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14 January 2023

This research developed a framework for electronic planning and management of facility services utilizing blockchain technology. In this framework, an electronic Facility Service Record (eFSR) in blockchain form was developed to manage and control se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Approach Applications in Housing and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,465 Views
21 Pages

In the past decade, as more and more passengers choose to fly on trips, China’s airport infrastructure construction has achieved world-renowned achievements. Despite the growing opportunities and demands for using brand research to assist airpo...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
955 Views
25 Pages

Public Service Facility Configuration in Less-Developed Counties Based on an Optimal Supply–Demand Accessibility Method

  • Jizhe Zhou,
  • Weihan Wang,
  • Yifan Liu,
  • Mengting Cai and ,
  • Quanhua Hou,
  • Siqi Liu and
  • Ying Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 July 2026

Global demographic shifts and rising population mobility have created a profound decoupling between dynamic population distributions and static public service facility configurations. This socio-spatial mismatch is particularly acute in less-develope...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,210 Views
15 Pages

7 June 2024

Since the start of the new century, the focus of China’s socioeconomic development has gradually shifted from prioritizing efficiency to social equity, which is an important ingredient of sustainable development. The accessibility of public ser...

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  • Open Access
615 Views
33 Pages

Changsha’s historic district, a key part of China’s Historic and Cultural Cities, faces the challenge of balancing spatial constraints and historical preservation while optimizing its existing infrastructure. The public service facilities...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,310 Views
23 Pages

25 December 2023

Objectively assessing the impact of various basic public service facilities on social–spatial differentiation has become a prerequisite for promoting urban social integration and development. However, in practice, the configuration of basic pub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Architecture, Cities, and Sustainable Development Goals)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,002 Views
16 Pages

18 December 2024

This study investigates the critical factors shaping customer experiences in night markets, emphasizing product preferences, quality of services provided, and accessibility of facilities. As integral hubs of cultural exchange, community engagement, a...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,630 Views
22 Pages

Assessing Regional Public Service Facility Accessibility Using Multisource Geospatial Data: A Case Study of Underdeveloped Areas in China

  • Chunlin Huang,
  • Yaya Feng,
  • Yao Wei,
  • Danni Sun and ,
  • Xianghua Li and
  • Fanglei Zhong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 January 2024

Promoting the accessibility of basic public service facilities is key to safeguarding and improving people’s lives. Effective public service provision is especially important for the sustainable development of less developed regions. Lincang in...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,796 Views
18 Pages

5 September 2025

Product-service systems contribute to sustainable development through innovative service integration and novel customer value creation. However, the competitive advantage of sustainable product lifecycle service delivery hinges critically on the oper...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Products and Services)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
985 Views
23 Pages

Optimization of Service Facility Configuration in New Urban Districts from a Community Life Circle Perspective: A Case Study of Qujiang New District, Xi’an

  • Mengying Wang,
  • Yingtao Qi,
  • Keju Liu,
  • Chenguang Wang and ,
  • Mingzhi Zhang,
  • Xin Sun,
  • Yan Wei,
  • Dingqing Zhang and
  • Dian Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

As a result of China’s rapid urbanization, new urban districts are characterized by a superblock development paradigm that contrasts sharply with core urban areas, where service facilities remain largely congruent with the population distributi...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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347 Views
24 Pages

24 August 2026

Funeral-service facility relocation redistributes spatial burdens and public benefits among origin-site residents, destination communities, service users, and the wider public. Using the Xihuayuan–Haping Road relocation in Harbin, China, this s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Land Use Change and Its Spatial Planning (Second Edition))
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,537 Views
17 Pages

Measuring the Spatial Match between Service Facilities and Population Distribution: Case of Lanzhou

  • Yanbi Chen,
  • Zilong Zhang,
  • Lixia Lang,
  • Zhi Long and ,
  • Ningfei Wang,
  • Xingpeng Chen,
  • Bo Wang and
  • Ya Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 August 2023

With rapid urbanization and population growth, achieving equitable distribution of urban facilities in the city center has become a critical research focus due to limited land space and high population density. In this study, we propose a technical m...

