The 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic has been a governance challenge for countries and cities worldwide. In China, the community-based joint prevention and control governance mechanism is one of the highlights of the "Chinese experience" in fighting the pandemic. As aging accelerates, communities can take on more functions in managing the health of their residents. Especially in the post-pandemic era, the actual needs of community residents in terms of health, medical care, and elderly care need to be addressed. This paper uses a questionnaire to understand the current situation of community health management in Beijing, followed by the selection of four typical communities for in-depth interviews, and uses the triple process of open coding, selective coding, and theoretical coding of the grounded theory to analyze residents' needs and willingness for proactive health management. More than 80 concepts, 41 categories, and 6 master categories were obtained from 204 initial statements. The "logical line" of the relationship between the main categories was constructed, and we developed a conceptual model of community-based proactive health management, consisting of six dimensions: (1) perception and willingness, (2) primary population, (3) health behavior paradigm, (4) management mechanism, (5) information technology applications, and (6) facilities and services. The study aims to contribute to the community-based health management in China and for the international community and provide strategies to improve community-based health management.

Promoting the high-quality development of the tourism economy has become an important challenge. Based on panel data on 31 provinces in China during 2009–2019, this study uses spatial econometric and threshold regression models to analyze the spatial spillover effects and threshold characteristics of tourism industry agglomeration on the high-quality development of the tourism economy. The results show that the overall level of high-quality development of China's tourism economy shows an upward trend, with differences between different regions. The agglomeration of tourism industry has a significant positive impact on the high-quality development of the tourism economy and shows strong spatial spillover effects. Further, the level of agglomeration has a double-threshold effect on the high-quality development of the tourism economy. Based on these results, we propose countermeasures to promote the coordinated and linked development of the tourism industry in different regions, providing important insights for further enhancing the high-quality development of the tourism economy in China.

Against the background of the aging trend in China, construction and regeneration strategies for an aging-friendly built environment are becoming common, led by urban governments, and public street spaces are the focus of these strategies. Exploring such planning and design strategies can help to improve the social welfare of the aging population and meet their diverse needs. Thus, this paper, through analyzing the determinants of the elderly’s needs, examines the relationship between spatial perception and street form, using Shanghai, in China, as a case study. This study contributes to the current literature in two ways: first, it constitutes the first attempt to build a needs hierarchy for aging people in a Chinese developed city; second, our statistical analysis involves large-scale population surveys, which helps us to comprehensively and deeply understand the impact of detailed street forms on the elderly’s various spatial perceptions. Our results indicate that the renovation of street space in different areas of cities can be improved by the control of street form, to meet the diverse needs of the local aging group.

The dynamic change in land use can reflect the change in the ecological environment and social economy. Zhangjiajie is the famous mountain tourist city in China having a dual core central structure constituting the urban central area and Wulingyuan Scenic Area (referred to as DCC). This study is based on the land use data of Zhangjiajie in 2000, 2010, and 2020. It analyzed the dynamic change in the pattern of land use, its cause and effects using the method of human-computer interaction for remote sensing image interpretation. The study revealed: (1) the growth of construction land is the maximum, while cultivated land and grassland are mostly transformed into construction and forest land. (2) The reasons why Zhangjiajie with limited cultivated, and idle industrial land was mainly transformed into tourism construction land, especially the townships around DCC. (3) The development of townships around DCC should build industrial belts for coordinated development. This study attempts to analyze the development dilemma and outlet of Zhangjiajie’s DCC on its surrounding 12 townships using the results of land use change aiming to realize the integrated development of DCC and township area, to provide practical experience for green development of township industry around mega-tourist attraction.

It is widely acknowledged that climate change has caused serious environmental issues, including drought, bushfires, floods, and heatwaves, and urban sustainability is currently seriously threatened as a result. Arden is one of the key urban regeneration areas set to experience dramatic residential changes under Melbourne’s development blueprint within the next 20 years. The Arden Structure Plan (2022) outlines specific implementation steps but does not go into detail about the strategies and tactics used to address climate change and urban sustainability. Therefore, there are still problems with the plan, including a lack of information and time-bound development targets, ambiguous public engagement, little focus on urban crime, and insufficient climate change adaptation measures. The plan also considers affordable housing, a mixed-use development pattern that will significantly decrease environmental harm, and active transportation options, primarily walking and bicycling. Considering climate change, this plan will make Arden a suitable location for population growth. This paper aims to evaluate the Arden Structure Plan and make recommendations on how to improve the plan’s urban sustainability and climate change considerations. Furthermore, it provides guidance on whether Arden is a suitable location for Melbourne’s population growth in light of the climate change impacts anticipated to occur by 2100.

Forest parks are among the most important reserves. Forest recreation reflects the time requirements for resource usage and economic coordination for sustainable development. Human activities in forest parks are a major force for continuing space production. However, with the rapid development of forest recreation, expanded spaces and excessive expectations make sustainable development a great challenge. Analyzing the spaces of forest recreation; making conclusions about the spatial features; and analyzing requests regarding multiple characters, multi-functions, and land usage are all done through the process of space production, which based on the “Three Dimensions.” According to the problems of space alienation occurring in forest recreation, this paper proposes that the logic of space governance should return to the nature of the Three Dimensions itself. “Space justice production” and “reconstruction of we” should also offer countermeasures and advice for building a classification mechanism for the rights, responsibilities, and interests of recreation spaces; establishing recreation space control zones and strategies; and promoting space expansion simulations and facility scale measurement. The construction of spatial relationships and forms of social, ecological, and natural justice is necessary to offer a new method of space production and consumption balance for natural reserves.