In recent years, urban resettlement as a specific form of urbanisation has gained its
momentum in planning practices to accommodate newcomers of cities, in line with the …

Vernacular architecture is an important artificial habitat landscape that responds to and
evolves with specific natural and social contexts. Although abundant evidence highlights the …

Unlike residential settlements, Chinese traditional defensive settlements (CTDS) are fortress-
shaped settlements built by forefathers to resist invasion and defend their homeland. What …

Automobile dependence and physical inactivity have become common health challenges for
residents in large suburban residential areas. Limited literature has examined the …

Rural to urban resettlement is a widely used poverty alleviation strategy in China's Shaanxi
Province, with roughly 250,000 poor households being resettled between 2016 and 2020 …

With the rapid growth of rural cars ownership, the environmental pollution caused by rural
traffic has become a new problem restricting the sustainable development of social …

In the context of planetary urbanization, urbanization through resettlement in the global
south has garnered increasingly scholarly attention. In China, state-led rural-to-urban …

In this paper, we document the displacement and resettlement of over 11,000 villagers who
were removed from their homes and relocated in modern apartment blocks to make way for …

Abstract The rise of Urban Heat Island (UHI) is harming people across megacities in the
world. In Jakarta, the informal settlements are most affected due to the lack of adequate …

Before the economic reforms, the Chinese state relied on mutually exclusive hierarchies
within and between rural and urban governance at the subnational level to structure …