Habitat International

Papers
(The median citation count of Habitat International is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Foreign direct investment and regional integration: The connectivity role of same-origin greenfield investment in the Yangtze River Delta178
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Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for urban seismic Resilience: Evaluating critical influential factors for temporary shelter site selection122
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea108
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management87
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China86
The humanization of urban neighborhoods; the case of Al-Falah project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia84
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Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?76
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania75
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China73
Does poverty alleviation through relocation increase relative deprivation? Evidence from Pingjiang county, China73
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration71
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong68
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia67
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration67
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia66
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities63
Impacts of global manufacturing transfer on energy intensity, consumption, and transition: An industry linkage perspective62
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
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State61
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach59
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia58
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform56
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set55
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?54
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs53
Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.53
The rural human-land relationship transition in Southwest karst mountainous areas based on rural population, agricultural production land, and rural settlement coupling52
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America52
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China51
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China51
Urban construction-based social risks assessment in hot arid countries with social network analysis50
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective50
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives50
Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages50
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region50
Ice and snow tourism in China's ecological civilization era: The Altay, Xinjiang experience49
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale47
Trust and land Lease: The role of informal institutions in land market in rural China46
Urban habitats and food insecurity: Lessons learned throughout a pandemic46
Understanding the value of retail accessibility in private housing markets: A study from Turin, Italy45
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China44
Assessing the impact of urban amenities on people with disabilities in London: A multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis43
Analyzing the impact of land expropriation program on farmers' livelihood in urban fringes of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia43
Assessing the effects of the new-type urbanization policy on rural settlement evolution using a multi-agent model42
Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment in China41
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China41
Land marketization and urban innovation capability: Evidence from China41
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty in secondary cities: Implications for urban sustainability in African cities39
Governance transformation among urbanization in China: From hierarchical model to contract-based exploration39
Externality impacts of “Not in My Backyard” facilities on property values: Evidence from the Hangzhou waste sorting and reduction complex projects38
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Examining the nonlinear and spatial heterogeneity of housing prices in urban Beijing: an application of GeoShapley38
Optimizing the rural comprehensive land consolidation in China based on the multiple roles of the rural collective organization38
Price premium of the collective management of condominiums: Evidence from Tokyo37
Has the supply of rural public basic facilities in China inhibited village courtyard Idling? An investigation from the perspectives of layout types and objective-subjective evaluation36
Competing for innovation: Political tournaments and high-tech industries-related land transfer35
Journeys of joy: Investigating the subjective well-being of China's urban-to-urban migrants35
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Agglomeration phenomena and evolutionary patterns of contemporary architectural interventions in traditional villages: An empirical analysis from 211 cases in Songyang County, China34
Has urban expansion alleviated working-residential spaces segregation across inner-outer cities? A multi-scale study with location-based social bigdata34
Understanding industrial land allocation in rural regions of China: spatiotemporal patterns and driving mechanisms34
Network infrastructure construction and inter-counties collaborative innovation in China with center-periphery effect34
The medicalisation of solid waste: Coordination challenges of domestic biomedical risk waste in illegal dumping sites in informal settlements in Cape Town33
How studentification reshapes social vulnerability in urban Korea: Impressions based on regeneration and shrinkage33
The impact of rural land transfer on the living satisfaction of middle-aged rural residents and the implications: A perspective of land attachment33
Social sustainability of residential squares: Evidence from Narmak neighborhood, Tehran33
Breathing space in a compact city: Impacts of urban re-densification on Mumbai's low-income housing environment32
Social learning and dynamics of farmers’ perception towards hollowed village consolidation32
Why do skilled migrants’ housing tenure outcomes and tenure aspirations vary among different family lifecycle stages?32
Collaborative governance and conflict management in cultural heritage-led regeneration projects: The case of urban Korea32
