Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms of street vending from the social sensing perspective: A comparison between law-enforcement reported and residents complain events

Li, Chunjiang; Huang, Yongyuan; Shen, Yao; Xu, Liyan

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.103597

Cited by 8 publications

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“…In the literature on informal street vending, many have focused on how the state seeks to formalize the ‘informal’ through various governance approaches, as well as the resulting tensions and disputes over urban public spaces between vendors and the state (Dai et al, 2019; Igudia et al, 2022; Ojeda and Pino, 2019; Xue and Huang, 2015). Studies of how vendors organize their daily activities and use the street space have been few, probably due to the lack of fine-scaled spatial-temporal data (Han et al, 2023; Li et al, 2022). Wang et al (2024, in this issue) contribute to this literature with a spatial-temporal analysis of informal vending behaviour in Fangshan District, Beijing, China.…”

Section: Migrant Empowerment and Urban Informalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Women-led research in urban China studies: Introduction to a special issue

Liu,

Fan,

Zhang

2024

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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While women scholars have made important contribution to the emerging scholarship of urban China research, this field also has seen increasing female representation among the new generations of urban scholars. This special issue aims to promote women’s scholarship on urban China studies. In this introduction, we provide an overview of the nine articles led by women researchers that are included in the special issue, discussing how these studies are linked and contribute to the wider debates in the urban literature on China and globally. We argue that, while women scholars not surprisingly bring a sensitivity to gender perspective into the study of Chinese cities, their research is by no means limited to gender and women’s experiences. As showcased in this collection, their scholarship covers a wide variety of urban issues in China, ranging across migration, informality, accessibility, social cohesion, sustainability and urban governance, while engaging in the academic and policy debates in the global urban literature.

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Section: Migrant Empowerment and Urban Informalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Women-led research in urban China studies: Introduction to a special issue

Liu,

Fan,

Zhang

2024

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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“…A study examining street vending violations echoes this belief in social sensing's ability to perfect and popularize governance. Li et al (2022) compare "bottom-up" social sensing data (phone calls to a citizen complaint hotline) with "top-down" data collected by a "grid-based smart urban governance system" (surveillance videos and reports filed by law enforcement and citizens). The authors recognize the limits to both forms of data: the "top-down" data does not actually offer "a "God's-View observation" (p. 9), while the social sensing data exhibits perception bias.…”

Section: Satellite State: Earth Observation For a Modern Governmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Still, they claim that once detected, perception bias can be harnessed to “nudge” and improve urban governance (p. 1). Li et al (2022: 1) determine, “This research has contributed to promoting the people-oriented transformation of urban governance.”…”

Section: Seeing Like a State: People As Sensorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese sociotechnical imaginaries of Earth observation: From sight to foresight

Bennett

2023

Big Data & Society

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Although Earth observation (EO) is considered a universal scientific technique with a hegemonic gaze, national sociotechnical imaginaries shape its practice. Historically established and organized by national governments, EO, which is commonly pursued via satellite remote sensing, depends on domestic perceptions of the technique's scope and applications. EO is also a political technology with the capacity to mediate and potentially regulate life on Earth at a range of scales. In China, the state and scientists endeavor to transform EO into a data-driven, inductive, and predictive method with a focus on social coordination, especially in cities—a key scale for scientific study and the organization and reproduction of state power. Contributing to China's reimagining of EO as a governance and governmentality tool are advances in social sensing, which leverages big data continuously generated by individuals’ devices. By analyzing big EO and social data, rather than only observe past and present changes to the Earth's surface, the Chinese state and scientists seek to predict future social events. While these changes are narrated as a popularization of remote sensing enabling more responsive, human-centric governance, they may augur the rise of antipolitical technologies that attempt to prevent dissent by determining and even guiding future behavior. As China, a satellite power, aims to export its services for observing and predicting Earth and upscale them through global governance, critique of their associated sociotechnical imaginaries is crucial. Such research reveals the heterogeneity of the satellite gaze and may identify where and how people hold power within EO systems.

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“…Street vending is regarded as an old and significant occupation in cities all over the world [10]. e research on street vendors usually includes multiple disciplinary perspectives, such as sociology, politics, geography, food science, economics, public health, urban planning, and so on [11]. In the existing research on vending, the primarily discuss is the conflicts between street vendors and the government [12,13].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One mainstream explanation is that the local government tends to view street vendors as inefficient, disorderly, and unsanitary, which are opposed to the desired national image [26]. Li et al [11] examined and compared the spatiotemporal patterns and occurrence mechanisms of street vending events from both the urban managers' "topdown" and the urban residents' "bottom-up" points of view.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the Evolutionary Game Model and Stable Strategy of Urban Management Law Enforcement

Xin

Wang

2022

Complexity

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As a form of the informal economy, countries around the world have different policies towards street vendors. This paper constructs a law enforcement game model composed of the Chengguan, street vendors, and urban residents in China. Based on the evolutionary game theory, we achieved the evolutionary stable equilibrium points under complying with different constraint conditions by solving the replicator dynamic equations of parties in the dynamic system. Through the gradual stability analysis of the equilibrium point, the stable strategy of the evolutionary game can be calculated. It is found that the flexible law enforcement behavior of urban management departments plays an important leading role in urban street governance. Flexible law enforcement not only requires macro policy arrangements but also tests the executive wisdom of street bureaucrats.

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Spatiotemporal patterns and mechanisms of street vending from the social sensing perspective: A comparison between law-enforcement reported and residents complain events

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Women-led research in urban China studies: Introduction to a special issue

Women-led research in urban China studies: Introduction to a special issue

Chinese sociotechnical imaginaries of Earth observation: From sight to foresight

Research on the Evolutionary Game Model and Stable Strategy of Urban Management Law Enforcement

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