Habitat International

Papers
(The TQCC of Habitat International is 15. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board153
The humanization of urban neighborhoods; the case of Al-Falah project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia101
Capturing public voices: The role of social media in heritage management99
Unpacking migrants' social integration: The mediating effect of hierarchical migration in the context of China97
Sister city partnerships and sustainable development in emerging cities: Empirical cases from Ghana and Tanzania91
Dynamic evaluation and obstacle factor diagnosis of rural human settlements quality in the Dabie mountains old revolutionary Base area under the background of rural revitalization90
From the arrival cities to affordable cities in China: Seeing through the practices of rural migrants' participation in Guangzhou's urban village regeneration88
State-led versus market-led: How institutional arrangements impact collaborative governance in participatory urban regeneration in China85
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Urbanisation and housing finance nexus: Evidence from Australia82
Do college graduates serving as village officials help mitigate income inequality within village?80
City-to-city learning processes in the development of sustainable urban food systems: Insights from South American cities76
Assessment of spatial interactions in farmland abandonment: A case study of Gwangyang City, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea74
A data-driven perspective for sensing urban functional images: Place-based evidence in Hong Kong74
Relationship between land tenure and land use in unplanned settlements in Lusaka, Zambia74
Foreign direct investment and regional integration: The connectivity role of same-origin greenfield investment in the Yangtze River Delta72
Does poverty alleviation through relocation increase relative deprivation? Evidence from Pingjiang county, China69
Exploring spatio-temporal behavior patterns of Chinese urban overtime workers using mobile signaling data: a case study from Beijing65
Advancing agricultural diversification within rural regions: The dynamic role of interregional rural-rural migration65
Analysing the rising price of new private housing in the UK: A national accounting approach64
Pre-disaster planning and preparedness for urban seismic Resilience: Evaluating critical influential factors for temporary shelter site selection64
Exploring changes and influencing factors of farmers’ welfare in different villages under the background of homestead system reform63
Urban positionality in the regional urban network: Through the lens of alter-based centrality and national-local perspectives62
Does haze aggravate urban sprawl?61
Assessing eco-environmental service quality by integrating monitoring data: A case study of Northeast China61
Are home-based enterprises (HBEs) an economic lifeline or scenic distortion in Nigeria? Evidence from Ikot Epkene, Akwa Ibom State61
Understanding the relationship between population–land–industry element inputs and function outputs of rural settlement: An efficiency-based perspective60
Impacts of global manufacturing transfer on energy intensity, consumption, and transition: An industry linkage perspective58
The rural human-land relationship transition in Southwest karst mountainous areas based on rural population, agricultural production land, and rural settlement coupling58
Impacts of in situ urbanisation on grain production: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta, China57
Unequal periurban mobility: Travel patterns, modal choices and urban core dependence in Latin America57
Urban planning schemes for developing low-carbon cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council region55
Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management in Kathmandu city, Nepal – An impact of an incomplete data set55
Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs52
Digitalized rural operation: A new practice for China's rural revitalization52
Dealing with urban floods within a resilience framework regarding disaster stages52
Urban habitats and food insecurity: Lessons learned throughout a pandemic50
A novel model for simulating urban expansion under compactness scenarios on a regional scale50
Analyzing the impact of land expropriation program on farmers' livelihood in urban fringes of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia49
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Understanding the value of retail accessibility in private housing markets: A study from Turin, Italy47
Assessing the impact of urban amenities on people with disabilities in London: A multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis46
Health service disparity, push-pull effect, and elderly migration in ageing China46
Externality impacts of “Not in My Backyard” facilities on property values: Evidence from the Hangzhou waste sorting and reduction complex projects45
Trust and land Lease: The role of informal institutions in land market in rural China45
Escaping from “dream city”? Housing price, talent, and urban innovation in China44
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty in secondary cities: Implications for urban sustainability in African cities43
Governance transformation among urbanization in China: From hierarchical model to contract-based exploration42
‘Displace, Dump and Cage?’: Contested logics of formalization of street trading in Harare and Kumasi42