(This article belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)
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  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,121 Views
18 Pages

18 January 2022

The equalization of urban public service facilities is important to the daily lives of urban residents. Spatial quantification of the supply and demand of public service facilities can reveal relationships between supply and demand agents and provide...

(This article belongs to the Topic Architectures, Materials and Urban Design)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,877 Views
20 Pages

Urbanization has been a flourishing process in a wide range of developing countries. The planning and construction of public service facilities is a crucial component of this process. Existing planning methods of public service facilities focused on...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
90 Citations
7,751 Views
19 Pages

Public medical service facilities are among the most basic needs of the public and are directly related to residents’ health. The balanced development of medical service facilities is of great significance. Public medical service facilities can...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,050 Views
33 Pages

21 September 2024

As the aging population in China increases, home-based elderly care is set to become the main mode of elderly care in the future. The construction of community elderly care service facilities is receiving more and more attention from society. Current...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Engineering Problems and Legal Challenges in Urban and Rural Low-Carbon Development)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,119 Views
15 Pages

11 November 2021

The equitable distribution of public health facilities is a major concern of urban planners. Previous studies have explored the balance and fairness of various medical resource distributions using the accessibility of in-demand public medical service...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reinvigorating Research on Housing Inequalities and Housing Price Mechanism Using Emerging Data and Technologies)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,548 Views
22 Pages

26 September 2022

People-oriented urban planning requires that service facilities should efficiently meet individual and community activity needs across the demographic landscape that defines a city. To develop a conceptual basis for urban spatial infrastructure optim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics, Spatial Optimization for Land Use Planning)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,965 Views
17 Pages

6 September 2023

The phenomenon of population aging in rural China presents a compelling societal challenge, necessitating a growing demand for both the quantity and quality of facilities supporting the needs of older people. However, a lack of comprehensive understa...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,434 Views
27 Pages

7 October 2024

The spatial allocation of urban public sports facilities is critical for ensuring equitable access to basic public services and maintaining urban spatial cohesion. This study examines central cities in the Yangtze River Delta, utilizing Point of Inte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Land Use, Urban Vitality and Sustainable Urban Development)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,853 Views
19 Pages

4 March 2019

The spatial allocation rationality of the service facilities of residential areas, which is affected by the scope of the population and the capacity of service facilities, is meaningful for harmonious urban development. The growth of the internet, es...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,697 Views
19 Pages

Basic 3D models of real buildings are mainly used in the design phase, when they serve as a visualization of future projects or as a basis for the creation of project documentation. However, the possibilities of Building Information Modeling are much...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction Management and Engineering: Residential Construction with Focus on Life Cycle of Buildings and Costs)
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75 Citations
11,621 Views
17 Pages

Some studies have confirmed the association between urban public services and population density; however, other studies using census data, for example, have arrived at the opposite conclusion. Mobile signaling data provide new technological tools to...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,586 Views
16 Pages

Joint Optimal Design of Electric Bus Service and Charging Facilities

  • Yuan Liu,
  • Yamin Ding,
  • Pei Jiang,
  • Xugang Jin and ,
  • Xinlin Wu and
  • Zhanji Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 July 2024

With the development of new energy technologies, fuel buses with internal combustion engines are gradually being replaced by electric buses. In order to save on system costs, an optimization model is proposed to jointly design the bus service and cha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Transportation and Logistics Optimization)
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1 Citations
2,715 Views
21 Pages

1 September 2025

Against the backdrop of rapid new urbanisation and the ongoing integration of urban and rural areas, the evolving spatial dynamics between public service facilities and population distribution have increasingly garnered scholarly interest. The presen...