Build a resilience assessment framework for cross-city networks in urban agglomerations32
Identifying post-suburbanization: The case of the Jakarta metropolitan area (JMA)32
Indigenous Urbanisation and Urban Indigeneity: Insights of embedded identity and contouring spatiality in Jharkhand, India31
How to become one? The modern bond of traditional villages in centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas in China31
The organic renewal of traditional villages from the perspective of logical space restoration and physical space adaptation: A case study of Laoche village, China31
Mapping the emerging forms of informality: A comparative morphogenesis of villages-in-the-city in Vietnam31
Realities or mythologies: England's village pubs and counterurbanisation30
Evolution of accessibility to work for low-income populations in Brazil: Towards equitable and sustainable metropolises?30
Urban induced-displacement of informal settlement dwellers: A comparison of affected households' and planning officials’ preferences for resettlement site attributes in Kigali, Rwanda29
The impacts of urban vitality and urban density on innovation: Evidence from China's Greater Bay Area29
Sustainable development of urban agglomerations around lakes in China: Achieving SDGs by regulating Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand through New-type Urbanization29
How does farmers' endogenous dynamic shape up in China's rural residential land system reform: Insights from the social-ecological system framework29
Academic urban legend, Agbogbloshie: Sweeping away the "World's Largest E-Waste Dumpsite"28
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Between proximity and security: A log-linear choice modeling of displacement risks and residential mobility trade-offs in immigrant Sub-Saharan communities28
The Fourth Generation: Urban renewal policies in the service of private developers28
Economic integration of temporary and permanent migrants: Between migrant and return migrant status28
Exploring the relationship between ‘sites and services’ projects and urban adaptability. A case study of Charkop (Mumbai)27
Intergenerational social housing for older adults: Findings from a Central European city27
Who moves and who gains from internal migration in Egypt? Evidence from two waves of a labor market panel survey27
Grid-level assessment on spatial equity in access to urban public facilities by vulnerable groups based on the multi-source data26
“Without the school, the village has no soul”: Rethinking school and socio-cultural resilience in rural China26
Disentangling housing affordability of migrant households through the lens of trade-offs: Evidence from urban China26
The spatiotemporal distribution and influencing mechanism of China's hydraulic heritage sites26
Aspirations versus reality: Factors influencing the vertical social mobility of urban Roma mothers living in extreme poverty26
Micro-regeneration in Shanghai and the public-isation of space25
The costs of delay: Marginalization and sustainable development challenges around Hanoi's urban rail projects25
Urban residential space differentiation and the influence of accessibility in Hangzhou, China25
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
The impact of mega shopping complexes on the survival of nearby local businesses: A case study of the seoul metropolitan area, South Korea24
Forecasting the dynamics of the Istanbul real estate market with the Bayesian time-varying VAR model regarding housing affordability24
Marginalized but equal? An investigation of visible green equity disparities in marginalized residents' daily commutes and its potential green solutions24
The effect of urban–rural construction land transition on ecosystem services: A theoretical framework and empirical evidence for China24
Evaluation and formation mechanism of rural social vulnerability under natural hazard: A case study of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China23
Spatial production in the process of rapid urbanisation and ageing: A case study of the new type of community in suburban Shanghai23
Urban land system change: Spatial heterogeneity and driving factors of land use intensity in Wuhan, China23
Heterogeneity of urban‒rural responses to multigoal policy from an efficiency perspective: An empirical study in China23
The role of individualistic versus collectivist values in shaping the residential choice of Palestinian knowledge-workers23
Enabling planned urban settlements through land readjustment - A case study from Kigali, Rwanda23
Reducing rural income inequality and its spatial convergence in China during the past two decades23
Social networks matter for villagers’ withdrawal from rural homesteads: An empirical analysis of sichuan in western China23
Understanding location choice of Syrian refugees from country to neighbourhood level: Opportunities, restrictions and expectations22
Impact of multi-dimensional precarity on rough sleeping: Evidence from Hong Kong22
Measuring the role of land consolidation to community revitalization in rapidly urbanizing rural China: A perspective of functional supply-demand22
Promoting the realization of ecological product value through ecological compensation: Empirical evidence from the transfer payments for China's National Key Ecological Function Zones22
Students go to schools in new districts! public high school relocation as intrapreneurial education provision in China22
Evaluation of the university campus layout for the dual use as a city-level emergency shelter22
Cultural reinvention or cultural erasure? A study on rural gentrification, land leasing, and cultural change22
Placing social networks: A case study of female gated community residents in Bahrain22
Agglomeration spillover, accessibility by high-speed rail, and urban innovation in China: A focus on the electronic information industry22
The built environment and multidimensional poverty: exploring accessibility as a mediator of spatial opportunity22
A participatory foresight approach to envisioning post-pandemic urban development pathways in Tokyo22
Understanding the nonlinear trade-off relationship to optimize urban-rural ecosystem services: a case study in arid and semi-arid region, China22
Exploring the moderating effect of private green space on the relationship between density and housing prices22
Dilemmas for regional inequality in talent aggregation through environmental amenities: Re-examine China's hukou puzzle21
Waste management intervention to boost circular economy and mitigate climate change in cities of developing countries: The case of Brazil21
