Rapid urbanization on the coast of China has attracted much attention. The objective of this study was to explore the differences in dynamics and related driving forces between urban and rural settlements. Applying the quantitative method, we demonst...
Rural settlement reconstruction is an effective means of governance of rural planning. Traditional research on the reconstruction of rural settlements fails to fully consider individual differences in the utilization of rural space, which easily lead...
Objectives: Few studies have examined the impacts of structural differences in the urban–rural dichotomy under the new household registration policy on migration and settlement behavior. Nevertheless, the rationale for the settlement policy of...
Currently, the proportion of enterprise self-owned power plants (SPPs) is increasing, with a significant share occupied by small coal-fired units, severely affecting the absorption of new energy and causing substantial pollution. To address this issu...
Rural settlements are the basic spatial units of rural geography research, and it is essential to explore the dynamic changes in land use on a rural settlement scale to promote the development of the rural revitalization strategy. The study took diff...
Understanding the process of settlement expansion and the spatiotemporal variation of driving forces is the foundation of rational and specific planning for sustainable development. However, little attention has been paid to the spatiotemporal differ...
This paper supports the idea of agroecology playing an integral role in development ‘smart cities’ and its application in different settlement contexts in South Africa. As alluded to in the People-Centered Smart Cities framework, the appl...
Construction-induced mutual disturbance exerts a substantial influence on the ground settlement of double-line tunnels, and the ground settlement of double-line tunnels differs under varying excavation conditions. This study deeply analyzes the groun...
Embankment and pavement widening of an existing road is a viable option to cope with increased traffic volume. One of the common challenges in road expansion is the occurrence of differential settlement between the old and the new portions. This arti...
Rural settlement reconstruction relies on multiobjective system engineering. The demolition and relocation of rural settlements affects agricultural production, farmers’ lives, and rural ecology. However, most studies on the topic have failed t...
The development of healthy peri-implant soft tissues is critical to achieving the esthetic and biological success of implant restorations throughout all stages of healing and tissue maturation, starting with provisionalization. The purpose of this st...
The proliferation of renewable energy sources has presented challenges for Balancing Responsible Parties (BRPs) in accurately forecasting production and consumption. This issue is being addressed through the emergence of the balancing markets, which...
To ensure the safety of excavations such as large section tunnels of the Guangxi Liubin Highway Tunnel Project, we implemented a simulation analysis of 3D tunnel models based on finite software for different construction methods. Different from the t...
Since the socio-economic reform in 1978, rural China has undergone drastic spatial restructuring, and the trend of multifunctional development and dynamic evolution of settlements in the countryside have become increasingly obvious. Functions and set...
To calculate the horizontal displacement of the diaphragm wall and surface settlement caused by foundation pit excavation, the three-parameter Kerr foundation model was applied to a diaphragm wall and derived the flexural differential equations of th...
13 November 2019
High-speed railways have strict standards of infrastructure deformation and post-construction settlement. The interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has the ability to detect ground deformation with a high accuracy and wide coverage and is...
Simulating the future evolution of the internal land use structure of rural settlements (RSILUS) is vital for rural land management. However, previous simulation studies have mostly regarded rural settlements as a whole, thereby ignoring their intern...
The importance of regions in shaping sustainable economic growth trajectories has been the subject of extensive research in recent years. When sustainable growth has been investigated in developing countries, a particular focus has been on China’s un...
Despite the increasing interest in understanding the mechanism of household livelihood decisions to increase household livelihood welfare, the combined role of livelihood capitals and human settlements in livelihood decisions is unclear. Therefore, i...
The reliability of high-rise buildings’ rigid-pile composite foundations primarily relies on the load test results of single-pile composite foundations. Field load tests were conducted for a high-rise building in the loess area of China, the re...
An automatic process for estimating ground stability and settlement of circular tunnels is developed for practitioners in this paper using finite difference method FLAC code. The numerical model aims to simulate the movement and relaxation of the soi...
9 December 2020
The migration process and patterns of floating populations have received continuing attention from scholars and policymakers. In China, however, studies have been focused on the settlement intention of floating populations based on sampling surveys a...
As China’s urbanization progresses, thermal environmental problems such as the overheating effect experienced by cities are becoming more and more obvious in the daily lives of residents. Urban waterfront spaces not only create pleasant landsca...
Global environmental impacts such as climate change require behavior from society that aims to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. This includes the substitution of fossil fuels with other energy sources. An important aspect of efficient and sustainab...
The spatial distribution of humans on the earth is critical knowledge that informs many disciplines and is available in a spatially explicit manner through gridded population techniques. While many approaches exist to produce specialized gridded popu...
