Tourism geography is a discipline that studies the spatial differentiation patterns, temporal development processes, and regional characteristics of tourism phenomena, tourism elements, and comprehensive tourism geographic systems. In the new development stage, grounding itself in China's context, addressing theoretical, practical, and methodological issues in China's tourism development practices, and providing Chinese paradigms and solutions for knowledge production are not only the mission of the Chinese tourism geography discipline but also key to enhancing its own disciplinary vitality. The disciplinary vitality of Chinese tourism geography is rooted in the scale, uniqueness, and complexity of China's tourism development practices, and is manifested in the process where tourism, as an "emerging developmental element and driving force", actively responds to national strategies and socioeconomic development needs. This study systematically reviewed the development processes and trends of knowledge production in tourism geography from the perspectives of disciplinary systems, academic systems, and discourse systems. The findings indicate that: 1) Multiple environmental factors, including institutional, socioeconomic, cultural, and disciplinary development contexts, collectively shaped the substantive content, presentation methods, and the theoretical and methodological consciousness of knowledge producers in tourism geography in China. 2) The construction of an autonomous knowledge system in Chinese tourism geography faces both internal and external challenges. External challenges are reflected in the mismatch between the construction of an international discourse system and China's international status, the disparity between developmental advantages and thematic advantages, and practices of academic hegemony. Internal challenges include the marginalization of tourism geography within the disciplinary system, fragmentation of research outputs, and the lag of theory behind practice. 3) Examining tourism development practices of Chinese-style modernization with a problem-oriented disciplinary awareness, defining the essential orientation of knowledge production in Chinese tourism geography with an academic innovation consciousness, and strengthening the autonomous narrative system of Chinese tourism geography with a discourse dialogue awareness are beneficial directions for overcoming the autonomy challenges. Accelerating the construction of an autonomous knowledge system in Chinese tourism geography is fundamental for enhancing the disciplinary vitality of tourism geography.

Urban heat island (UHI) effect is an important factor affecting the spatiotemporal variations of energy consumption for building cooling and heating in urban areas. Understanding the impact of UHI effect on building energy consumption is crucial for urban energy conservation, carbon emission reduction, and high-quality development. This article reviewed the relevant literature on the impacts of UHI effect on building cooling and heating energy consumption. It described the basic framework for the assessment of UHI effect on building energy consumption, summarized problems with the current research, and suggested potential future research directions. The review of the research results and main findings both in China and internationally show that: 1) Generally, UHI effect increases building cooling energy consumption and reduces heating energy consumption in urban areas. Magnitude of the increase in cooling energy consumption and the decrease in heating energy consumption varies in different regions depending on their climate zones and urbanization stages. 2) There are significant spatial differences in the impacts of UHI effect on building cooling/heating energy consumption, with the strongest impacts in the central urban areas and the weakest in the suburban areas. 3) During extreme weather and climate events (for example, heat waves), the synergistic effect of the UHI and extreme events affects the occurrence time and level of peak energy consumption in urban buildings. There are still uncertainties in the study of the impacts of UHI effect on building cooling and heating energy consumption, as well as limitations in the studies of the effects of extreme weather and climate events, large-scale high spatiotemporal resolution assessment, and mechanisms of UHI effect on urban building energy consumption. Further investigations are needed in areas such as applying high spatiotemporal resolution data, innovating research methods, and incorporating extreme weather and climate impacts.

With the three waves of craft renaissance in the West, as well as the problems of global climate change and resource shortages in the Anthropocene, how to make better use of materials and explore different making cultures has attracted the attention of Western academia. As one of the emerging fields in Western geographic research that has received much attention in recent years, geographies of making attempts to provide methods for addressing current material and environmental crises by focusing on the practice of body and material interactions at different scales, and hopes to reexamine how humans relate to materials, produce goods, and construct economic and social structures around materials based on a concern for environmental and socioeconomic well-being. Through a review of the literature on Western geographies of making, this study found that relevant research mainly adopts auto-ethnographic, apprenticeship, and other embodied participatory research methods, with a focus on multiple contexts of making, body in making, materials in making, practices in making, and relationships of making. It also explored research topics that need attention in China, including the protection of craftsmen and sustainable utilization of materials, the fluidity of making practices and place reconstruction, craft making and sustainable livelihoods for rural craftsmen, and the everyday practice of making and happiness and friendship. This work will lay a foundation for implementing policies such as the "Revitalization Plan for Chinese Traditional Crafts" and rural revitalization, providing important theoretical guidance for innovative development and creative transformation of intangible cultural heritage, as well as the harmonious development of human-environment relationship in the process of making.

As human infrastructure activities are becoming increasingly frequent, the impact of infrastructure activities on human-land relationship and human social-spatial structure has triggered extensive discussions in human geography and other related disciplines. This study systematically discussed the research context and core issues of the feminist infrastructure geography studies. First, this study categorized the research literature on infrastructure in geography and found that the research on infrastructure in geography showed a trend of "social-cultural turn" that emphasizes that infrastructure is not only about its functional attribute, but also has multiple attributes, such as social and cultural ones. Second, from the perspective of feminist geography, this study emphasized the important value of gender and the related core-periphery perspective in the social-cultural turn in infrastructure research and pointed out that feminism can provide an excellent perspective with both micro and macro perspectives for analyzing the spatial effects of infrastructure. Third, based on the different impacts and paths of the heterogeneity of human society reflected in the gender perspective on the transformation and utilization of the environment by using infrastructure, this study outlined the main content of feminist infrastructure research based on the gender perspective from two different fields, namely, the gender difference at the producing end of infrastructure as well as at the using end of infrastructure. Based on such literature, this study finally built a core conceptual framework and analytical framework for feminist infrastructure geography studies. In the end, the developments of feminist infrastructure geography studies presented in this article also provide a good opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue on a larger and broader scale by other scholars broadly concerned with feminist topics.