“Diorama, Path and Project” to Understanding Everyday Life and Urban Space in Transitional Chinese Cities

Zhang, Yan; Chai, Yanwei

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“…Putting that unifying potential to the test, the Forum ends with a contribution by Yan Zhang and Yanwei Chai (2023). Building on a repertoire of post‐Hagerstrand contributions to time geography in their analysis of contemporary urban China, they show how the time‐geographical language is flexible enough to travel across geographical contexts and speak meaningfully to those different contexts.…”

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Introduction to the Forum: Revisiting Torsten Hägerstrand's Diorama, Path and Project

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2023

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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In this TESG Forum, we revisit Torsten Hägerstrand's 1982 Diorama, Path and Project, a paper that significantly expanded Hägerstrand's time‐geographical conceptual vocabulary in the international geographical literature. The paper was the crystallization of a process where Hägerstrand tried to bridge regional science ideas with humanistic ones. The ‘diorama’ was introduced to discuss how imaginations emerge from the togetherness of objects and memories in localized space and initially formulated to help geography overcome the disciplinary fragmentation and paradigmatic rows that had splintered geography in the 1970s. ‘Path’ is Hägerstrand's well‐known concept describing people's spatial pattern of activities. Finally, the concept of ‘project’ tried to capture a broader conception of agency that was able to accommodate people's paths as the result of goal‐intended and value‐inspired actions. In this introductory essay, we contextualize the paper in the development of Hägerstrand's work and introduce the separate contributions to the Forum.

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Introduction to the Forum: Revisiting Torsten Hägerstrand's Diorama, Path and Project

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2023

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“…Neighborhood activities are only parts of the overall daily activities of residents. The time, space, and types of activities allocated by residents within neighborhoods are closely related to their overall daily activity space, time utilization, and daily life projects [38,39]. Therefore, it is difficult to propose targeted and effective strategies for optimizing the daily activity structure of residents without clarifying the daily overall activity characteristics of residents.…”

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Spatiotemporal-Behavior-Based Microsegregation and Differentiated Community Ties of Residents with Different Types of Housing in Mixed-Housing Neighborhoods: A Case Study of Fuzhou, China

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Chai

2023

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As a kind of urban neighborhood with strong internal heterogeneity, mixed-housing neighborhoods have attracted wide attention from scholars in recent years. Strengthening community ties in mixed-housing neighborhoods is of great significance for increasing neighborhood social capital, cultivating a sense of community, and promoting sustainable development of the neighborhood. The neighborhood activities of residents are an important factor in promoting community ties. However, different housing groups in mixed-housing neighborhoods may have differentiated or even segregated overall daily activities, which may impact their neighborhood activities and call for differentiated planning strategies. In this study, we conduct an empirical study in Fuzhou, China, to identify the spatiotemporal-behavior-based microsegregation and differentiated community ties between residents of different types of housing. The data were collected in 2021 and included residents’ activity diary data and questionnaire data about neighborhood interaction and community ties. Through an analysis of the daily overall activity space and activities within the neighborhood areas, the spatiotemporal-behavior-based social segregation of various housing groups is depicted. Furthermore, a multigroup structural equation modeling method was used to analyze the relationships among residents’ spatiotemporal behaviors, neighborhood interactions, and community ties, and the heterogeneous influence effects across housing groups. The results show that the more residents’ activity spaces overlap with the neighborhood area, the more out-of-home time they spend within the neighborhood, and that the more types of activities are conducted within the neighborhood area, the stronger their community ties are. In addition, neighborhood interaction played a linkage role in the relationships of residents’ spatiotemporal behaviors and community ties. Our research aims to further the understanding of microsegregation at the neighborhood level and provide references for the development of mixed-housing neighborhoods and urban land use.

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“Diorama, Path and Project” to Understanding Everyday Life and Urban Space in Transitional Chinese Cities

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Introduction to the Forum: Revisiting Torsten Hägerstrand's Diorama, Path and Project

Introduction to the Forum: Revisiting Torsten Hägerstrand's Diorama, Path and Project

Spatiotemporal-Behavior-Based Microsegregation and Differentiated Community Ties of Residents with Different Types of Housing in Mixed-Housing Neighborhoods: A Case Study of Fuzhou, China

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