Habitat International

Papers
(The TQCC of Habitat International is 14. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board188
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities131
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management112
Foreign direct investment and regional integration: The connectivity role of same-origin greenfield investment in the Yangtze River Delta89
The humanization of urban neighborhoods; the case of Al-Falah project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia88
Editorial Board87
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?81
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania80
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea78
Does poverty alleviation through relocation increase relative deprivation? Evidence from Pingjiang county, China76
Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia76
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China73
Exploring spatio-temporal behavior patterns of Chinese urban overtime workers using mobile signaling data: a case study from Beijing72
Dynamic evaluation and obstacle factor diagnosis of rural human settlements quality in the Dabie mountains old revolutionary Base area under the background of rural revitalization70
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China68
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 migration64
Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for urban seismic Resilience: Evaluating critical influential factors for temporary shelter site selection63
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State62
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong62
Economic status of waste pickers in Bantar Gebang compared to other workers in Indonesia62
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration62
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform57
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China57
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China55
Impacts of global manufacturing transfer on energy intensity, consumption, and transition: An industry linkage perspective55
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective55
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America54
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach52
Spatializing inequality across residential built-up types: A relational geography of urban density in São Paulo, Brazil.52
Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages52
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs51
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives51
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region51
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?51
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set51
The rural human-land relationship transition in Southwest karst mountainous areas based on rural population, agricultural production land, and rural settlement coupling49
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale48
Ice and snow tourism in China's ecological civilization era: The Altay, Xinjiang experience47
Governance transformation among urbanization in China: From hierarchical model to contract-based exploration46
Analyzing the impact of land expropriation program on farmers' livelihood in urban fringes of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia46
‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested logics of formalization of street trading in Harare and Kumasi44
Assessing the impact of urban amenities on people with disabilities in London: A multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis43
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty in secondary cities: Implications for urban sustainability in African cities43
Land marketization and urban innovation capability: Evidence from China42
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 organization41
Externality impacts of “Not in My Backyard” facilities on property values: Evidence from the Hangzhou waste sorting and reduction complex projects41
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China40
Urban habitats and food insecurity: Lessons learned throughout a pandemic39
Trust and land Lease: The role of informal institutions in land market in rural China39
Urban construction-based social risks assessment in hot arid countries with social network analysis39
Assessing the effects of the new-type urbanization policy on rural settlement evolution using a multi-agent model38
Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment in China37
Examining the nonlinear and spatial heterogeneity of housing prices in urban Beijing: an application of GeoShapley37
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China37
Editorial Board36
Network infrastructure construction and inter-counties collaborative innovation in China with center-periphery effect36
Price premium of the collective management of condominiums: Evidence from Tokyo36
Why do skilled migrants’ housing tenure outcomes and tenure aspirations vary among different family lifecycle stages?36
Competing for innovation: Political tournaments and high-tech industries-related land transfer35
Editorial Board35
Agglomeration phenomena and evolutionary patterns of contemporary architectural interventions in traditional villages: An empirical analysis from 211 cases in Songyang County, China35
Journeys of joy: Investigating the subjective well-being of China's urban-to-urban migrants35
Build a resilience assessment framework for cross-city networks in urban agglomerations34
Understanding industrial land allocation in rural regions of China: spatiotemporal patterns and driving mechanisms34
Indigenous Urbanisation and Urban Indigeneity: Insights of embedded identity and contouring spatiality in Jharkhand, India34
Has urban expansion alleviated working-residential spaces segregation across inner-outer cities? A multi-scale study with location-based social bigdata34
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 evaluation33
