How new regional industrial paths emerge constitutes one of the core issues in evolutionary economic geography. Recently, evolutionary economic geographers have recognized that a singular structural perspective is insufficient to explain the development processes of new regional industrial paths. By integrating concepts from innovation systems theory, transition studies, and institutional research, they emphasize the critical role of actors and their agencies in shaping new regional industrial paths. However, current research remains fragmented and has yet to develop systematic literature reviews or comprehensive syntheses. Thus, this study distinguishes between structural and agency perspectives in evolutionary economic geography, delineates how different types of agencies influence new regional industrial path, clarifies the strategic actions of diverse actors and their exercised agencies, and underscores the critical role of collective action and collective agency in regional new industrial path. Building on existing research, this paper argues that future studies should prioritize agency research within the Chinese context, clarify the roles of reproductive agency and peripheral actors in new regional industrial path, and differentiate types of agencies involved across distinct path development models.
Traditional geography has long focused on spatial heterogeneity characteristics and the mechanisms of geographic environmental effects in subjective well-being research. However, the research paradigm based on static neighborhood effects has significant limitations, particularly in neglecting the dynamic impact of individual spatial mobility on geographic environmental exposure. This paper first systematically reviews the concepts and measurement methods of subjective well-being, elucidates the theoretical origins of geography's involvement in subjective well-being research from the perspective of disciplinary development history, and critiques studies on the relationship between geographic environments and subjective wellbeing. Secondly, based on philosophical and methodological innovations, it proposes a shift in the paradigm of geographic subjective well-being research towards spatiotemporal behavior. That is, from static locational analysis to dynamic behavioral tracking, from environmental determinism to human-environment interaction theory, and from cross-sectional studies to process research. Thirdly, the paper constructs a geographic research framework for subjective well-being based on the coupling of time, space, and human behavior.
With the continuous refinement of humanistic planning and the growing complexity of human-land relationships, the fairness issues caused by traditional communities ignoring the diverse needs of residents have gradually emerged. Simultaneously, there has been a rising interest in the individual's needs and perceptions in the field of social sciences. Given that individual perceptions and needs significantly influence travel behavior and activity participation, relying solely on spatial data for objective accessibility often fails to provide complete information. Western scholars have begun to shift their research focus to perceived accessibility. Currently, perceived accessibility, owing to its unique advantages, has emerged as a significant complement in accessibility research. However, compared with the rich research achievements in the West, studies in China are still relatively lacking. Therefore, based on a comprehensive understanding of the current Western research status, the paper systematically reviews the origins, core concepts, and measurement methods of perceived accessibility. Subsequently, by examining the research content of perceived accessibility across four key dimensions: travel modes, population groups, spatial locations and emerging technologies, the paper proposes future directions and a framework for in-depth research on perceived accessibility. Finally, considering the current research gaps in China, the paper summarizes the implications of Western perceived accessibility research for accessibility studies in China, aiming to provide a basis and support for theoretical exploration and practical research in relevant fields.
In the context of digital transformation in tourism, tourism live streaming (TLS) has emerged as a novel virtual tourism experience, enabling participants to interact in real time with hosts/KOLs and scenic destinations. Drawing on dual-process theories of emotion, this study develops and validates a conceptual model of emotional and sentimental experience in TLS, integrating both explicit (verbal, self-reported) and implicit (facial expression-based) expression processes. Using a convergent mixed-method design, multimodal data from 41 tourism live streaming informants were collected, including facial emotion recognition via FaceReader software and semi-structured interviews. The results show that implicit expressions effectively captured short-lived and often negative emotions, such as anger or sadness, which were frequently underrepresented in verbal responses. In contrast, participants' self-report tended to highlight positive emotional memories, such as satisfaction, happiness, and inspiration. Dynamic temporal analyses further revealed distinct emotional patterns across three key phases of livestreaming experience: an anticipatory beginning, a peak interaction phase with high emotional volatility, and a reflective ending. These patterns suggest that emotional experience in TLS is phase-dependent and socially constructed through both interaction quality and content resonance. Furthermore, sentimental outcomes are reflected in core dimensions such as "enjoyment and autonomy", "inspiration and arousal", and "existence and identity".
