Disciplines / Research questions
Urban planning
10 research topics · 25 questions
Net Impact of Superblocks on Traffic Spillover and Air Quality3 questions
Empirical validation of the modeled health benefits of Barcelona's Superblock program: post-implementation exposure, traffic-displacement, and combined-mortality effects
Field validation and localization of external-cost evaluation for opening gated residential communities to through traffic
Endogenous long-term activity-location change in superblock impact modeling: coupling land-use feedback and dynamic activity scheduling with microscopic door-to-door simulation
Gentrification and the welfare of existing residents in urban renewal3 questions
When Loss of Self-Respect Is Appropriate: The Unresolved Social-Conditions Question Behind the Self-Respect Account of State-Led Gentrification
Welfare impacts of neighbourhood gentrification on original residents in England: outcomes for long-term residents who remain and destinations of excluded low-income households
Open questions from Copenhagen's Inner Vesterbro urban renewal: causal displacement attribution, entrenchment through cooperative marketization, and untested deflecting mechanisms
Urban Resilience Indicators’ Ranking Instability Under Different Disaster Scenarios2 questions
Institutional Reasons for the Deviation Between Planned Floor Area Ratio and Actual Development Intensity2 questions
Do social-interaction mechanisms explain the residual fine-grained heterogeneity of floor area ratio in Beijing, and does the deviation framework generalize to other transitional-economy cities?
Causal mechanisms of informal peripheral development and the integration of China's urban and land use plans: the open research agenda of Liu et al. (2020) for suburban Beijing
Land Value Growth and Resident Displacement Effects in Transit-Oriented Development1 questions
Causal Effect of Mixed Land Use on Walking Activities3 questions
Causal dose–response of built-environment change for adult transport walking: how much of which change increases walking, net of residential self-selection
Does land use mix causally increase walking? Dimension-specific causal effects of mixed land use on walking frequency, duration, and distance
Causal status and modifiers of land-use substitution effects on walking
Whether Compact Cities Truly Reduce Residents' Transportation Carbon Emissions2 questions
Identifying the mechanisms linking intra-urban spatial structure to residents' travel carbon footprint in Seoul: public transport service quality, job-accessibility scale, and commuting mode choice
Endogenous modal choice, congestion, and the mapping from urban spatial structure to transport emissions and welfare
Whether Urban Growth Boundaries Can Curb Sprawl Without Raising Housing Costs4 questions
Decomposing the net housing-price effect of an urban growth boundary: benefit capitalization, homebuyer preferences, and the supporting supply-side policies (King County, Washington)
Jointly modeling urban growth boundary effects on land prices, housing density, and housing prices to predict when and by how much the boundary should be expanded
Open questions from fifty years of local growth management in America: causally quantifying regional displacement and metropolitan-scale fiscal, affordability, and distributional outcomes
Completing the welfare evaluation of urban growth boundaries: open-space amenity benefits and distributional impacts across household location preferences
Historical District Preservation and the Commercial Homogenization Paradox4 questions
Boundary conditions of tourism commercialization's positive effect on perceived authenticity and satisfaction in cultural heritage tourism: generalizing the Langzhong Ancient City model
Generalizing and governing the heritage–commercialization paradox in global Chinatown heritage tourism: comparative multi-site testing and stakeholder coordination beyond Singapore Chinatown
Authenticity, commercial gentrification, and participatory governance in the conservation of Beijing's historic urban areas
Robustness and mechanisms of commercial spatial structure and population agglomeration coupling in historic and cultural areas