Understanding Why People Complain: Using Spatial Embeddedness to Explore Residents' Satisfaction in China's Danwei Neighborhood Renovation

作     者：Li Yue Zhou Peiling Li Min 

作者机构：School of ArchitectureChang'an University Department of Urban and Rural PlanningHarbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen 

出 版 物：《China City Planning Review》 (城市规划(英文版))

年 卷 期：2024年第3期

页      面：51-61页

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学科分类：08[工学] 083303[工学-住房与社区建设规划] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 72274197 42371238) 

摘      要：Against the backdrop of China s socio-economic transition, there is a growing imperative to examine neighborhood renovation initiatives in addressing the emerging needs of residents. Developing Granovetter s classic work on embeddedness, this paper proposes a conceptual framework of spatial embeddedness to understand changes in the physical space brought about by neighborhood renovation, in order to explore how it affects residents satisfaction in a dynamic temporal and spatial process. It presents whether and why residents real feelings produced from their interaction with neighborhood renovation are(un)different, and how their feelings are shaped based on six months of fieldwork in a danwei neighborhood in Xi an, China. The paper conceptualizes the relationship between the neighborhood space and embeddedness by adopting spatial embeddedness to capture the interplay of temporal, spatial, and social factors in the process of danwei neighborhood renovation. This framework not only integrates multiple perspectives and scales, but also reflects different levels of residents satisfaction, trying to establish a connection between the abstract space and the renovation space. It suggests that spatial embeddedness should be considered as a response to the negative social impacts resulting from changes in the physical space in neighborhood renovation.