Social learning and dynamics of farmers’ perception towards hollowed village consolidation33
Awakening dormant intangible cultural Heritage: Bridging capital, capacity, and change for rural sustainability33
Social sustainability of residential squares: Evidence from Narmak neighborhood, Tehran33
The medicalisation of solid waste: Coordination challenges of domestic biomedical risk waste in illegal dumping sites in informal settlements in Cape Town32
Realities or mythologies: England's village pubs and counterurbanisation32
Identifying post-suburbanization: The case of the Jakarta metropolitan area (JMA)32
Urban induced-displacement of informal settlement dwellers: A comparison of affected households' and planning officials’ preferences for resettlement site attributes in Kigali, Rwanda32
The Fourth Generation: Urban renewal policies in the service of private developers31
How studentification reshapes social vulnerability in urban Korea: Impressions based on regeneration and shrinkage31
Academic urban legend, Agbogbloshie: Sweeping away the "World's Largest E-Waste Dumpsite"31
Collaborative governance and conflict management in cultural heritage-led regeneration projects: The case of urban Korea31
Between proximity and security: A log-linear choice modeling of displacement risks and residential mobility trade-offs in immigrant Sub-Saharan communities31
The impacts of urban vitality and urban density on innovation: Evidence from China's Greater Bay Area30
Breathing space in a compact city: Impacts of urban re-densification on Mumbai's low-income housing environment30
Evolution of accessibility to work for low-income populations in Brazil: Towards equitable and sustainable metropolises?29
How does farmers' endogenous dynamic shape up in China's rural residential land system reform: Insights from the social-ecological system framework29
Mapping the emerging forms of informality: A comparative morphogenesis of villages-in-the-city in Vietnam28
The impact of rural land transfer on the living satisfaction of middle-aged rural residents and the implications: A perspective of land attachment28
The organic renewal of traditional villages from the perspective of logical space restoration and physical space adaptation: A case study of Laoche village, China28
Sustainable development of urban agglomerations around lakes in China: Achieving SDGs by regulating Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand through New-type Urbanization28
How to become one? The modern bond of traditional villages in centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas in China28
Economic integration of temporary and permanent migrants: Between migrant and return migrant status28
Grid-level assessment on spatial equity in access to urban public facilities by vulnerable groups based on the multi-source data27
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Disentangling housing affordability of migrant households through the lens of trade-offs: Evidence from urban China27
Exploring the relationship between ‘sites and services’ projects and urban adaptability. A case study of Charkop (Mumbai)27
The costs of delay: Marginalization and sustainable development challenges around Hanoi's urban rail projects26
Reducing rural income inequality and its spatial convergence in China during the past two decades26
Who moves and who gains from internal migration in Egypt? Evidence from two waves of a labor market panel survey26
The spatiotemporal distribution and influencing mechanism of China's hydraulic heritage sites26
The built environment and multidimensional poverty: exploring accessibility as a mediator of spatial opportunity25
Intergenerational social housing for older adults: Findings from a Central European city25
Evaluation and formation mechanism of rural social vulnerability under natural hazard: A case study of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China25
The effect of urban–rural construction land transition on ecosystem services: A theoretical framework and empirical evidence for China25
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
Urban land system change: Spatial heterogeneity and driving factors of land use intensity in Wuhan, China24
Social networks matter for villagers’ withdrawal from rural homesteads: An empirical analysis of sichuan in western China24
The role of individualistic versus collectivist values in shaping the residential choice of Palestinian knowledge-workers24
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
Enabling planned urban settlements through land readjustment - A case study from Kigali, Rwanda24
Urban residential space differentiation and the influence of accessibility in Hangzhou, China23
“Without the school, the village has no soul”: Rethinking school and socio-cultural resilience in rural China23
Micro-regeneration in Shanghai and the public-isation of space23
The impact of mega shopping complexes on the survival of nearby local businesses: A case study of the seoul metropolitan area, South Korea23
Spatial production in the process of rapid urbanisation and ageing: A case study of the new type of community in suburban Shanghai23
Aspirations versus reality: Factors influencing the vertical social mobility of urban Roma mothers living in extreme poverty23
Evaluation of the university campus layout for the dual use as a city-level emergency shelter22
Understanding the nonlinear trade-off relationship to optimize urban-rural ecosystem services: a case study in arid and semi-arid region, China22
A participatory foresight approach to envisioning post-pandemic urban development pathways in Tokyo22
Impact of multi-dimensional precarity on rough sleeping: Evidence from Hong Kong22
Heterogeneity of urban‒rural responses to multigoal policy from an efficiency perspective: An empirical study in China22
Agglomeration spillover, accessibility by high-speed rail, and urban innovation in China: A focus on the electronic information industry22
Understanding location choice of Syrian refugees from country to neighbourhood level: Opportunities, restrictions and expectations22
