Habitat International

Papers
(The median citation count of Habitat International is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia146
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?135
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Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration118
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong97
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania86
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management83
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China80
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea72
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities69
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China63
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia62
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration62
Dynamic evaluation and obstacle factor diagnosis of rural human settlements quality in the Dabie mountains old revolutionary Base area under the background of rural revitalization62
Addressing the macroeconomic and hedonic determinants of housing prices in Beijing Metropolitan Area, China59
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?58
Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.56
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China53
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform52
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State49
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives49
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach49
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set48
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region47
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs46
Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages46
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective45
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China45
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia44
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America43
Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment in China42
Land marketization and urban innovation capability: Evidence from China41
Understanding the value of retail accessibility in private housing markets: A study from Turin, Italy41
Optimizing the rural comprehensive land consolidation in China based on the multiple roles of the rural collective organization40
Governance transformation among urbanization in China: From hierarchical model to contract-based exploration40
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China39
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China39
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty in secondary cities: Implications for urban sustainability in African cities39
Assessing the effects of the new-type urbanization policy on rural settlement evolution using a multi-agent model38
Urban habitats and food insecurity: Lessons learned throughout a pandemic38
Analyzing the impact of land expropriation program on farmers' livelihood in urban fringes of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia37
Ice and snow tourism in China's ecological civilization era: The Altay, Xinjiang experience37
Urban construction-based social risks assessment in hot arid countries with social network analysis37
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale36
Externality impacts of “Not in My Backyard” facilities on property values: Evidence from the Hangzhou waste sorting and reduction complex projects35
Realities or mythologies: England's village pubs and counterurbanisation34
Social learning and dynamics of farmers’ perception towards hollowed village consolidation34
Urban agglomeration economies and their relationships to built environment and socio-demographic characteristics in Hong Kong34
Social sustainability of residential squares: Evidence from Narmak neighborhood, Tehran33
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Breathing space in a compact city: Impacts of urban re-densification on Mumbai's low-income housing environment31
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How studentification reshapes social vulnerability in urban Korea: Impressions based on regeneration and shrinkage31
Indigenous Urbanisation and Urban Indigeneity: Insights of embedded identity and contouring spatiality in Jharkhand, India31
Has urban expansion alleviated working-residential spaces segregation across inner-outer cities? A multi-scale study with location-based social bigdata30
Evolution of accessibility to work for low-income populations in Brazil: Towards equitable and sustainable metropolises?30
Collaborative governance and conflict management in cultural heritage-led regeneration projects: The case of urban Korea30
How does farmers' endogenous dynamic shape up in China's rural residential land system reform: Insights from the social-ecological system framework30
Why do skilled migrants’ housing tenure outcomes and tenure aspirations vary among different family lifecycle stages?30
Price premium of the collective management of condominiums: Evidence from Tokyo30
Economic integration of temporary and permanent migrants: Between migrant and return migrant status29
How to become one? The modern bond of traditional villages in centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas in China29
