Cities and Urbanization: Balancing the Environmental and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Sustainability

• DOI: 10.1002/adsu.202300401
• Publication Date: 2024-03-02T13:04:33Z
• Authors: Becky P.Y. Loo; Ka Ho Tsoi; Xinghua Feng; Hongsheng Zhang; Yinyi Lin; Zhiran Huang; Raffaele Lafortezza; Zhenci Xu; Hui Lin
• Keywords: Comprehensive sustainability; comprehensive sustainability; citie; 330; Urban form; urban form; 710; Cities; 01 natural sciences; 300; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

Abstract With an increasingly urbanized world, there is urgent need to examine how cities may evolve and achieve sustainability. This paper systematically looks at the Greater Bay Area (GBA) Poyang Lake Region (PLR) in China spatial processes for insights into urbanization, balancing environmental socio‐economic dimensions. A total of 226 805 cells are analyzed unveil relationship between sustainability changes 2015–2019 period urban form indicators, considering sociodemographic variables, geographical features, city size as control variables. Two tree‐based machine learning models (Random Forest XGBoost) developed. study provides evidence that a monocentric high share small activity clusters not good For each indicator, non‐linear with The results reconfirm benefits having strong second cluster comparable largest one. When planning cities, some forms land use buffering desirable. There also support developing relatively large nodes promoting compactness form. Beyond characteristics, levels economic development, population still highly relevant.