(This article belongs to the Topic Architectures, Materials and Urban Design, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,326 Views
23 Pages

Issues and Needs of Elderly in Community Facilities and Services: A Case Study of Urban Housing Projects in Bangkok, Thailand

  • Wiruj Somsopon,
  • Sohee Minsun Kim,
  • Vilas Nitivattananon,
  • Kyoko Kusakabe and
  • Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen

8 July 2022

Thailand is projected to become a “super-aged” society in 2050, with more than 35 percent of the population aged 60 or above. The aging population represents enormous challenges in supporting the elderly’s needs in terms of living e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability of Care for Older People in Ageing Societies)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,325 Views
25 Pages

12 December 2024

The discrepancy between the physical accessibility and perceived accessibility of public service facilities in coastal towns and villages of Fujian, China, was investigated in this study. Through a spatial distribution analysis of education and medic...

(This article belongs to the Topic Biophilic Cities and Communities: Human-Environment Interaction and Sustainable Governance)
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  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,573 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2018

The premium effect of public service facilities on the housing market is a critical determinant of housing prices, leading to the competition of different social groups in the housing market and fueling spatial inequality. Taking Xi’an, China a...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,384 Views
29 Pages

7 March 2023

Community public service facilities have a primary supportive role in the health of the elderly. Under the background of global aging, it has become vital to evaluate the elderly-adaptability of their layouts. Based on the supply and demand interacti...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,935 Views
22 Pages

Heterogeneity Analysis of Resident Demands and Public Service Facilities in Megacities of China from the Perspective of Urban Health Examination

  • Ning Zhang,
  • Shaohua Wang,
  • Haojian Liang,
  • Zhuonan Huang and ,
  • Xiao Li and
  • Zhenbo Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Public service facilities are the cornerstone of urban development and further expansion, and their spatial distribution fairness is closely related to the quality of life of urban residents. Existing research tends to focus on coverage analysis of a...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,886 Views
15 Pages

16 May 2024

Population aging is a global issue. China is facing the same challenge, especially in its megacities, with more than 10 million permanent urban residents. These densely populated cities urgently need the scientific planning and optimization of the la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land, Ageing, Gender and Environment: Problems and Challenges from Different Disciplines II)
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414 Views
42 Pages

22 August 2026

Clarifying the mechanism through which community-built environment types influence the supply–demand adaptability of service facilities can promote the effectiveness of community service facility provision in the context of urban renewal. Exist...

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33 Citations
12,045 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2018

The management problems of Facilities Management (FM) outsourcing relationships occur because of provision of low quality analytical, managerial, cooperative, and professional services. On selection, the ideal service providers for specific FM outsou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue How does Outsourcing Affect the Economy and its Sustainability?)
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7 Citations
3,361 Views
22 Pages

4 September 2024

Metropolitan areas are important regions with a high concentration of population and public service facilities. The coupling coordination between public service facilities and population plays an important role in the sustainable development of econo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
1,131 Views
20 Pages

Study on the Allocation of Service Facilities for Integrated Communities: A Case Study of the Old City Center of Nanchang

  • Xueqiang Wang,
  • Xingyuan Zhu,
  • Nurulhusna Qamaruz Zaman and
  • Mimi Zaleha Abdul Ghani

13 November 2025

Based on the concept of integrated communities, this study focuses on improving public service facilities and perfecting convenient service facilities within integrated communities. Taking the central area of Nanchang’s old city as the research...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,574 Views
18 Pages

22 July 2024

With the rapid expansion of cities, the construction of 15-minute communities has become an important way to improve the urban living environment and enhance the quality of life of residents. In this study, based on the perspective of a 15-minute com...

(This article belongs to the Topic Biophilic Cities and Communities: Human-Environment Interaction and Sustainable Governance)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,650 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2023

This study focuses on the equity of spatial layout for public service facilities targeting different age groups and proposes a systematic analytical approach. The method mainly includes the following steps: (1) collecting spatial distribution data of...

