推动都市圈发展是我国新型城镇化进入新阶段的客观趋势和必然要求，研究从形态、功能空间结构以及网络联系对我国典型都市圈展开演变分析。结果表明 ：（1）均为发展型的国家级都市圈表征出差异化的空间结构，如南京都市圈呈现均衡化形态空间，福州、成都、西安都市圈为单中心集聚，而长株潭都市圈呈多中心空间布局。（2）各都市圈配套功能设施供需匹配不足，资源要素分布不均。（3）多数都市圈呈现近中心城区的向心性网络联系趋势，区域网络协调初步形成。最后，基于研究分析，文章探索都市圈空间格局优化策略以及相应政策建议，推动我国都市圈高质量发展。

欧洲和北美是当前绅士化研究的主要阵地。从城市芝加哥学派到马克思主义范式，再到多元研究视角，绅士化理论的发展与欧美城市研究的发展趋势基本一致，这表明绅士化与更广泛的城市空间重构紧密联系。随着比较城市研究范式的兴起，绅士化在全球范围的普适性引发了诸多争议。本文以Web of Science数据库收集的1 716篇文献为基础，通过可视化分析和文献综述，总结了近15年来国内外绅士化研究的演进、共识和争议。与欧美发达经济体相比，中国在政府与市场作用、国家主导地位、公众参与程度、产权制度等方面都呈现一种截然不同的绅士化过程，需正确认识我国经济转型过程中绅士化的形成机制，避免负面的社会空间效应，为我国新一轮城市化注入活力。

Context The dramatic expansion of urban lands has caused widespread cropland losses in China, yet little evidence is given on the progress of such transformation spatial–temporal explicitly. Objectives The present study aims to disentangle the underlying interaction between urban expansion and cropland loss as well as its socioeconomic drivers and future trends.

With globalization and informatization, cross-border areas have become increasingly critical interactive spaces, experiencing rapid development and extensive changes in residents’ cross-border travel, constantly changing the spatial patterns of neighboring cities. However, existing studies lack in-depth discussions of the new spatiotemporal characteristics of human activities, spatial pattern evolution, and the driving factors behind them.

Urban vitality generally refers to the ability to attract lively businesses and human activities, which largely depends on the urban built environment and human flows. Previous studies that applied the empirical approach to analyze urban vitality from the feature of the urban built environment and the behavior of residents are scarce. This study developed a novel framework for exploring urban vitality on the street scale with geographic big data in Xiamen Island—a livable city in southern China…

Managing complex cities for sustainability requires coordinated development of different urban functions. Urban scaling theory provides a quantitative framework to explore the temporal change of urban properties against city size and reveal if urbanization is balanced or not. We modeled urban allometries for Chinese cities from 1984 to 2019 and quantified the variation in the scaling exponents for assessing the degree of unbalanced development across urban functions. We found urban China had…

镇村高质量发展是我国城镇化从高速向内涵式发展的口146.63万人。2021年,增城区政府发布了关于征求《增城重要方面。大城市对周边镇村发展的影响和带动有助于推动 区关于深化城市更新工作推进高质量发展的实施细则(征求意城乡融合发展和镇村一体化发展。本文旨在探讨大城市周边 见稿)》,深化城市更新配套措施,加快推进增城的旧村改造镇村如何通过旧改更新联动,推动小城镇可持续建设,实现项目实施,促进城市高质量发展。在此背景下,增城创新了一镇村一体化发展。通过对广州市增城区旧村改造模式与全区些新“形式”,包括由政府主导科学划定旧村改造和土地收储更新办法进行分析,研究发现:储改结合有助于破解旧村改范围,同步开展改造和收储工作,土地收储产生的留用地优先造难题,实现多元主体共赢、更新效益提升;推动地区成片落地平衡旧村改造强度2。这意味着未来增城的旧改项目可能连片发展、整合优化,促进镇村高质量城市更新和城镇化高不单只有三旧改造这一块,还会涉及土地收储方面。本文以广质量发展。全区镇村旧改项目强化“储改结合”,由政府主州市增城区为例,探索储改结合驱动下的镇村一体化发展模式,导科学划定旧村改造和土地收储范围,…

The recent debate on urban vibrancy and its associated spatial characteristics worldwide has increasingly attracted the attention of planners and decision-makers in Norway and the European Union seeking to develop compact cities. This study investigated the spatial pattern of urban vibrancy associated with urban form and the determinants in Oslo, Norway.

Abstract：The urban evolution of Gulangyu, a historic international settlement in the city of Xiamen on China's southeast coast, has long attracted the attention of scholars working in the field of Chinese urban history. Until recently, however, few efforts have been made to theorize the spatial formation of Gulangyu. Drawing upon existing research on the island's development, particularly since the early 1840s, this study aims to offer a critical reading of the modern transformation of Gulangyu…

We are pleased to invite researchers from different disciplines, such as urban planning, human geography, social sciences, economics, environmental sciences, and other related disciplines, to submit papers to this Special Issue on “Regional Solutions to Urban-Rural Coordinated Development in the Megacity Regions”. Multidisciplinary research that addresses multiple social-environmental–economical facets, with regard to transitional urban-rural development from regional perspectives, is…