Showing papers in "Habitat International in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the objectives of the new urbanization policy, including a partial relaxation of the strict urban residency (hukou) rules, the move toward people-oriented urbanization and the expected changes that will occur in rural areas, particularly with respect to rural land.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors presented an empirical study identifying the critical factors impeding the adoption of sustainable construction from the owners' point of view, including economic feasibility, awareness, support from project stakeholders, legislation and regulation, operability of SC, resource risk, and project management model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a multiscalar urban sustainability approach by linking two sustainability assessment models evaluate sustainability performances in micro- and mezzo-levels and generate multiiscalar results for the macro-level.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed systematic data from the 1996 land survey and the land use change surveys that were conducted annually in the subsequent decade and found that only less than 20% of the lost farmland was converted to construction sites.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors applied the triple transition framework of globalization, marketization, and decentralization to study how economic transition influences urban land expansion in China using official land use conveyance data from 2005 to 2008.

TL;DR: In this article, an extensive literature review integrates the existing concepts of UCC, reviews current research status, compares the pros and cons of related research methods, summarize knowledge gaps, and makes suggestions for planners and urban managers to ameliorate UCC.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the factors influencing the intentions in separating waste of residential households in Vietnam's capital city, Hanoi, and demonstrate that trust, personal moral norms, perceived difficulties and reciprocity are important factors explaining the residents' behavioral intentions in waste separation.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-way fixed effect model was constructed to examine socio-economic impacts and impacts of urban form and transportation development on CO2 emissions from transportation in China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a model for simulating land use change in urban renewal districts by combining the conversion of land use and its effects at small regional extent (CLUE-S) model and the Markov chain prediction model.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated Huaibei, a mineral resource-based city in China during the period of 1990-2011 as a case study, and analyzed the relationship between the level of urbanization and ecosystem service values, using Xie's ecosystem unit service value table.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors assessed residential satisfaction with public housing and examined its determinants, based on the Hangzhou public housing household survey, and found that neighborhood environment, public facilities and housing characteristics are the main factors that influence residential satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critical review of a recent and successful urban regeneration and development plan, the Mexico City Green Plan, and discuss a feasibility study for urban redevelopment and transition towards resilience in Mexico City, in order to illustrate the necessity and potential of urban resilience for the improvement of the life prospects of disadvantaged inhabitant groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide operational definitions of QOL and QOUL, and briefly review QOL studies conducted in selected world cities during the past decade and suggest measures covering the culture of sustainability among urban residents.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey revealed distinct perceptions about the benefits and barriers associated to post-industrial redevelopment between the general public and redevelopment experts, which is of utmost importance considering that designers tend to be primarily focused on aesthetics, leaving society's other main goals to secondary status, and that planning and landscape redevelopment activities are increasingly becoming less the result of design and more the expression of economic and sociocultural forces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argued that peri-urbanisation has been characterised by the transformation of the socioeconomic structure from predominantly rural to more urban activities, and simultaneously creating both jobs and spatial segregation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for a more robust and flexible framework to develop the "City Prosperity Index" (CPI), one which is able to connect indicators and analytical intelligence with the policy needs of urban planners and government strategists.

TL;DR: Wu et al. as discussed by the authors explored the spatial-temporal changes of urban-rural construction land use and its anthropogenic driving forces in Wuhan from 1996 to 2009.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated how urban form characteristics at neighborhood and city scales impact individual's daily travel behavior and subsequent CO2 emission from work and non-work trips, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the housing tenure and housing choices of migrant workers from the perspective of household strategies in Shenzhen, and found that income has a greater influence on housing choices than housing tenure, but the opposite result was found for social security.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined a sustainable city as the spatial entity that maximises the benefits in economic and social dimensions under relevant constraints on environmental limitations and socioeconomic distributional equity.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the impact of three urban centers on housing price in Hangzhou and found that the West Lake plays a major role in the spatial structure of housing price; the price gradient and the influence degree of the West lake is much larger than those of Wulin Square (traditional CBD) and Qianjiang New City (new CBD).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply bootstrap panel Granger causality to test the relationship between urbanization and the urban-rural income gap in China, and find that patterns of interaction between urbanisation and the Urban-Rural Income gap vary according to different regions.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the spatio-temporal patterns of rural housing land transition and detected the underlying driving forces and mechanism of RHLT in Bohai Rim during 2000-2010.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a specific path to improving urbanization quality in the urban agglomeration around Hangzhou Bay (UAHB), a region in eastern China's Zhejiang Province.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a 2010 survey of rural migrants in Jiangsu Province, China, provided an in-depth comparison of the determinants of urban settlement for younger and older generations for different types of urban destinations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that urban mega-projects in India should be interpreted as intentionally created zones of exceptions embedded in a calculated urban informality, and contrast the slum demolitions and the development of two intertwined mega-project (the Akshardham Temple complex and the Commonwealth Games Village).

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper employed a structural equation model to examine the extent to which new-generation migrants are integrated into the urban society and the factors influencing their integration, finding that both labour market outcomes and interaction with local urban residents are crucial for their social integration.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors developed a hedonic model to study the effects of a high-speed rail station on housing prices at varying geographical spatial ranges, and found that housing price increases with an decline in distance between houses and high speed rail stations within (0.475 km, 0.891 km, 11.704 km).

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between residential neighbourhood assessment, neighbourhood attachment and overall residential satisfaction of residents in the city of Tabriz, Iran is discussed, and the relevance of PREQIs, NAS and RS constructs and tools in deepening the knowledge on the QOL spoke within the UN-HABITAT CPI.