Links between the pandemic and urban green spaces, a perspective on spatial indices of landscape garden cities in China

A Ding, J Cenci, J Zhang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has inevitably changed people's lifestyles and demands for urban
green space and public open space. The National Landscape Garden Cities in China …

Improving the framework for analyzing community resilience to understand rural revitalization pathways in China

R Zhang, Y Yuan, H Li, X Hu - Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Community resilience (CR) is receiving increasing attention within rural studies, especially
as many rural communities, worldwide, appear to be gradually declining. In 2017, the …

Polycentric urbanization as enclave urbanization: A research agenda with illustrations from the Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR), China

NA Phelps, JT Miao, X Zhang - Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Interest in enclave urbanization has surfaced recently in urban and political geography
scholarship. However, little of this work seeks to distinguish either the nature of enclaves …

Exploring the association between the settlement environment and residents' positive sentiments in urban villages and formal settlements in Shenzhen

J Rui - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
The promotion of residents' positive sentiments is essential for achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals. However, there is limited evidence on the effect of the settlement …

Suburban greening and suburbanization changing surface urban heat island intensity in China

S Liu, K Shi, Y Wu, Y Cui - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
There is no clear evidence to date whether suburban greening and suburbanization affect
the surface urban heat islands intensity (SUHII). Based on the accurate identification of …

Specialty towns in China: Towards a typological policy approach

X Hu, Q Wu, W Xu, Y Li - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, a new state-led platform of regional development in China, known as specialty
towns, has been launched and rolled out nationwide. Despite the greater emphasis on place …

Entrepreneurial agents, asset modification and new path development in rural China: The study of Gengche model, Jiangsu Province

J Gao, X Hu, Y Li, R Zhuo, C Chen - Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper, through a case study of the Gengche Township in north Jiangsu (Subei), unveils
how a less-favored region breaks out of the old industry path of waste recycling and …

Spatial distribution and transformation mechanism of specialized villages in typical agricultural areas: Case study of Henan province, China

J Xiao, J Qiao, D Han, Y Ma, Q Zhu, W Wang - Habitat International, 2024 - Elsevier
The contradiction between rural socioeconomic changes and residents' demands for a
better life poses challenges for sustainable development. Industrial revitalization is a core …

Urban sprawl as policy sprawl: Distinguishing Chinese capitalism's suburban spatial fix

JT Miao, NA Phelps - Annals of the American Association of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We examine how China's urban sprawl is systemically linked to policy sprawl that results
from the contradictions inherent within policies but also their magnification by the specifics of …

Creating a makerspace in a characteristic town: The case of Dream Town in Hangzhou

W Zhao, Y Zou - Habitat International, 2021 - Elsevier
The innovation system of a makerspace needs to be studied from the scalable perspective.
Based on an analytical framework, this research examines the endogenous and regional …