Urban grey-green scales: A new perspective for assessing dynamic spatial trade-offs

作者：Xi Wang, Liang Zhou, David López‐Carr, Yongze Song, Hongwei Gao, Tao Che, Zhifeng Liu, Wei Wei · 发表于：International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1016/j.jag.2025.104708 · 被引用次数：11 · 研究领域：Land Use and Ecosystem Services、Impact of Light on Environment and Health、Urban Heat Island Mitigation

• Developed the “Urban Grey-Green Scale” assessment framework. • Quantified the grey-green spatial dynamics of ANC cities from 1990 to 2020. • Urban grey-green scales transition from imbalance to balance. • AAP and NL are key indicators that influence urban grey-green scales. Urbanization has shaped a dynamic relationship between urban grey and green spaces, and this relationship will profoundly affect the stability and sustainability of the urban system. However, few studies have focused on the complex dynamics, spatial patterns, and dominant factors of the coordination between urban grey and green spaces. Therefore, this study develops a grey-green space trade-offs indicator (GGSCI) to assess the dynamic relationship between vegetated and non-vegetated areas during the growth of urban built-up areas. The GGSCI is implemented to evaluate the long-term dynamics of urban growth across 121 cities in the arid zone of northern China (ANC) from 1990 to 2020. We use Mean-Kendall trend analysis methods to capture the typical features of urban greening, and an interpretable machine learning model is combined to reveal the relative contributions of socioeconomic and natural environment indicators to the GGSCI. The results indicate that: the built-up area of ANC has expanded by 5.72 times from 1990 to 2020. Total grey space growth is 2.12 times that of green space. In addition, the relationship between grey and green spaces in ANC is moving from imbalance to balance, with the percentag...