China’s urban–rural relationships have been changed dramatically by the intensifying population flows, especially in urban agglomeration regions. This study contributes to the interpretation of urban–rural integration mechanisms in...
13 May 2022
This article attempts to provide an integrated conceptual framework for understanding how rural–urban migrants in China integrate into urban society. We propose a three-phase conceptual framework in which the social integration of rural–u...
Digital technology has facilitated the transformation and upgrading of agriculture, profoundly altering production and marketing methods, especially in peri-urban agriculture. Taking the peri-urban agriculture of Guangzhou, China, as an example, this...
22 November 2022
The consensus that the digital economy drives urban-rural integration has been gradually reached both in practice and theory. Besides, the way by which the digital economy drives urban-rural integration remains updated iteratively. The coming period...
Urban–rural integration zones are areas with the most prominent and complex contradictions in economic and social, humanistic and geographical, and urban–rural contexts. Properly identifying such zones is essential for promoting urban&nda...
The clustering and collaborative development among cities, as a strategic measure concerning regional inclusivity and sustainable development, is both a current practice and a future trend, as evidenced by numerous successful cases worldwide. Scholar...
28 June 2022
Unlocking the relationship between regional integration and urban green development efficiency (UGDE) is of great importance for boosting regional high-quality development and promoting sustainable urban development patterns. Although studies have an...
Urban–rural integration is an important pathway for promoting coordinated territorial development and reducing urban–rural disparities. However, its spatial differentiation and regionally heterogeneous pathways at the county level remain...
This study selected the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration as the research area, considering the current status of its transportation development to construct an urban agglomeration land transportation integration index system and to evaluate th...
Against the backdrop of coordinated advancement in new urbanization and rural revitalization strategies, the integration of urban and rural areas serves as a core approach to dismantling the urban–rural dichotomy and driving high-quality region...
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...
Integration development of urban agglomeration is important for regional economic research and management. In this paper, a method was proposed to study the integration development of urban agglomeration by trajectory gravity model. It can analyze th...
Advancing urban–rural integration (URI) is pivotal to addressing the current urban–rural development imbalance in China. The urban agglomeration, as a crucial engine propelling China’s modernization, holds significant importance in...
The positive interaction between digital economy development and urban–rural relationship adjustment can both expand the contribution of technological factors and enhance the balance of urban–rural development. This paper aims to explore...
This study selected the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration as the research area, combining it with the current situation of the transportation development of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration to construct the urban agglomeration transp...
Most Urban Air Mobility (UAM) siting studies treat vertiport location as an isolated spatial-optimization problem, calibrated to cities with mature transport infrastructure and regulatory systems. This study instead develops an integrated planning fr...
China has entered a new stage of integrated development of urban and rural areas under the constraints of scarce land resources and the need for high-quality economic and social development. While there is concern about the state and speed of urban&n...
Urban–rural integration (URI) is important for achieving rural revitalization and sustainable development. Currently, there is a lack of research on URI in prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin Urban Agglomerations (YRBUAs), and the...
This study analyzes the association between age integration and residential satisfaction in urban regeneration areas. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 569 residents who visited ten Urban Regeneration Community Facilities (URCFs) in Daegu Met...
The imbalance between urban and rural development has increased socio-economic challenges. Urban–rural integration has become an important strategy for addressing disparities in development between urban and rural areas in China. The digital ec...
As a new economic system composed of data-driven, platform-supported, and network-coordinated economic activity units, the platform economy provides a new impetus for the integrated development of urban and rural areas. This paper uses China’s...
Since the founding of the country, China’s urban–rural relations have experienced four stages: differentiation, opposition, coordination, and equivalence. The scope of rural research has expanded from individual villages to group relation...
Green development represents a critical pathway to achieving high-quality growth. From a regional perspective, examining the impact of regional integration on urban green economic development holds significant importance. This study leverages a quasi...
Regional integration policies play a crucial role in promoting coordinated regional development. However, it remains unclear whether the polices simultaneously take into account urban–rural integration to achieve a dynamic balance between effic...
Understanding the integration process of urban agglomeration is essential for sustainable regional development and urban planning. However, few studies have analyzed the spatial integration patterns of metropolitan regions according to the impacts of...
Under the background of new-type urbanization and rural revitalization strategy, how to promote the development of urban–rural integration has become an important issue in today’s society. This paper designed a new evaluation mechanism fo...
