Zhaoping Wu

• Doctor at Zhejiang University

climate regions. Fully-enclosed dairy farms act as a promising option while its economic and environmental performance is poorly studied. Here, we evaluated the potential of improvement on milk yield and milk supply inequality among regions by developing fully-enclosed dairy farms throughout China, as well as their economic feasibility and environm...

Many urban features are found to follow the scaling law ( Y = αN β ). It has been found that the infrastructures scale 5/6 sublinearly with the population size, and the commercial facilities scale superlinearly. However, there is a lack of systematic research on the scaling laws of different types of functional components covering comprehensive urb...

The dynamics of a city's structures are determined by the coupling of functional components (such as restaurants) and human population. Yet, there lacks mechanism models to quantify the forces on the spatial distribution of the components. Here, a gradient model is explored to simulate the individual density curves of multiple types of city functio...

Rising inequality threatens the improvement of human well-being. As an important type of green infrastructure within cities, urban green spaces provide ecosystem services and contribute to human health. The inequalities of per capita urban green space area and ecosystem services are critical environmental justice and public health issues but are no...

As the spaces for dialogue between the past and the future, museums are essential to human well-being and social sustainability. Here, we collected data from 328 cities in 31 provinces of mainland China from 1980 to 2019 to investigate the changes in number and spatial inequalities of museums. The results showed that: (1) in mainland China, there w...

The construction of urban green spaces usually leads to the replacement of native species by alien species, resulting in the homogenization of species composition across cities in different climatic zones. However, along a temperature gradient, whether tree species diversity and life form composition (evergreen vs. deciduous) are homogenized across...

Understanding the spatial distribution characteristics and formation mechanism of urban facilities (city functional components) constitutes the basis of urban layout optimization. Currently, research on the overall distribution of the various types of city functional components is lacking. In this study, by applying the gradient analysis method com...

The structure and “metabolism” (movement and conversion of goods and energy) of urban areas has caused cities to be identified as “super‐organisms”, placed between ecosystems and the biosphere, in the hierarchy of living systems. Yet most such analogies are weak, and render the super‐organism model ineffective for sustainable development of cities....

A challenge in urbanization is how to improve the usage of temporary fragmented land, alleviate land degradation and ensure food self-sufficiency. The greenhouses for cultivation have the potential to utilize the fragmented lands, yet there are little known of their spatial information. This study developed a framework to visually identify greenhou...

The dynamics of city's spatial structures are determined by the coupling of functional components (such as restaurants and shops) and human beings within the city. Yet, there still lacks mechanism models to quantify the spatial distribution of functional components. Here, we establish a gradient model to simulate the density curves of multiple type...

Prevailing hypotheses recognize cities as 'super-organisms' which both provides organizing principles for cities and fills the scalar gap in the hierarchical living system between ecosystems and the entire planet. However, most analogies between the traits of organisms and cities are inappropriate making the super-organism model impractical as a me...