Students go to schools in new districts! public high school relocation as intrapreneurial education provision in China22
Placing social networks: A case study of female gated community residents in Bahrain22
Promoting the realization of ecological product value through ecological compensation: Empirical evidence from the transfer payments for China's National Key Ecological Function Zones22
Dilemmas for regional inequality in talent aggregation through environmental amenities: Re-examine China's hukou puzzle21
Exploring the moderating effect of private green space on the relationship between density and housing prices21
Waste management intervention to boost circular economy and mitigate climate change in cities of developing countries: The case of Brazil21
Cultural reinvention or cultural erasure? A study on rural gentrification, land leasing, and cultural change21
Measuring the role of land consolidation to community revitalization in rapidly urbanizing rural China: A perspective of functional supply-demand21
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
Does secure tenure alone solve the problem of homelessness? A critical appraisal of the resettlement practices in rural Bangladesh20
Proposing the classification matrix for growing and shrinking cities: A case study of 228 districts in South Korea20
Dispossessing the vulnerable or building resilience? Assessing the long-term impacts of rural land expropriation on poverty alleviation sustainability in China20
Pathways for future climate action planning in urban Ghana20
“No flooding, no traffic jams here, no jobs either”: Conceiving urbanization in small cities of southern Vietnam20
Evaluating resilience and enhancing strategies for old urban communities amidst epidemic challenges20
Perceived social distance, socioeconomic status and adaptive residential mobility in urban China20
Housing prices, migration, and self-selection of migrants in China20
From fragmentation to framework: A multi- and cross-scale review of property regimes in urban redevelopment19
The built environment and overweight in Shanghai: Examining differences in urban and rural contexts19
Producer-oriented and consumer-oriented alternative food networks and rural revitalization in China: Distinct trajectories and variegated impacts19
(Late)nt? Exploring the latent potential for participatory heritage conservation in makhanda, South Africa19
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Impacts of village consolidation on household livelihood resilience in coal resource-exhausted areas19
Group identification and political trust: A study on the influence and action mechanism of village leadership on farmers’ participation in public affairs19
Public attitudes toward state-led urban village rehabilitation in Shenzhen, China19
Evolution pattern and mechanism of rural areal functions in Xi'an metropolitan area, China19
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Co-creation of community micro-renewals: Model analysis and case studies in Shanghai, China19
Land consumption and urbanization in rural areas. Understanding the dynamics of land take and demographic changes in rural municipalities in Catalonia, Spain19
How does greenspace-oriented development induce growth? The Case of Beijing19
Rural transformation and its links to farmland use transition: Theoretical insights and empirical evidence from Jiangsu, China19
Spatio-temporal patterns of domestic water distribution, consumption and sufficiency: Neighbourhood inequalities in Nairobi, Kenya18
Beyond intentions: Transaction uncertainties and developers’ adoption of nonconventional housebuilding technologies18
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Is rationality or herd more conducive to promoting farmers to protect wetlands? A hybrid interactive simulation18
Assessment of the flood mitigation ecosystem service in a coastal wetland and potential impact of future urban development in Chile18
Coping with the “new normal”: assessing urban vibrancy resilience disparities through socioeconomic deprivation in New York City18
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Preferences for rental housing in urban Ghana: A discrete choice experiment18
Mexico's mass housing: An underexplored locus of informality18
Unearthing the value of wet markets from urban housing prices: Evidence from Beijing, China18
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How does the digital economy affect the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from Chinese cities17
Evaluating transit-oriented new town development: Insights from Seoul and Tokyo17
Rural mobility and socio-spatial impacts in Japan: A case study of Kutchan, Hokkaido17
Unveiling systemic risk in China's housing market between first- and second-tier cities17
Trade-offs, synergies and driving pathways between tourism cultural ecosystem service and multiple ecosystem services in ecological functional zone17
Explaining housing rents: A neural network approach to landscape image perceptions17
Plausible or misleading? Evaluating the adaption of the place pulse 2.0 dataset for predicting subjective perception in Chinese urban landscapes17
Revitalizing oil-gas resource-based cities: Unveiling spatial heterogeneity and life cycle dynamics of sustainable development capacity17
Rural revitalization mechanism based on spatial governance in China: A perspective on development rights17
The impact of the residential environment on Chinese older people's aging-in-place intentions: A mediation and moderation analysis17
Housing, co-residence pattern, and mental health during COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai17
The effects of urban green infrastructures on the housing market17
Towards sustainability: The spatiotemporal patterns and influence mechanism of urban sprawl intensity in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration17
Exploring the nexus between dimensions of spatial structure and foreign direct investment: A case study of Vietnam17
Defining spatial justice: A review17