One of the most significant challenges in cities concerns urban mobility. Urban mobility involves the use of different modes of transport, which can be individual or collective, and different organizations can produce their respective datasets that,...
Under the advancing urban–rural integration strategy, last-mile logistics, and their spatial accessibility, have become key indicators for measuring regional coordination. Focusing on Guangzhou as the case study area, this study constructs an u...
Urban integration, a new concept in urban and regional research, is an inevitable outcome of urban development. Based on accessibility analysis, this study uses urban and road network data to identify urban pairs in Northeast China which meet the dis...
Urban integration can lower average pollution, yet environmental benefits may be unevenly shared across cities within the same urban agglomeration. Such within-agglomeration disparities can weaken joint prevention and control, sustain unequal health...
With the advent of the information age, the digital economy has become an important force in promoting economic and social development; however, its impact on urban–rural relations remains controversial. The primary objective of this paper is t...
This study employs various comprehensive research methods to thoroughly analyze the relationship between urban–rural integration and sustainable development, proposing corresponding optimization pathways. First, a literature review method syste...
Urban flooding represents a growing global concern, especially in areas with rapid urbanization, unregulated urban sprawl and climate change conditions. Conventional flood modeling approaches do not effectively capture the complex dynamics between na...
With the advancement of urbanization and the continuous deepening of reforms in urban–rural systems, China’s urbanization process has entered a new era of integrated urban–rural integration. Currently, as a global “new green r...
Rising temperatures are one of the most severe consequences of climate change, and the built environment plays a significant role in exacerbating heat, particularly in urban areas. In densely populated cities with hot climates, buildings release heat...
Background. In China, the policy of ecological migration is a new approach to protect the urban ecological environment. However, the changes in livelihood capital before and after migration and the matching relationship between the livelihood capital...
Narrowing urban–rural disparities and advancing the green transition are two key imperatives for sustainable development, yet the relationship between green finance and urban–rural integration remains insufficiently examined. Using panel...
Urban–rural integration (URI) has emerged as a crucial strategy to bridge urban and rural disparities and promote more sustained urbanisation paradigms in China and abroad. The urban–rural interface, where urban and rural spaces and daily...
China is attaching increasing importance to the creation of regional integration, high-quality economic development and ecological civilization. An accurate grasp of the traction effect of the increased level of integration of urban agglomerations on...
Urban and rural relations are important for the sustainable development of a nation or region. Urban and rural integration (URI), as a conceptual framework and strategic tool for managing urban–rural relations, is supposed to play a role in lin...
In this paper, we study the integration of ecological sustainability and social welfare concerns in cities. Efforts to handle ecological challenges risk having negative impacts on equality and social welfare. While current levels of consumption and m...
Due to a lack of the realization mechanism and operational pattern of the urban-rural integration by land use, this study employs land use to regulate interface elements to achieve urban-rural integration development. Therefore, we analyzed urban-rur...
China’s smart-city and green-transition policies have made digital-green integration an important pathway for improving urban ecological resilience. This study examines whether digital-green integration enhances urban ecological resilience, thr...
The key to promoting urbanization in China is to achieve urban integration of migrant peasant workers, and basic public health services may have a potential social impact on the subjective welfare of migrant peasant workers. In this paper, we use dat...
Food security is pivotal for national sustainable development. This study utilizes panel data from 31 Chinese provinces spanning from 1990 to 2021 to construct distinct indicator systems for urban–rural integration and food security. The entrop...
This paper describes a novel architecture that aims to create a template for the implementation of an IT platform, supporting the deployment and integration of the different digital twin subsystems that compose a complex urban intelligence system. In...
This paper critically examines the persistent limitations of spatial planning reforms in China in addressing urban–rural integration, despite significant and successive legislative and planning reforms. Through a historically grounded and insti...
Green buildings (GB) have emerged as an effective strategy for mitigating environ-mental degradation, reducing resource depletion, and combating climate change linked to rapid urbanization. Due to the accelerating pace of urban growth in Nigeria and...
Urban–rural integration has become an effective way to promote the high-quality development of the tourism economy in China’s policy evolution. Based on provincial panel data for China for the last ten years, this paper measured the high-...
Persistent urban–rural disparities remain a major challenge to inclusive and sustainable development in many developing economies. The digital economy is widely viewed as a potential mechanism for alleviating such inequalities, yet empirical ev...
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