While urbanization promotes both economic development and job opportunities, it also
exerts enormous pressures on the urban land resource. Increasing urban land use efficiency …

This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions
in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks …

In China, local governments often build “new towns” far from the city center but close to new
high-speed rail (HSR) stations. While some HSR new towns experience economic growth …

The depopulation of rural areas in both developed and developing countries has become a
complex problem with important implications for issues of equality and sustainability. We …

Enhancing green innovation levels is an important objective of the pilot low-carbon city
policy (PLCC) in China, but the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the PLCC policy's …

The Chinese government has established carbon emissions trading schemes (CETS) to
cope with climate change and reduce carbon emissions. This paper uses the multi-period …

Technological progress is considered an effective means to reduce carbon emissions, and
an innovative city pilot scheme may contribute to this target. However, the impact of …

With the energy crisis, environmental pollution and recession becoming increasingly
serious, regional sustainable development has become an important global research issue …

This paper examines how transport access affects the land values in peripheral regions, by
exploiting the recent expansion of China's high-speed rail (HSR) network. Based on a nation …

In this paper we set out the relationships between the behavioural, technological and spatial
changes in systems that allow for heterogeneous responses to workingfromhome by …