As an elderly care model that combines the advantages and characteristics of family care and institutional care, community-based home care not only meets the real economic basis of the elderly, but also reasonably satisfies their expectations of local care. By constructing an evaluation index system of community home-based elderly care service capacity including five subsystems of living facilities, medical and health resources, social participation, human resources and welfare subsidies, the entropy value method is used to measure the community home-based elderly care service capacity of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China from 2012 to 2021; second, the Dagum Gini coefficient is used, shapley decomposition method to analyze the spatial and temporal differences in community home-based elderly care service capacity, the sources of differences and their influencing factors. Finally, based on the convergence effect model, the spatial and temporal convergence characteristics of the community-based home care service capacity are explored. The study shows that: 1) the overall capacity of community-based home-based elderly care services has been steadily improving, but shows obvious provincial spatio-temporal heterogeneity, and provinces show strong mobility among regions with different capacity levels. 2) The overall regional and inter-regional differences in the capacity of community-based home-based elderly care services have been further reduced. 3) The regional differences in the capacity of community-based home care services are mainly due to inter-regional differences, and human resources are the primary factor leading to the differences in service capacity. 4) There is σ-convergence in the national, eastern and western regions in terms of the capacity of community-based elderly care services.
Cross-border commuting is a defining feature of economic globalization and regional integration. This study examines mainland Chinese migrant workers commuting between Zhuhai and Macao in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a representative cross-border commuting region in China, to uncover the specific mechanisms by which "institutional" migration infrastructure shapes cross-border commuting patterns. Adopting the paradigm of historical institutionalism, this study emphasizes the historical evolution of institutional migration infrastructure and the socioeconomic outcomes produced at each stage of its development. We use document analysis as the primary research method, involving an in-depth examination of official legal documents, policy files, and various labor force related data from the Macao Special Administrative Region government archives since 1980. This method allows for a comprehensive analysis of how specific institutional migration infrastructures influence distinct patterns of cross-border commuting over time, capturing the underlying mechanisms that create, sustain, and transform these commuting patterns. Findings from this study reveal that institutional migration infrastructure changes have driven an evolution in migrant workers' commuting patterns, unfolding across three distinct stages: "no cross-border commuting, " "small-scale cross-border commuting, " and "large-scale cross-border commuting."
Second-home residential living has become a new trend for urban residents seeking leisure and vacations. However, existing research lacks sufficient exploration of the processes and mechanisms of place making in such communities. Using ethnographic methods and adopting the Aranya in Qinhuangdao, China, a typical second-home residential community, as a case study, this study employs the theory of Locality as its analytical framework to depict the formation and evolution processes of second-home residential community and its underlying mechanism. The findings reveal that the place making of second-home residential communities undergoes a transformation process from 'A Seaside House for Summer Retreats' to 'An Ideal Home for the Middle Class' and finally to 'A Homeland for Poetic Dwelling'. The key factor driving the evolution is the cycle modes and hierarchies of capital circuit fostered by the expanded behaviors of developers. This study firstly explores the place-making process of second-home residential community from the perspective of locality. It not only extends the analytical framework of locality, deepens the understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of second-home residential communities, but also offers managerial implications for the sustainable development of the residential tourism real estate industry.
This study uses panel data from prefecture-level cities in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration from 2007 to 2020. Through stochastic frontier analysis, it measures urban construction land use efficiency and evaluates the impact of regional integration policies using the propensity score matching-difference-in-differences (PSM-DID) method while examining the underlying mechanisms. The results indicate that regional integration policies effectively promote urban construction land use efficiency, although the impact process exhibits a lag. Regional integration policies enhance land use efficiency through mechanisms such as industrial structure upgrading, human resource agglomeration, and transportation infrastructure development. Among these, the mediating effect of industrial structure upgrading is the strongest, though its influence is narrowing; human resource agglomeration ranks second, with relatively stable effects; while the impact of transportation infrastructure development is smaller but exhibits an expanding mediating effect.
