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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,486 Views
27 Pages

19 August 2024

Local climate zones (LCZs) and urban functional zones (UFZs) can intricately depict the multidimensional spatial elements of cities, offering a comprehensive perspective for understanding the surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect. In this study, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,278 Views
13 Pages

13 May 2023

Developing urban functional zone classification method to study urban spatial structure is a hotspot in current research. Using the word embedding model to excavate spatial relationship of the geographic elements in urban functional zones is an impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
770 Views
27 Pages

Investigating the Influence of Urban Morphology on Seasonal Thermal Environment Based on Urban Functional Zones

  • Meiling Zeng,
  • Chunxia Liu,
  • Yuechen Li,
  • Bo He,
  • Rongxiang Wang,
  • Zihua Qian,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Qiao Huang,
  • Peng Li and
  • Yunjing Huang
  • + 1 author

24 October 2025

With the rapid advancement of urbanization, urban heat environment issues have become increasingly severe, presenting significant challenges to sustainable urban development. Although previous research has demonstrated the substantial impact of urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
8,277 Views
30 Pages

12 February 2018

Urban functional zones, such as commercial, residential, and industrial zones, are basic units of urban planning, and play an important role in monitoring urbanization. However, historical functional-zone maps are rarely available for cities in devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,577 Views
22 Pages

Accurately extracting semantic features of urban functional zones is crucial for understanding urban functional zone types and urban functional spatial structures. Points of interest provide comprehensive information for extracting the semantic featu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,458 Views
20 Pages

21 January 2021

Urban functional zones are important space carriers for urban economic and social function. The accurate and rapid identification of urban functional zones is of great significance to urban planning and resource allocation. However, the factors consi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,600 Views
20 Pages

Local warming induced by rapid urbanization has been threatening residents’ health, raising significant concerns among urban planners. Local climate zone (LCZ), a widely accepted approach to reclassify the urban area, which is helpful to propos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,858 Views
17 Pages

With rapid urbanization, urban functional zones have become important for rational government and resource allocation. Points of interest (POIs), as informative and open-access data, have been widely used in studies of urban functions. However, most...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,967 Views
27 Pages

Studying driving factors of the urban heat island phenomenon is vital for enhancing urban ecological environments. Urban functional zones (UFZs), key for planning and management, have a substantial impact on the urban thermal environment through thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,250 Views
15 Pages

30 March 2022

The effects of land use and socioeconomic changes on urban landscape patterns and functional zones have been increasingly investigated around the world; however, our knowledge on these effects is still inadequate for sustainably managing urban ecosys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,540 Views
20 Pages

Identification of Urban Functional Zones Based on the Spatial Specificity of Online Car-Hailing Traffic Cycle

  • Zhicheng Deng,
  • Xiangting You,
  • Zhaoyang Shi,
  • Hong Gao,
  • Xu Hu,
  • Zhaoyuan Yu and
  • Linwang Yuan

The study of urban functional zoning is not only important for analyzing urban spatial structure but also for optimizing urban management and promoting scientific urban planning. Different areas undertaking different urban functions correspond to dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,101 Views
25 Pages

16 October 2024

Identifying urban functional zones is one of the important foundational activities for urban renewal and the development of high-quality urban areas. Efficient and accurate identification methods for urban functional zones are significant for smart c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,217 Views
19 Pages

5 March 2025

With the acceleration of urbanization, the urban heat island effect has garnered increasing attention. However, few studies have explored the differential impacts of urban green spaces on the UHI across various urban functional zones (UFZs). This stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
6,666 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2021

With the development of Web2.0 and mobile Internet, urban residents, a new type of “sensor”, provide us with massive amounts of volunteered geographic information (VGI). Quantifying the spatial patterns of VGI plays an increasingly import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
8,169 Views
26 Pages

28 March 2020

The urban functional zone, as a special fundamental unit of the city, helps to understand the complex interaction between human space activities and environmental changes. Based on the recognition of physical and social semantics of buildings, combin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,450 Views
25 Pages

1 August 2019

The non-uniformity of the relationships between urban temperature and landscape has attracted board attention. The non-uniformity in urban areas is reflected in the spatial landscape’s heterogeneity and the difference of socio-economic function...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,047 Views
21 Pages

Exploring Crowd Travel Demands Based on the Characteristics of Spatiotemporal Interaction between Urban Functional Zones

  • Ju Peng,
  • Huimin Liu,
  • Jianbo Tang,
  • Cheng Peng,
  • Xuexi Yang,
  • Min Deng and
  • Yiyuan Xu

As a hot research topic in urban geography, spatiotemporal interaction analysis has been used to detect the hotspot mobility patterns of crowds and urban structures based on the origin-destination (OD) flow data, which provide useful information for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,536 Views
21 Pages

