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Environmental Studies
Mustapha Bangura, Chyi Lin Lee
Summary: This study investigates the presence of housing bubbles in different regions of Greater Sydney and finds evidence of housing submarkets in the city. It also confirms the existence of housing price bubbles in Western Sydney and highlights the role of housing investment in the formation of these bubbles.
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Geography
Sean Fox, Allan Macleod
Summary: An increasing number of cities around the world are adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and integrating them into their local policies and monitoring efforts. This process of 'localization' involves translating and embedding the SDGs into local contexts, supported by partnerships between universities and cities. The SDGs have the power to bring cities together, facilitate international networks, and help cities demonstrate their commitment to global ambitions and progress. However, new methods and frameworks are needed to effectively monitor the progress of these goals at the subnational level.
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Economics
Douglas Hanley, Jiancheng Li, Mingqin Wu
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of infrastructure on innovation collaboration between enterprises in different locations using the introduction of high-speed railways in China. The study finds that high-speed railways can substantially improve innovation collaboration at both the city level and city-pair level, with a greater impact on collaboration in less developed regions, in the service sector, and in domestic enterprises.
REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Plant Sciences
Xin Li, Xia Zhang, Tao Jia
Summary: Previous studies have focused on the independent effects of landscape characteristics or preference on psychological restoration, but few have explored the complex relationships between restorative effects, landscape characteristics, preference, and place bonding factors in urban parks. Using a new data environment and technique, this study examined the influences of urban park characteristics and psychological factors on college students' perceived restoration. The findings revealed the indirect impacts of landscape properties and the mediating effect of sense of place on restoration, as well as the moderating effects of landscape characteristics on the preference-restoration nexus. This study provides new insights into the intertwined process of environmental restoration involving psychological and physical factors, and has implications for landscape planning in restoration studies.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2023)
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Sociology
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
Summary: This article theorizes gentrification as a racialized, profit-accumulating process through the lens of racial capitalism, integrating the perspective that spaces are always racialized to class-centered theories. The author demonstrates how the concepts of value, valuation, and devaluation from racial capitalism explain where and how gentrification unfolds, with exposure to gentrification varying depending on a neighborhood's racial composition and the gentrification stakeholders involved. Revising our understanding of gentrification to address the racialization of space helps resolve seemingly contradictory findings across qualitative and quantitative studies.
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Geography
Fulong Wu
Summary: This paper explores the two dimensions of financialization in Chinese cities: whether financial instruments are used for urban development tasks and whether the utilization of these instruments imposes financial logic on urban governance. While the application of land instruments leads to financial securitization, the financialization of Chinese cities is driven by the state and the financial logic may not be central.
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Development Studies
Hualou Long
Summary: This paper utilizes land system science as a theoretical framework and combines it with the rural development strategy in China to explain land use transitions. It proposes a conflict-coordination theoretical model, perspectives on structural and functional changes in the land system, and coupling patterns and processes to adjust and control land use transitions. The paper aims to advance rural development strategy through theoretical methods and an integrated approach to comprehend land use transitions and regional development strategies.
HABITAT INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Mengmeng Li, Peter H. Verburg, Jasper van Vliet
Summary: Urban areas globally are expanding faster than their population, but with local variations. The study shows that central areas of large cities have become denser over the past few decades, while rural areas have experienced the opposite trend. Additionally, many densely populated regions in the Global South have also undergone densification, potentially leading to trade-offs in terms of human well-being.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2022)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Simon Elias Bibri
Summary: Science and technology have a profound impact on society and shape the fictional representation of the technologically driven future world, known as the Metaverse. This study explores the complex relationship between the Metaverse and the wider social context, emphasizing the need for public participation and democratic control due to its ethical and social implications. It also highlights concerns regarding determinism, social exclusion, privacy erosion, and dystopianism associated with the Metaverse.
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Urban Studies
Dongsheng He, Jia Miao, Yi Lu, Yimeng Song, Long Chen, Ye Liu
Summary: The influence of high-density environment on urban residents is controversial, but urban greenery may mitigate the detrimental effects of crowded environments on quality of life. This study examined the complex relationship between urban density, urban greenery, and older people's life satisfaction, using survey data collected from 1,594 older adults in 129 neighborhoods in Shanghai, China. The results showed that higher urban density was related to lower life satisfaction, and a reduced sense of community was a significant pathway between higher urban density and lower life satisfaction. Furthermore, eye-level greenery cushioned the negative effect of urban density on life satisfaction.
