High-density communities have proliferated globally during rapid urbanization. They are characterized by a high population density and limited per capita public spaces, making them susceptible to infectious disease risks. The impact of infectious dis...
The utilization of Social Media Data (SMD) from location-based services offers a wealth of information to analyze changes in human emotional perception influenced by high-density built environments. This study aimed to examine the impact of high-dens...
22 June 2021
In high-density cities, physical activity (PA) diversity is an essential indicator of public health and urban vitality, and how to meet the demands of diverse PA in a limited residential built environment is critical for promoting public health. This...
In high-density built environments, perceived density (PD)—shaped by physical, socio-cultural, and perceptual factors—often induces sensations of crowding, stress, and spatial oppression. Although green spaces are recognised for their str...
Understanding the complex spatiotemporal heterogeneity between ride-hailing demand and the urban built environment is crucial for optimizing urban space and allocating transportation resources. Previous analyses using fixed spatial scales (e.g., regu...
The continuous worsening of urban thermal environments poses a severe threat to human health and is among the main problems associated with urban climate change and sustainable development. This issue is particularly severe in high-density built-up a...
The micro-scale interplay between the built environment and innovation has attracted increasing scholarly attention. However, discussions on how such microdynamics operate and vary across high-density cities remain insufficient. This study focuses on...
Subway-hub blocks are critical areas where the pressures of metropolitan populations and environmental quality are closely interconnected. This study constructs a “pressure–context–carrier–response” (PCRC) framework (F1&...
High-density commercial areas in northern monsoon coastal cities face dual microclimate challenges: hot summers and harsh winters. This study aims to optimize year-round outdoor thermal comfort (Physiological Equivalent Temperature, PET) by exploring...
Rapid urbanization in China has been accompanied by spatial inefficiency in patterns of human activity, of which ‘ghost towns’ are the most visible result. In this study, we measure the density and diversity of human activity in the built...
Building an aging-friendly city is necessary, considering the unprecedented demographic shift of the aging population. It is necessary to study the built environment conditions surrounding the elderly’s residential areas. This study examines th...
30 December 2019
Respiratory health is a focus of interdisciplinary studies involving urban planning and public health. Studies have noted that urban built environments have impacts on respiratory health by influencing air quality and human behavior such as physical...
23 October 2020
This study aimed to identify the non-linear association between population density and obesity in China and to provide empirical evidence for the public health orientated guideline of urban planning. By conducting a longitudinal study with data colle...
12 January 2023
Characteristics of the urban environment (e.g., building density and road network) can influence the spread and transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) within cities, especially in high-density high-rise built environments. Therefore, it...
In this study, we utilized survey data from three Shenzhen communities to investigate how the built community environment influences elderly physical activity and social capital in China’s high-density urban settings. Based on this, we analyzed...
The COVID-19 pandemic affected how people interact with the built environment and ways of human habitation are facing significant challenges. However, the existing literature has not adequately addressed how the built environment affected the early p...
Previous studies have mostly examined how sustainable cities try to promote non-motorized travel by creating a walking-friendly environment. Such existing studies provide little data that identifies how the built environment affects pedestrian volume...
Understanding how the built environment relates to urban ecological resilience is essential for resilience-oriented planning in high-density cities. Using Wuhan, China, as a case study, we constructed a 1 km grid-based Ecological Resilience Index (ER...
4 May 2018
Hong Kong is a densely populated and transit-oriented Chinese city, which provides an ideal urban environment with which to study the various successful facets of land use policy as a model for potential replication to curb increasing car use in othe...
In this study, the root sources contributing to the urban heat island (UHI) effect between megacities, such as Hong Kong and Shenzhen, were integrated and compared using satellite remote sensing data. Classification and multilayer perceptron regressi...
High-density urban parks are essential spaces for residents in core urban areas for restorative experiences and routine leisure. Research on the impact of cross-density contexts on the motivational structure of park recreation remains limited. Empiri...
In recent years, increasing concerns over climate change and transportation energy consumption have sparked research into the influences of urban form and land use patterns on motorized travel, notably vehicle miles traveled (VMT). However, empirical...
24 February 2022
Over the last three decades, researchers have investigated population density and health outcomes at differing scale. There has not been a systematic review conducted in order to synthesise this evidence. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for S...
Urban park green space (UPGS) accessibility within 15 min is widely used to characterize neighborhood-scale park provision, yet aggregated accessible park supply (APS) does not reveal its hierarchical composition or the additional supply gained as wa...
10 September 2018
Previous studies have documented numerous health benefits of conducting regular physical activity among older adults. The built environment is believed to be a key factor that can hinder or facilitate daily physical activity, such as walking and exer...