The relationship between industrial transfer parks and county economic growth: Evidence from Guangdong Province, China17
Self-help housing cooperatives in Ethiopia: Affordability, scalability, and sustainability17
The spontaneous spatial restructuring of traditional village based on an analysis of social relationship: A case in Fuling, Fujian China17
Influence of ecological civilization pilot policy on double dividend of industrial enterprises17
Dwindling funds and increased responsibilities: Decentralization, unfunded mandates, and Harare's infrastructure crisis16
Female-Led agrarian households and the question of sustainable land and food security in an emerging economy: Evidence from Tula Baule16
Intermittent food deserts. Exploring the spatiotemporal dimension of the urban fresh food access in Chilean cities16
From fragile states to fragile cities: institutional weakness and urban displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa16
Impacts and perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban-rural linkages in Rwanda16
Reconfiguring rural development: Spatial diffusion of E-Commerce and its multifaceted effects16
Insights into women's perceived safety: Empirical findings from intercept surveys16
Developing counterurbanisation: Making sense of rural mobility and governance in Japan16
How urbanization shapes rural ageing in China? Evidence from spatial Durbin and threshold regression models16
Developing a hybrid risk assessment method for prioritizing the critical risks of temporary accommodation sites after destructive earthquakes16
How does rural residential land use change adapt to transitioning agricultural systems in the metropolitan suburbs of China? An adaptive cycle approach16
Does labor mobility follow the inter-regional transfer of labor-intensive manufacturing? The spatial choices of China's migrant workers16
How does intra-city spatial structure influence green economic efficiency? A nonlinear and spatial spillover perspective16
State interests or local interests? An investigation of Chinese prefectural-level cities’ behaviour in response to national policy implementation15
How does the reconstruction of residential space impact displaced farmers’ post-resettlement adaptation during urbanisation in China? A perspective of spatial production15
Inventory land era and transformation of China's urban regeneration: An empirical study of Chengdu Hi-Tech West District, China15
A GIS-based approach for improving urban sanitation planning and services delivery: A case study from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso15
Beyond density: COVID-19 as an accelerator of spatial (in)justices15
Will opening the gated community be perceived beneficial by residents? A comparative study of Beijing and Singapore15
Convergence or divergence between small towns and villages: A perspective from changes in built-up land development intensity15
Cultural embeddedness and community participation in provincial-level disaster resilience: A multi-stage assessment framework based on network DEA and social media analysis15
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 model15
Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function15
The urban‒rural income gap, green innovation and urban carbon emissions: An empirical study in the Yangtze River Delta, China15
Unlocking rural resources for revitalization: Examining the process and impact of compensated use of rural residential land through a social-ecological system framework15
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
Enhancing agricultural production and environmental benefits through full mechanization: Experimental evidence from China15
Examining urban polarization in five Spanish historic cities through online datasets and onsite perceptions15
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Urban human settlement quality refined assessment and its spatial relationship with human activity intensity in arid area: A case study of Urumqi, China14
Settlement scaling law reveals population-land tensions in 7000+ African urban agglomerations14
Corrigendum to “Do the motivations behind home sales matter? Evidence from China's housing resale market” [Habitat International 166 (2025) 103625]14
Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras14
Rethinking the implications of sprawl for sustainable urban development: Insights from the Ejisu Municipality of Ghana between 2003 and 202314
Social capital and community-driven development: A multi-group analysis of migrant and indigenous informal settlements in Greater Accra, Ghana14
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
How new rural elites facilitate community-based homestead system reform in rural China: A perspective of village transformation14
Unveiling local dynamics of Chinese cities: A multidimensional scale-adjusted analysis14
Identifying the daily activity-travel patterns of rural residents: A case study of Guiyang, China14
Preferential encroachment of high-quality cropland by urban expansion across China: Past trends and future projections14
Culture-led rural revitalisation in China: Relational practices of materiality, creativity, and sustainability14
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
Probing the long-term evolution of traditional village tourism destinations from a glocalisation perspective: A case study of Wuzhen in Zhejiang province, China14
Urban neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) inference: A machine learning approach based on semantic and sentimental analysis of online housing advertisements14
Mapping the margins: A systematic scoping review of the impact of digital mapping on public participation in informal settlements14
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Resilience dynamics of economic systems in cities and city networks: A case study of the Central and Southern Liaoning Region, China14
Analysis of China's industrial network structure and its resilience from the sectoral perspective14
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