Against the backdrop of the rise of "attention cities" and the deep penetration of digital media, official cultural and tourism short videos produced by urban authorities have rapidly emerged as significant carriers for disseminating urban tourism images and facilitating the digital transformation of public services, owing to their visual appeal, entertainment value, and interactivity. However, there is currently a dearth of research exploring how soft advertising embedded in these official cultural and tourism short videos influences the public travel intentions. This paper constructs an analytical framework based on the AIDMA model to investigate the impact mechanism of soft advertising in official cultural and tourism short videos on the public travel intentions. Relevant conclusions are drawn through empirical analysis of 1, 012 questionnaires. The findings reveal that the public's travel intentions are subject to the combined influence of the attractiveness of soft advertising in official cultural and tourism short videos, the public's interest and desire in such advertising, and the information pushed by platforms. During this process, perceived usefulness serves as a mediating factor. This study not only provides a theoretical framework for understanding how soft advertising in official cultural and tourism short videos affects the public travel intentions but also offers practical insights for enhancing the digital transformation and effectiveness of urban tourism public services.
In this paper, the entropy method is used to measure the city industry integration index in China, and to explore the spatial-temporal differentiation pattern of its integration development level; This paper uses Dagum Gini coefficient and decomposition method and variance decomposition method to investigate the size and source of the difference of urban industry integration in China from the perspective of space and structure. The results show that: 1) the overall development level of industry city integration in China and the four regions as a whole shows an obvious upward trend, but the spatial differentiation characteristics of integration development among the four regions are obvious; 2) The reasons for the spatial differentiation of the development level of urban industry city integration mainly come from the regional differences; 3) The main structure of industry city integration difference comes from the production dimension and ecological dimension; The difference contribution rate of life dimension is relatively small.
In the backdrop of solidifying gains achieved in poverty alleviation and intensifying support efforts in post-poverty regions, there's an urgent need to strengthen the sustainable development capacity of relocated communities for poverty alleviation. This imperative aligns closely with the national strategy aimed at propelling rural revitalization and attaining equitable prosperity. Drawing upon sustainable development theory, this study lays out a conceptual framework for the sustainable development of these relocated communities. The research conducts a thorough evaluation of the sustainable development effectiveness and obstacles encountered by these communities. By analyzing the spatial differentiation characteristics of sustainable development, a classification system is proposed for sustainable development pathways across various regions. Findings reveal that: Overall, the sustainable development effectiveness of relocated communities for poverty alleviation in Shuicheng district is moderately satisfactory, with minimal variation observed across communities but significant disparities in obstacles. Particularly noteworthy is the distinct 'coreperiphery' hierarchical structure observed in the sustainable development of relocated communities for poverty alleviation. Based on variations in sustainable development effectiveness and obstacles across communities, and considering local resource endowments, environmental conditions, and socio-economic attributes, this study proposes three distinct pathways for sustainable development: consolidation and expansion, enhancement and optimization, and leadership and deepening.
An in-depth exploration of the mechanism and transmission path of high-quality tourism development in enhancing ecological resilience is a key issue for promoting the green transformation of the tourism industry and achieving sustainable development. Based on the balanced panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2023, this paper systematically clarifies the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of both high-quality tourism development and ecological resilience, and reveals in detail the underlying influence mechanism of high-quality tourism development on ecological resilience. The results show that: 1) The indices of high-quality tourism development and ecological resilience in each province have all shown a steady and continuous upward trend year by year, presenting a spatial distribution pattern of being significantly higher in the eastern region and relatively lower in the western region. 2) High-quality development of tourism exerts a significant and robust positive promoting effect on ecological resilience, and its spatial spillover effect is notably higher than the direct effect. 3) High-quality development of tourism has significantly enhanced ecological resilience through improving marketization levels and accelerating technological innovation, and it exhibits a dual threshold effect determined by both urbanization levels and the structure of the tourism industry. The research results can provide valuable references for enhancing ecological resilience and promoting the green transformation of the tourism industry through sustained high-quality tourism development. This study offers theoretical insights and practical guidance for fostering tourism–environment synergies that support long-term ecological sustainability.
In order to conduct an in-depth investigation into the pathways for achieving coordinated development between urban and rural areas within the Yellow River Basin, this research constructs a conceptual model and a comprehensive evaluation index system for the coupling and coordination of the triple system encompassing Rural Revitalization (RR), New Urbanization (NU), and High-Quality Development (HQD), grounded in the theory of human-earth system coordination. Employing a suite of analytical methodologies— including the coupled coordination degree model, Markov chain analysis, and the geographical detector technique—this study meticulously examines the synergistic evolutionary trajectories and underlying driving mechanisms across nine provinces in the basin from 2010 to 2023. The principal findings are summarized as follows: 1) From a temporal perspective, the development indices of the RR, NU, and HQD systems have demonstrated a steady and consistent upward trend. 2) Spatially, a distinct and increasingly solidified gradient pattern characterized by "strength in the downstream regions and relative weakness in the upstream regions" has emerged. 3) Regarding the driving mechanisms, the primary mode of influence has undergone a notable transformation. It has evolved from an initial reliance on a unipolar drive, predominantly fueled by economic growth and urban construction, towards a more complex and robust multivariate synergistic drive.