Optimizing the rural comprehensive land consolidation in China based on the multiple roles of the rural collective organization42
Assessing the effects of the new-type urbanization policy on rural settlement evolution using a multi-agent model41
Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and dominant determinants of farmland abandonment in China41
Urban construction-based social risks assessment in hot arid countries with social network analysis41
Ice and snow tourism in China's ecological civilization era: The Altay, Xinjiang experience41
Examining the nonlinear and spatial heterogeneity of housing prices in urban Beijing: an application of GeoShapley40
Between proximity and security: A log-linear choice modeling of displacement risks and residential mobility trade-offs in immigrant Sub-Saharan communities39
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Price premium of the collective management of condominiums: Evidence from Tokyo39
The image of informal settlements: A visibility mapping in the Global South39
Competing for innovation: Political tournaments and high-tech industries-related land transfer38
The organic renewal of traditional villages from the perspective of logical space restoration and physical space adaptation: A case study of Laoche village, China38
Mapping the emerging forms of informality: A comparative morphogenesis of villages-in-the-city in Vietnam38
Stakeholder perspectives on sustainable city solutions in London: A thematic analysis38
Has urban expansion alleviated working-residential spaces segregation across inner-outer cities? A multi-scale study with location-based social bigdata38
How studentification reshapes social vulnerability in urban Korea: Impressions based on regeneration and shrinkage38
Why do skilled migrants’ housing tenure outcomes and tenure aspirations vary among different family lifecycle stages?37
The medicalisation of solid waste: Coordination challenges of domestic biomedical risk waste in illegal dumping sites in informal settlements in Cape Town37
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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 evaluation37
Journeys of joy: Investigating the subjective well-being of China's urban-to-urban migrants37
How does farmers' endogenous dynamic shape up in China's rural residential land system reform: Insights from the social-ecological system framework37
Identifying post-suburbanization: The case of the Jakarta metropolitan area (JMA)37
Indigenous Urbanisation and Urban Indigeneity: Insights of embedded identity and contouring spatiality in Jharkhand, India36
Network infrastructure construction and inter-counties collaborative innovation in China with center-periphery effect36
Realities or mythologies: England's village pubs and counterurbanisation36
Awakening dormant intangible cultural Heritage: Bridging capital, capacity, and change for rural sustainability36
Social learning and dynamics of farmers’ perception towards hollowed village consolidation36
Understanding industrial land allocation in rural regions of China: spatiotemporal patterns and driving mechanisms34
The Fourth Generation: Urban renewal policies in the service of private developers34
Build a resilience assessment framework for cross-city networks in urban agglomerations34
Bridging the digital divide for resilient cities: Lessons from Chinese prefectures34
Collaborative governance and conflict management in cultural heritage-led regeneration projects: The case of urban Korea33
Evolution of accessibility to work for low-income populations in Brazil: Towards equitable and sustainable metropolises?33
Breathing space in a compact city: Impacts of urban re-densification on Mumbai's low-income housing environment33
Social sustainability of residential squares: Evidence from Narmak neighborhood, Tehran33
Beyond objective features: Integrating subjective perceptions to decipher urban vitality via multimodal machine learning32
The impact of rural land transfer on the living satisfaction of middle-aged rural residents and the implications: A perspective of land attachment32
Agglomeration phenomena and evolutionary patterns of contemporary architectural interventions in traditional villages: An empirical analysis from 211 cases in Songyang County, China32
Response of carbon balance change and carbon imbalance risk to trade-off and synergy of urbanization-ecological construction in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau31
Sustainable development of urban agglomerations around lakes in China: Achieving SDGs by regulating Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand through New-type Urbanization31
How to become one? The modern bond of traditional villages in centralized contiguous protection and utilization areas in China31
Spatial correlation mechanism between natural landscape aesthetic quality and tourist perception in Mount Wuyi national park, China31
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Academic urban legend, Agbogbloshie: Sweeping away the "World's Largest E-Waste Dumpsite"30
Economic integration of temporary and permanent migrants: Between migrant and return migrant status30
Reducing rural income inequality and its spatial convergence in China during the past two decades29
The impact of mega shopping complexes on the survival of nearby local businesses: A case study of the seoul metropolitan area, South Korea29
Forecasting the dynamics of the Istanbul real estate market with the Bayesian time-varying VAR model regarding housing affordability29
