The relationship between the neighborhood environment and well-being is attracting increasingly attention from researchers and policymakers,as the goal of development has shift from economy to well-being.However,exist...The relationship between the neighborhood environment and well-being is attracting increasingly attention from researchers and policymakers,as the goal of development has shift from economy to well-being.However,existing literature predominantly adopts the utilitarian approach,understanding well-being as people’s feelings about their lives and viewing the neighborhood environment as resources that benefit well-being.The Capability Approach,a novel approach that conceptualize well-being as the freedoms to do or to be and regard environment as conversion factors that influence well-being,can offer new lens by incorporating human development in-to these topics.This paper proposes an alternative theoretical framework:well-being is conceptualized and measured by capability;neighborhood environment affects well-being by providing spatial services,functioning as environmental conversion factors,and serving as social conversion factors.We conducted a case study of Changshu City located in eastern China,utilizing multiple resource data,applying explainable artificial intelligence(XAI),namely eXtreme Gradient Boosting(XGBoost)and SHapley Additive exPlana-tions(SHAP).Our findings highlight the significance of viewing the neighborhood environment as a set of conversion factors,as it provides more explanatory power than providing spatial services.Compared to conventional research based on linear relationship as-sumption,our results demonstrate that the effects of neighborhood environment on well-being are non-linear,characterized by threshold effects and interaction effects.These insights are crucial for informing urban planning and public policy.This research enriches our un-derstanding of well-being,neighborhood environment,and their relationship as well as provides empirical evidence for the core concept of conversion factors in the capability approach.展开更多
Since the 18th CPC National Congress,especially since the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighborhood Diplomacy held in October 2013,China’s neighborhood diplomacy has been energetic,proactive and promising,a...Since the 18th CPC National Congress,especially since the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighborhood Diplomacy held in October 2013,China’s neighborhood diplomacy has been energetic,proactive and promising,achieving important results in several aspects.At the same time,it is also in face of展开更多
The comprehensive development of aging-friendly communities has become a significant strategy for addressing the problems brought about by the accelerated aging of population,for which the design of the neighborhood e...The comprehensive development of aging-friendly communities has become a significant strategy for addressing the problems brought about by the accelerated aging of population,for which the design of the neighborhood environment is a pivotal aspect.Visual cognition,as the primary means by which humans perceive the external environment,has profound impacts on the environmental preferences and outdoor behaviors of older adults.This paper adopts a visual cognition perspective to explore the key elements and main characteristics of an aging-friendly neighborhood environment.Based on empirical studies conducted in five urban neighborhoods in different Chinese cities using a multi-methodological approach that encompasses auditing,questionnaire,interview,statistical analysis,and textual analysis,the paper examines the principal environmental elements contributing to the visual cognitive preferences of older adults at both individual and neighborhood levels.It proposes suggestions for designing aging-friendly neighborhood environment from the visual cognition perspective,which may provide a reference for the development of agingfriendly neighborhoods.展开更多
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42271230,42330510)。
文摘The relationship between the neighborhood environment and well-being is attracting increasingly attention from researchers and policymakers,as the goal of development has shift from economy to well-being.However,existing literature predominantly adopts the utilitarian approach,understanding well-being as people’s feelings about their lives and viewing the neighborhood environment as resources that benefit well-being.The Capability Approach,a novel approach that conceptualize well-being as the freedoms to do or to be and regard environment as conversion factors that influence well-being,can offer new lens by incorporating human development in-to these topics.This paper proposes an alternative theoretical framework:well-being is conceptualized and measured by capability;neighborhood environment affects well-being by providing spatial services,functioning as environmental conversion factors,and serving as social conversion factors.We conducted a case study of Changshu City located in eastern China,utilizing multiple resource data,applying explainable artificial intelligence(XAI),namely eXtreme Gradient Boosting(XGBoost)and SHapley Additive exPlana-tions(SHAP).Our findings highlight the significance of viewing the neighborhood environment as a set of conversion factors,as it provides more explanatory power than providing spatial services.Compared to conventional research based on linear relationship as-sumption,our results demonstrate that the effects of neighborhood environment on well-being are non-linear,characterized by threshold effects and interaction effects.These insights are crucial for informing urban planning and public policy.This research enriches our un-derstanding of well-being,neighborhood environment,and their relationship as well as provides empirical evidence for the core concept of conversion factors in the capability approach.
文摘Since the 18th CPC National Congress,especially since the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighborhood Diplomacy held in October 2013,China’s neighborhood diplomacy has been energetic,proactive and promising,achieving important results in several aspects.At the same time,it is also in face of
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52278068)the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program。
文摘The comprehensive development of aging-friendly communities has become a significant strategy for addressing the problems brought about by the accelerated aging of population,for which the design of the neighborhood environment is a pivotal aspect.Visual cognition,as the primary means by which humans perceive the external environment,has profound impacts on the environmental preferences and outdoor behaviors of older adults.This paper adopts a visual cognition perspective to explore the key elements and main characteristics of an aging-friendly neighborhood environment.Based on empirical studies conducted in five urban neighborhoods in different Chinese cities using a multi-methodological approach that encompasses auditing,questionnaire,interview,statistical analysis,and textual analysis,the paper examines the principal environmental elements contributing to the visual cognitive preferences of older adults at both individual and neighborhood levels.It proposes suggestions for designing aging-friendly neighborhood environment from the visual cognition perspective,which may provide a reference for the development of agingfriendly neighborhoods.
