The Yangtze River Middle Reaches urban agglomeration (YRMRUA) is a typical representation of policy-oriented urban agglomeration in China. In this study, we analyze the morphological characteristics of the built-up area of the YRMRUA, which is the re...
This study examines urban green infrastructure (UGI) branding as a governance practice shaped by institutional homogenization and strategic responses within China’s multi-level policy framework. Against the backdrop of global sustainability age...
Urban agriculture (UA) is a vital component of sustainable urban development. In China, however, it is more closely associated with policy-oriented urban modern agriculture (UMA), which integrates peri-urban production, agricultural modernization, mu...
Urban agglomeration plays an essential role in world urbanization. Urban agglomerations in developing countries like China, although have the same characteristics as the developed countries because of globalization, often show a more different and dy...
The accurate identification of urban agglomeration spatial area is helpful in understanding the internal spatial relationship under urban expansion and in evaluating the development level of urban agglomeration. Previous studies on the identification...
The rapid expansion of digital infrastructure is creating a growing need to reconcile computing demand with urban environmental goals. Yet whether greener computing facilities can contribute to the joint advancement of digitalization and green develo...
In this paper, we present the concept of “sequencing economics”, consisting of (A) segmentation, (B) construction sequencing, and (C) functions. An agglomeration is organized into segments, and sequencing economics examines the sequential...
The evolution of industrial land layout is a significant feature of changes in urban land use types during rapid urbanization. However, the theoretical studies investigating the evolution mechanism behind industrial land are scarce. This study develo...
Urban sprawl is the most prominent characteristic of urbanization, and increasingly affects local and regional sustainable development. The observation and analysis of urban sprawl dynamics and their relationship with urbanization quality are essenti...
Rapid urbanization, climate change, and uneven regional development have increasingly intensified spatial heterogeneity in food security. As one of China’s major commercial grain-producing areas, the Main Grain-Producing Region in the Middle Re...
Land use changes in rapidly urbanizing regions around the world constitute a principal anthropogenic element fueling the surge in carbon emissions. Here, land use patterns within the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) urban agglomeration under l...
As urban agglomerations reshape China’s urban–rural relations, existing evaluations still focus mainly on development levels within administrative units, with limited attention to spatial interactions between urban and rural territorial s...
In the context of advancing sustainable urban development, the spatial organization of industries plays a critical role in shaping environmental quality, economic vitality, and public health. This study examines the health effects of furniture enterp...
Metropolitan Urban Mamminasata South Sulawesi, Indonesia as the object of study is explored in the core-peripheral spatial interaction towards the formation of suburban service centers. The problems raised in this study are (i) is there a relationshi...
The e-commerce-oriented transformation of cities is an important measure to enhance the vitality of economic development, improve the efficiency of resource allocation, and provide a new boost to the green and high-quality development of regions. Tak...
Decoupling economic growth from carbon emissions is central to the sustainable development of rapidly urbanizing economies, and urban agglomerations are the pivotal spatial units for delivering this transition under China’s dual-carbon goals, y...
Rapid urbanization has promoted socioeconomic growth but has exacerbated spatial-structure imbalances. This study investigates 41 prefecture-level cities in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) from 2010 to 2022. Using nighttime light data, we compute the C...
Against the backdrop of China’s urban modernization pathway, the core value of urban innovation systems is increasingly shifting toward an inclusive orientation. Grounded in the theoretical connotation of inclusive urban innovation, this study...
China’s urban agglomerations (UAs) are striving to build a new development pattern oriented towards the new era and new stage, and the population distribution is facing new problems of synergy with the layout of labor factor productivity and re...
Urban agglomerations rely on both direct physical water intake and substantial virtual water embedded in cross-regional traded commodities and services to meet water demand. It is important to analyze the complex virtual water flows in urban agglomer...
Urban railway networks play a central role in reshaping urban spatial structures, commercial activity, and population distribution. This study investigates how different transfer hub types in Seoul—a megacity with one of the world’s dense...
3 September 2026
The National E-Commerce Demonstration City (NEDC) program provides a quasi-natural experiment for assessing whether e-commerce-oriented place-based policies improve urban green productivity. Using a balanced panel of 298 Chinese cities from 2007 to 2...
Our study examines whether the inflow of rural-to-urban migration increases the productivity of manufacturing firms in China, using cross-sectional data from the 2005 China 1% Population Survey and the Annual Survey of Industrial Firms. The analysis...
This paper examines whether Open Government Data (OGD) can improve urban air quality in China. Using the staggered rollout of city-level OGD platforms as a quasi-natural experiment, it estimates the effect of platform launches on annual average PM2.5...