Exploring the relationship between ‘sites and services’ projects and urban adaptability. A case study of Charkop (Mumbai)29
A network framework for livable village construction: Regional disparities and strategic goal prioritization in China28
Urban land system change: Spatial heterogeneity and driving factors of land use intensity in Wuhan, China28
Decoding the spatial pattern and determinants of mixed land use in metropolitan suburban rural settlements: Insights from the socio-ecological system framework28
Social networks matter for villagers’ withdrawal from rural homesteads: An empirical analysis of sichuan in western China28
Village CEOs as gentrification agents: Gentrification and spatial governance in China's emerging tourism villages28
Disentangling housing affordability of migrant households through the lens of trade-offs: Evidence from urban China28
Heterogeneity of urban‒rural responses to multigoal policy from an efficiency perspective: An empirical study in China27
The effect of urban–rural construction land transition on ecosystem services: A theoretical framework and empirical evidence for China27
Urban residential space differentiation and the influence of accessibility in Hangzhou, China27
Assessing the coordination relationship between transportation services and population mobility in mega-urban agglomerations: A network deviation perspective27
Grid-level assessment on spatial equity in access to urban public facilities by vulnerable groups based on the multi-source data27
Evaluation and formation mechanism of rural social vulnerability under natural hazard: A case study of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China27
The spatiotemporal distribution and influencing mechanism of China's hydraulic heritage sites26
The costs of delay: Marginalization and sustainable development challenges around Hanoi's urban rail projects26
Who moves and who gains from internal migration in Egypt? Evidence from two waves of a labor market panel survey26
Intergenerational social housing for older adults: Findings from a Central European city26
Enabling planned urban settlements through land readjustment - A case study from Kigali, Rwanda26
Spatial production in the process of rapid urbanisation and ageing: A case study of the new type of community in suburban Shanghai26
“Without the school, the village has no soul”: Rethinking school and socio-cultural resilience in rural China26
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 pe26
Micro-regeneration in Shanghai and the public-isation of space25
Assessing the digital village development in China and its driving factors: An analysis using online media data24
Impact of multi-dimensional precarity on rough sleeping: Evidence from Hong Kong24
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 countrie24
Agglomeration spillover, accessibility by high-speed rail, and urban innovation in China: A focus on the electronic information industry24
The built environment and multidimensional poverty: exploring accessibility as a mediator of spatial opportunity24
Understanding location choice of Syrian refugees from country to neighbourhood level: Opportunities, restrictions and expectations24
Students go to schools in new districts! public high school relocation as intrapreneurial education provision in China24
Marginalized but equal? An investigation of visible green equity disparities in marginalized residents' daily commutes and its potential green solutions24
Aspirations versus reality: Factors influencing the vertical social mobility of urban Roma mothers living in extreme poverty24
Proposing the classification matrix for growing and shrinking cities: A case study of 228 districts in South Korea24
Measuring the role of land consolidation to community revitalization in rapidly urbanizing rural China: A perspective of functional supply-demand23
Navigating the interplay of cities and artificial intelligence: Innovation, integration and interpretation23
Cultural reinvention or cultural erasure? A study on rural gentrification, land leasing, and cultural change23
Placing social networks: A case study of female gated community residents in Bahrain23
Dilemmas for regional inequality in talent aggregation through environmental amenities: Re-examine China's hukou puzzle23
Evaluation of the university campus layout for the dual use as a city-level emergency shelter23
Exploring the moderating effect of private green space on the relationship between density and housing prices23
Understanding the nonlinear trade-off relationship to optimize urban-rural ecosystem services: a case study in arid and semi-arid region, China23
Evaluating resilience and enhancing strategies for old urban communities amidst epidemic challenges23
Waste management intervention to boost circular economy and mitigate climate change in cities of developing countries: The case of Brazil23
Promoting the realization of ecological product value through ecological compensation: Empirical evidence from the transfer payments for China's National Key Ecological Function Zones23
From fragmentation to framework: A multi- and cross-scale review of property regimes in urban redevelopment22
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A participatory foresight approach to envisioning post-pandemic urban development pathways in Tokyo22
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Multiscale landscape ecological risk response to natural and social factors in China: Thresholds identification22
