The Chinese Socio-Cultural Sustainability Approach: The Impact of Conservation Planning on Local Population and Residential Mobility

Abstract

Retaining indigenous populations is vital to the sustainable development and conservation of historic urban areas. However, little attention has been paid to Chinese conservation planning in an effort to safeguard indigenous people. This paper investigates population change and residential mobility in Chinese historic urban areas by applying demographic analysis and regression models to survey data collected in the Ping-Jiang Historic Quarter. Results indicate that few relocation behaviors are a result of the welfare housing policy and property ownership. However, residents’ intentions to move have increased, due to declining living conditions and tourism development in recent years. Classified by property ownership, public housing tenants and rented housing migrants were more willing to move, while private housing owners preferred to stay. Accordingly, there have been increasing trends of aging, poverty growth and population displacement, epitomized by the public housing population. Assessing planning impacts, welfare policy reduced residential mobility while undermining residents’ self-reliance to maintain their own houses. Without substantial social participation and community support, top-down conservation planning could only slow, rather than reverse, the trend of socio-cultural decline.

Exploring the research on the follow-up industrial development of relocation for poverty alleviation based on the background of big data

“…Ref. [14] uses demographic analysis and regression models to investigate and analyze the past literature data of the Pingjiang block. The results show that the welfare and property ownership of the policy lead to the retention of property owners, while the decline in living standards and the economic recession led by tourism have increased the population flow.…”

“…Jian Wei. Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, 9(1) (2024)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] …”

A Review of Studies on Sustainable Urban Regeneration

“…Kagan et al (2018) discuss the regeneration cases in Hamburg and Hanover and compare the relationship between culture and policies for sustainable urban development. Chen and Yang (2018) analyze the data in Ping-Jiang by using demographic analysis and regression model, emphasizing the impact of conservation planning on local population and residential mobility on sustainable urban regeneration. As Fig.…”