Daily population mobility drives spatial restructuring and coordinated development of urban agglomerations. Using mobile signaling data of June 2022, this study examines the Central Yunnan Urban Agglomeration through complex network analysis and MGWR. Results show: 1) The mobility network features "mono-centric dominance, small-scale clustering, and large-scale dispersion, " with a core–periphery pattern and weak peripheral links, remaining in an early stage; 2) Talent, industry, and medical services positively affect mobility, especially in the north, while economic level, education, and transport distance exert negative effects, strengthening from north to south. These factors act at multiple spatial scales. The study clarifies the spatial logic of mobility in underdeveloped agglomerations and offers policy insights for optimizing structure and fostering coordinated regional development.
Taking the Wuling Mountain Area, a typical ethnic gathering place and a key area for tourism poverty alleviation, as the case site, based on the panel data of county-level cultural tourism resources and social economy from 2010 to 2022, relying on the general equilibrium and push-pull theory to analyze the supply and demand matching mechanism of cultural tourism resources, and comprehensively adopting methods such as the matching degree model of the sequence and the Dagum Gini coefficient, analyze the adaptation relationship between the supply and demand of cultural tourism resources and its spatio-temporal characteristics. The results showed that: 1) the supply-demand adaptation of cultural tourism resources in Wuling Mountain area showed a trend of fluctuation and increase during 2010-2022. 2) The overall distribution of supply and demand matching shows "high in the north and low in the south", and the equilibrium center gradually shifts from the north to the central region. 3) From 2010 to 2022, the overall difference of supply-demand adaptation in Wuling Mountain area is decreasing, but the process is relatively slow. 4) The analysis of driving mechanism shows that there is a three-way synergy of "market demand-policy support-regional development" in general.
This study integrates multi-source data to construct panel data of 285 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2011 to 2019, based on the theory of digital technological innovation and tourism supply and demand coupling coordination, and utilizes the two-way fixed effect model, the panel smoothed transformation regression model and the spatial Durbin model to validate the multi-influence effect of digital technology on the tourism supply-demand coupling coordination. The main findings are as follows: 1) The level of coupling coordination of tourism supply-demand in Chinese cities shows continuous growth. 2) Digital technology significantly promotes the coupling coordinated development of tourism supply-demand, and this influence effect is more prominent in areas with good tourism development and high Internet level. 3) Digital technology has a non-linear incremental effect on the level of tourism supply and demand coupling coordination, and the effect and significance of the influence increases as the level of marketization increases. 4) The spatial Durbin model test found that the improvement of the level of digital technology development not only helps to promote coupling coordinated development of tourism supply and demand in the region, but also promotes the improvement of the level of tourism supply and demand coupling coordination in the neighboring regions through the spatial spillover effect.
Since the founding of the Republic of Türkiye in 1923, Istanbul has undergone a profound transformation from an imperial center into a modern metropolis. Under the dual forces of rapid urbanization and economic globalization, Istanbul has experienced a range of urban challenges commonly conceptualized as "urban maladies." These challenges are manifested in chronic traffic congestion, the unregulated expansion of informal housing, escalating environmental degradation, and increasingly pronounced social stratification. The causes of these problems are structurally distinctive, including spatial constraints stemming from Istanbul's transcontinental, dual-continent layout, intensified pressure on urban resources driven by large-scale inmigration, development imbalances caused by the excessive concentration of economic functions, the inherent ecological vulnerability of the Bosphorus and its coastal zones, and social tensions associated with multiethnic and multicultural diversity. The interaction of these factors has generated compounded systemic pressures, undermining the city's livability and sustainable development potential. In response, Istanbul has established a multi-dimensional governance framework covering transportation, environmental regulation, housing policy, and social welfare. Initiatives such as the construction of cross-strait transportation networks, industrial relocation and port emission controls, and the legalization of informal settlements combined with the expansion of public services have contributed to mitigating urban pressures to a certain extent.
