context. Drawing on 43 semi-structured interviews and detailed field observations, we examine how meanings and responses over this project are shaped by the wider landscape(s) of infrastructure, institutions, and social or economic activity in which it is implicated. We find that the acceptability of a seemingly singular new wind project is shaped in important ways by people's relations to existing energy infrastructure (such as nuclear and onshore wind) and the wider industrial complex which it expands. We thereby show how RET becomes bound up in deep-seated and uneven patterns of industrial accumulation and saturation, which it can exacerbate.
{"title":"The changing geographies of renewable energy: Accumulation, saturation, and contestation in Dunkirk, France","authors":"Cille Kaiser, James Patterson","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103845","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103845","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Renewable energy technology (RET) is expanding into new territories. Technological change, increasing demand, and siting constraints increasingly lead to RET development in already urbanized or industrialized landscapes. Here, the infrastructural context could make RET less visible and/or disruptive, but it could also exacerbate existing problems (e.g., environmental degradation) and create new social conflicts over the uneven impacts of energy transitions. It is therefore crucial to understand how these changing geographies affect the acceptability of RET. We examine the case of Dunkirk, France, where a controversial offshore wind project is being pursued in a complex socio-industrial context. Drawing on 43 semi-structured interviews and detailed field observations, we examine how meanings and responses over this project are shaped by the wider landscape(s) of infrastructure, institutions, and social or economic activity in which it is implicated. We find that the acceptability of a seemingly singular new wind project is shaped in important ways by people's relations to existing energy infrastructure (such as nuclear and onshore wind) and the wider industrial complex which it expands. We thereby show how RET becomes bound up in deep-seated and uneven patterns of industrial accumulation and saturation, which it can exacerbate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103845"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145569026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103839
Marcus Power , Lorraine Howe , Joshua Kirshner , Carlos Shenga
In Mozambique, sustainable energy access is an increasing priority for a diverse range of actors seeking to improve livelihoods and stimulate economic development—particularly in rural areas where energy infrastructure remains limited. Drawing on field research conducted as part of a comparative three-year project examining the potential of community energy systems to foster inclusive, just, and clean energy transitions in Southern and East Africa, this paper develops a critical, policy-relevant and geographically grounded analysis of Mozambique's energy transitions, which are unfolding across multiple fronts. Our analysis addresses both the move away from conventional or ‘traditional’ energy sources to ‘modern’ energy services, and the shift toward renewable energy technologies. We argue that while Mozambique has taken important steps toward a cleaner energy future there remain significant constraints to progress and that it is crucial to consider the advancement of renewable energy in relation to the country's embedded resource and extractive geographies that shape the directions, possibilities, and spatial dynamics of transition. We examine the broader policy environment, focusing on the state's energy transition strategy and its implications for energy justice, spatial inequality, and economic opportunity. Particular attention is given to the role and potential of decentralized, off-grid energy systems, emphasizing the need for greater community participation in both policy design and implementation. Finally, we develop a political economy framework to analyse the influence of state institutions, international donors, and private capital in shaping Mozambique's energy transitions, and assess their impacts on energy poverty and the goal of equitable, sustainable energy access.
