This study applies multi-source datasets(i.e.,Baidu Heat Map data,points of interest(POIs)data,and floor area and land use data)and geographically and temporally weighted regression(GTWR)models to elaborate the spatio...This study applies multi-source datasets(i.e.,Baidu Heat Map data,points of interest(POIs)data,and floor area and land use data)and geographically and temporally weighted regression(GTWR)models to elaborate the spatiotemporal relationships between the built environment and urban vibrancy on both weekdays and weekends,using Guangzhou City as a case.First,we verified the spatially and temporally nonstationary nature of the built environment correlates,which have been largely ignored in previous studies based on local regression techniques.The spatially and temporally heterogeneous effects of the built environment on urban vibrancy are then presented and visualized,based on the GTWR results.We found that the elasticity of location(i.e.,distance),land use mix(i.e.,diversity),building intensity and numbers of POIs with various functions(i.e.,density)are different across time(2-h intervals within a day)and space(grids),due to people’s everyday lifestyle,time-space constraints,and geographical context(e.g.,spatial structure).The findings highlight the importance of a better understanding of the local geography on the spatiotemporal relationships for urban planners and local governments so as to put forward decision-making support for fostering and maintaining urban vibrancy.展开更多
In recent years,major cities around the world such as New York in USA,Melbourne in Australia,and Shanghai in China,have planned to boost their nighttime urban vibrancy levels to spur the economy and achieve cultural d...In recent years,major cities around the world such as New York in USA,Melbourne in Australia,and Shanghai in China,have planned to boost their nighttime urban vibrancy levels to spur the economy and achieve cultural diversity.The study of nighttime urban vibrancy from the perspective of spatiotemporal characteristics is increasingly being recognized as part of the essential work in the field of urban planning and geography.This research used mobile phone signaling records to measure urban vibrancy in central Shanghai and revealed its spatiotemporal patterns during nighttime.Specifically,this research explored the changes of urban vibrancy within a day,studied the distribution of urban vibrancy during the nighttime,and visually presented the spatiotemporal changes of nighttime urban vibrancy in central Shanghai.Moreover,on the basis of the behavior pattern of each mobile user,we classified nighttime urban vibrancy into three different types:nighttime working vibrancy,nighttime leisure vibrancy,and nighttime floating vibrancy.We then tried to determine how land use affected nighttime leisure vibrancy.The results showed that urban vibrancy in central Shanghai exhibits a periodic pattern over one-day period.A high-level nighttime urban vibrancy belt is present within central Shanghai.Business offices,hotels,entertainment and recreational districts,wholesale markets,and express services contribute most to the vibrancy at nighttime.In addition,the correlation analysis shows that public and commercial facilities generate high levels of nighttime leisure vibrancy than residential facilities.The mixed land use of public and commercial facilities and residential facilities within 500 m is more critical than the mixed use of a single land lot.The research can be a basis for supporting land use planning and providing evidence for policy-making to improve the level of nighttime urban vibrancy in cities.展开更多
Recent urban transformations have led to critical reflections on the blighted urban infrastruc-tures and called for re-stimulating vital urban places.Especially,the metro has been recognized as the backbone infrastruc...Recent urban transformations have led to critical reflections on the blighted urban infrastruc-tures and called for re-stimulating vital urban places.Especially,the metro has been recognized as the backbone infrastructure for urban mobility and the associated economy agglomeration.To date,limited research has been devoted to investigating the relationship between metro vitality and built environment in mega-cities empirically.This paper presents a multisource urban data-driven approach to quantify the metro vibrancy and its association with the underlying built environment.Massive smart card data is processed to extract metro ridership,which denotes the vibrancy around the metro station in physical space.Social media check-ins are crawled to measure the vitality of metros in virtual spaces.Both physical and virtual vibrancy are integrated into a holistic metro vibrancy metric using an entropy-based weighting method.Certain built environment characteristics,including land use,transportation and buildings are modeled as independent variables.The significant influences of built environ-mental factors on the metro vibrancy are unraveled using the ordinary least square regression and the spatial lag model.With experiments conducted in Shenzhen,Singapore and London,this study comes up with a conclusion that spatial distributions of metro vibrancy metrics in three cities are spatially autocorrelated.The regression analysis suggests that in all the three cities,more affluent urban areas tend to have higher metro virbrancy,while the road density,land use and buildings tend to impact metro vibrancy in only one or two cities.These results demonstrate the relationship between the metro vibrancy and built environment is affected by complex urban contexts.These findings help us to understand metro vibrancy thus make proper policy to re-stimulate the important metro infrastructure in the future.展开更多
Twenty shopping streets in Tokyo,Japan,were analyzed based on pedestrian vibrancy and visual information by assessing physical dimensions,objects,shops and quantity of pedestrians and walking speeds.Field survey recor...Twenty shopping streets in Tokyo,Japan,were analyzed based on pedestrian vibrancy and visual information by assessing physical dimensions,objects,shops and quantity of pedestrians and walking speeds.Field survey recorded 12-h periods of a typical weekday by tracking daily variations between July 3rd to August 3rd,2017 and October 13th to November 10th,2018.For analysis,Hierarchical Cluster and Discriminant Analyses were performed using the statistical software,SPSS v.24.The study classifies four dusters of shopping streets accordingly to pedestrian vibrancy as eccentric,with large street dimensions and big retailing shops;strong,with variety of specialized daily life stores,balanced,with lower specialized daily life stores,closer residential area and moderate numbers of flower pots;and weakened,with very few shops,residential predominance and higher numbers of flower pots.Findings indicate that larger street dimensions together with specialization of shops,rather than variety or number,are prone to slow walking speeds and larger numbers of people.Also,it was noticeable the connection of number of flower pots with proximity of residential areas.It could be theorized that pedestrian vibrancy correlates inversely to the proximity of residential areas.The closer residential area is the lowest pedestrian vibrancy would be.展开更多
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41901191,41930646)Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Zhuhai)(No.311020017)。
文摘This study applies multi-source datasets(i.e.,Baidu Heat Map data,points of interest(POIs)data,and floor area and land use data)and geographically and temporally weighted regression(GTWR)models to elaborate the spatiotemporal relationships between the built environment and urban vibrancy on both weekdays and weekends,using Guangzhou City as a case.First,we verified the spatially and temporally nonstationary nature of the built environment correlates,which have been largely ignored in previous studies based on local regression techniques.The spatially and temporally heterogeneous effects of the built environment on urban vibrancy are then presented and visualized,based on the GTWR results.We found that the elasticity of location(i.e.,distance),land use mix(i.e.,diversity),building intensity and numbers of POIs with various functions(i.e.,density)are different across time(2-h intervals within a day)and space(grids),due to people’s everyday lifestyle,time-space constraints,and geographical context(e.g.,spatial structure).The findings highlight the importance of a better understanding of the local geography on the spatiotemporal relationships for urban planners and local governments so as to put forward decision-making support for fostering and maintaining urban vibrancy.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41771170).
