Entrepreneurship role in the co-production of public services in informal settlements− A scoping review

Y Adewunmi, UE Chigbu, S Mwando, U Kahireke - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
From a land-use planning perspective, informal settlements emerge because of dysfunctions
in contemporary cities, leading to inequities in living conditions and exclusions of people in …

[HTML][HTML] Built environment and early infection of COVID-19 in urban districts: A case study of Huangzhou

B Li, Y Peng, H He, M Wang, T Feng - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
Since COVID-19 spread rapidly worldwide, many countries have experienced significant
growth in the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Earlier studies have examined various …

Urbanization's effects on the urban-rural income gap in China: A meta-regression analysis

Y Yuan, M Wang, Y Zhu, X Huang, X Xiong - Land Use Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The considerable gap between urban and rural areas in China has been one of those social
problems during the urbanization process. Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of …

Spatial stratified heterogeneity and driving mechanism of urban development level in China under different urban growth patterns with optimal parameter-based …

Q He, M Yan, L Zheng, B Wang - Computers, Environment and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapid urbanization leads to the dynamic changes of the urban external landscape and
forms different urban growth patterns (UGP), which in turn affects the development level of …

[HTML][HTML] Cultivating historical heritage area vitality using urban morphology approach based on big data and machine learning

J Wu, Y Lu, H Gao, M Wang - Computers, environment and urban systems, 2022 - Elsevier
The conservation of historical heritage can bring social benefits to cities by promoting
community economic development and societal creativity. In the early stages of historical …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating the urban spatial structure with spatial interaction: A case study of urban polycentricity under different scenarios

C Wu, D Smith, M Wang - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Polycentric urban development is gaining momentum in both scholarly research and real-life
practice. This brings new demand for planning support systems to simulate and analyse the …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring polycentric urban development: The importance of accurately determining the 'balance'between 'centers'

B Derudder, X Liu, M Wang, W Zhang, K Wu, F Caset - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, much research has been devoted to developing appropriate analytical
frameworks to capture polycentric urban development (PUD). In a recent contribution to this …

One size does not fit all: A tale of polycentric development and land degradation in Italy

M Lanfredi, G Egidi, L Bianchini, L Salvati - Ecological Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Polycentric development is one of the fundamental components of the European Spatial
Planning and Development (ESPD) strategy and substantiates the legitimacy of a …

Monitoring the well-being of vulnerable transit riders using machine learning based sentiment analysis and social media: Lessons from COVID-19

M Tran, C Draeger, X Wang… - … and Planning B: Urban …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Using open-source data, we show that despite significant reductions in global public transit
during the COVID-19 pandemic,∼ 20% of ridership continues during social distancing …

Measuring Dhaka's urban transformation using nighttime light data

MM Morshed, T Chakraborty, T Mazumder - Journal of Geovisualization …, 2022 - Springer
Cities are being restructured as a result of globalization, information flows, and changing
economic processes. Global cities become command and control centers for subordinate …