(This article belongs to the Topic SDGs 2030 in Buildings and Infrastructure)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,252 Views
21 Pages

21 March 2023

University-affiliated public housing (UAPH) is planned for the purpose of coexistence with the local community as well as housing stability for university students. However, shared spaces such as auxiliary welfare facilities planned to achieve that p...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,468 Views
27 Pages

9 June 2023

Due to the rapid urbanization of China, residential areas and residents in small towns exhibit dual and complex urbanization patterns and characteristics. The “one-size-fits-all” approach to programming public service facilities has led t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Land Development in the Process of Urbanization)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,917 Views
22 Pages

Coupling Analysis of “Demand–Satisfaction” for Rural Public Service Facilities Based on the Kano Model with Importance–Performance Analysis: A Case Study of Gaoqing County, Zibo City

  • Xinlei Wang,
  • Jinwei Wen,
  • Jing He,
  • Mengying Wang and ,
  • Keju Liu,
  • Jinghua Dai,
  • Dingqing Zhang,
  • Dian Zhou and
  • Yingtao Qi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

In the context of people-oriented and high-quality development, improving the quality of rural public service facilities is an important way to promote rural revitalization. However, at present, there are problems such as imbalanced resource allocati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewal Design and Challenge of Urban and Rural Livable Environments in the Age of Population Shrinkage)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,027 Views
23 Pages

Whether public sectors or private institutions, in-house or outsourced, building-level or urban-scale, the critical role of facility management (FM) is to support the core business activities of an organization in accomplishing its objectives. Throug...

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6 Citations
1,725 Views
25 Pages

10 May 2025

Rapid population aging worldwide has created pressing demands for transformative changes in tourism management and service provision, necessitating urgent age-friendly modifications to destination infrastructure and facilities. However, the existing...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,168 Views
24 Pages

17 July 2025

With the rapid advancement of urbanization, the increasing demand and insufficient supply of public service facilities for children have become urgent problems requiring resolution. This study employs the Shannon diversity index, the location entropy...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Development and Coordinated Governance of Urban and Rural Areas Under the Guidance of Ecological Wisdom—2nd Edition)
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1 Citations
1,773 Views
28 Pages

Equity in access to emergency service facilities (ESFs) is essential for ensuring residents’ safety and well-being. Previous studies on equity in access to ESFs have mainly focused on individual facilities or single dimensions, failing to captu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue HealthScape: Intersections of Health, Environment, and GIS&T (2nd Edition))
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,910 Views
23 Pages

Harbin, as a popular tourist city in China, and the host of the 2025 Asian Winter Games, boasts rich tourism resources and significant potential for further development. The structure of the urban road network is a crucial factor influencing the spat...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,313 Views
27 Pages

12 July 2022

Public service facilities are important carriers of sustainable rural development. However, the “holistic” planning principle for cities has resulted in the inefficient use of public service facilities in villages. Under the guidance of t...

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22 Citations
7,738 Views
13 Pages

The present study seeks to establish tourism destination management centered on young children for accessible tourism from a public perspective. Preferences for services and facilities for young children were identified using a choice experiment (CE)...

(This article belongs to the Section Children's Health)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,175 Views
20 Pages

15 August 2024

The urban (suburban) railway is a fast and convenient rail transit system connecting urban and suburban areas, and a refined analysis of the diversity of public service facilities around its stations can help to promote the intensive use of land arou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interrelations in Urban–Rural Transects: Planning Sustainable Transformations for Human Wellbeing)
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4 Citations
2,708 Views
29 Pages

12 September 2025

In the context of low-growth urban development, the interaction between the supply–demand structure of community public service facilities and the housing market has increasingly become a key research concern. Yet, systematic investigations int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Urban Development and Real Estate Analysis)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,331 Views
20 Pages

Spatial Synergy between Tourism Resources and Tourism Service Facilities in Mountainous Counties: A Case Study of Qimen, Huangshan, China

  • Ying Han,
  • Yingjie Wang,
  • Hu Yu,
  • Wenting Luo and ,
  • Kai Wang and
  • Chunhua Sui
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 July 2024

Under the influence of mountainous terrain, the spatial synergy between tourism resources and tourism service facilities has emerged as a pivotal factor affecting the overall efficiency enhancement of regional tourism destinations. In order to explor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Utilization of National Parks’ Natural Resources and Community Livelihood)

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