Proposing the classification matrix for growing and shrinking cities: A case study of 228 districts in South Korea21
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
Evaluating resilience and enhancing strategies for old urban communities amidst epidemic challenges21
Does secure tenure alone solve the problem of homelessness? A critical appraisal of the resettlement practices in rural Bangladesh21
Land consumption and urbanization in rural areas. Understanding the dynamics of land take and demographic changes in rural municipalities in Catalonia, Spain20
Co-creation of community micro-renewals: Model analysis and case studies in Shanghai, China20
Evolution pattern and mechanism of rural areal functions in Xi'an metropolitan area, China20
“No flooding, no traffic jams here, no jobs either”: Conceiving urbanization in small cities of southern Vietnam20
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Public attitudes toward state-led urban village rehabilitation in Shenzhen, China20
Impacts of village consolidation on household livelihood resilience in coal resource-exhausted areas20
Producer-oriented and consumer-oriented alternative food networks and rural revitalization in China: Distinct trajectories and variegated impacts19
Pathways for future climate action planning in urban Ghana19
The built environment and overweight in Shanghai: Examining differences in urban and rural contexts19
Beyond intentions: Transaction uncertainties and developers’ adoption of nonconventional housebuilding technologies19
How does greenspace-oriented development induce growth? The Case of Beijing19
(Late)nt? Exploring the latent potential for participatory heritage conservation in makhanda, South Africa19
Mexico's mass housing: An underexplored locus of informality19
Rural transformation and its links to farmland use transition: Theoretical insights and empirical evidence from Jiangsu, China19
Assessment of the flood mitigation ecosystem service in a coastal wetland and potential impact of future urban development in Chile19
Perceived social distance, socioeconomic status and adaptive residential mobility in urban China19
Spatio-temporal patterns of domestic water distribution, consumption and sufficiency: Neighbourhood inequalities in Nairobi, Kenya19
Exploring the nexus between dimensions of spatial structure and foreign direct investment: A case study of Vietnam19
Housing prices, migration, and self-selection of migrants in China19
Is rationality or herd more conducive to promoting farmers to protect wetlands? A hybrid interactive simulation18
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Unearthing the value of wet markets from urban housing prices: Evidence from Beijing, China18
The relationship between industrial transfer parks and county economic growth: Evidence from Guangdong Province, China18
Towards sustainability: The spatiotemporal patterns and influence mechanism of urban sprawl intensity in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration18
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Defining spatial justice: A review18
The spontaneous spatial restructuring of traditional village based on an analysis of social relationship: A case in Fuling, Fujian China18
Trade-offs, synergies and driving pathways between tourism cultural ecosystem service and multiple ecosystem services in ecological functional zone18
Rural mobility and socio-spatial impacts in Japan: A case study of Kutchan, Hokkaido18
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Coping with the “new normal”: assessing urban vibrancy resilience disparities through socioeconomic deprivation in New York City18
Housing, co-residence pattern, and mental health during COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai18
Preferences for rental housing in urban Ghana: A discrete choice experiment18
How does the digital economy affect the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from Chinese cities17
Influence of ecological civilization pilot policy on double dividend of industrial enterprises17
Rural revitalization mechanism based on spatial governance in China: A perspective on development rights17
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 model17
How does rural residential land use change adapt to transitioning agricultural systems in the metropolitan suburbs of China? An adaptive cycle approach17
Evaluating transit-oriented new town development: Insights from Seoul and Tokyo17
The impact of the residential environment on Chinese older people's aging-in-place intentions: A mediation and moderation analysis17
Plausible or misleading? Evaluating the adaption of the place pulse 2.0 dataset for predicting subjective perception in Chinese urban landscapes17
Self-help housing cooperatives in Ethiopia: Affordability, scalability, and sustainability17
Developing a hybrid risk assessment method for prioritizing the critical risks of temporary accommodation sites after destructive earthquakes17
Unveiling systemic risk in China's housing market between first- and second-tier cities17
Explaining housing rents: A neural network approach to landscape image perceptions17
Impacts and perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban-rural linkages in Rwanda17
Female-Led agrarian households and the question of sustainable land and food security in an emerging economy: Evidence from Tula Baule17
Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function16
Inventory land era and transformation of China's urban regeneration: An empirical study of Chengdu Hi-Tech West District, China16
Reconfiguring rural development: Spatial diffusion of E-Commerce and its multifaceted effects16
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, Australia16
Unlocking rural resources for revitalization: Examining the process and impact of compensated use of rural residential land through a social-ecological system framework16
Will opening the gated community be perceived beneficial by residents? A comparative study of Beijing and Singapore16
Developing counterurbanisation: Making sense of rural mobility and governance in Japan16
Intermittent food deserts. Exploring the spatiotemporal dimension of the urban fresh food access in Chilean cities16
State interests or local interests? An investigation of Chinese prefectural-level cities’ behaviour in response to national policy implementation16
Examining urban polarization in five Spanish historic cities through online datasets and onsite perceptions16
A GIS-based approach for improving urban sanitation planning and services delivery: A case study from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso16