Urban induced-displacement of informal settlement dwellers: A comparison of affected households' and planning officials’ preferences for resettlement site attributes in Kigali, Rwanda28
Mapping the emerging forms of informality: A comparative morphogenesis of villages-in-the-city in Vietnam28
Academic urban legend, Agbogbloshie: Sweeping away the "World's Largest E-Waste Dumpsite"28
Identifying post-suburbanization: The case of the Jakarta metropolitan area (JMA)27
The impacts of urban vitality and urban density on innovation: Evidence from China's Greater Bay Area26
The medicalisation of solid waste: Coordination challenges of domestic biomedical risk waste in illegal dumping sites in informal settlements in Cape Town26
The Fourth Generation: Urban renewal policies in the service of private developers26
The organic renewal of traditional villages from the perspective of logical space restoration and physical space adaptation: A case study of Laoche village, China26
Sustainable development of urban agglomerations around lakes in China: Achieving SDGs by regulating Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand through New-type Urbanization25
The effect of urban–rural construction land transition on ecosystem services: A theoretical framework and empirical evidence for China25
The impact of rural land transfer on the living satisfaction of middle-aged rural residents and the implications: A perspective of land attachment25
Spatial production in the process of rapid urbanisation and ageing: A case study of the new type of community in suburban Shanghai25
The role of individualistic versus collectivist values in shaping the residential choice of Palestinian knowledge-workers25
Enabling planned urban settlements through land readjustment - A case study from Kigali, Rwanda25
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Heterogeneity of urban‒rural responses to multigoal policy from an efficiency perspective: An empirical study in China24
Who moves and who gains from internal migration in Egypt? Evidence from two waves of a labor market panel survey24
How can land-use practices be modeled? Understanding the influence of knowledge, attitudes and emotional connections on urban residents’ behavioral intentions regarding peri-urban areas from an MLU pe24
Social networks matter for villagers’ withdrawal from rural homesteads: An empirical analysis of sichuan in western China24
The impact of mega shopping complexes on the survival of nearby local businesses: A case study of the seoul metropolitan area, South Korea23
Reducing rural income inequality and its spatial convergence in China during the past two decades23
Exploring the relationship between ‘sites and services’ projects and urban adaptability. A case study of Charkop (Mumbai)23
Aspirations versus reality: Factors influencing the vertical social mobility of urban Roma mothers living in extreme poverty23
Forecasting the dynamics of the Istanbul real estate market with the Bayesian time-varying VAR model regarding housing affordability23
Intergenerational social housing for older adults: Findings from a Central European city23
Urban land system change: Spatial heterogeneity and driving factors of land use intensity in Wuhan, China22
Types of foreign finance and slum upgrading: How do official development assistance, foreign direct investment, and foreign remittances affect slum upgrading across regime types in developing countrie21
Evaluation and formation mechanism of rural social vulnerability under natural hazard: A case study of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China21
Placing social networks: A case study of female gated community residents in Bahrain21
Evaluation of the university campus layout for the dual use as a city-level emergency shelter21
Urban residential space differentiation and the influence of accessibility in Hangzhou, China21
Proposing the classification matrix for growing and shrinking cities: A case study of 228 districts in South Korea21
Micro-regeneration in Shanghai and the public-isation of space21
Measuring the role of land consolidation to community revitalization in rapidly urbanizing rural China: A perspective of functional supply-demand21
A participatory foresight approach to envisioning post-pandemic urban development pathways in Tokyo20
Cultural reinvention or cultural erasure? A study on rural gentrification, land leasing, and cultural change20
Understanding location choice of Syrian refugees from country to neighbourhood level: Opportunities, restrictions and expectations20
Impact of multi-dimensional precarity on rough sleeping: Evidence from Hong Kong20
Assessing impacts of the water poverty index components on the human development index in Iran20
Exploring the moderating effect of private green space on the relationship between density and housing prices20
Evaluating resilience and enhancing strategies for old urban communities amidst epidemic challenges20
Impacts of information asymmetry and policy shock on rental and vacancy dynamics in retail property markets20
Agglomeration spillover, accessibility by high-speed rail, and urban innovation in China: A focus on the electronic information industry19
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Waste management intervention to boost circular economy and mitigate climate change in cities of developing countries: The case of Brazil19
