The extreme primacy of location: Beijing's underground rental housing market

Kim, Annette M.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2015.11.027

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“…Liu, Wang, and Tao 2013; W. Wu 2002, 2004) or underground rental units (Kim 2016). With the escalation of housing prices in recent years, even college graduates have been found to live in informal housing as “ant tribes” (Gu, Sheng, and Hu 2017).…”

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Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

Fang

Liu

Chen

2019

Journal of Planning Literature

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Within three decades, the urban housing reform in China has changed access to housing from a system of socialist administrative allocation to that of more market-dominated housing development and consumption. Researchers have studied the socioeconomic and spatial consequences of these profound transformations. This review focuses on China’s housing inequality literature in relation to the changing origins, spatial patterns, and recent policy responses. The article reveals the unique features of China’s transitional economy along with massive urbanization, in which housing inequalities are rooted in socialism and strengthened by institutional changes of a state-led market economy.

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Section: Evolving Origins Of Housing Inequalitymentioning

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Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

Fang

Liu

Chen

2019

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…The draw to central locations closer to employment opportunities has led to the creation of submarkets that provide immigrants, in particular, with entry points into core urban areas. Underground rental units, for example, have been an important part of the rental market since the 1978 housing reforms that gives central location added diversity, albeit one that is difficult to capture empirically (Kim, 2016).…”

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Economic segregation in transition China: evidence from the 20 largest cities

Monkkonen¹,

Comandon²,

Zhu

2016

Urban Geography

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Economic segregation in urban areas is important to scholars and policymakers because it is thought to exacerbate inequality in social outcomes such as education, social capital formation, and employment. A growing body of comparative work examines factors associated with higher levels of urban segregation within different countries. Increasingly, this work examines differences between levels of segregation across the income distribution rather than just one measure of segregation per city. China has high levels of income inequality and has undergone a dynamic process of urbanization in recent decades as it transitions from a centrally planned system to one in which markets allocate goods. Using census data from the 20 largest cities in China, we measure the level of economic segregation and examine its determinants. Chinese cities are highly segregated. Segregation levels tend to be higher in larger and richer cities and more pronounced among renters. There is a stronger link between segregation based on housing type and expenditure than between migrant status and expenditures, which leads us to speculate that the pace, timing, and scale of housing development are the dominant drivers of economic segregation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…The residents of this settlement, numbering less than 2000, are all opal mining workers who work and live underground to escape the scorching desert climate. Beijing, China, is well-known for its underground rental housing market, where low-income, often rural migrant workers, choose to live [53]. In recent years, however, the local housing department began to regulate this market, stipulating that only the first underground floor with a residential permit can qualify for renting.…”

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A collaborative approach for urban underground space development toward sustainable development goals: Critical dimensions and future directions

Peng

Qiao

Sabri

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Front. Struct. Civ. Eng.

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The utilization of urban underground space (UUS) offers an effective solution to urban problems but may also negatively affect urban development. Therefore, UUS development needs better concerted guidelines to coordinate various urban systems and the multiple components of the underground world. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which should be viewed as important yardsticks for UUS development, do not explicitly mention urban underground space, although many of them are affected by both the positive and negative consequences of its development. To fill this gap, this review lays the foundations of relevant UUS concepts and uses exemplary cases to reveal that 11 out of 17 SDGs can be linked with UUS uses. These linkages also manifest that land administration, integrated planning, architectural design, and construction technology are critical dimensions for increasing the contributions of UUS to the realization of SDGs. To achieve multi-disciplinary synergies among these four critical dimensions, a collaborative approach framework based on spatial data infrastructure is required. Thus, this work provides academics and practitioners with a holistic view of sustainable UUS development.

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The extreme primacy of location: Beijing's underground rental housing market

Cited by 40 publications

References 27 publications

Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

Economic segregation in transition China: evidence from the 20 largest cities

A collaborative approach for urban underground space development toward sustainable development goals: Critical dimensions and future directions

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