19 November 2021

Scientific functional zone planning is the key to achieving long-term development goals for cities. The rapid development of remote sensing technology allows for the identification of urban functional zones, which is important since they serve as bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,686 Views
19 Pages

Recognizing Urban Functional Zones by GF-7 Satellite Stereo Imagery and POI Data

  • Zhenhui Sun,
  • Peihang Li,
  • Dongchuan Wang,
  • Qingyan Meng,
  • Yunxiao Sun and
  • Weifeng Zhai

22 May 2023

The identification of urban functional zones (UFZs) is crucial for urban planning and optimizing industrial layout. Fusing remote sensing images and social perception data is an effective way to identify UFZs. Previous studies on UFZs recognition oft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,507 Views
23 Pages

12 April 2022

Anthropogenic interferences through various intensive social-economic activities within construction land have induced and strengthened the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects in global cities. Focused on the relative heat effect produced by different so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,120 Views
21 Pages

The Impact of Meteorological Factors and Canopy Structure on PM2.5 Dynamics Under Different Urban Functional Zones in a Subtropical City

  • Yichen Huang,
  • Yue Cai,
  • Jiejie Jiao,
  • Chunyu Pan,
  • Guangyu Wang,
  • Chong Li,
  • Zichen Jia,
  • Zhihao Chen,
  • Yufeng Zhou and
  • Guomo Zhou

9 March 2025

PM2.5 pollution has intensified with rapid urbanization and industrialization, raising concerns about its health and environmental impacts. Both meteorological factors and urban forests play crucial roles in influencing PM2.5 concentrations. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,486 Views
19 Pages

27 January 2019

Accurate and timely classification and monitoring of urban functional zones prove to be significant in rapidly developing cities, to better understand the real and varying urban functions of cities to support urban planning and management. Many effor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,136 Views
25 Pages

14 August 2019

Urban functional-zone (UFZ) analysis has been widely used in many applications, including urban environment evaluation, and urban planning and management. How to extract UFZs’ spatial units which delineates UFZs’ boundaries is fundamental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,910 Views
26 Pages

20 July 2025

Urban form plays a crucial role in regulating urban thermal environments and air pollution patterns. However, the indirect mechanisms through which urban form influences PM2.5 concentrations via land surface temperature (LST) remain poorly understood...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,996 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2021

The urban heat island (UHI) effect has been recognized as one of the most significant terrestrial surface climate-related consequences of urbanization. However, the traditional definition of the urban–rural (UR) division and the newly establish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,394 Views
24 Pages

26 January 2023

Recent research has shown the advantages of incorporating multisource geospatial data into the classification of urban functional zones (UFZs), particularly remote sensing and social sensing data. However, the effects of combining datasets of varying...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,918 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2021

As the basic spatial unit of urban planning and management, it is necessary to understand the real development trend of urban functional zones in time and carry out reasonable planning adjustment. Because of the complexity of urban functional zones,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,908 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2023

Urban heat islands (UHIs) caused by urbanization have become a major issue affecting the sustainable development of the ecological environment. The distribution of UHIs is mainly affected by the reflection and transmission of heat radiation caused by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,578 Views
15 Pages

The classification of urban functional areas is important for understanding the characteristics of urban areas and optimizing the utilization of urban land resources. Existing related methods have improved accuracy. However, they neglect cognitive di...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
9,594 Views
32 Pages

25 October 2021

Urbanization is accelerating due to economic and societal development. The accurate identification of urban functional zones is significant for urban structure optimization, urban planning, and resource allocation. This paper reviews the scholarly li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,694 Views
26 Pages

Urban Functional Zone Classification via Advanced Multi-Modal Data Fusion

  • Tianyu Liu,
  • Hongbing Chen,
  • Junfeng Ren,
  • Long Zhang,
  • Hongrui Chen,
  • Rundong Hong,
  • Chenshuang Li,
  • Wenlong Cui,
  • Wenhua Guo and
  • Changji Wen

19 December 2024

The classification of urban functional zones is crucial for improving land use efficiency and promoting balanced development across urban areas. Existing methods for classifying urban functional zones using mobile signaling data face challenges prima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,663 Views
13 Pages

23 March 2018

Population growth and distribution are still widely seen from the perspective of urban areas. Though the city has many zones with various functions, so comes the question, what zone will have population growth and hold the highest population growth d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,628 Views
23 Pages

Urban parks have important impacts on urban ecosystems and in disaster prevention. They also have diverse social functions that are important to the living conditions and spatial structures of cities. Identifying and classifying the different types o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,205 Views
27 Pages

XT-SECA: An Efficient and Accurate XGBoost–Transformer Model for Urban Functional Zone Classification

  • Xin Gao,
  • Xianmin Wang,
  • Li Cao,
  • Haixiang Guo,
  • Wenxue Chen and
  • Xing Zhai