Spatio-temporal patterns of domestic water distribution, consumption and sufficiency: Neighbourhood inequalities in Nairobi, Kenya19
Impacts of village consolidation on household livelihood resilience in coal resource-exhausted areas18
The built environment and overweight in Shanghai: Examining differences in urban and rural contexts18
Mexico's mass housing: An underexplored locus of informality18
Does secure tenure alone solve the problem of homelessness? A critical appraisal of the resettlement practices in rural Bangladesh18
Assessment of the flood mitigation ecosystem service in a coastal wetland and potential impact of future urban development in Chile18
Housing prices, migration, and self-selection of migrants in China18
Evolution pattern and mechanism of rural areal functions in Xi'an metropolitan area, China18
Perceived social distance, socioeconomic status and adaptive residential mobility in urban China18
Producer-oriented and consumer-oriented alternative food networks and rural revitalization in China: Distinct trajectories and variegated impacts18
Co-creation of community micro-renewals: Model analysis and case studies in Shanghai, China17
“No flooding, no traffic jams here, no jobs either”: Conceiving urbanization in small cities of southern Vietnam17
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Rural transformation and its links to farmland use transition: Theoretical insights and empirical evidence from Jiangsu, China17
Pathways for future climate action planning in urban Ghana17
Beyond intentions: Transaction uncertainties and developers’ adoption of nonconventional housebuilding technologies17
(Late)nt? Exploring the latent potential for participatory heritage conservation in makhanda, South Africa17
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Exploring the nexus between dimensions of spatial structure and foreign direct investment: A case study of Vietnam16
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Unearthing the value of wet markets from urban housing prices: Evidence from Beijing, China16
Preferences for rental housing in urban Ghana: A discrete choice experiment16
Rural mobility and socio-spatial impacts in Japan: A case study of Kutchan, Hokkaido16
The impact of the residential environment on Chinese older people's aging-in-place intentions: A mediation and moderation analysis15
The spontaneous spatial restructuring of traditional village based on an analysis of social relationship: A case in Fuling, Fujian China15
Towards sustainability: The spatiotemporal patterns and influence mechanism of urban sprawl intensity in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration15
Intermittent food deserts. Exploring the spatiotemporal dimension of the urban fresh food access in Chilean cities15
Evaluating transit-oriented new town development: Insights from Seoul and Tokyo15
The relationship between industrial transfer parks and county economic growth: Evidence from Guangdong Province, China15
How does the digital economy affect the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from Chinese cities15
Impacts and perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban-rural linkages in Rwanda15
Dwindling funds and increased responsibilities: Decentralization, unfunded mandates, and Harare's infrastructure crisis15
Explaining housing rents: A neural network approach to landscape image perceptions15
Plausible or misleading? Evaluating the adaption of the place pulse 2.0 dataset for predicting subjective perception in Chinese urban landscapes15
Is rationality or herd more conducive to promoting farmers to protect wetlands? A hybrid interactive simulation15
Older adults’ decisions regarding mobility to age in place in medium- and high-rise multi-storey residential buildings in urban settings: A case study of South East Queensland, Australia15
Rural revitalization mechanism based on spatial governance in China: A perspective on development rights15
Analyzing the effect of depopulation on the spatial structure of the city of Łódź, Poland: Development and application of an integrated land use and transportation model14
Developing counterurbanisation: Making sense of rural mobility and governance in Japan14
Inventory land era and transformation of China's urban regeneration: An empirical study of Chengdu Hi-Tech West District, China14
The impact of community residents’ occupational structure on the spatial distribution of different types of crimes14
State interests or local interests? An investigation of Chinese prefectural-level cities’ behaviour in response to national policy implementation14
How does the reconstruction of residential space impact displaced farmers’ post-resettlement adaptation during urbanisation in China? A perspective of spatial production14
A GIS-based approach for improving urban sanitation planning and services delivery: A case study from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso14
Female-Led agrarian households and the question of sustainable land and food security in an emerging economy: Evidence from Tula Baule14
Convergence or divergence between small towns and villages: A perspective from changes in built-up land development intensity14
Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras13
Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function13