Article
Plant Sciences
Monika Egerer, Brenda Lin, Jonathan Kingsley, Pauline Marsh, Lucy Diekmann, Alessandro Ossola
Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, gardening has been shown to be overwhelmingly important for nature connection, stress release, outdoor physical activity, and food provision. The significance of food provision and economic security is particularly highlighted for individuals facing greater hardships. Gardening can serve as a public health strategy to enhance societal resilience.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2022)
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Development Studies
Yanfeng Jiang, Hualou Long, Christopher D. Ives, Wu Deng, Kunqiu Chen, Yingnan Zhang
Summary: This paper explores the modes of rural development promoted by land consolidation from the perspective of land use multifunctionality, and discusses its internal mechanisms. The results show that land consolidation can significantly influence industrial structure, living conditions, ecological environment, and cultural construction by changing the type and intensity of rural land use functions.
HABITAT INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Review
Urban Studies
Jing Wang, Filip Biljecki
Summary: This paper provides a systematic review of the application of unsupervised learning in urban studies, revealing its methods, application areas, and trends. Unsupervised learning plays an important role in urban research, enabling the discovery of patterns and decision-making from complex data.
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Education & Educational Research
Ryan D. Heath, Charity Anderson, Ashley Cureton Turner, Charles M. Payne
Summary: This review examines studies on disadvantaged youth participating in extracurricular activities, highlighting that although they are less likely to participate, they often experience greater benefits depending on risk status and activity type. Therefore, expanding access to extracurricular programs for disadvantaged youth is valuable.
Article
Environmental Studies
Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson, Luciana Lang, Camilla Lewis, Patty Doran, Mhorag Goff
Summary: This paper argues that post-COVID-19 recovery strategies should focus on building fairer cities and communities, particularly by embedding age-friendly principles to support marginalized older people in deprived urban neighborhoods. The paper emphasizes the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on older people and the exacerbation of social and spatial inequalities. It concludes by proposing six principles for age-friendly community recovery planning in the post-pandemic city.
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Education & Educational Research
Justin A. Coles
Summary: This article highlights the role of Blackness and anti-Blackness in the social worlds of nine Black adolescents at an urban high school. Through the analysis of dialogic storytelling, the article proposes a reimagining of urban schooling social education that addresses anti-Blackness explicitly. It also outlines the sources and operation of anti-Blackness in the lives of the participants.
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Regional & Urban Planning
Brian Stone Jr, Kevin Lanza, Evan Mallen, Jason Vargo, Armistead Russell
Summary: This article explores the potential of cities to develop urban heat management plans in order to mitigate rising temperatures and reduce the impact of extreme heat on human health. By modeling the effects of various heat management strategies, such as tree planting and other green infrastructure, cool roofing and paving, and a reduction in waste heat emissions from buildings and vehicles, the study finds that these strategies can potentially lower summer temperatures by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit and reduce heat-related mortality by over 20 percent in Louisville, Kentucky.
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Nancy Acevedo, Daniel G. Solorzano
Summary: Community cultural wealth (CCW) challenges the deficit notion that Communities of Color lack cultural capital. This study explores how CCW can help Students and Faculty of Color navigate educational contexts and protect them from racism.
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Environmental Studies
Marlee Bower, Caitlin Buckle, Emily Rugel, Amarina Donohoe-Bales, Laura McGrath, Kevin Gournay, Emma Barrett, Peter Phibbs, Maree Teesson
Summary: Increased time spent at home during COVID-19 has highlighted the inequities in housing quality and availability in Australia. Poor housing conditions and lack of space have negative impacts on residents' mental health. Future housing policy should prioritize affordability, quality, and access to amenities to improve the mental health of vulnerable populations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOUSING POLICY
(2023)
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Urban Studies
Qiao Li, Lian Liu, Zhiwei Guo, Pandi Vijayakumar, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Keping Yu
Summary: This paper proposes a smart assessment and forecasting framework for the healthy development index in urban cities (HDI-UC). It combines a previous assessment model with Gaussian process regression to directly forecast future HDI-UC values. The framework is validated using real-world statistical data from China, showing acceptable prediction error.
