Digitalization and green development have advanced together across major Chinese cities, but aggregate co-movement does not necessarily imply a robust positive association within cities. Using a balanced panel of 100 major Chinese cities (2012–2023), we construct multidimensional digitalization (DIG) and green developm...
Coordinating digitalization with green development is increasingly central to urban sustainability, yet average CCD scores alone obscure distributional dynamics, regional inequality, spatial dependence, and local heterogeneity. Using 1296 city–year observations for 108 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) f...
Urban agglomerations concentrate human populations, economic activities, and land development, but gains in land-use efficiency do not necessarily progress synchronously with improvements in human-development capability. This study examines the coordination and mismatch between population high-quality development (PHQD...