Impacts of urban shrinkage on the built environment and its environmental sustainability: An analytical review

X He, W Gao, D Guan, L Zhou - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The proliferation of case studies of shrinking cities in recent years has stimulated intense
debate on the impacts of urban shrinkage. However, assessing the impacts of urban …

End of rope or phoenix nirvana? Exploring the evolutionary paths of coal resource-based cities in China

Y Wang, W Wang, C Shen, W Li - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
Coal resource-based cities (CRBCs) face a complex transformation of the urban system due
to the adjustment of the global energy structure and the need for sustainable development …

Population shrinkage, public service levels, and heterogeneity in resource-based cities: case study of 112 cities in China

S Zhang, L Wang, X Wu - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Resource-based cities (RBCs) have become an important part of shrinking cities, and their
population shrinkage brings many challenges for RBCs. A lot of literature analyzes the …

Investigating the impact of demographic and personal variables on post-retirement migration intention of rural residents: Evidence from inner Mongolia, China

X Zhou, W Feng - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the intensification of population aging in rural areas, it becomes increasingly important
to analyze the post-retirement migration intention of rural residents and the variables …

Conceptualizing the nexus between spatiotemporal shrinkage patterns of natural cities and driving mechanisms: Insights into urban shrinkage in Northeast China

X Chen, W Lang, Y Yuan, G Yan, X Hou - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban shrinkage has become an inevitable problem for the sustainable urban development.
For a long time, the administrative perspective has been the dominant perspective in urban …

Does income inequality restrain marriage? A longitudinal study from the 35 large and medium-sized cities of China

Z Song, Z Cheng, M Li - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, the continuous decline of marriage rate in Chinese cities has attracted
significant attention. The study examined the impact of income inequality on marriage rates …

National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage

H Xu, X Song, H Gao, M Luo, A Bala, J Scheffran - Applied Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest transition and urban shrinkage have received increased attention in national
ecological conservation (NEC) and local development (LD) with the urgent to attain …

After Forced Relocation: Assessing the Impact of Urban Regeneration on Residents' Living Spaces in Wuhan, China

Q Niu, Y Xi, Z Hu, W Zhang, L Wu - Housing Policy Debate, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Tracking forced relocation due to urban regeneration can help deepen the understanding of
urban regeneration beyond the perceived limits of displacement. Existing research has not …

Who wants to go where? Regional variations in emigration intention in Nigeria

T Alabi, B Olajide - African Human Mobility Review, 2023 - scielo.org.za
There has been an increase in the number of Nigerians desperately leaving the country. In
the absence of accurate data on the rate of actual emigration, this study investigated …

Service sector agglomeration and industrial structure optimisation: evidence from China's resource‐based cities

L Nie, Y Wang, Y Wu - Asian‐Pacific Economic Literature, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper employs the system generalised method of moments approach and panel data of
Chinese resource‐based cities at the prefecture level for the period of 2003–2019 to …