STUDY ON CONSTRUCTION AND TRANSITION OF RESIDENTIAL SPACE OF URBAN VILLAGES : A case study of Xibali village in Xi'an city, China

AbstractUrbanvillages are a unique product of China’s rapid urban expansion. They provide a new way of life sustained by property rental income for local villagers. More importantly, urban villages provide cheap accommodation for millions of rural migrant workers in most large cities. Recently, with the increasing demand for land by commercialdevelopers and public projects, urban villages have become the targets for redevelopment. This chapter uses a case study village in Beijing as an example to assess the social and economic impacts of urban village redevelopment on both the original local inhabitants and migrants in rented accommodation. The case study village went through a very long and complicated redevelopment process from 2004 to 2017 involving different stages of demolition and relocation. It provided a rare opportunity to evaluate the effects on the local population, both pre- and post-redevelopment. The study involved several field visits, observation and interviews with village residents. It shows that urban village redevelopment offered no positive benefits for migrant workers who often lost their homes to demolition. For local villagers, redevelopment and relocation into new flats may improve their living conditions. However, most suffer from the loss of long-term economic and income generation opportunities. Moreover, the new property rights for the replacement flats confer no additional rights of citizenship for the relocated villagers who remain ‘second-class citizens’ within Chinese cities.

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Exploration of the Path of Creating An Urban Cultural IP: A Case Study of “ZUI Xi’an” City Marketing Campaigns

Proceedings of the 2019 4th International Conference on Financial Innovation and Economic Development (ICFIED 2019) ◽

10.2991/icfied-19.2019.35 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Jun Yu ◽

Youxiang Gao ◽

Xijing Zhang

Keyword(s):

City Marketing ◽

Xi’An City

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Multiscale Variability of Precipitation and Their Teleconnection with Large-scale Climate Anomalies: A Case Study of Xi'an City, China

Journal of Coastal Research ◽

10.2112/si93-055.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 93 (sp1) ◽

pp. 417 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xiaojie Wang ◽

Rengui Jiang ◽

Jiancang Xie ◽

Yong Zhao ◽

Fawei Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Climate Anomalies ◽

Xi’An City

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Morphology of Urban Villages in China: A Case Study of Dayuan Village in Guangzhou

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci4020023 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 23 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yuan Gao ◽

Sina Shahab ◽

Negar Ahmadpoor

Keyword(s):

Affordable Housing ◽

Urban System ◽

Urban Morphology ◽

Urban Life ◽

Urban Density ◽

Urban Village ◽

Urban Migrants ◽

The Village ◽

Urban Villages

Urban villages play an important role in providing affordable housing to urban migrants in Chinese cities. They are considered as supplementary to the dual rural-urban system in China. Of central importance to studying urban villages is how the morphology of these informal settlements affects urban life. It is essential for urban planners and designers to examine the morphology of urban villages. This paper, therefore, investigates the morphology of urban villages using the case study of Dayuan Village in Guangzhou, China. The morphology of this urban village is tested against four main elements of urban morphology: urban density, accessibility, functional mix, and urban interface. Our results revealed that the type of street within the urban village has considerable influence on accessibility, functional mix, and urban interface. Regarding urban density, our results show that buildings’ height is not influenced by the centrality of buildings nor land value; however, it is likely that it is affected by planning agreements between the village committee and the local government. Land coverage does not comply with the planning regulation for residential districts. Regarding accessibility analysis, the number of entrances to streets is influenced by the type of street under analysis. The distribution of different types of functional mix is also affected by the type of street within the urban village. The buildings with a mix of ‘live/visit’ are concentrated along the formal streets and primary inner streets. The mono-functional use of ‘live’ and the bi-functional mix of ‘live/work’ are mostly located in the secondary inner streets. Regarding urban interface, our results demonstrate that the formal streets have an interface with considerable porosity, and that this can contribute to the livelihood of the immediate area.

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System of Residential Spatial in Wuhan Based on WebGIS

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.320.559 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 320 ◽

pp. 559-562

Author(s):

Xiao Hua Dou ◽

Ren Zhong Liu ◽

Xin Zheng Cheng

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Urban Development ◽

Real Time ◽

Housing Prices ◽

Residential Area ◽

Income Groups ◽

Area Distribution ◽

Residential Space

The thesis designs and develops the system for Housing space information in Wuhan based on WebGIS and Oracle. this system by applied case study of retrieving and presenting residential area distribution among groups with different income, and realize some function of residents of housing information in real-time queries and spatial distribution’s visualization, and pays support and contribution to the decision-making of urban development and government or some relative department for planning and macro-control housing prices, then avoid different income groups appear isolation tendency for Wuhan residents layout, and promote a harmonious residential space.

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