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  1. Time lag impacts of rural built environment on obesity: Mediation effects of physical activity

    Article • Travel Behaviour and Society, April 2026, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  2. Do Municipal Amalgamations Work? A Systematic Literature Review

    Article • Urban Affairs Review, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Bindong Sun

  3. The impact of city-county amalgamations on small administrative units: evidence from land transfer in China

    Article • Local Government Studies, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Bindong Sun

  4. The mechanism for the intra-city employment growth: The role of employment centers

    Article • Cities, May 2025, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  5. The urban spatial change hypothesis revisited: A case study of Shanghai

    Article • Cities, March 2025, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  6. Strategic coupling and change of regional emerging industries: A case study of the biopharmaceutical industry in the Suzhou Industrial Park

    Article • 地理科学进展, January 2025, Progress in Geography

    Bindong Sun

  7. The Unequal Carbon Cost of Commuting: Income-Driven Disparities in Urban China

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  8. Nonlinear relationships of commuting and built environments surrounding residences and workplaces with obesity

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bindong Sun

  9. Interplay between Network Position and Knowledge Production of Cities in China Based on Patent Measurement

    Article • Land, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  10. Nonlinear associations of built environments around residences and workplaces with commuting satisfaction

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, August 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  11. The types of city size distributions and their evolution

    Article • Cities, July 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  12. Examining the relationship between car ownership, car use, and exercise: Role of the built environment

    Article • Cities, June 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  13. Mixed land use has opposite associations with subjective well-being through social capital: Spatial heterogeneity in residential and workplace neighborhoods

    Article • Travel Behaviour and Society, April 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  14. On the changing of urban spatial structure: A glimpse from Shanghai's relocated residents

    Article • Cities, April 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  15. The evolution of urban employment spatial structure in China: From the perspective of monocentricity and polycentricity

    Article • Cities, April 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  16. Strategic storm flood evacuation planning for large coastal cities enables more effective transfer of elderly populations

    Article • Nature Water, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bindong Sun, Professor Stuart N Lane

  17. Associations between neighborhood environments and health status among Chinese older people during the pandemic: Exploring mediation effects of physical activity

    Article • Journal of Transport & Health, March 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  18. Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China

    Article • Applied Geography, March 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  19. Spatial Agglomeration and Decentralization of Social Economy

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bindong Sun

  20. The Urban Spatial Change Hypothesis Revisited: A Case Study of Shanghai

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  21. The influencing factors and formation mechanism of national well-being from production-living-ecological perspective

    Article • 资源科学, January 2024, Resources Science

    Bindong Sun

  22. Threshold effects of green space exposure around residences and workplaces on the duration of leisure walking among urban residents

    Article • 地理科学进展, January 2024, Progress in Geography

    Bindong Sun

  23. Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China

    Article • Regional Studies, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Bindong Sun

  24. Exploring the effects of urban spatial structure on green space in Chinese cities proper

    Article • Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, September 2023, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  25. Pathways from the campus-based built environment to obesity: Evidence from undergraduates in China

    Article • Cities, June 2023, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  26. Effects of built and natural environments on leisure physical activity in residential and workplace neighborhoods

    Article • Health & Place, May 2023, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  27. How Has the Inter-City Corporate Network Spatio-Temporally Evolved in China? Evidence from Chinese Investment in Newly Established Enterprises from 1980–2017

    Article • Land, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  28. Can Polycentric Cities Provide More and Better Consumer Amenities? Evidence from China

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2023, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  29. Does Urban Agglomeration Discourage Entrepreneurship in China? Micro-Empirical Evidence from China

    Article • Land, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  30. Exploring built environment correlates of walking for different purposes: Evidence for substitution

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, January 2023, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  31. Urban life cycle theory: Past, present, and future

    Article • 地理科学进展, January 2023, Progress in Geography

    Bindong Sun

  32. Equalization or polarization? The effect of the Internet on National Urban Hierarchies across the world, 2000–2018

    Article • Cities, December 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  33. The built environment and overweight in Shanghai: Examining differences in urban and rural contexts

    Article • Habitat International, November 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  34. Impacts of the built environment on social capital in China: Mediating effects of commuting time and perceived neighborhood safety

    Article • Travel Behaviour and Society, October 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  35. Residential and workplace neighborhood environments and life satisfaction: Exploring chain-mediation effects of activity and place satisfaction

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, October 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  36. Effects of Polycentricity on Economic Performance and Its Dependence on City Size: The Case of China

    Article • Land, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  37. Do polycentric structures reduce surface urban heat island intensity?