Inclusive public open space for all: Spatial justice with health considerations16
Enhancing agricultural production and environmental benefits through full mechanization: Experimental evidence from China16
Insights into women's perceived safety: Empirical findings from intercept surveys16
Dwindling funds and increased responsibilities: Decentralization, unfunded mandates, and Harare's infrastructure crisis16
How urbanization shapes rural ageing in China? Evidence from spatial Durbin and threshold regression models16
The urban‒rural income gap, green innovation and urban carbon emissions: An empirical study in the Yangtze River Delta, China16
Does labor mobility follow the inter-regional transfer of labor-intensive manufacturing? The spatial choices of China's migrant workers15
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Identifying the daily activity-travel patterns of rural residents: A case study of Guiyang, China15
Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras15
Analysis of China's industrial network structure and its resilience from the sectoral perspective15
How does intra-city spatial structure influence green economic efficiency? A nonlinear and spatial spillover perspective15
How does the reconstruction of residential space impact displaced farmers’ post-resettlement adaptation during urbanisation in China? A perspective of spatial production15
Beyond density: COVID-19 as an accelerator of spatial (in)justices15
A global-scale review of smart city practice and research focusing on residential neighbourhoods15
Unveiling local dynamics of Chinese cities: A multidimensional scale-adjusted analysis15
Urban neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) inference: A machine learning approach based on semantic and sentimental analysis of online housing advertisements15
Convergence or divergence between small towns and villages: A perspective from changes in built-up land development intensity15
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Rethinking the implications of sprawl for sustainable urban development: Insights from the Ejisu Municipality of Ghana between 2003 and 202315
Suburban identification based on multi-source data and landscape analysis of its construction land: A case study of Jiangsu Province, China15
Corrigendum to “Do the motivations behind home sales matter? Evidence from China's housing resale market” [Habitat International 166 (2025) 103625]15
Social capital and community-driven development: A multi-group analysis of migrant and indigenous informal settlements in Greater Accra, Ghana15
Settlement scaling law reveals population-land tensions in 7000+ African urban agglomerations14
To settle but not convert hukou among rural migrants in urban China: How does family-level eligibility for citizenship benefits matter?14
Resilience dynamics of economic systems in cities and city networks: A case study of the Central and Southern Liaoning Region, China14
Assessing the impact of unplanned settlements on urban renewal projects with GEE14
Regeneration towards suitability: A decision-making framework for determining urban regeneration mode and strategies14
Disappearance of rural settlements in China: Characterizing and interpreting the implementation of the “increasing vs. decreasing balance” policy14
Probing the long-term evolution of traditional village tourism destinations from a glocalisation perspective: A case study of Wuzhen in Zhejiang province, China14
Large-scale slum mapping in sub-Saharan Africa's major cities: Remote sensing and deep learning reveal strong slum growth in the urban periphery between 2016 and 202214
Culture-led rural revitalisation in China: Relational practices of materiality, creativity, and sustainability14
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Rapid socioeconomic change represented by catering industry contributes to poverty eradication in China14
How new rural elites facilitate community-based homestead system reform in rural China: A perspective of village transformation14
Mapping the margins: A systematic scoping review of the impact of digital mapping on public participation in informal settlements14
High-quality development in China: Measurement system, spatial pattern, and improvement paths14
Urban human settlement quality refined assessment and its spatial relationship with human activity intensity in arid area: A case study of Urumqi, China14
A GIS-based assessment of different income groups’ access to multiple types of green areas in Budapest, Hungary14
Rediscovering the location of agricultural production: Spatial linkage of farmland use intensity and labor opportunity costs in Central China13
Homelessness and COVID-19 in New Zealand: Challenges, emergency responses, and implications for disaster risk reduction13
Habitat and environmental risks of Chagas disease in low-income colonias and peri-urban subdivisions in South Texas13
Catalysing the realisation of rainwater harvesting systems through participatory action research13
The effect of social capital on migration aspiration and migration capability: Insights from northern Ethiopia13
Understanding the relationship between the spatial configuration and the crime rate of Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, Canada13
A win-win partnership for affordable homeownership solutions by connecting responsible investors, community housing providers, and government13
Australian nationwide assessment of social vulnerability in two decades through its linkage to the built environment13
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Artificial terrariums as urban habitats innovative solutions for environmental, economic, and social development13
Dwelling size as a socio-spatial proxy. Planning-deficient urbanism, tourism-led gentrification, and macro-driven commodification in Athens13
The strength of culture: Acculturation and urban-settlement intention of rural migrants in China13
Diving for the spatio-functional qualities of exclusivity at The Pearl-Qatar12
The welfare performance of low-carbon city practice: An innovative tool for assessing urban sustainable development12
The expansion efficiency of urban land in China's urban agglomerations and its impact on ecosystem services12
A view of urban sprawl through the lens of family nuclearisation12
Decoding China's urban agglomerations policies: A scientific evaluation and exploration of economic benefits12
Does public concern about climate change affect real estate market behaviour?12
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 riv12
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