{"title":"Uneven development and the geographies of energy transition in Mozambique","authors":"Marcus Power , Lorraine Howe , Joshua Kirshner , Carlos Shenga","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103839","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103839","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Mozambique, sustainable energy access is an increasing priority for a diverse range of actors seeking to improve livelihoods and stimulate economic development—particularly in rural areas where energy infrastructure remains limited. Drawing on field research conducted as part of a comparative three-year project examining the potential of community energy systems to foster inclusive, just, and clean energy transitions in Southern and East Africa, this paper develops a critical, policy-relevant and geographically grounded analysis of Mozambique's energy transitions, which are unfolding across multiple fronts. Our analysis addresses both the move away from conventional or ‘traditional’ energy sources to ‘modern’ energy services, and the shift toward renewable energy technologies. We argue that while Mozambique has taken important steps toward a cleaner energy future there remain significant constraints to progress and that it is crucial to consider the advancement of renewable energy in relation to the country's embedded resource and extractive geographies that shape the directions, possibilities, and spatial dynamics of transition. We examine the broader policy environment, focusing on the state's energy transition strategy and its implications for energy justice, spatial inequality, and economic opportunity. Particular attention is given to the role and potential of decentralized, off-grid energy systems, emphasizing the need for greater community participation in both policy design and implementation. Finally, we develop a political economy framework to analyse the influence of state institutions, international donors, and private capital in shaping Mozambique's energy transitions, and assess their impacts on energy poverty and the goal of equitable, sustainable energy access.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103839"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145569027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103840
Yuanyuan Zhu , Rujing Zhao , Xiaohua Zhu , Yan Li
Sustainable dietary patterns are crucial for both health and environmental sustainability. With the rapid development of the aviation industry, flight catering has garnered increasing attention. However, current research on the resource, environmental, and health effects of flight catering requires further investigation. To address this issue, we conducted a case study involving nine major Chinese airlines to evaluate changes in dietary structure and the associated resource and environmental effects of flight catering over 10 years (2014–2023). The total food consumption in China's flight catering showed initial stabilization, a sharp increase, and a subsequent decline from 2014 to 2023. The dietary structure remained minimally changed, dominated by cereals, milk, and vegetables. During the study period, the trends of the water footprint, land requirements, and carbon emissions of China's flight catering were consistent with the trends observed in food consumption, with cereals, milk, meat, and aquatic products accounting for a higher proportion of resource and environmental effects. Compared to the Chinese Dietary Guidelines 2022, China's flight catering exhibited wasteful consumption of water, land, and carbon resources, with higher waste rates for cereals, milk, meat, and aquatic products. Accordingly, we designed three scenarios and observed that the “Green Flight” service effectively mitigates the environmental burden of flight catering. When 70 % of passengers select this service, water, land, and carbon consumption savings were observed. Results emphasized the importance of restructuring the dietary pattern of flight catering by reducing meat and aquatic product consumption to achieve sustainable consumption nationally and globally.
{"title":"“Flight catering” can have better options for resource, environmental, and health effects: The case of nine major airlines in China","authors":"Yuanyuan Zhu , Rujing Zhao , Xiaohua Zhu , Yan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103840","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103840","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable dietary patterns are crucial for both health and environmental sustainability. With the rapid development of the aviation industry, flight catering has garnered increasing attention. However, current research on the resource, environmental, and health effects of flight catering requires further investigation. To address this issue, we conducted a case study involving nine major Chinese airlines to evaluate changes in dietary structure and the associated resource and environmental effects of flight catering over 10 years (2014–2023). The total food consumption in China's flight catering showed initial stabilization, a sharp increase, and a subsequent decline from 2014 to 2023. The dietary structure remained minimally changed, dominated by cereals, milk, and vegetables. During the study period, the trends of the water footprint, land requirements, and carbon emissions of China's flight catering were consistent with the trends observed in food consumption, with cereals, milk, meat, and aquatic products accounting for a higher proportion of resource and environmental effects. Compared to the Chinese Dietary Guidelines 2022, China's flight catering exhibited wasteful consumption of water, land, and carbon resources, with higher waste rates for cereals, milk, meat, and aquatic products. Accordingly, we designed three scenarios and observed that the “Green Flight” service effectively mitigates the environmental burden of flight catering. When 70 % of passengers select this service, water, land, and carbon consumption savings were observed. Results emphasized the importance of restructuring the dietary pattern of flight catering by reducing meat and aquatic product consumption to achieve sustainable consumption nationally and globally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103840"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145569028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103836
Xuanxian Chen , Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali , Aldrin Abdullah
Despite growing recognition of the health benefits provided by urban parks, limited research has explored the role of perceived safety regarding COVID-19 (PS19) within the framework of cultural ecosystem services, particularly for young office workers with low place attachment (PA) who face pandemic-related health challenges. This paper aims to examine the relationships amongst landscape attributes, leisure visitation, PS19, and self-rated health, and the moderating effects of PA and the influence of urban parks across different parental statuses. Data were collected from 411 office workers who visited two urban parks in Baise City, China. Two structural equation models were employed to analyse the interactions amongst the variables. Findings reveal that PS19 enhances the relationship between landscape attributes and leisure visitation with self-rated health. Additionally, PA amplifies the health benefits derived from landscape attributes, including PS19. Notably, landscape attributes and PS19 display a weak negative correlation amongst participants with low PA. This study underscores the variability in urban park benefits across different settings and parental statuses, and contributes to a deeper understanding of the interplay among PA, ecosystem services, attention restoration, and ecological perception theories, whilst supporting Sustainable Development Goal 11.
