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Green state entrepreneurialism: Building the park city in Chengdu, China 绿色国家创业精神：在中国成都建设公园城市

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1177/27541223241253231

Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu

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Urban bias in political tournaments in China: Implications for urban land markets 中国政治竞赛中的城市偏见：对城市土地市场的影响

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/27541223241244740

Feng Frederic Deng

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A functional dynamic framework for understanding new government-market relationships of smart energy transitions in China 理解中国智慧能源转型的新型政府-市场关系的功能动态框架

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231217434

Daphne Ngar‐yin Mah, Aijia Wang, Andy Wai-hei Siu

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Housing for talents: Highly skilled migrants’ strategies for accessing affordable rental housing 人才住房：高技能移民获得负担得起的租赁住房的策略

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-12-09 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231210820

Qianyu Lu, Gemma Burgess

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Neighbourhoods in shaping migrant integration: A study of peri-urban Beijing 影响移民融入社会的邻里关系：北京近郊区研究

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231212483

Siyao Liu

{"title":"Neighbourhoods in shaping migrant integration: A study of peri-urban Beijing","authors":"Siyao Liu","doi":"10.1177/27541223231212483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231212483","url":null,"abstract":"The question of how (im)migrants integrate into their host societies has long been a focus of scholarly research. This article adds to this body of knowledge by examining how different types of neighbourhoods shape the integration experience of migrant residents and their daily practice in peri-urban Beijing. The study was conducted by non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews in four peri-urban Beijing neighbourhoods. The findings suggest that migrant integration has a spatial dimension, with integration differences being enhanced and fixed through residential differentiation. Specifically, a migrant’s position in the urban economy predetermines their integration path and neighbourhood preference, with the neighbourhood further impacting their social integration through embedded lifestyles and ideologies. Neighbourhoods serve as essential places of shared experience in which distinct migrant social groups are formed. Theoretically, the study contributes to the debate between ethnic enclaves and mixed neighbourhoods by arguing that mixed neighbourhoods foster stronger sentiments toward host cities among migrant residents. The failure of integration is not necessarily a result of a neighbourhood’s homogenous tenure and population but rather because residents are not involved in the formal urban economy. Unlike ethnoburbs in America, urban villages in peri-urban Beijing cannot generate upward social mobility because of the informality. Low-skilled migrant entrepreneurs struggle to develop their informal businesses facing unpredictable demolishment of urban villages.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"241 1","pages":"394 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139215118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Three waves of schooling marketization in urban China amid changing political economy since the 1990s 20 世纪 90 年代以来政治经济变化中中国城市学校教育市场化的三次浪潮

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231212456

Mengzhu Zhang

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A complex network analysis of local and non-local tourist flows in Beijing through mobile phone data 基于手机数据的北京本地和非本地旅游流复杂网络分析

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231183114

Yang Xiao, Han Wang, Siyu Miao, Bo Xie

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Positioning China’s state entrepreneurialism in structural coherence and multiple logics 在结构连贯和多重逻辑中定位中国的国家企业家精神

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231188599

Handuo Deng

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Determinants of housing moving intention of urban low-income residents in China: Life-cycle, lived experience, and place 中国城市低收入居民住房迁移意愿的决定因素:生命周期、居住经历和地点

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-07-14 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231182255

Li Yu, Wei Xu, I. MacLachlan, I. Townshend

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Spatial pattern of homeowners associations in urban China 中国城市业主协会的空间格局

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231183895

F. Deng

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