Climate change threatens urban areas globally. Enhancing resilience is crucial, yet the comprehensive clustering of practical climate adaptation measures for use in construction industry decision-making is notably absent. This study investigates and categorizes various climate adaptation measures, justifying each through a lens of risk management, asset management, and previous scientific work. It takes advantage of the innovative digital platform Netobra, which offers an ecosystem for the construction industry, to provide real-world, practical implications of these measures. Informed by the Urban Resilience Evaluation System, ISO 31000 (risk management), and ISO 55000 (asset management), the study sets out to demonstrate the value of these measures in bolstering urban resilience and improving decision-making in the construction industry. Moreover, the study integrates a hotspot detection mechanism for areas at high risk of climate impacts, using multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA)-analytic hierarchy process (AHP) mapping on Netobra. These identified hotspots and corresponding climate adaptation measures will further be incorporated into a Risk-Informed Asset-Centric (RIACT) process, providing valuable insights for climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in urban development. Through its in-depth analysis, the study aims to contribute to the understanding of how diverse climate adaptation measures can be practically applied in various sectors, thereby enhancing urban resilience and effective risk and asset management.
Green infrastructure (GI) classifications are widely applied to predict and assess its suitability for urban biodi-versity and ecosystem service (ES) provisioning. However, there is no consolidated classification, which hampers elucidating synthesis and consolidated relationships across ES and biodiversity.In this research, we aim to bridge the gap between urban GI research on ES and biodiversity by providing a standardized common classification that enables consistent spatial analysis.We analyzed GI classifications used across five ES and four taxa in scientific literature. GI classes were analyzed based on name, definition and characteristics. Results were used to create a novel classification scheme accounting for both ES and biodiversity.We show that many GI classes are unique to a ES or taxon, indicating a lack of multifunctionality of the classification applied. Among the universally used classes, diversity in their definitions is large, reducing our mechanistic understanding of multifunctionality in GI. Finally, we show that most GI classes are solely based on land-use or land-cover, lacking in-depth detail on vegetation. Through standardization and incorporation of key characteristics, we created a Consolidated Urban Green Infrastructure Classification (CUGIC). This classification is fully available through openly-accessible databases.Our consolidated standardized classification accommodates interdisciplinary research on ES and biodiversity and allows elucidating urban biodiversity and ES relationships into greater detail, facilitating cross-comparisons and integrated assessments. This will provide a foundation for future research efforts into GI multi-functionality and urban greening policies.
Contemporary planetary urbanisation has resulted in increasingly uneven and ‘hyper-mobile’ socio-spatial development across the globe. Within a ‘new mobilities paradigm’, emerging and highly dynamic social and physical mobilities intersect at multiple scales to amplify the mobilities of particular social actors and spaces, while intensifying the immobility of others. A single method for studying socio-spatial inequalities is insufficient to capture complex mobility interactions across different scales of transformation, yet multi-dimensional methodologies lack sufficient elaboration. Within our original methodological framework, selected methods are integrated and cross-referenced to employ different dimensions of social and physical mobility (commute patterns, spatial accessibility, power relations, everyday practices), at interlinking scales (municipality region, neighbourhood, and architectural). Through a pilot study in Huangyan-Taizhou, China, we demonstrate how methods support one another to reflect how (im)mobilities between and within social groups and spaces interrelate through urbanisation. The findings show that informality generated opportunities and risks for mobility; inequalities have intensified and actors with less resources are excluded from the benefits of transformation. Our methodological approach for socio-spatial inequality presents a framework with potential for adaptation in other global transitional contexts, supporting socio-spatial interventions and policy-making toward more balanced and sustainable mobility interactions with comprehensive empirical evidence.
Under the requirement of limited or even negative urban land increment,understanding the motivations for urban regeneration and promoting sustainable regeneration practices constitute crucial issues in the contemporary planning studies.Applying the rent gap theory, the paper breaks down the land rent gap into four components: depreciation rent gap, development rent gap, rule rent gap, and scenario rent gap, with the latter being a novel concept inspired by Clark’s scenario theory.The paper also examines the causes, characteristics, and dynamics of various rent gaps in urban regeneration, and explains the rationale behind market players’ choice between demolition-redevelopment and micro-regeneration. Using Langyuan Vintage Cultural and Creative Industrial Park and Tianzifang area as cases, the paper analyses the patterns of rent gap changes in the regeneration process. It argues that future urban regeneration requires a healthy and sustainable multiple rent-gap structure. In addition, the paper suggests that scenario rent gap should be valued, the possibility of incentivizing the realization of scenario rent gap with regular rent gap should be explored to enhance the momentum of micro-renewal, and institutional support should be provided to promote the sustainable increase of scenario rent gap.
苏格兰20分钟邻里的全国公平性评估：居住地点的社会空间邻近性分析20分钟邻里（20-min neighborhood，简称为20MN）的概念根植于紧凑城市理论，鼓励开发居民住所一定步行范围内的城市地区，方便居民获得公共交通、公共开放空间，并为当地日常生活提供良好的设施和服务。已有研究表明，紧凑型城市设计有益于居民健康，20分钟邻里建设可以通过改善社区的连通性与获取服务的便利性，提升健康水平、减少健康不平等现象。
