Yufei Sun

Apr 12, 2024 | mdpi.com | Lin Zhang |Yufei Sun |Chunlin Li |Bingbing Li

1. IntroductionChina has undergone an unprecedentedly rapid urbanisation since the new century. In fact, the urban expansion in China was currently ranked first internationally, accounting for 47.5% of the total urban expansion worldwide [1]. However, urbanisation is often accompanied by a series of ‘urban diseases’, such as traffic congestion [2,3], urban sprawl [4], growing urban population [5], and housing crowding [6].