The remote sensing classification of urban functional zones provides scientific support for urban planning, land resource optimization, and ecological environment protection. However, urban functional zone classification encounters significant challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,094 Views
20 Pages

The determination of a reasonable spatial analysis unit is an essential step in urban functional zone (UFZ) division, which significantly affects the results. However, most studies on the division of functional zones are based on excessively large sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,215 Views
19 Pages

As a precious non-renewable resource, the rational utilization of land resources is crucial for global sustainable development, with urban land development scenario prediction and analysis serving as key methodologies to achieve this goal. Although p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,036 Views
18 Pages

6 August 2025

Carbon flow tracking and spatial pattern optimization at the scale of urban functional zones are key scientific challenges in achieving carbon neutrality. However, due to the complexity of carbon metabolism processes within urban functional zones, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,491 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2023

The identification of urban spatial functional units is of great significance in urban planning, construction, management, and services. Conventional field surveys are labour-intensive and time-consuming, while the abundant data available via the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,697 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2022

Urbanization and increasing demand for natural resources and land have affected the urban thermal environment. This is an important hot topic in urban climate research. In this study, we obtained multi-time scale land surface temperatures (LST) at th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,060 Views
25 Pages

Urban Functional Zone Classification Based on High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery and Nighttime Light Imagery

  • Junyu Chen,
  • Yingbiao Chen,
  • Zihao Zheng,
  • Zhenxiang Ling,
  • Xianxin Meng,
  • Junyu Kuang,
  • Xianghua Shi,
  • Yifan Yang,
  • Wentao Chen and
  • Zhifeng Wu

30 April 2025

Urbanization has led to rapid changes in the landscapes of cities, making the quick and accurate identification of urban functional zones crucial for urban development. Identifying urban functional zones requires understanding not only the physical c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
852 Views
18 Pages

21 August 2025

Rapid urbanization intensifies disturbances to the ecological environment, underscoring the urgent need for effective strategies to guide regional development towards sustainability. Functional zoning offers a promising approach to address this chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,260 Views
29 Pages

20 November 2024

Amid the rapid socio-economic development of urban fringe areas, promoting the multi-functional supply of ecosystems and sustainable development is essential. Taking Jiangning District in Nanjing as a case study, this study explores the relationships...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,586 Views
7 Pages

Timely and precise acquisition of urban functional zone (UFZ) information is crucial for effective urban planning, management, and resource allocation. However, current UFZ mapping approaches primarily focus on individual functional units’ visu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,501 Views
21 Pages

Integrating Aerial LiDAR and Very-High-Resolution Images for Urban Functional Zone Mapping

  • Siji Sanlang,
  • Shisong Cao,
  • Mingyi Du,
  • You Mo,
  • Qiang Chen and
  • Wen He

1 July 2021

This study presents a new approach for Urban Functional Zone (UFZ) mapping by integrating two-dimensional (2D) Urban Structure Parameters (USPs), three-dimensional (3D) USPs, and the spatial patterns of land covers, which can be divided into two step...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,083 Views
23 Pages

12 March 2025

Urban Functional Zones (UFZs) are spatial units of the city divided according to specific functional activities. Detailed identification of UFZs is vital for optimizing urban management, guiding planning and design, and promoting sustainable developm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
128 Citations
11,795 Views
20 Pages

Portraying Urban Functional Zones by Coupling Remote Sensing Imagery and Human Sensing Data

  • Wei Tu,
  • Zhongwen Hu,
  • Lefei Li,
  • Jinzhou Cao,
  • Jincheng Jiang,
  • Qiuping Li and
  • Qingquan Li

18 January 2018

Portraying urban functional zones provides useful insights into understanding complex urban systems and establishing rational urban planning. Although several studies have confirmed the efficacy of remote sensing imagery in urban studies, coupling re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
206 Views
26 Pages

9 January 2026

Integrated urban–rural development is an inevitable requirement of regional development. Developing green industries based on rural ecological resources are important approaches to promoting urban–rural integration. The National Key Ecolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,361 Views
26 Pages

28 May 2014

Urban competitiveness aids local development by encouraging the exploitation of opportunities for economic development and by enhancing overall performance. Previous studies have evaluated urban competitiveness primarily from an economic perspective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,404 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2025

In recent years, the use of street-view images for urban analysis has received much attention. Despite the abundance of raw data, existing supervised learning methods heavily rely on large-scale and high-quality labels. Faced with the challenge of la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
872 Views
22 Pages

26 February 2025

Urban functional zones (UFZs) are related to people’s daily activities. Accurate recognition of UFZs is of great significance for an in-depth understanding of the complex urban system and optimizing the urban spatial structure. Emerging geospat...

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