The spatial patterns of rural settlements are important for understanding the drivers of land use change and the relationship between human activity and environmental processes. It has been suggested that the clustering of houses decreases the negati...
The scattered, isolated, and closed nature of rural settlements in northwest Sichuan is a constraint on the high-quality development of rural areas. Determining the spatial differences and driving forces of rural settlements in this area is the essen...
Background: The circulation of Leptospira has been linked to various occupational activities globally. This study investigated the seroprevalence of Leptospira spp. in rodents and livestock (cattle and goats) in three settlements/villages involved in...
The number and sizes of informal settlements are expected to increase drastically in the future, and dramatically so in Sub-Saharan Africa, where migration from rural to urban areas is increasing, and poverty and food insecurity threaten livelihoods....
In the field of civil engineering and architecture, the concept of symmetry has been widely accepted. The bridge can be treated as a typical symmetrical structure of civil engineering buildings. Among them, the Subgrade can be identified as an import...
For the bridge widening of long multi-span highway concrete continuous box girder with a conventional splicing structure, due to the large longitudinal difference deformation by concrete shrinkage and creep between the existing and new ones, the wide...
Mining typically involves extensive areas where environmental monitoring is spatially sporadic. New remote sensing techniques and platforms such as Structure from Motion (SfM) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may offer one solution for more compre...
Rural settlement systems in core ecological barrier zones face heightened geological disaster risks, making vulnerability assessment crucial for enhancing resilience and sustainable development. This study examines Maoxian County, a typical high-risk...
The composition of human settlements is important to resolving urban issues, such as land shortage, and to rationally distributing human settlements and social resources. Based on the demand hierarchy theory, this paper comprehensively used the metho...
The lowest administrative-territorial unit in Serbia is a settlement, whereby the administrative criterion of dividing settlements into “urban” and “other” is inadequate for describing the rural area, which is extremely differ...
This study aims to verify the effectiveness of fiber reinforcing with and without cement on settlement controlling of subgrade models, and to investigate the effect of fiber reinforcement on the load-settlement behavior of subgrade models. To this en...
Human settlement expansion has very important effects on regional population migration, economic balance and ecosystem services. Understanding the evolution of settlement expansion and regional differences is significant for regional sustainability....
For a long time, the traditional pattern of urban-rural human settlements has been shaped in reference to the existence of the urban-rural dual structure. In this paper, we put forward the notion of triaxiality of human settlements, and used the stan...
Coastal settlements in urban areas show certain degrees of spatial complexity. Understanding the evolution law of fractal settlements is practically important for marine engineering and urban planning. In this paper, we investigate the fractal evolut...
Sports facilities play a very important role in educating people about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and the examination of their spatial distribution is one of the important research areas of sport geography, a field of study becoming increas...
By the end of 2020, more than 80 million people were forcibly displaced around the world; this represents about one percent of the global population. Many of the displaced found shelter in emergency settlements; whether in refugee camps, IDP camps or...
Analyzing the relationship between rural settlements and rural population change under different policy scenarios is key in the sustainable development of China’s urban and rural areas. We proposed a framework that comprised the mixed land use...
Against the backdrop of accelerated globalization and urbanization, traditional settlements in the Jiangnan waterside areas of China face challenges such as morphological distortion and a simplified spatial structure. The ecological adaptability and...
The settlement of track in a railroad underpass project was studied by theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, based on the model of winkle beam on elastic foundation. Taking the settlement of roadbed as a nonlinear boundary condition, the con...
Over the past decades, numerous studies have attempted to capture the heterogeneity of rural areas from different perspectives. Meanwhile, rural areas have undergone various changes, primarily due to urban pressure. Rejecting a dichotomous approach,...
Uneven foundation settlement is one of the common engineering problems in a collapsible loess area. In order to study the influence of uneven foundation settlement on the seismic performance of a structure, the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) meth...
To explore the future development state of urban and rural settlements, we combined random forest algorithm (RFA) and cellular automata (CA) to simulate high precision in urban and rural settlements in Aksu city. The settlement distribution was predi...
Slab track structures become deformed under the effects of differential subgrade settlement. According to the properties of the China Railway Track System (CRTS) II slab track on a subgrade, a three-dimensional (3D) coupled model based on both the di...
Informal settlement mapping is essential for planning, as well as resource and utility management. Developing efficient ways of determining the properties of informal settlements (when, where, and who) is critical for upgrading services and planning....
In order to investigate the mechanism of ground settlement induced by shield tunnels better, this study proposes a novel simplified physical model testing method. In this physical model, double layer tubes with different materials are used to model t...
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