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Institutional change and legitimacy via urban elections? : people's awareness of elections and participation in Urban neighbourhoods (Shequ)
Heberer, Thomas - 2006
This paper analyses institutional reforms and political participation, most notably indirect and direct elections of residential committees (RC), in China's urban neighbourhoods and communities (shequ). It shows that these elections at present are not meaningful to the majority of city dwellers...
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Homeowner associations and neighborhood governance in Guangzhou, China
He, Shenjing - In: Eurasian geography and economics 56 (2015) 3, pp. 260-284
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Neighborhood conflicts in urban China : from consciousness of property rights to contentious actions
Fu, Qiang - In: Eurasian geography and economics 56 (2015) 3, pp. 285-307
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Community effects on elderly health : evidence from CHARLS national baseline
Smith, James P.; Tian, Meng; Zhao, Yaohui - 2013
There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China...
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Neighborhood effects and regional poverty traps in rural China
Fang, Yingfeng; Wei Zou - In: China & world economy 22 (2014) 1, pp. 83-102
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Crime victimization, neighborhood safety and happiness in China
Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell - In: Economic modelling 51 (2015), pp. 424-435
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Closed Neighborhoods in Open Cities : The Politics of Socio-Spatial Change in Urban China
Rithmire, Meg - 2014
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The Determinants of the Effectiveness of Chinese Homeowner Associations in Solving Neighborhood Issues
Wang, Feng - 2014
Chinese homeowner associations (HOAs) are citizen-initiated, self governing neighborhood organizations that emerged very recently in urban China. HOAs take various legal, political, and social actions to deal with neighborhood issues. However, there are large discrepancies in the effectiveness...
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Ambivalence in place attachment : the lived experiences of residents in declining neighbourhoods facing demolition in Shenyang, China
Li, Xin; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
. The homeowners cleverly mobilise stable neighbourhood features and the challenges brought by neighbourhood changes to … the development of place attachment. However, various forms of neighbourhood decline have negative effects on their place … of rootedness in the neighbourhood and the desire to relocate to achieve better living conditions. By exploring this …
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Involving the community in inner city renewal : a case study of Nanluogu in Beijing
Zhang, Chun; Lu, Bin; Song, Yan - In: Journal of urban management 1 (2012) 2, pp. 53-71
Robust economic growth and rapid urbanization led many Chinese cities to embark upon some of the world's largest inner city renewal projects. The official goal of inner city neighborhood redevelopment is to improve quality of life; however, it has often been used as an excuse to displace the poor....
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