Does secure tenure alone solve the problem of homelessness? A critical appraisal of the resettlement practices in rural Bangladesh22
Public attitudes toward state-led urban village rehabilitation in Shenzhen, China22
(Late)nt? Exploring the latent potential for participatory heritage conservation in makhanda, South Africa22
The built environment and overweight in Shanghai: Examining differences in urban and rural contexts21
Land consumption and urbanization in rural areas. Understanding the dynamics of land take and demographic changes in rural municipalities in Catalonia, Spain21
Mexico's mass housing: An underexplored locus of informality21
“No flooding, no traffic jams here, no jobs either”: Conceiving urbanization in small cities of southern Vietnam21
Group identification and political trust: A study on the influence and action mechanism of village leadership on farmers’ participation in public affairs21
Evolution pattern and mechanism of rural areal functions in Xi'an metropolitan area, China21
The impact of microscale environmental features on older adults’ recreational activities in shared spaces of high-density residential neighbourhoods: A recreationist-environment fit perspective21
Dispossessing the vulnerable or building resilience? Assessing the long-term impacts of rural land expropriation on poverty alleviation sustainability in China21
Impacts of village consolidation on household livelihood resilience in coal resource-exhausted areas21
Co-creation of community micro-renewals: Model analysis and case studies in Shanghai, China20
Beyond intentions: Transaction uncertainties and developers’ adoption of nonconventional housebuilding technologies20
Compensation mechanisms for withdraw from rural homesteads based on the dual differentiation effects of rural migrants: New evidence from machine learning20
How does greenspace-oriented development induce growth? The Case of Beijing20
Rural transformation and its links to farmland use transition: Theoretical insights and empirical evidence from Jiangsu, China20
Coupled dynamics of rural settlements and sloping cropland: ecological risks and socio-ecological responses in a karst mountainous area20
Pathways for future climate action planning in urban Ghana20
Producer-oriented and consumer-oriented alternative food networks and rural revitalization in China: Distinct trajectories and variegated impacts20
Assessment of the flood mitigation ecosystem service in a coastal wetland and potential impact of future urban development in Chile20
The effects of urban green infrastructures on the housing market19
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The impact of the residential environment on Chinese older people's aging-in-place intentions: A mediation and moderation analysis19
Preferences for rental housing in urban Ghana: A discrete choice experiment19
Influence of ecological civilization pilot policy on double dividend of industrial enterprises19
Exploring the nexus between dimensions of spatial structure and foreign direct investment: A case study of Vietnam19
Is rationality or herd more conducive to promoting farmers to protect wetlands? A hybrid interactive simulation19
Coping with the “new normal”: assessing urban vibrancy resilience disparities through socioeconomic deprivation in New York City19
The relationship between industrial transfer parks and county economic growth: Evidence from Guangdong Province, China19
Housing, co-residence pattern, and mental health during COVID-19: Evidence from Shanghai19
Unveiling rural transformation mechanisms: Quantitative evidence from 460 villages in China19
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Evaluating transit-oriented new town development: Insights from Seoul and Tokyo18
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
Self-help housing cooperatives in Ethiopia: Affordability, scalability, and sustainability18
Revitalizing oil-gas resource-based cities: Unveiling spatial heterogeneity and life cycle dynamics of sustainable development capacity18
How does the digital economy affect the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from Chinese cities18
Explaining housing rents: A neural network approach to landscape image perceptions18
Towards sustainability: The spatiotemporal patterns and influence mechanism of urban sprawl intensity in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration18
Will opening the gated community be perceived beneficial by residents? A comparative study of Beijing and Singapore18
Rural revitalization mechanism based on spatial governance in China: A perspective on development rights18
Plausible or misleading? Evaluating the adaption of the place pulse 2.0 dataset for predicting subjective perception in Chinese urban landscapes18
Rural mobility and socio-spatial impacts in Japan: A case study of Kutchan, Hokkaido18
Unveiling systemic risk in China's housing market between first- and second-tier cities18
Impacts and perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban-rural linkages in Rwanda18
How does the reconstruction of residential space impact displaced farmers’ post-resettlement adaptation during urbanisation in China? A perspective of spatial production17
Unlocking rural resources for revitalization: Examining the process and impact of compensated use of rural residential land through a social-ecological system framework17
Enhancing agricultural production and environmental benefits through full mechanization: Experimental evidence from China17
