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Environmental Studies
Richard Florida, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, Michael Storper
Summary: This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences on cities and metropolitan regions. At the macrogeographic scale, the pandemic is unlikely to significantly change the economic geography and spatial inequality of the global city system. However, at the microgeographic scale, it may lead to a series of social changes in the structure and morphology of cities, suburbs, and metropolitan regions.
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Urban Studies
Abdul Rehman Javed, Faisal Shahzad, Saif Ur Rehman, Yousaf Bin Zikria, Imran Razzak, Zunera Jalil, Guandong Xu
Summary: Future smart cities are crucial for fulfilling increasing demands and better resource management through information and communication advancements. However, rapid population growth poses challenges in creating sustainable urban spaces. The rise of smart cities ensures citizen rights and well-being, along with evaluating urban planning from an environmental perspective. This paper surveys future technologies and requirements for smart cities, reviews existing application frameworks, discusses technological challenges, and identifies future dimensions for developing smart cities.
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Urban Studies
Xiang Liu, Yichen Li, Xiaohong Chen, Jia Liu
Summary: Low-carbon city pilot policy in China has effectively promoted carbon emission reduction, but with varying effects in different regions. The superposition effect of different policies also differs. Energy structure, industrial structure, and innovation level have significant impacts on the effectiveness of low-carbon city pilot policies.
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Regional & Urban Planning
Sierra C. Woodruff, Sara Meerow, Missy Stults, Chandler Wilkins
Summary: Increasingly, local governments are developing resilience plans to address climate change impacts. However, these plans lack critical elements for climate preparedness, although they provide a platform to tackle economic, social, and environmental policies that may amplify climate change impacts. Resilience planning represents an alternative, potentially complementary approach to climate change preparedness, but there is still room for improvement.
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Qiantao Zhang, Paige A. Clayton, Shiri M. Breznitz
Summary: The economic and financial crisis between 2008 and 2013 led universities to reconsider their funding allocations. While some universities were able to increase their research expenditure during this period of budget constraints, the efficiency of research funding declined. Governments and universities focused too narrowly on the financial terms of research and neglected other factors affecting academic research performance.
INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW
(2022)
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Ecology
Zihan Xu, Jian Peng, Jianquan Dong, Yanxu Liu, Qianyuan Liu, Danna Lyu, Ruilin Qiao, Zimo Zhang
Summary: This study quantitatively analyzed the spatiotemporal changes in ecosystem services (ES) supply and demand in Guangdong Province from 2000 to 2015. The results showed spatial heterogeneity in the changes, with ES supply being significantly affected by ES demand. Different zones also exhibited spatial correlation in ES supply and demand changes.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2022)
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Economics
Edward L. Glaeser, Caitlin Gorback, Stephen J. Redding
Summary: Restrictions on mobility are effective in limiting the spread of COVID-19, with a decrease of 19% to 30% in total cases per capita for every ten percentage point fall in mobility. East coast cities have stronger effects, with the largest impact seen in NYC during the early stages of the pandemic.
JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Development Studies
Hualou Long, Li Ma, Yingnan Zhang, Lulu Qu
Summary: This paper summarizes the stage characteristics of multifunctional rural development in China and categorizes rural areas using a comprehensive evaluation method and spatial analysis. The results show that the rural multifunctionality index exhibits significant spatial heterogeneity during the period of 2000-2015, with increases observed in agricultural production and social security functions.
HABITAT INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
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Urban Studies
Xiaohui Hu, Liangang Li, Ke Dong
Summary: This paper examines the economic response and resilience of old industrial cities in Northeast China to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis. It explores the factors that shape the early-stage response to the crisis using the concept of resistance in regional economic resilience. The analysis reveals significant differences in the regional economic impact between COVID-19 and the 2008 financial crisis, with larger cities being more vulnerable. The study highlights the crucial role of state agency in shaping economic resistance, and argues that the nature of COVID-19 as a crisis context needs to be seriously considered when studying regional economic resilience.
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Zaheer Allam, Ayyoob Sharifi, Simon Elias Bibri, David Sydney Jones, John Krogstie
Summary: This study provides an overview of the Metaverse from a broader perspective and explores its potential contributions to smart cities, with a focus on environmental, economic, and social sustainability goals. It aims to help urban policy makers understand the opportunities and implications of the Metaverse on tech-mediated practices and applied urban agendas.
