Urban or village residents? A case study of the spontaneous space transformation of the forced upstairs farmers' community in Beijing

Li, Jie; Fang, Wang; Wuzhati, Shuake; Wen, Bufan

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2016.04.009

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“…According to Expert 3, although their living conditions and patterns rapidly changed to urban lifestyles after the resettlement project, their mindset and manners as well as other soft elements have not naturally and immediately adapted to an urban pattern. They still retain their rural and collective lifestyle to a large extent ( Li et al, 2016 ), such as dropping in, chatting and playing Mah-jong together. Thus, it is reasonable that they still indicate a higher preference for a collective living style.…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of perceived sustainability among different neighbourhoods in transitional China: The case of Chengdu

Zhang

Yung

Chan

2020

Habitat International

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There have been increasing concerns about neighbourhoods’ contextual characteristics and the importance of applying integrated sustainability principles to develop sustainable neighbourhoods. Among the contextual characteristics, the role of residents’ perception of their neighbourhoods is critical when identifying various local sustainability issues and developing sustainable neighbourhood planning. However, little research has been done on evaluating residents’ subjective perceptions of different neighbourhoods’ sustainability performance, particularly in this time of transitional China. Thus, this research employed an empirical approach to investigate residents’ perceived sustainability performance in three different neighbourhoods, including the traditional danwei, resettlement and commodity housing neighbourhoods in Chengdu. Questionnaire surveys and expert interviews were conducted to analyse the sustainability performance and critical sustainability issues in different neighbourhoods. The results demonstrated that infrastructure and public engagement were two common and significant factors affecting the sustainability of all three neighbourhoods. Most importantly, the three different neighbourhoods showed different sustainability challenges which called for developing contextual framework for sustainable neighbourhood development. Several theoretical and policy implications for planning were also provided.

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Section: Discussion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of perceived sustainability among different neighbourhoods in transitional China: The case of Chengdu

Zhang

Yung

Chan

2020

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“…The first risk is the policy-associated risk. Some scholars have articulated their concerns that the policy of urban land quota may be another tool for depriving farmers, rather than a tool for rural transformation [17,18,60]. The second risk is economic.…”

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“…Zhang et al argued that labor productivity in rural restructuring was greater than capital productivity in terms of its impact on agricultural production [46]. However, there are also some medias that have reported that some local governments have lacked transparency and regularity in the management of the land consolidation project [17], resulting in negative effects such as farmers have been forced to leave their farmlands and old houses and relocated to new residential areas [18].…”

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Rethinking Rural Transformation Caused by Comprehensive Land Consolidation: Insight from Program of Whole Village Restructuring in Jiangsu Province, China

Chen

Zhu³

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China has made great progress in its economy and urbanization in the past 30 years, but rural development has lagged behind the cities and the gap between urban and rural areas continues to widen. The Chinese government implemented the "Building New Countryside Plan" in 2006, which used a new policy of increasing the urban land quota linked with decreasing rural construction land to promote rural transformation and the coordinated development of the urban-rural area. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of rural transformation caused by comprehensive land consolidation and to improve the future practical operability of the policy, a field survey on 42 projects in Jiangsu Province was conducted from March-August 2016. The results of this study showed that: (1) Comprehensive land consolidation had a significant role in promoting rural transformation based on the premise of excluding the average growth rate and 88.1% of the project's farmers' income achieved a faster increase than other areas; (2) the increase in the farmer's income was mainly attributed to non-agricultural income as non-agricultural employment was still a precondition for rural transformation and the degree of local industrialization and educational levels received by farmers were limited for rural transformation; (3) the transfer fees of the land quota were the key factor to maintain the financial balance between demolition and resettlement, but local land quota demand and government capacity in financial operations affected rural restructuring; and (4) the absence of rural social welfare systems significantly affected the land transfer rate. The above conclusions are helpful in understanding the dynamic mechanism of rural transformation, enriching the academic literature in related fields, and are of practical significance for rural revitalization in developing countries.

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“…Undoubtedly, modern farmers retain deep and steady affection towards their farmland, even if they may be unable to keep it forever [24][25][26][27][28]. To counterbalance the existing dominant research focus on the productive and economic aspects of rural land [29][30][31], there is a need to attend to the cultural and emotional meaning of rural land to the farmers in China.…”

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Beyond Place Attachment: Land Attachment of Resettled Farmers in Jiangsu, China

Hay

et al. 2019

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This paper examines the concept of land attachment—a positive emotional relationship between a resettled farmer and his or her rural land—in the context of China’s rapid urbanization and the resultant huge number of resettled and landless farmers. It explores the nature of resettled farmers’ emotional relationships to rural land to reveal the kinds of land that are meaningful to famers’ lives, and the differences among different groups. The study’s conceptual framework was based on place attachment theory. Grounded theory was applied to analyze qualitative data obtained from in-depth interviews. The results show that land attachment can be divided into seven categories: landscape, lifestyle, land income, land rights, land rootedness, land culture, and villagers’ relationships. We also observed three categories of emotional relationships between resettled farmers and rural land: “reluctant to give up rural land and with land attachment”, “willing to give up rural land but with land attachment”, and “willing to give up rural land and without land attachment”. This study’s exploration of the concept of land attachment revealed that rural land is not merely an objective asset but that it also has a multidimensional existence, and may be the focus of subjective loss. The study also observed that it would be helpful to deepen understandings of the subjective loss experienced by resettled farmers as a result of land-requisition policies. Drawing from its findings, the paper concludes with suggestions supportive of the sustainable development of future policies and communities.

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Urban or village residents? A case study of the spontaneous space transformation of the forced upstairs farmers' community in Beijing

Cited by 48 publications

References 24 publications

Comparison of perceived sustainability among different neighbourhoods in transitional China: The case of Chengdu

Comparison of perceived sustainability among different neighbourhoods in transitional China: The case of Chengdu

Rethinking Rural Transformation Caused by Comprehensive Land Consolidation: Insight from Program of Whole Village Restructuring in Jiangsu Province, China

Beyond Place Attachment: Land Attachment of Resettled Farmers in Jiangsu, China

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