{"title":"Influence of urban park landscape attributes on office workers’ self-rated health: A moderated mediation model","authors":"Xuanxian Chen , Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali , Aldrin Abdullah","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103836","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103836","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite growing recognition of the health benefits provided by urban parks, limited research has explored the role of perceived safety regarding COVID-19 (PS19) within the framework of cultural ecosystem services, particularly for young office workers with low place attachment (PA) who face pandemic-related health challenges. This paper aims to examine the relationships amongst landscape attributes, leisure visitation, PS19, and self-rated health, and the moderating effects of PA and the influence of urban parks across different parental statuses. Data were collected from 411 office workers who visited two urban parks in Baise City, China. Two structural equation models were employed to analyse the interactions amongst the variables. Findings reveal that PS19 enhances the relationship between landscape attributes and leisure visitation with self-rated health. Additionally, PA amplifies the health benefits derived from landscape attributes, including PS19. Notably, landscape attributes and PS19 display a weak negative correlation amongst participants with low PA. This study underscores the variability in urban park benefits across different settings and parental statuses, and contributes to a deeper understanding of the interplay among PA, ecosystem services, attention restoration, and ecological perception theories, whilst supporting Sustainable Development Goal 11.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103836"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145520584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The spatial agglomeration and diffusion of the Information and communication technology industry significantly shape industrial landscapes and transformation in cities of developing countries. However, micro-scale analyses of this process remain limited. This study employs kernel density estimation, nearest neighbor index, standard deviational ellipse analysis, and conditional logit regression to examine the spatial evolution of Guangzhou's esports firms and the location-choice factors of new firms from 2003 to 2023. The findings reveal that: (i) The esports industry underwent a dynamic process of “agglomeration—diffusion—reagglomeration” process, resulting in a dual-core spatial structure comprising a central business district and government-led suburban hubs; (ii) Agglomeration economies, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and locational attributes are key determinants of firm location, though the dominant factors varied across different periods. These findings challenge the traditional core-periphery model by highlighting the role of suburban digital infrastructure and government intervention in shaping digital clusters at the street level. For policymakers, this suggests that fostering esports development can be achieved by building innovation hubs and concentrating resources for targeted support, thereby enhancing spatial agglomeration effects under conducive market conditions.
