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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Accurately identifying an urban functional zone (UFZ) is crucial for rationally allocating urban land resources and optimizing urban spatial structure. Existing research based on Points of Interest (POIs) mostly uses the relationship between the numb...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Urban functional zones (UFZ) serve as fundamental units of human activity, and their spatial configurations significantly influence urban carbon emissions. However, current research often overlooks the heterogeneity of UFZ forms and the complex, mult...
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...
Urban Functional Zones (UFZs) serve as the fundamental units of cities, making the classification and recognition of UFZs of paramount importance for urban planning and development. These differences between UFZs not only encompass geographical lands...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Urban spatial patterns regulate microclimates, yet those nonlinear interactive actions of 2D landscape patterns and 3D building morphology on land surface temperature (LST) among diverse urban functional zones (UFZs) remain insufficiently quantified....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Refined urban flood risk assessment requires a paradigm beyond traditional single-scale analyses. Existing approaches often overlook fine-scale functional differentiation and cascading risk connectivity across urban systems. This study proposes an in...
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,...
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...
Extreme heatwaves intensify urban heat islands and pose increasing risks to urban sustainability and human health. However, how urban morphology is associated with daytime and nighttime land surface temperature (LST) across urban functional zones (UF...
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...
Urban functional zone (UFZ) identification supports refined territorial spatial governance and urban remote sensing. It faces the dual challenges of spectral confusion and functional mixing, which single-source remote sensing cannot resolve at high a...
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