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Urban Food Markets and Tourism
Gastronomy tourism in urban spaces offers not only the attraction associated with food and drink, but also adds historical and social attractions. These urban markets, with a historical role rooted in people's lives, are a tourist attraction for the visitor, where he can experience both the autochthonous products and the authenticity of the place and its people.
  • 382
  • 15 May 2023
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Smart Cities and Urban Energy Planning
This review paper comprehensively investigates the dynamic interplay between technological innovations and urban energy planning within the framework of smart cities. It embarks on a comprehensive bibliometric analysis encompassing over 9,300 publications to critically assess the progression, ambitions, obstacles, and the evident disconnection between technological advancements and the necessary policy and regulatory frameworks. This paper categorizes the multifaceted aspects of smart city initiatives, including energy-efficient buildings, sustainable urban design, intelligent transportation systems, and the integration of smart grids, drawing attention to the predominantly technology-centric focus in existing research. It underscores a substantial gap in the literature regarding the holistic integration of policy measures that are crucial for bridging the divide between technology and societal needs. By highlighting these discrepancies, the paper advocates for a more cohesive approach that aligns technological solutions with strategic policy development, aiming to optimize the benefits of smart city initiatives. This involves a critical evaluation of policy challenges, suggesting the imperative for comprehensive strategies that encompass regulatory, economic, and socio-technical dimensions to enhance urban sustainability and resilience. Through this detailed investigation, the paper contributes valuable insights into the evolution of smart cities, offering a roadmap for future research and policy-making to harness the full potential of urban technological innovations in creating socially just, environmentally friendly and energy-efficient urban ecosystems.
  • 382
  • 06 Feb 2024
Topic Review
The Politics of Hard/Soft Dichotomies
Hard and soft approaches to smart cities have been contributed to the compartmentalization of the smart city concept itself. The binary of the hard (technocratic) and soft (societal) is also often presented as a choice of pathways in the development of smart cities. This conceptualization has developed, however, with the original technocratic focus now increasingly reframed as “citizen-centric.”
  • 378
  • 17 Oct 2022
Topic Review
Roles of Stakeholders in Energy Living Lab
The living lab concept in energy transition research is still relatively new, but it has piqued the interest of policymakers, researchers, and practitioners. While Følstad claims that the living lab concept originated in the 2000′s with private firms conducting real-life testing and experimentation for information and communication technologies, Leminen et al. contend that the concept first appeared in 1749. The living lab concept is identified as having the potential to provide a platform to test technologies and support energy transition. 
  • 377
  • 17 Nov 2022
Topic Review
Sustainable Coastal Design
Mediterranean coastal cities are mostly urban environments with a long history, hence the idea that the different aspects that form the identity and perception of the cities can be interconnected in a framework that can be useful for further understanding and improvement. There is a need to consider multiple scales, national boundaries, the intersection of land and water and different stakeholders, policies and sectors. The coastal zone is an interface between land and sea, composed of a continuum of coastal land, intertidal areas, aquatic systems including the network of rivers and estuaries, islands, transitional and intertidal areas, salt marshes, wetlands and beaches. Natural coastal systems and areas where human activities involve the use of coastal resources may, therefore, extend well beyond the limit of territorial waters, and several kilometers inland.
  • 377
  • 29 Jun 2023
Topic Review
Air Pollution Perception and Urban Settlement Intentions
With the public paying more and more attention to the problem of air pollution, the impact of air quality on migration has gradually become a growing concern. The concept of talent urban settlement intentions is the willingness of talent to work and live in a city for a long time. A comprehensive analysis of the influencing factors of the willingness of talent to settle down can help city administration understand what such talent need from the city and thus enact targeted and efficient public policies and provide public goods. As environmental hazards, e.g., air pollution, have become increasingly serious, more individuals consider air quality an important factor when choosing a place of residence (for physical and mental health purposes). Young talent are more sensitive and concerned about air pollution, and that this may consequently influence their choice of cities when seeking long-term employment.
  • 373
  • 08 Apr 2022
Topic Review
Museums and Their Inequality Changes in China
As the spaces for dialogue between the past and the future, museums are essential to human well-being and social sustainability. We take China as a case study to explore the increasing trends of the number of museums as well as spatial inequities at both the provincial and city level.  
  • 372
  • 24 Dec 2021
Topic Review
Expansion of the Research Scope of Spatial Mismatch
A growing number of studies have realized that spatial mismatch itself was from the beginning not only about how space interacts with the labor market, but about how space is related to race, transport, skills, social relations, occupational segmentation, and other elements that influence labor market outcomes, and that spatial mismatch needs to be understood and constructed in a broader context. With further suburbanization, changes in demographic characteristics, housing market reforms, and economic restructuring, and urban sprawl, scholars have begun to reassess the diametrically opposed findings on spatial mismatch by placing them in the new socio-economic context and working to expand the possibilities of spatial mismatch in terms of the group concerned, influencing factors, indicator methods, spatial relationships, and consequential effects.
  • 373
  • 28 Jul 2022
Topic Review
Accessibility to Public Service Facilities on Housing Prices
High-value units of public service accessibility are concentrated in built-up areas, while low-value units are located at the urban fringe. Larger public services have more significant clustering effects than smaller ones. Recreational, medical, educational and financial facilities all have capitalisation effects on housing prices. Both the geographical detector model and the spatial association detector model could identify the drivers of housing prices, but the explanatory power of the latter is greater and could enhance the validity and reliability of the findings.
  • 346
  • 29 Jun 2023
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Logistics Industry and New Urbanization in China
As one of the three regional development strategies of China’s 13th Five-Year Plan, the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is a major construction task for China. In recent years, the level of urbanization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt has increased, and the logistics industry has also been developing rapidly. At the same time, a series of problems have been created, such as environmental damage and waste of resources. The state attaches great importance to the development of new urbanization, logistics industry, the ecological environmental protection and their mutual promotion relationship in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It has successively issued documents such as “Guidance on Promoting the Development of Yangtze River Economic Belt by Relying on the Golden Waterway”, “Outline of the Development Plan of Yangtze River Economic Belt” and “Ecological Environmental Protection Plan of Yangtze River Economic Belt”, proposing to vigorously protect the ecological environment of the Yangtze River, innovate and drive industrial transformation and upgrading and actively promote the new urbanization.
  • 343
  • 01 Jun 2022
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