The degradation of urban river ecosystems presents a serious threat to sustainable urban
development. Consequently, extensive efforts have been devoted to the ecological …

Floor level is an important factor influencing housing price. However, most existing literature
just treated floor level as a control variable and simply obtained a linear relationship …

We document that skyscraper growth since the end of the 19 th century has been driven by a
reduction in the cost of height, increasing urbanization, and rising incomes. These stylized …

The energy performance of a building in a dense city depends to some extent on its
surroundings. The impact of the built form, together with anthropogenic heat gains from …

The land value uplift effects of rapid transit infrastructure provide evidence of willingness to
pay for more sustainable forms of development and suggest a rationale for land value …

Integrated urban blue-green spaces (UBGS) represent a new global strategic initiative in the
construction of ecologically multifunctional and socially inclusive cities. A common challenge …

Buyers often pay different prices for almost identical houses. One possible explanation is
that there are information asymmetries in housing markets. Perhaps, buyers from outside the …

If carefully planned, urban renewal may play an important role in regenerating a decaying
neighborhood and mitigating the negative externality generated by dilapidated buildings in …

Urban streams could concurrently bring about both positive amenities accruing to the view of
waterscape and negative disamenities associated with water pollution. In this paper, we …

There often exists a tension between heritage conservation and urban redevelopment.
However, heritage places are progressively operated as consumption spots and economic …