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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue7,P.1092-1112

语言

英文

关键字

Urban borders; debordering; enclave urbanism; gated communities; suburban Guangzhou; IN-THE-CITY; GATED COMMUNITIES; ENCLAVE URBANISM; CHINA; SEGREGATION; VILLAGES; CHENGZHONGCUN; INTEGRATION; BOUNDARIES; DISTINCT

作者单位

[Liao, Kaihuai] Guangdong Univ Technol, Sch Architecture & Urban Planning, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China. [Breitung, Werner] Hong Kong Baptist Univ, David Lam Inst East West Studies, Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. [Wehrhahn, Rainer] Univ Kiel, Dept Geog, Kiel, Germany. Breitung, W (reprint author), Hong Kong Baptist Univ, David Lam Inst East West Studies, Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. E-Mail: breitung@gmail.com

摘要

Gated communities and enclave urbanism in China have recently drawn considerable attention of researchers and policy makers. The integration of urban space is now even on the agenda of the Chinese Central Government. This article therefore sets out to advance our understanding of how exactly urban borders function and how they change over time. This is done by applying concepts of border theory to what may be called residential borderlands. The empirical study is conducted in two such borderlands between gated communities and suburban villages in southern Guangzhou. It is based on over 70 qualitative interviews and the observation of spatial behaviour at the respective borders. Both debordering and rebordering processes are found to occur with regards to three dimensions: cross-border mobility, cross-border social connectivity and symbolic border functions. The identified dynamic processes at the neighbourhood borders are embedded in the overall urban spatial reconfiguration of Guangzhou.