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Open AccessRoundtable discussion: rethinking and exploring smart city development
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Spatial Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Urban Resilience from the Perspective of Daily Activity: A Case Study of Nan**g, China
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Travel Behaviours of Sharing Bicycles in the Central Urban Area Based on Geographically Weighted Regression: The Case of Guangzhou, China
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Passenger satisfaction is critical to ridership growth of high speed rail (HSR). Each HSR trip includes at least four segments: access to HSR stations, waiting, line-haul, and egress from HSR stations. Satisfa...
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Future or smart community, which mainly refers to the development of community information and communication technology (ICT) platforms or devices, has received considerable attention from urban governments an...
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City Networks of Online Commodity Services in China: Empirical Analysis of Tmall Clothing and Electronic Retailers
City networks have been a critical topic in the fields of urban geography and regional economics. Numerous studies have explored city networks, focusing mainly on infrastructure and industrial networks. Unlike...
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ICT, activity space–time and mobility: new insights, new models, new methodologies
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Organic Carbon in Urban Wetland Sediments and Implication for Potential Greenhouse Gas Emission
Urban wetlands play an important role in maintaining the environmental systems of cities in southeastern China where population is large, economy is active and rainfall is plentiful.
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Urban Sediment Contamination with Heavy Metals in Southern China
With the rapid economic development for the last 4 decades, wetland sediments in most cities in China have been polluted at different levels by heavy metals (Zhu et al. in Bei**g Env Monit Assess 185:6049–6062,
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Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Residents’ Emotions Based on Sina Weibo Big Data: A Case Study of Nan**g
Many urban planning approaches have emphasized the need to be people oriented. With the fast development of cities, more attention should be given to the perception and spatial experiences of the residents. Fo...
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A theoretical framework and methodology for urban activity spatial structure in e-society: Empirical evidence for Nan**g City, China
The existing researches on the influence of information and communication technology (ICT) are mainly focused on human activity, whilst with few efforts on urban space. In the e-society, the widespread adoptio...
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An empirical study on Chinese city network pattern based on producer services
Globalization and informatization have accelerated city networking process over the world, which makes research on city network a hot topic in the fields of urban geography and economic geography. With Chinese...
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Taking Guangzhou as a case, this paper adopted a questionnaire survey to gather first-hand data and analyzed the characteristics and influencing factors of private car travel in Chinese cities. As the research...
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The Institutional Environment and the Textiles and Clothing Industry in China
This chapter examines the efficacy of Chinese textiles and clothing policies and their relationship with the growth trajectories followed by the T&C industry over the course of the past two decades. While asse...
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Taking Nan**g as a case, the paper explains the spatial behavior differences existing in the information technology use among different groups of residents and households, by virtue of analyzing the survey da...