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Urban Studies
Kostas Mouratidis, Athena Yiannakou
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on people's quality of life, with decreased health and well-being during this period. The relationship between the urban built environment and health and well-being has varied between the COVID-19 period and the pre-pandemic period, indicating that factors such as proximity to parks and local facilities, lower neighborhood density, living further from the city center, and residing in larger dwellings are associated with better health and well-being outcomes during COVID-19.
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Economics
Theresa Kuchler, Dominic Russel, Johannes Stroebel
Summary: The use of aggregated data from Facebook shows that COVID-19 tends to spread more easily in regions with stronger social network connections. Areas that have more social ties to early COVID-19 hotspots in the U.S. and Italy had a higher number of confirmed cases by the end of March. These relationships remain significant even after taking into account geographic distance, population density, and demographics. The study suggests that social connectedness data from online platforms can be valuable for epidemiologists and others in predicting the spread of communicable diseases like COVID-19.
JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Regional & Urban Planning
Tao Tao, Xinyi Wu, Jason Cao, Yingling Fan, Kirti Das, Anu Ramaswami
Summary: This study uses Gradient Boosting Decision Trees to explore the nonlinear relationships between the built environment and active travel in the Twin Cities. It found that the built environment has more predictive power for active travel than demographics, and parks, proximity to downtown, and transit access have important influences. The threshold effects of built environment variables provide insights for planning practice.
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Richa Mahtta, Michail Fragkias, Burak Gueneralp, Anjali Mahendra, Meredith Reba, Elizabeth A. Wentz, Karen C. Seto
Summary: The growth of global urban populations will have a significant impact on urban land expansion, with population growth being the dominant factor. However, the importance of GDP growth in urban land expansion has increased since 2000. In countries with strong governance, economic growth plays a bigger role in urban land expansion than population growth. The study also highlights the correlation between urban population growth and urban land expansion, which varies across countries at different developmental stages.
NPJ URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Economics
Matthew J. Delventhal, Eunjee Kwon, Andrii Parkhomenko
Summary: If there were a permanent increase in working from home, the shape of our cities would change. Jobs would move to the city core while residents would move to the outskirts. Traffic congestion would ease and travel times would decrease. Real estate prices would fall, with decreases in core locations and increases in the periphery. Workers who switch to telecommuting would enjoy significant welfare gains, saving commute time and moving to more affordable neighborhoods. Workers who continue to work on-site would also experience modest welfare gains, benefiting from shorter commute times, improved job access, and lower real estate prices.
JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Economics
Daniel Mangrum, Paul Niekamp
Summary: According to the study, there was a higher growth rate of COVID-19 cases in counties with more students returning to campus during spring break. The increase in case growth rates peaked two weeks after spring break and was larger for universities with students more likely to travel through airports and to popular destinations. The study also found evidence of viral infection transmission due to college student travel prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Urban Studies
Xin Li, Yuan Li, Tao Jia, Lin Zhou, Ihab Hamzi Hijazi
Summary: This study explores the relationship between the built environment and urban vitality by combining different data sources. The results show that factors such as population density, community age, and open space have positive impacts on urban vitality, while road density, proximity to parks, and green space have negative impacts.
Article
Urban Studies
Yunlei Zhou, Shengsheng Li
Summary: This study examines the impact of the national innovative-city-pilot policy on urban innovation using the difference-in-difference (DID) models. The findings suggest that the policy has significantly improved urban innovation, particularly in provincial capitals and sub-provincial cities.
JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS
(2023)
Review
Ecology
Matthew H. E. M. Browning, Alessandro Rigolon, Olivia McAnirlin, Hyunseo (Violet) Yoon
Summary: Greenspace in urban areas may have greater protective health effects than elsewhere. Urban dwellers experience more environmental harmful exposures, attentional demands, and stressors than their suburban/rural counterparts. Stronger greenspace-health associations in more urban areas might be explained in part by the mechanistic pathways underlying these associations.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2022)
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Ecology
Haowei Mu, Xuecao Li, Haijiao Ma, Xiaoping Du, Jianxi Huang, Wei Su, Zhen Yu, Chen Xu, Hualiang Liu, Dongqin Yin, Baoguo Li
Summary: This study evaluated the ecological network in the Three-North Shelterbelt (TNS) region in China from a policy-driven perspective. The research found that the ecological network is denser in humid regions and identified vulnerable areas in the southern part of the Qilian Mountains and the northern part of Shaanxi. Additionally, the study observed a consistent decrease in human activities and species numbers with increasing distance to the ecological network.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2022)