    Article • Applied Geography, September 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  38. New economy and national city size distribution

    Article • Habitat International, September 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  39. Inequity on suburban campuses: University students disadvantaged in self‐improvement travel

    Article • Growth and Change, August 2022, Wiley

    Bindong Sun

  40. An N-Shaped Association between Population Density and Abdominal Obesity

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  41. Effect of Compact Residences and Workplaces on Young Adults’ Commuting Behavior: Evidence from Shanghai, China

    Article • Journal of Urban Planning and Development, June 2022, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Bindong Sun

  42. Information communication technology and manufacturing decentralisation in China

    Article • Papers of the Regional Science Association, June 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  43. Panacea, placebo or pathogen? An evaluation of the integrated performance of polycentric urban structures in the Chinese prefectural city-regions

    Article • Cities, June 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  44. Population density and obesity in rural China: Mediation effects of car ownership

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, April 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  45. Unpacking urban network as formed by client service relationships of law firms in China

    Article • Cities, March 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  46. Polycentric spatial structure and its economic performance: evidence from meta-analysis

    Article • Regional Studies, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Bindong Sun

  47. High-quality integrated development in the Yangtze River Delta region: Problems and solutions

    Article • 自然资源学报, January 2022, Journal of Natural Resources

    Bindong Sun

  48. Pathways from the Campus-Based Built Environment to Obesity: Evidence from Undergraduates in China

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  49. The Evolution of the Urban Employment Spatial Structure in China: From the Perspective of Monocentricity and Polycentricity

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  50. The form and evolution of city size distribution and urban growth model in China: An analysis based on Zipf’s Law and Gibrat’s Law

    Article • 地理科学进展, January 2022, Progress in Geography

    Bindong Sun

  51. Can the internet reshape the national city size distribution? Cross‐country evidence

    Article • Papers of the Regional Science Association, October 2021, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  52. Sustainable built environment and travel behavior: New perspectives, new data, and new methods

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, August 2021, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  53. Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?

    Article • Regional Studies, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Bindong Sun

  54. Defining ‘centres’ in analyses of polycentric urban regions: the case of the Yangtze River Delta

    Article • Regional Studies, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Bindong Sun

  55. Elderly Suitability of Park Recreational Space Layout Based on Visual Landscape Evaluation

    Article • Sustainability, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  56. Are mega-cities wrecking urban hierarchies? A cross-national study on the evolution of city-size distribution

    Article • Cities, January 2021, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  57. Spatio-temporal change and influencing factors of city size distribution: Global empirical research based on LandScan data

    Article • 地理科学进展, January 2021, Progress in Geography

    Bindong Sun

  58. Reexamining the explanation of China’s spatial transformation from the perspective of new state space framework

    Article • 地理科学进展, January 2021, Progress in Geography

    Bindong Sun

  59. Do polycentric urban regions promote functional spillovers and economic performance? Evidence from China

    Article • Regional Studies, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Bindong Sun

  60. Examining non-linear associations between population density and waist-hip ratio: An application of gradient boosting decision trees

    Article • Cities, December 2020, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  61. Does Compact Built Environment Help to Reduce Obesity? Influence of Population Density on Waist–Hip Ratio in Chinese Cities

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  62. Mono- and polycentric urban spatial structure and PM2.5 concentrations: Regarding the dependence on population density

    Article • Habitat International, October 2020, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  63. Effects of the polycentric spatial structures of Chinese city regions on CO2 concentrations

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, May 2020, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  64. How does commute duration affect subjective well-being? A case study of Chinese cities

    Article • Transportation, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bindong Sun

  65. Interregional technological relatedness and industrial innovation: An analysis based on China’s manufacturing industry

    Article • 地理科学进展, January 2020, Progress in Geography

    Bindong Sun

  66. Is polycentricity a promising tool to reduce regional economic disparities? Evidence from China’s prefectural regions

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, December 2019, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  67. Polycentricity or dispersal? The spatial transformation of metropolitan Shanghai

    Article • Cities, December 2019, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  68. Sustainable Development Research on the Spatial Differences in the Elderly Suitability of Shanghai Urban Parks

    Article • Sustainability, November 2019, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  69. Impacts of a multi-scale built environment and its corresponding moderating effects on commute duration in China

    Article • Urban Studies, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Bindong Sun

  70. Impact of Population Density on PM2.5 Concentrations: A Case Study in Shanghai, China

    Article • Sustainability, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Bindong Sun

  71. Cultural diversity and new firm formation in China

    Article • Regional Studies, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Bindong Sun

  72. Does metro proximity promote happiness? Evidence from Shanghai

    Article • Journal of Transport and Land Use, December 2018, Center for Transportation Studies

    Bindong Sun

  73. Effect of urban spatial structure on labour productivity in China

    Article • Urban Studies, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Bindong Sun

  74. Economic performance of spatial structure in Chinese prefecture regions: Evidence from night-time satellite imagery

    Article • Habitat International, June 2018, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  75. Government fragmentation and economic growth in China’s cities

    Article • Urban Studies, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Bindong Sun

  76. Relationship between multi-scale urban built environments and body mass index: A study of China

    Article • Applied Geography, May 2018, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  77. Disentangling the effects of the built environment on car ownership: A multi-level analysis of Chinese cities

    Article • Cities, April 2018, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  78. The economic performance of urban structure: From the perspective of Polycentricity and Monocentricity

    Article • Cities, August 2017, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  79. Built environmental impacts on individual mode choice and BMI: Evidence from China

    Article • Journal of Transport Geography, July 2017, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  80. Built environmental impacts on commuting mode choice and distance: Evidence from Shanghai

    Article • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, May 2017, Elsevier

    Bindong Sun

  81. URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURE AND MOTORIZATION IN CHINA

    Article • Journal of Regional Science, November 2015, Wiley

    Bindong Sun

  82. Urban spatial structure and commute duration: An empirical study of China

    Article • International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Bindong Sun