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The socio-spatial dimension of behavior analysis: Frontiers and progress in Chinese behavioral geography

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The interaction between urban space and individual behavior has led to essential social, economic and environmental consequences. Behavioral geography provides a new effective theoretical and methodological framework to investigate behavior patterns in cities. In recent years, behavior approach has become an influential analytical paradigm in Chinese urban geography. This paper provides an overview of behavioral geography research in China, by introducing the theoretical and empirical progress in behavior analysis. It is argued that behavioral approach offers a new perspective to understanding China’s urban sociospatial reconstruction and addressing social and environmental issues at micro scale. Although theoretical development still lags behind developed countries, Chinese scholars have made much progress in empirical investigations of classical socio-spatial behavior theories. This paper also provides an overview of new trends in Chinese behavioral geography that has started to apply the behavioral approach to urban social, economic and environmental issues. This paper suggests that social dimensions of behavior should be addressed more comprehensively and rigorously by using interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological frameworks, to better understand the complexity of Chinese cities and research the critical social and environmental issues in cities.

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  1. Department of Urban and Economic Geography, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yanwei Chai, Na Ta & Jing Ma

  2. School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241, China

    Yanwei Chai, Na Ta & Jing Ma

  3. School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Yanwei Chai, Na Ta & Jing Ma

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Chai, Y., Ta, N. & Ma, J. The socio-spatial dimension of behavior analysis: Frontiers and progress in Chinese behavioral geography. J. Geogr. Sci. 26, 1243–1260 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11442-016-1324-x

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