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Housing, Built Environments, and Neighborhoods in Urban and Rural Human Settlements

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 8719

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ayoung Woo

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Graduate School of Urban Studies, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea
Interests: housing and community development; subsidized housing; equity issues in planning; urban spatial structure and the built environment; active transit and public health; urban regeneration and sustainability; quantitative research methods; geographic information systems (GIS); big data and machine/deep learning

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) is devoting a Special Issue dedicated to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in the fields of housing, built environments, and neighborhoods in urban and rural human settlements. This Special Issue aims to provide theoretical and empirical insights into the problems of housing and neighborhoods, built environments, and urban and community developments. This includes a wide range of planning issues, especially in terms of human settlements and neighborhoods and the interaction with various environments affecting people from socioeconomic, cultural, ethical, environmental, physical, and psychological perspectives. Particularly, we support various empirical, methodological, and technical approaches, including experimental, observational, and analytical research based on theoretical lenses.

We encourage the submission of interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on the themes of,

  • Various policies and practices in the fields of housing, communities, and built environments;
  • Affordable housing for disadvantaged populations;
  • Social equity and mixed-income developments;
  • Pedestrian-friendly and healthy built environments (e.g., walkability, green infrastructure, etc.);
  • Sustainable transportation systems and infrastructure;
  • Community revitalization and regeneration;
  • Behavior analysis and change in urban and rural communities;
  • Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies;
  • Nexus issues related to sustainable neighborhoods and communities.

Dr. Ayoung Woo
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • housing
  • built environment
  • community
  • neighborhood
  • social equity

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A Study on the Path of Narrative Renewal of Traditional Villages: A Case of Shawan Ancient Town, Guangdong, China
by Zhongwei Wang, Qianda Zhuang, Yue Ma and Pengnan Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(1), 372; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010372 - 26 Dec 2022
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Traditional villages are a valuable for their historical and cultural heritage, and have long been the focus of academic research regarding their protection and renewal methods in the face of increasing urbanization. In the village renewal model, the continuation and regeneration of cultural [...] Read more.
Traditional villages are a valuable for their historical and cultural heritage, and have long been the focus of academic research regarding their protection and renewal methods in the face of increasing urbanization. In the village renewal model, the continuation and regeneration of cultural context is the core issue. This paper aims to construct the updated narrative text of Shawan Ancient Town on the basis of narrative rules and methods, while also exploring how to generate the conservation and renewal strategies based on the narrative text. Drawing on the concepts and methods of narratology and based on the cultural background and current conditions of Shawan Ancient Town’s architectural heritage, this paper takes “narrative in terms of theme, clue, path, and material” as the basic framework to construct the narrative text in the context of traditional village renewal. Then four aspects, such as “base combing, interface integration, patch symbiosis, and debris collection”, are used to update the methods of the spatial situation of individual places. Additionally, multiple construction forms are explained, generating a historic, interesting, and experiential strategy for the protection and renewal of ancient towns. This study demonstrates logical thinking from the construction of narrative text to the generation of renewal strategies from a narrative perspective while deepening the typical research on the traditional village narrative renewal mode. It is advantageous to build a protection mechanism for historical and cultural villages, and explore a path to protect, inherit, and promote the cultural heritage of villages based on China’s current situation. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Housing, Built Environments, and Neighborhoods in Urban and Rural Human Settlements)
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Examining the Planning Policies of Urban Villages Guided by China’s New-Type Urbanization: A Case Study of Hangzhou City
by Yue Wu, Yi Zhang, Zexu Han, Siyuan Zhang and Xiangyi Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16596; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416596 - 10 Dec 2022
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Planning policies have greatly influenced the development of urban villages, an informal phenomenon in which rural settlements are encircled by urban environments during China’s rapid urbanization process. “The National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020)” of China initiated in 2014 provides a new perspective on [...] Read more.
Planning policies have greatly influenced the development of urban villages, an informal phenomenon in which rural settlements are encircled by urban environments during China’s rapid urbanization process. “The National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020)” of China initiated in 2014 provides a new perspective on planning policy research on China’ urban villages. Hangzhou, a pioneer city that adopts new-type urbanization in China and combines the characteristics of rapid urban growth, mountainous urban terrains, and a long cultural history, serves as a typical case study to compare the planning policies responding to the informality of urban villages guided by traditional and new-type urbanization. This study employed the content analysis method to analyze the evolution of Hangzhou’s planning policies of urban villages since the reform and opening up and used one-way ANOVA to analyze the differences in rental levels among the urban villages developed under the planning policies of different urbanization stages, aiming to compare the influences of planning policies guided by traditional and new-type urbanization on urban village development. The results indicate that the policies allowing some degree of informality in the new-type urbanization stage achieve a higher rental level for urban villages than the policies of the traditional urbanization stages that restrict and prevent informality. The findings of this research suggest that informality may provide advantages that formality cannot replace and provides important policy implications for rapidly urbanizing countries. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Housing, Built Environments, and Neighborhoods in Urban and Rural Human Settlements)
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Urban Regeneration Involving Communication between University Students and Residents: A Case Study on the Student Village Design Project
by Joo Young Kim and Jung Hoon Kim
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 15834; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315834 - 28 Nov 2022
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This study analyzed the effect of the application method of community planning in the case of the Student Village Design Project. Urban regeneration is a method that develops a city with the direct involvement of residents. However, in Korea, urban renewal projects are [...] Read more.
This study analyzed the effect of the application method of community planning in the case of the Student Village Design Project. Urban regeneration is a method that develops a city with the direct involvement of residents. However, in Korea, urban renewal projects are focused on external expansion, thereby generating conflicts among residents and prolonging these projects. In particular, university towns are experiencing various types of conflicts compared with other urban regeneration projects because the lives of residents and university students are overlapped. Therefore, the research method is conducted as follows to analyze the communication effect in accordance with the purpose of the study. First, we reviewed community planning methods as led by university students. Second, we applied community planning to the project. Third, the results and effects of resident communication were analyzed after applying community planning. Fourth, in the student-led urban regeneration, a community planning method that has results and effects in resident communication was derived. We found that community planning is a significant means of communication between university students and residents. The concrete finding was derived from necessary and optional methods that have high communication effects with residents among the community planning methods. Full article
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Housing Security and Settlement Intentions of Migrants in Urban China
by Zhen Wang, Mingzhi Hu, Yu Zhang and Zhuo Chen
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(16), 9780; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169780 - 09 Aug 2022
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A huge gap remains in the urbanization rate between China and developed countries, although China has experienced a rapid growth in urbanization rate over the last decade. Critical to the future growth of urbanization is how to increase the settlement intentions of migrants. [...] Read more.
A huge gap remains in the urbanization rate between China and developed countries, although China has experienced a rapid growth in urbanization rate over the last decade. Critical to the future growth of urbanization is how to increase the settlement intentions of migrants. This study uses land supply for security housing as an exogeneous shock to the supply of security housing in the near future to explore how housing security is associated with intentions to settle down in destination cities of the migrant population. We found that increased land supply for security housing promotes the settlement intentions of migrants. Moreover, housing security is positively associated with permanent settlement intentions, while its relation to temporary settlement intentions is not significant. Lastly, the effect of housing security is larger for households with more housing expenditure. Our results have important theoretical and practical significance for the research on urban development and social welfare. Full article
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