COVID-19, cities and inequality

H Li, YD Wei - Applied Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has changed our lives and will likely leave a lasting imprint on our cities. This
paper reviews how the pandemic has altered the way people commute, work, collaborate …

Nonlinear and threshold effects of the built environment, road vehicles and air pollution on urban vitality

QC Doan, J Ma, S Chen, X Zhang - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025 - Elsevier
The impact of factors such as the built environment, road vehicles, and air quality on urban
vitality attracts increasing interest in urban planning and design research. However, tacit …

Community park visits determined by the interactions between built environment attributes: An explainable machine learning method

Z **ao, C Zhang, Y Li, Y Chen - Applied Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
Uncovering the association between built environment (BE) attributes and community park
visits by considering potential nonlinear effects can inform more effective spatial policies …

Nonlinear Hierarchical Effects of Housing Prices and Built Environment Based on Multiscale Life Circle—A Case Study of Chengdu

Y Song, S Zhang, W Deng - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Determining the optimal planning scale for urban life circles and analyzing the associated
built environment factors are crucial for comprehending and regulating residential …

A spatial projection pursuit model for identifying comprehensive urban vitality on blocks using multisource geospatial data

Z Zhang, J Liu, C Wang, Y Zhao, X Zhao, P Li… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The vitality of city blocks is a crucial indicator of urban development, influenced by human
activity, the built environment, and their interconnections. Urban vitality often exhibits …

Crafting an urban restorative model from bibliometric analysis of neuro-urbanism literature

M Elsayed, A Elshater, D Shehayeb… - Open House International, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Neuro-urbanism is an emerging field focused on addressing global urban
challenges by examining the impact of urban living on stress levels and mental well-being …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in Urban Vibrancy Enhancement among Different Mixed Land Use Types: Evidence from Shenzhen, China

H Yang, L Wang, F Tang, M Fu, Y **ong - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
Mixed land use has the advantages of promoting the economic and intensive utilization of
land and improving the efficiency of land use, which can help alleviate the current urban …

How Does the Historic Built Environment Influence Residents' Satisfaction? Using Gradient Boosting Decision Trees to Identify Critical Factors and the Threshold …

X Ji, Y Du, Q Li - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Historic cities, rich in heritage values and evocative of collective memories and meanings,
also constitute crucial living environments for urban residents. These cities increasingly face …

The effects of TOD on economic vitality in the post-COVID-19 era

L **ao, J Liu, S Wu - Research in Transportation Business & Management, 2025 - Elsevier
With the changes in people's spatial cognitions, preferences and behavior patterns as a
response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the way transit-oriented development (TOD) …

Exploring Non-linear Urban Vibrancy Dynamics in Emerging New Towns: A Case Study of the Wuhan Metropolitan Area

Z Zhang, L Zhao, M Zhang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
New towns have been extensively developed in many worldwide metropolises to overcome
a series of urban crisis caused by over-intensive population and economic activity, such as …