Enhancing agricultural production and environmental benefits through full mechanization: Experimental evidence from China13
Mapping the margins: A systematic scoping review of the impact of digital mapping on public participation in informal settlements13
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To settle but not convert hukou among rural migrants in urban China: How does family-level eligibility for citizenship benefits matter?13
Inclusive public open space for all: Spatial justice with health considerations13
Does labor mobility follow the inter-regional transfer of labor-intensive manufacturing? The spatial choices of China's migrant workers13
Assessing the impact of unplanned settlements on urban renewal projects with GEE13
Rethinking the implications of sprawl for sustainable urban development: Insights from the Ejisu Municipality of Ghana between 2003 and 202313
Urban neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) inference: A machine learning approach based on semantic and sentimental analysis of online housing advertisements13
Examining urban polarization in five Spanish historic cities through online datasets and onsite perceptions13
Will opening the gated community be perceived beneficial by residents? A comparative study of Beijing and Singapore13
Developing a hybrid risk assessment method for prioritizing the critical risks of temporary accommodation sites after destructive earthquakes13
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Regeneration towards suitability: A decision-making framework for determining urban regeneration mode and strategies13
Social capital and community-driven development: A multi-group analysis of migrant and indigenous informal settlements in Greater Accra, Ghana12
Homelessness and COVID-19 in New Zealand: Challenges, emergency responses, and implications for disaster risk reduction12
A global-scale review of smart city practice and research focusing on residential neighbourhoods12
Suburban identification based on multi-source data and landscape analysis of its construction land: A case study of Jiangsu Province, China12
High-quality development in China: Measurement system, spatial pattern, and improvement paths12
Probing the long-term evolution of traditional village tourism destinations from a glocalisation perspective: A case study of Wuzhen in Zhejiang province, China12
Settlement scaling law reveals population-land tensions in 7000+ African urban agglomerations12
Analysis of China's industrial network structure and its resilience from the sectoral perspective12
Beyond density: COVID-19 as an accelerator of spatial (in)justices12
How new rural elites facilitate community-based homestead system reform in rural China: A perspective of village transformation12
A win-win partnership for affordable homeownership solutions by connecting responsible investors, community housing providers, and government11
Rediscovering the location of agricultural production: Spatial linkage of farmland use intensity and labor opportunity costs in Central China11
A GIS-based assessment of different income groups’ access to multiple types of green areas in Budapest, Hungary11
Habitat and environmental risks of Chagas disease in low-income colonias and peri-urban subdivisions in South Texas11
The strength of culture: Acculturation and urban-settlement intention of rural migrants in China11
Rural transformation in the hilly and mountainous region of southern China: Livelihood trajectory and cross-scale effects11
Migration and household arrangements of rural families in China: Evidence from a survey in Anhui Province11
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The effect of social capital on migration aspiration and migration capability: Insights from northern Ethiopia11
Solid waste management in rural touristic areas in the Himalaya – A case of Ghandruk, Nepal11
Understanding the relationship between the spatial configuration and the crime rate of Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, Canada11
Reflections on ‘land value recovery’ for UK rural areas, and its implications for housing affordability, wealth-building, rural land use, and community wellbeing11
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Catalysing the realisation of rainwater harvesting systems through participatory action research11
Artificial terrariums as urban habitats innovative solutions for environmental, economic, and social development11
A view of urban sprawl through the lens of family nuclearisation11
The impact of housing pressure on subjective well-being in urban China11
The expansion efficiency of urban land in China's urban agglomerations and its impact on ecosystem services11
Promoting carbon neutrality through ultra-low energy buildings in China: Evidence from evolutionary game theory11
Spatial distribution and transformation mechanism of specialized villages in typical agricultural areas: Case study of Henan province, China10
Urban discourses and rural settlements: Toward a documentary analysis of the effects of governmentality on the built environment in rural Galicia (Spain)10
Understanding the “conflict-coordination” theoretical model of regional land use transitions: Empirical evidence from the interconversion between cropland and rural settlements in the lower yellow riv10
Diving for the spatio-functional qualities of exclusivity at The Pearl-Qatar10