文摘In recent years,major cities around the world such as New York in USA,Melbourne in Australia,and Shanghai in China,have planned to boost their nighttime urban vibrancy levels to spur the economy and achieve cultural diversity.The study of nighttime urban vibrancy from the perspective of spatiotemporal characteristics is increasingly being recognized as part of the essential work in the field of urban planning and geography.This research used mobile phone signaling records to measure urban vibrancy in central Shanghai and revealed its spatiotemporal patterns during nighttime.Specifically,this research explored the changes of urban vibrancy within a day,studied the distribution of urban vibrancy during the nighttime,and visually presented the spatiotemporal changes of nighttime urban vibrancy in central Shanghai.Moreover,on the basis of the behavior pattern of each mobile user,we classified nighttime urban vibrancy into three different types:nighttime working vibrancy,nighttime leisure vibrancy,and nighttime floating vibrancy.We then tried to determine how land use affected nighttime leisure vibrancy.The results showed that urban vibrancy in central Shanghai exhibits a periodic pattern over one-day period.A high-level nighttime urban vibrancy belt is present within central Shanghai.Business offices,hotels,entertainment and recreational districts,wholesale markets,and express services contribute most to the vibrancy at nighttime.In addition,the correlation analysis shows that public and commercial facilities generate high levels of nighttime leisure vibrancy than residential facilities.The mixed land use of public and commercial facilities and residential facilities within 500 m is more critical than the mixed use of a single land lot.The research can be a basis for supporting land use planning and providing evidence for policy-making to improve the level of nighttime urban vibrancy in cities.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 42071360 and 71961137003]Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Provinces[grant number 2019A1515011049]+2 种基金the ESRC under JPI Urban Europe/NSFC[grant number ES/T000287/1]the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innova-tion programme[grant number 949670]the Basic Research Program of Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee[JCYJ20180305125113883].
文摘Recent urban transformations have led to critical reflections on the blighted urban infrastruc-tures and called for re-stimulating vital urban places.Especially,the metro has been recognized as the backbone infrastructure for urban mobility and the associated economy agglomeration.To date,limited research has been devoted to investigating the relationship between metro vitality and built environment in mega-cities empirically.This paper presents a multisource urban data-driven approach to quantify the metro vibrancy and its association with the underlying built environment.Massive smart card data is processed to extract metro ridership,which denotes the vibrancy around the metro station in physical space.Social media check-ins are crawled to measure the vitality of metros in virtual spaces.Both physical and virtual vibrancy are integrated into a holistic metro vibrancy metric using an entropy-based weighting method.Certain built environment characteristics,including land use,transportation and buildings are modeled as independent variables.The significant influences of built environ-mental factors on the metro vibrancy are unraveled using the ordinary least square regression and the spatial lag model.With experiments conducted in Shenzhen,Singapore and London,this study comes up with a conclusion that spatial distributions of metro vibrancy metrics in three cities are spatially autocorrelated.The regression analysis suggests that in all the three cities,more affluent urban areas tend to have higher metro virbrancy,while the road density,land use and buildings tend to impact metro vibrancy in only one or two cities.These results demonstrate the relationship between the metro vibrancy and built environment is affected by complex urban contexts.These findings help us to understand metro vibrancy thus make proper policy to re-stimulate the important metro infrastructure in the future.
文摘Twenty shopping streets in Tokyo,Japan,were analyzed based on pedestrian vibrancy and visual information by assessing physical dimensions,objects,shops and quantity of pedestrians and walking speeds.Field survey recorded 12-h periods of a typical weekday by tracking daily variations between July 3rd to August 3rd,2017 and October 13th to November 10th,2018.For analysis,Hierarchical Cluster and Discriminant Analyses were performed using the statistical software,SPSS v.24.The study classifies four dusters of shopping streets accordingly to pedestrian vibrancy as eccentric,with large street dimensions and big retailing shops;strong,with variety of specialized daily life stores,balanced,with lower specialized daily life stores,closer residential area and moderate numbers of flower pots;and weakened,with very few shops,residential predominance and higher numbers of flower pots.Findings indicate that larger street dimensions together with specialization of shops,rather than variety or number,are prone to slow walking speeds and larger numbers of people.Also,it was noticeable the connection of number of flower pots with proximity of residential areas.It could be theorized that pedestrian vibrancy correlates inversely to the proximity of residential areas.The closer residential area is the lowest pedestrian vibrancy would be.
