Becoming homeowners: The emergence and use of online neighborhood forums in transitional urban China

Li, Limei; Li, Siming

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2012.07.003

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“…Nonetheless, quite a number of local residents have relocated to the suburbs. There are retirees, workers who had been laid off by state‐owned enterprises (SOEs), and low‐status workers who had been displaced by wholesale redevelopment of inner‐city neighborhoods or pushed out by high housing prices in the inner core; there are also young professionals, many of whom are of non‐Guangzhou origin but have acquired local hukou status and thus have settled in the suburbs in pursuit of a new living ideal (Li and Li, ).…”

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“…Secondly, such outward migration primarily involves locals. More refined spatial analysis reveals that longer‐distance residential relocation generally follows an eastward direction to Tianhe District, the main thrust of urban development in Guangzhou in the 1990s and 2000s, although southward moves across the Pearl River to Panyu District, where sprawling housing estates such as Riverside Garden have sprung up (Li and Li, ), are also common. Thirdly, the outward migration trend notwithstanding, the majority of moves are in the same zone (73.33% for migrants and 62.18% for locals).…”

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“…Many youngsters are attracted to the better living environment and cheaper homes in the outer suburbs. For example, Panyu, which witnessed large‐scale real‐estate developments since the 1990s, is now home to a large number of young professionals who have non‐Guangzhou origins but have acquired the Guangzhou hukou (Li and Li, ). Differences in mobility propensities are likely to intensify the age divide between central and suburban locations.…”

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The Spatial Pattern of Residential Mobility in Guangzhou, China

Li¹,

Mao²

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In urban China, residential mobility behaviors have changed fundamentally in recent decades. While research has been undertaken on the trends and causes of residential relocation for different population groups, less attention has been paid to micro‐level processes of residential change, yet the latter underscore urban dynamics. This study addresses this through a survey conducted in Guangzhou in late 2012, which analyzes the spatial flows of residential shifts within and between three distance zones—inner core, inner suburbs and outer suburbs—to reveal complex mobility trends. In particular, hukou or household registration status, socio‐economic status, the nature and rank of employment, and tenure were found to have varied effects on the probability of inward and outward shifts. More specifically, while outward shifts in recent years mainly involved local hukou holders, families with higher education levels, a higher socio‐economic status or those working for government departments and public institutions were found to be more likely to settle in high‐rise commodity housing in the inner core. The majority of non‐hukou migrants, by contrast, moved within the same street or between adjacent streets within the same suburban area, while age, socio‐economic status and homeownership were found to increase an individual's chance of an inward shift.

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The Spatial Pattern of Residential Mobility in Guangzhou, China

Li¹,

Mao²

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Technology‐savvy residents debated the issue via the QQ online messenger service, and on community Internet discussion forums. These neighborhood websites – “a special kind of online forums [ sic ] bringing together people living in the same commodity housing estates, who have shared residential territory and property interests” (Li & Li , p. 233) – provided a “safe space” (Gamson ) for the gestation of grievances and for strategic discussions between homeowners (Huang & Yip ).…”

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“…The area within an approximate eight‐kilometer radius of the incinerator site, known as the South China Plate ( Hua'nan Bankuai ), houses 100,000 people, and includes several huge residential developments (Guo & Chen , p. 101). The biggest of these, Riverside Garden ( Lijiang Huayuan ), contains 12,000 households across 0.81 square kilometers (Li & Li , p. 234). In addition, the Panyu case highlights the media's potential for playing a regulatory role in urban disputes.…”

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Regulatory dynamism of environmental mobilization in urban China

Johnson

2014

Regulation & Governance

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In China, urban middle class mobilization against potential pollution risk has become increasingly common. This article examines this phenomenon through a detailed case study of a 2009 anti-waste incinerator campaign in the Panyu District of Guangzhou, which culminated in a sizeable public protest and government U-turn. This episode revealed tension between the narrow, state-centered regulatory model fixated on end-of-pipe pollution control, and a much broader decentered approach advocated -and practiced -by project opponents, which incorporated public consultation and much greater emphasis on upstream waste reduction and sorting. In the process, the Panyu campaign progressed beyond a case of "regulation by escalation," whereby beneficial regulations are belatedly enforced following populist pressure. Instead, it transformed into an open dialogue between a plurality of actors, including citizens, journalists, experts, and officials, about what regulation should constitute and who should determine acceptable levels of risk. By focusing on the processes through which regulatory issues emerged and changed during the Panyu campaign, this article highlights the regulatory dynamism of environmental mobilization in a context of regulatory uncertainty, and campaigns against "locally unwanted land uses" more broadly.

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