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

本研究以中国的“社群”为研究对象。目标区域是：(1)杭州市：该市具有悠久的制度化社区管理体制；(2)上海市：该市开始有更多的社区自治环境改善。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论。我们采访了当地民众、当局和房主。我们还与社区一起举办了一个实验性研讨会。在上海，我们对自治改善自发发生的地区进行了实地调查。我们对当地居民进行了访谈，并进行了空间研究。在三年的研究结果中，我们展示了上海社区成员改善的实际情况。

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.