Intermittent food deserts. Exploring the spatiotemporal dimension of the urban fresh food access in Chilean cities17
Optimizing rural settlements in China through rural system resilience and socio-spatial kinships: A dual-scale approach at the administrative and natural village levels17
Dwindling funds and increased responsibilities: Decentralization, unfunded mandates, and Harare's infrastructure crisis17
Environmental justice analysis of the spatial evolution in island rural tourism destinations: A case study from Pingtan Island, China17
Developing a hybrid risk assessment method for prioritizing the critical risks of temporary accommodation sites after destructive earthquakes17
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, Australia17
Cultural embeddedness and community participation in provincial-level disaster resilience: A multi-stage assessment framework based on network DEA and social media analysis17
Does labor mobility follow the inter-regional transfer of labor-intensive manufacturing? The spatial choices of China's migrant workers17
A GIS-based approach for improving urban sanitation planning and services delivery: A case study from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso17
Examining urban polarization in five Spanish historic cities through online datasets and onsite perceptions17
Insights into women's perceived safety: Empirical findings from intercept surveys17
Inventory land era and transformation of China's urban regeneration: An empirical study of Chengdu Hi-Tech West District, China17
How does rural residential land use change adapt to transitioning agricultural systems in the metropolitan suburbs of China? An adaptive cycle approach16
How does intra-city spatial structure influence green economic efficiency? A nonlinear and spatial spillover perspective16
Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function16
Corrigendum to “Do the motivations behind home sales matter? Evidence from China's housing resale market” [Habitat International 166 (2025) 103625]16
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The urban‒rural income gap, green innovation and urban carbon emissions: An empirical study in the Yangtze River Delta, China16
State interests or local interests? An investigation of Chinese prefectural-level cities’ behaviour in response to national policy implementation16
Developing counterurbanisation: Making sense of rural mobility and governance in Japan16
Reconfiguring rural development: Spatial diffusion of E-Commerce and its multifaceted effects16
Probing the long-term evolution of traditional village tourism destinations from a glocalisation perspective: A case study of Wuzhen in Zhejiang province, China16
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From fragile states to fragile cities: institutional weakness and urban displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa16
How urbanization shapes rural ageing in China? Evidence from spatial Durbin and threshold regression models16
Convergence or divergence between small towns and villages: A perspective from changes in built-up land development intensity16
Community response to COVID-19: The case of rental housing cooperatives in Melbourne, Australia and Choluteca, Honduras16
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 model16
Urban human settlement quality refined assessment and its spatial relationship with human activity intensity in arid area: A case study of Urumqi, China15
Mapping the margins: A systematic scoping review of the impact of digital mapping on public participation in informal settlements15
Beyond density: COVID-19 as an accelerator of spatial (in)justices15
Regeneration towards suitability: A decision-making framework for determining urban regeneration mode and strategies15
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 202215
Urban neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) inference: A machine learning approach based on semantic and sentimental analysis of online housing advertisements15
Rethinking the implications of sprawl for sustainable urban development: Insights from the Ejisu Municipality of Ghana between 2003 and 202315
Culture-led rural revitalisation in China: Relational practices of materiality, creativity, and sustainability15
Unveiling local dynamics of Chinese cities: A multidimensional scale-adjusted analysis15
Resilience dynamics of economic systems in cities and city networks: A case study of the Central and Southern Liaoning Region, China15
A global-scale review of smart city practice and research focusing on residential neighbourhoods15
Uncovering the activity-based gender segregation and its association with crime15
Settlement scaling law reveals population-land tensions in 7000+ African urban agglomerations15
Preferential encroachment of high-quality cropland by urban expansion across China: Past trends and future projections15
Social capital and community-driven development: A multi-group analysis of migrant and indigenous informal settlements in Greater Accra, Ghana15
Analysis of China's industrial network structure and its resilience from the sectoral perspective15
How new rural elites facilitate community-based homestead system reform in rural China: A perspective of village transformation15
Identifying the daily activity-travel patterns of rural residents: A case study of Guiyang, China15
Assessing the impact of unplanned settlements on urban renewal projects with GEE15
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