Hospital-Oriented Development (HOD): A Quantitative Morphological Analysis for Collaborative Development of Healthcare and Daily Life
How can human mobility and urban spatial structure inform equitable access to health-supportive resources?
Abstract
With the global trend of population aging, human-centered development that integrates medical convenience with daily life quality has become a critical necessity. However, conceptual frameworks, evaluation methods, and spatial prototypes for such ‘healthcare-daily-life’ development remain limited. This study proposes Hospital-Oriented Development (HOD) as a framework to promote collaborative development by considering both hospital accessibility and urban development intensity, derived from multi-sourced urban data. First, a conceptual framework was established, consisting of three dimensions—network accessibility, facility completeness, and environmental comfort—characterized by twelve indicators based on urban morphological features. Second, these indicators were quantitatively evaluated among 20 exemplary hospitals in Shanghai selected via user-generated content. Finally, HOD performance and morphology informed a spatial prototype. The results reveal confidence intervals for each indicator and recommended spatial features. Numerically, facility completeness is positively correlated with network accessibility but negatively correlated with environmental comfort. Spatially, a context-specific HOD prototype for China was developed. The study provides theoretical insight and empirical evidence for improving healthcare environments from a human-centered perspective.
The HOD prototype translates quantitative thresholds into spatial design features.
Current Outcomes
Research, translation, and recognition.
Publications
- (SSCI-2) Chen Z., Wang Y., Ye Y., et al. (2025). Hospital-Oriented Development (HOD): A Quantitative Morphological Analysis for Collaborative Development of Healthcare and Daily Life. Land, 14(10), 1996. DOI: 10.3390/land14101996.
- (CSSCI) Yuan K., Chen Z., Ye Y. (preprint). Multi-Scale and Fine-Grained Analysis of Urban Public Service Equity Based on Multi-Source Data: Revealing Spatial Disparities and Development Patterns in China’s Megacities. Planners. Accepted in April 2026.
- Chen Z., Wang Y., Ye Y., et al. (2025). Urban Form as a Driver for Quantitative Measurements of HOD Performance: A Methodological Innovation via Multi-Sourced Urban Data. The 32nd International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF), Torino, Italy.
Invention Patent
- Ye Y., Wu J., Chen Z. A method and system for evaluating the integrity of the historic urban area landscape based on deep learning. Invention Patent, China, Patent No. 202411437423.X, 2026.
Conference
- The 32nd International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF), Torino, Italy, June 2025. Oral presentation: Urban Form as a Driver for Quantitative Measurements of HOD Performance: A Methodological Innovation via Multi-Sourced Urban Data.
Oral presentation at the 32nd International Seminar on Urban Form, Torino, Italy, June 2025.