Doctoral Dissertation Research: How People Become Urban

这个项目探讨了在不断扩大的城市中成为城市人的三种途径：出生在城市，从农村地区迁移到城市，以及生活在被城市不断扩大的边界所吞噬的以前的农村地区。 重点是那些没有移民，但通过城市扩张成为城市的人，因为他们迄今为止研究得最少。调查的问题涉及人们如何理解地方归属感，哪些人和哪些地方被视为真正的城市和地方，谁被视为内群体或外群体的一部分，以及谁被认为值得享有地方公民权利和共享公共空间。调查结果将有助于决策者和其他有关各方寻求更有效地促进社会包容在迅速转型的城市。本项目的数据收集包括在一个大的和快速增长的城市实地考察。空间方法，如心理地图练习和城市散步补充了大约140次采访：40次采访了三种城市居民，20次采访了来自城市不同地区的城市规划专家。访谈调查居民如何主观地定义空间和社会文化的界限，区分城市和非城市，本地和非本地，值得和不值得在他们的脑海中。调查结果将有助于更清楚地了解不同类型的城市居民之间是否存在归属感或疏离感，以及不同类型的城市居民如何看待他人的公民身份申请。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project examines three pathways to becoming urban in an expanding city: being born in the city, migrating from a rural area to the city, and living in a formerly rural area that is swallowed up by the expanding borders of the city. The emphasis is on those who did not migrate but become urban through city expansion as they have been the least studied to date. The questions investigated concern how people understand local belonging, which people and what places are viewed as truly urban and local, who is viewed as part of an in-group or out-group, and who is deemed worthy of local citizenship rights and shared public spaces. Findings will be useful to policy makers and other concerned parties seeking to more effectively promote social inclusion in rapidly transforming cities.Data collection for this project consists of fieldwork in a large and rapidly growing city. Spatial methods such as mental mapping exercises and city walks complement approximately 140 interviews: 40 interviews with each of the three kinds of city residents and 20 interviews with urban planning experts, drawn from different parts of the city. The interviews investigate how residents subjectively define the spatial and sociocultural boundaries that distinguish the urban and non-urban, the local and non-local, and the deserving and undeserving in their minds. Findings will yield a clearer picture of whether and why a sense of belonging or alienation persists among different types of city residents and how different kinds of city residents view the claims of others to citizenship.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.