Affiliated Open Spaces (AOS) constitute vital public assets within high-density vertical cities. However, prevailing scholarship remains largely confined to two-dimensional horizontal perspectives, overlooking the quantitative impact of vertical buil...
Human activity recognition has been of interest in the field of urban planning. This paper established a general framework by which expected human activity intensity (HAI) measured by the built environment and factual HAI measured by the Baidu therma...
This study investigates the effects of socioeconomic characteristics, density, built environment, and urban spatial structure on vehicle miles traveled (VMT) across 461 urbanized areas in the United States. Using multiple regression models, we compar...
20 November 2015
Mental health (MH) has a relevant burden on the health of populations. Common MH disorders (anxiety and non-psychotic depression) are well associated to socioeconomic individual and neighborhood characteristics, but little is known about the influenc...
Against the backdrop of Shenzhen’s high-density urban environment, the multifunctional design of water purification plants offers dual benefits: providing residents with urban green spaces while simultaneously mitigating NIMBY sentiments due to...
This study explores the nonlinear effects of urban environmental factors on heat risk in Shenzhen, a typical high-density megacity. We established a multidimensional indicator system covering the built environment (building density, road density), ec...
In the early stage of architectural design, addressing the challenges posed by negative spaces in high-density urban environments is crucial for enhancing spatial efficiency and building sustainability. Multiple studies employed digital methods and t...
29 September 2021
The built environment refers to the objective material environment built by humans in cities for living and production activities. Existing studies have proven that the built environment plays a significant role in human health, but little attention...
Urban ecological corridors play an important role in facilitating bird migration and maintaining biodiversity in urban landscapes as key connections between habitat patches. However, the effects of built environment characteristics of urban ecologica...
9 December 2022
Based on the social ecological approach, a photovoice study was conducted to explore how neighborhood built and social environments facilitate or hinder college students’ lifestyle behaviors, including physical activity, active transportation,...
Air pollution in China has attracted wide interest from the public and academic communities. PM2.5 is the primary air pollutant across China. PM2.5 mainly comes from human activities, and the natural environment and urban built environment affect its...
We identified four distinct clusters of 151 countries based on COVID-19 prevalence rate from 1 February 2020 to 29 May 2021 by performing nonparametric K-means cluster analysis (KmL). We forecasted future development of the clusters by using a nonlin...
13 October 2021
Current U.S. dietary guidelines recommend a daily potassium intake of 3400 mg/day for men and 2600 mg/day for women. Sub-optimal access to nutrient-rich foods may limit potassium intake and increase cardiometabolic risk. We examined the association o...
Rapid urbanization across hot arid environments transforms local microclimates, yet linkages between density, layout, and outdoor thermal comfort remain inadequately characterized. This study investigates these correlations in the desert city of Bisk...
Studies on the vitality of urban residents’ daily commuting and air pollution are scarce. Based on the cell phone mobile signaling data, urban air quality observation data, and urban transportation infrastructure environment data of Nanjing in...
As essential components of urban green spaces, pocket parks play a critical role in enhancing residents’ mental restoration in high-density cities. Taking six representative pocket parks in Guangzhou as a case study, this study developed a 16-i...
High-density central business districts (CBDs) often appear highly walkable because they combine transit accessibility, functional density and active frontages. Yet their pedestrian environments may lose usability under routine disturbances such as c...
Ambient air pollution and road environments may have contrasting associations with walking and cardiometabolic health. We examined these relationships in 4141 middle-aged and older adults from the third wave of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Li...
Urban commercial complex is an architectural form formed in the high-density urban building environment based on the diversified concentration of human consumption behavior and the composite utilization of space. It can effectively cope with the prob...
Road traffic congestion is a common problem in most large cities, and exploring the root causes is essential to alleviate traffic congestion. Travel behavior is closely related to the built environment, and affects road travel speed. This paper inves...
Reducing car dependence is the key to achieving the goal of green and sustainable development. Compared with the existing studies, which mainly focus on administrative areas, this study takes residential areas as the research unit. Four spatial regre...
Improving urban walkability is critical to the long-term development of cities. Although previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between the built environment and walking, an approach that can control the exploration of different functional...
Exploring the correlation of the built environment with metro ridership is vital for fostering sustainable urban growth. Although the research conducted in the past has explored how ridership is nonlinearly influenced by the built environment, less r...
Urbanization has profoundly reshaped the patterns and forms of modern urban landscapes. Understanding how urban transportation and mobility are affected by spatial planning is vital. Urban vibrancy, as a crucial metric for monitoring urban developmen...
The accuracy of the regression model of ridership of subway stations depends on the scale range of the built environment around the subway stations. Previous studies have not considered the Modifiable Area Unit Problem (MAUP) to establish the regress...
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