{"title":"The spatial evolution of E - sports firms and the location choice of new firms: A case study of Guangzhou, China","authors":"Guoshen Huang , Han Chu , Yifei Ouyang , Dixiang Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103832","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103832","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The spatial agglomeration and diffusion of the Information and communication technology industry significantly shape industrial landscapes and transformation in cities of developing countries. However, micro-scale analyses of this process remain limited. This study employs kernel density estimation, nearest neighbor index, standard deviational ellipse analysis, and conditional logit regression to examine the spatial evolution of Guangzhou's esports firms and the location-choice factors of new firms from 2003 to 2023. The findings reveal that: (i) The esports industry underwent a dynamic process of “agglomeration—diffusion—reagglomeration” process, resulting in a dual-core spatial structure comprising a central business district and government-led suburban hubs; (ii) Agglomeration economies, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and locational attributes are key determinants of firm location, though the dominant factors varied across different periods. These findings challenge the traditional core-periphery model by highlighting the role of suburban digital infrastructure and government intervention in shaping digital clusters at the street level. For policymakers, this suggests that fostering esports development can be achieved by building innovation hubs and concentrating resources for targeted support, thereby enhancing spatial agglomeration effects under conducive market conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103832"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145466813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103826
Xiaolin Yang , Xiao Lin , Haochen Shi
Exploring seasonal park visitation among elders is crucial for creating aging-friendly park environments and enhancing both their physical and mental well-being. However, existing studies often focus solely on visitation volume, overlooking the spatial dimension provided by travel distance. Moreover, the seasonal dynamics between the built environment and park use by elders remain underexplored. This study introduces an Irreplaceability Index (I-index) that integrates visitation volume and travel distance to better capture the unique value of urban parks. Using the Guangzhou downtown area as a case study, we examine how the relationship between park visitation and built environment features varies across seasons. The results indicate that, compared to winter, elders exhibit significantly shorter travel distances and higher park visitation in summer. Built environment factors, such as building density and public service facility density, consistently affect visitation, while variables like subway station and average green patch area show seasonal variations in their influence. These findings provide practical guidance for improving park accessibility, optimizing infrastructure distribution, and planning service areas, informing more effective strategies for urban environmental management and the design of age-friendly public spaces.
{"title":"Exploring associations between the elders' seasonal park visitation and the built environment through the lens of urban location's irreplaceability","authors":"Xiaolin Yang , Xiao Lin , Haochen Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103826","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103826","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Exploring seasonal park visitation among elders is crucial for creating aging-friendly park environments and enhancing both their physical and mental well-being. However, existing studies often focus solely on visitation volume, overlooking the spatial dimension provided by travel distance. Moreover, the seasonal dynamics between the built environment and park use by elders remain underexplored. This study introduces an Irreplaceability Index (I-index) that integrates visitation volume and travel distance to better capture the unique value of urban parks. Using the Guangzhou downtown area as a case study, we examine how the relationship between park visitation and built environment features varies across seasons. The results indicate that, compared to winter, elders exhibit significantly shorter travel distances and higher park visitation in summer. Built environment factors, such as building density and public service facility density, consistently affect visitation, while variables like subway station and average green patch area show seasonal variations in their influence. These findings provide practical guidance for improving park accessibility, optimizing infrastructure distribution, and planning service areas, informing more effective strategies for urban environmental management and the design of age-friendly public spaces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103826"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145466735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-03DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103838
Qianliang Jiang , Liang Ma , Mengmeng Zhang
Improvements in various life domains can increase overall life satisfaction. However, owing to resource constraints, commuters often face trade-offs among job satisfaction, community satisfaction, and commute satisfaction. Understanding how individuals navigate these trade-offs—and whether their decisions are voluntary or constrained—can offer nuanced insights for policy intervention. Drawing on survey data from 3259 commuters in Beijing, this study identifies and profiles distinct commuter groups based on their satisfaction levels across the three domains and examines the voluntariness of their trade-off decisions. The analysis reveals four groups with distinct socioeconomic characteristics: struggling commuters (low satisfaction with all domains, 21.8 %), work-oriented commuters (high satisfaction with their commute and job, 13.6 %), place-seekers (high satisfaction with their community, 19.9 %), and well-balanced commuters (high satisfaction with all domains, 44.6 %). These groups also display differing preferences, with some placing little emphasis on specific domains. Notably, struggling commuters appear to be involuntarily constrained, particularly in terms of commuting burdens, whereas the other groups demonstrate more voluntary trade-offs. These findings highlight the importance of targeted policies to support struggling commuters, who may be most in need of intervention.
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