Evaluation of coastal wetland ecosystem services based on modified choice experimental model: A case study of mangrove wetland in Beibu Gulf, Guangxi10
From industry to education-driven urbanization: A welfare transformation of urbanization in Chinese counties10
Shifts in governance modes in village redevelopment: A case study of Beijing Lugouqiao township10
Elderly's intention and use behavior of urban parks: Planned behavior perspective10
Factors affecting sustainability of smart city services in China: From the perspective of citizens’ sense of gain10
Block-scale modeling of residential land prices: Incorporating multilevel determinants and explainable artificial intelligence10
In-between urbanism: The physical, functional, socio-cultural, and identity-forming role of the otla in informal settlements in Ahmedabad10
The welfare performance of low-carbon city practice: An innovative tool for assessing urban sustainable development10
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Decaying villages in the centre of Europe with no population decline: Long-term analysis using historical aerial images and remote sensing data10
Disaster-risk communication, perceptions and relocation decisions of rural residents in a multi-disaster environment: Evidence from Sichuan, China10
City affordability and residential location choice: A demonstration using agent based model10
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Assessing the impact of modern streetcar on street robbery at street segment level: a longitudinal comparison in Cincinnati, OH10
Decoding China's urban agglomerations policies: A scientific evaluation and exploration of economic benefits10
Rapid socioeconomic change represented by catering industry contributes to poverty eradication in China10
Unpacking market-oriented land governance and its performance differences: Empirical evidence from urban land redevelopment in contemporary China10
Has China completed the supply-side structural reform of construction land supply? Evidence from 335 cities10
Poverty alleviation through labor transfer in rural China: Evidence from Hualong County10
Theorizing land use transitions: A human geography perspective9
Evolution of rural settlements and its influencing mechanism in the farming-pastoral ecotone of Inner Mongolia from a production-living-ecology perspective9
Land hoarding and investment strategies of enterprises under land price regulation: Evidence from bunching analysis9
The effects of spatially targeted housing policy: Evidence from land transaction permit system in South Korea9
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Land acquisition methods and housing construction agents for prompt housing supply: A long-term comparative case study of Seoul Metropolitan Area, South Korea9
Housing wealth effect and tenure choice: An endogenous switching regression analysis9
Assessing equal rights in obtaining urban public primary school services with case studies of Hangzhou in China9
‘Precarious power’: Implicit infrastructures and electricity access in Witsand, Cape Town (South Africa)9
Are robots crowding out migrant workers? Evidence from urban China9
How to alleviate alienation from the perspective of urban community public space—Evidence from urban young residents in China9
A multi-perspective framework for assessing urban well-being, development, and sustainability9
Contradictions and compromises in sustainability planning: The case of the sub-Arctic city of Yakutsk, Russia9
Watershed carbon compensation based on land use change: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt9
Quantifying spatial disparities and influencing factors of home, work, and activity space separation in Beijing9
Nostalgia for the lost built environment of a socialist city: An empirical study in post-socialist Tirana9
Does the size of the housing rental market stabilize regional economic fluctuations? Evidence from China's large- and medium-sized cities9
Rising South, shrinking North: Paradoxically increased unevenness in the global urban economic system9
Unveiling age-friendliness in smart cities: A heterogeneity analysis perspective based on the IAHP-CRITIC-IFCE approach9
Investigating the correlation between building façade design elements and tourist satisfaction - Cases study of Italy and the Netherlands9
Google Maps amenities and condominium prices: Investigating the effects and relationships using machine learning8
Reshuffling informal governance configurations: Active agency and collective actions in three regenerated neighborhoods in China8
Squatting behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of the informal settlement “Los Hornos” in Buenos Aires8
Faith, policy, and suicide: A Machine learning and spatial analysis approach of religious affiliation and suicide rates in Toronto8
Ontological pluralism in Saudi Arabia's sustainable urbanization framing8
The distribution effect of urbanization: Theoretical deduction and evidence from China8
Corrigendum “Multi-scenario comparisons to identify the spatial distribution, land type, and effectiveness of cultivated land restoration in the main grain-producing area” [Habitant Int. 154 (2024) 108
From Earthquake Preparedness to Urban Renewal: unveiling the forces behind Israel's national master plan (TAMA 38) transformation8
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