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Yuxia Hu1, Zhaowu Yu1, Wenjun Yang1

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Area of Science:

  • Urban Planning and Ecology
  • Environmental Science
  • Spatial Governance

Background:

  • Effective urban spatial governance necessitates integrating urban morphology, ecological conditions, and human activities.
  • Current approaches are fragmented, limiting governance-oriented diagnosis and adaptive strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an integrated analytical framework coupling urban morphology, ecosystem assessment, and governance zoning.
  • To apply this framework to Shanghai, China, to identify spatial mismatches and governance bottlenecks.
  • To develop a classification model for tailored urban optimization pathways.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic coupling of urban morphological characterization with comprehensive ecosystem assessment.
  • Differentiated governance zoning based on integrated analysis.
  • Application to Shanghai, China, identifying dominant obstacle factors.

Main Results:

  • Revealed a three-tier spatial structure in Shanghai with modest overall coordination (0.40).
  • Identified significant spatial mismatch between ecological supply and social demand.
  • Dominant obstacle factors include heat exposure, habitat quality, carbon storage, vegetation indices, sky view factor, and building height (54.2% of constraint).

Conclusions:

  • Environmental and spatial-form factors are primary bottlenecks in urban systems.
  • A four-quadrant model can classify urban areas for tailored optimization pathways.
  • The framework provides an analytical basis for adaptive governance and ecological restoration in rapidly urbanizing cities.