Showing papers in "Habitat International in 2018"

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper concluded the good jobs as well as problems in China's urbanizing process which might provide successful experience for the underdeveloped nations and regions to promote urbanization.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated two types of land degradation risk for ecological land: type transformation risk and functional damage risk, which were combined with habitat quality and landscape connectivity to quantify the comprehensive reserve value of ecological land to identify the ecological security sources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the linkages among and mutual benefits among sustainable initiatives at different urban scales for tackling their risks and uncertainties, and propose an approach to overcome the barriers in SI implementation.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the spatial-temporal changes and regional differentiation of ecological, agricultural, and urban land space in China and discussed the impacts of land policies on these changes and identified the key regional socioeconomic driving factors with variable importance in projection (VIP) value.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the focal points of speculative urbanism through an analysis of land finance, a phenomenon of the financing arrangement for urban development, and examine the interplays between agencies, focusing on the exchange of land resources for capital.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper used the housing data of 516 communities in Hangzhou, as well as constructs the hedonic price, spatial econometric and geographically weighted models to quantitatively evaluate the capitalization effect of educational facilities and explore whether space plays an important role in the capitalisation of education.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forward an analytical framework for the economic and environmental effects of regional land use transitions and took Shandong province as a case study to conduct an empirical analysis with the latest econometric analysis methods and explore the effective mechanism among land use transition, economic development, environmental emissions, and land use management according to current developing stages.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted a survey of poverty alleviation resettlement (PAR) resettlers in China and reported inconclusive and conflicting findings: on the one hand, the respondents strongly expressed that they willingly participated in resettlement and the consent was mostly free and driven by a desire to improve the quality of life.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial pattern of morphological slums within a city and its link to the inter-urban ones was explored. But, the authors focused on intra-urban patterns and found that typical interurban patterns can be transferred to intraurban patterns, and that the size of slums is independent from city and global region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the global evidence to examine whether green buildings are more satisfactory than non-green buildings and found that the evidence on green buildings outperforming nongreen counterparts is inconclusive.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors used the structural dynamics to describe the changes in livelihood resilience of Sichuan rural residents from quadruple dimensions: livelihood quality, livelihood promotion, livelihood provision and disaster stress.

TL;DR: The integrated multicriteria decision-making method was employed to optimise the assessment process of historic building reuse and revealed that the most suitable reuse alternative of the Sun Yat-Sen Historical Museum was for community activities, followed in sequential order by commercial, education and exhibition, and composite use.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper employed integrated approaches to analyze the spatial-temporal disparities between demand and supply of park green spaces (PGS) of two traffic modes (walking and driving) in grid scale of urban center in Wuhan from 2000 to 2014.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relationship between housing prices and locational factors at the community level and found that the externalities of parks, lakes, department stores, banks, secondary schools and rail transit have significant but spatially non-stationary effects on housing prices.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper established a conceptual framework for identifying and evaluating land use mutilfunctionality in spatial grid context from the perspective of structure, function, and well-being, embedded in the spatial reference framework, a set of spatialization models were applied to quantify and visualize land use functions (LUFs), e.g. production, living, and ecology functions, by using multi-source and multi-scale data (land use data, remote sensing data, meteorological data, and statistical data, etc.) in Zhangjiakou City.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper quantified urban sprawl by two metrics to reflect the characteristics of sprawl in quantity and morphology, respectively, and observed that small and medium-sized cities, in general, sprawled the most followed by large cities, while mega cities sprawl the least.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the application of big data in sustainable and livable transportation strategies in Taipei City, Taiwan, and developed decision-making strategies for responding to the environmental dynamics of Taipei city's transportation infrastructure system by using the analytic network process combined with a data-mining technique.

TL;DR: Using the GIS space hot spot detection and kernel density estimation model, the spatial differentiation characteristics of rural residential land in Shandong Province are revealed from the perspective of multi-scale feature units of "point-line-surface".

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated farmers' risk perception of CRS development using four cases in the hardest earthquake-hit area, and in-depth discussions were conducted to explore the reasons behind such perceptions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected and analyzed 185 best practices in sustainable urbanization from around the world and identified the main areas of action, the key methods adopted and the outcomes achieved by these practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored evidence of urban sprawl and its relationship with levels of economic development using novel geospatial data on urban area boundaries and development densities for all Chinese cities.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of dual land ownerships and land lease terms on rural town industrial land use efficiency were studied using two multiple linear regression models, and the results showed that collective land with incomplete property rights caused land use inefficiency of lower industrial enterprises' output per hectare of land.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed an urban expansion model based on land ecological suitability (LES), which involves using the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) method to evaluate and visualize the land ecology suitability of the study area.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of farmland preservation efforts in the plans on the changes in urban land-use intensity, by focusing on two policy tools, prime farmland preservation and farmland conversion quotas, was investigated.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed spatial-temporal distribution of waterlogging and assessed water logging risk of each district in the city, and analyzed the government management efficiency through comparison of urban government management plan and water logging information from internet.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the spatial-temporal patterns of migration at provincial level during 2000-2010, and found that the migration pattern demonstrated increasingly strengthened polarity in migration pool and source regions/provinces and migration flows.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated farmers' satisfaction with the Link Policy and explored the underlying factors of their satisfaction with its implementation, finding that farmers' willingness to participate, knowledge of the Link policy, living conditions before resettlement, and the compensation for resettlement had significant influence on satisfaction with policy implementation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how urban expansion and changing urban spatial structure affects the level and scale of socioeconomic segregation of cities in Mexico and found that as cities expand, inhabitants experience greater levels of socioeconomic segregation, especially at a larger geographic scale.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors developed a rural settlement reconstruction method based on a questionnaire survey in Liji Township, Hubei Province, Central China. And they identified four types of daily life circles, including primary, general, extended, and cross-region daily life circle, based on the evaluation of frequency, self-rated importance, and activity proportion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how government intervention in the urban land supply affects China's housing market over time using panel data from 35 cities between 2004 and 2014, and found that the restriction of urban land quota control has varied effects upon real estate destocking over different time periods and under the influence of the development status of different cities.