Community management for citizen participation and self-governing improvement in China

本研究课题的研究对象是中国的“社区”，即“社区”。目标领域是：（1）杭州市：城市有着悠久的社区管理制度历史，（2）上海市：城市开始有更多的社区自治改善环境。在杭州，我们进行了行动研究，以寻找社区参与与地方大学合作的方法。我们采访了当地人、权威人士和房主。我们还与社区举办了一个实验研讨会。在上海，我们对自发性自治改善的地区进行了实地调查。通过对上海市社区居民的访谈和空间研究，在三年的研究中，展示了上海市社区居民改善的实际情况。

This research project put focus on "Community", called "Shequ" in Chinese, in China. The target areas are: (1)The city of Hangzhou: the city has a long history of institutional community management system, and (2)The city of Shanghai:the city started to have more self-governing improvement of environment by community. In Hangzhou, we conducted action research to find the methodology of community participation collaborating local universities. We interviewed local people, authority, and house owners. We also had an experimental workshop with community. In Shanghai, we had field survey in the areas where self-governing improvement occurred spontaneously. We conducted interviews with local people, and spatial studies.In the result of three-year-research, we displayed the actual condition of improvement by community members in Shanghai.