Achieving the synergistic effect of pollution reduction and carbon mitigation (PRCM) is a core pathway for promoting green and low-carbon transition and realizing the “dual carbon” goals, as well as a crucial mechanism for coordinating ec...
Reconciling pollution–carbon reduction with green growth is a central challenge for sustainable urban transition, yet the role of innovation-oriented financial policy in this process remains insufficiently understood. This study uses China&rsqu...
Attracted by the urban–rural income gap (URIG), a massive agricultural transfer population has flooded into cities and became a peri-urbanized population due to the restrictions of the household registration system. This trend eventually leads to the...
Black carbon (BC) and CO2 emissions are the two major factors responsible for global climate change and the associated health risks. Quantifying the impact of economic activities in urban agglomerations on BC and CO2 emissions is essential for findin...
26 May 2022
Based on a literature review and theoretical mechanism, this paper takes the implementation point of the adjustment and transformation policy for old industrial cities as the breakthrough point, and uses a regression model to explore the impact of th...
Researching the impact of factor flow on urban land use efficiency (ULUE) is significant in alleviating the contradiction between the accelerated promotion of urbanization and the inefficient use of urban land. This paper theoretically analyzes the i...
Ecosystem service value (ESV) assessment is a crucial indicator of regional ecological quality and ecological management effectiveness. Ecosystem services (ES) provide the environmental foundation for human existence and social advancement. However,...
Rural areas around developed metropolitan areas continue to attract capital inflows, promoting rural spatial commodification. Taking Shanghai as a case study, this paper analyzes the characteristics of the spatial distribution pattern and the influen...
(1) Background: Accurate measurement of the matching relationship between urban industrial land change and economic growth is of great value for industrialized and re-industrialized countries to perform land resource management in territorial spatial...
Based on the ArcGIS geostatistical analysis method, this study offers a visualization of the spatial distribution pattern and spatial trend of vegetable production in China. The research also examines the degree of spatial agglomeration patterns of v...
As one of the four major bay areas in the world, the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is a highly integrated mega urban agglomeration and its unparalleled urbanization has induced prominent land contradictions between huma...
Ice–snow tourism has become an important development strategy in northern China, but its contribution to urban-rural integration remains uneven. Taking Inner Mongolia as a comparative qualitative case, this study examines how ice-snow tourism c...
22 January 2022
The carbon emission trading system (CETS) is an important market-oriented policy tool for the Chinese government to solve the problem of high emissions and achieve the growth of green total factor productivity (GTFP). This study makes up for the negl...
(1) Background: China is beginning to see increasingly complex real estate development dynamics as urbanization, industrialization and globalization advance. As a key driver of economic and social development in China’s cities, real estate has...
Cultivating the best business environment ecosystem is important for advancing market-oriented reforms and achieving sustainable industrial transformation. How to quantify the business environment is also a relatively complex topic. Based on urban ec...
The aim of this paper is to clarify the influence mechanism and role paths of the entrepreneurial behavior of the underclass groups (EBUG) involved in urbanization from a microcosmic perspective and propose sustainable development paths for the trans...
Amid ongoing societal development, tourists’ travel behavior patterns have been undergoing substantial transformations, and understanding their evolution has emerged as a key area of scholarly interest. Taking Beijing as a case study, this rese...
Background: The precise allocation and efficient use of industrial land are necessary for the development and optimization of urban production space; however, the mismatches between urban industrial land consumption and the growth of manufacturing ar...
Rural industrialization is one of the core drivers of urban and rural spatial evolution and economic transformation in China. Given the background of stock and reduction planning, the development of rural industrial land, which has long relied on lan...
(1) Background: The sustainable development of rural areas has become a critical factor in global economic and social transformation. As an essential part of China’s rural ecological and cultural system, traditional villages are now facing a cr...
Sustainable air-quality governance requires not only local emission reduction but also a shift from single-pollutant control to coordinated PM2.5–O3 control, and from city-bounded management to regional governance under spatial spillovers. Base...
The deep integration of green finance and the digital economy serves as a critical lever for achieving the “dual carbon” goals and the “Digital China” strategy. This study constructs a “Technology–Capital–Env...
In practice, village planning often suffers from an “emphasis on plan preparation but neglect of implementation”, a challenge that is especially evident in Sichuan Province, China, where highly diverse landforms and uneven development fou...
This study examines whether higher education development (HED) in China remains geographically locked in a core–periphery structure over 2002–2021 despite long-standing policies promoting balanced development. Using a composite assessment...
Accelerating the green development of the dairy industry is an important work to promote the construction of ecological civilization and ensure the safe supply of dairy products. Existing studies lack a comprehensive analysis of the green development...