The Re-Making of Chinese Urban Neighbourhoods: Socio-Spatial Transformation and Access to Public Services

城市化、市场化、工业化和服务业发展的同步进程，从根本上改变了中国的城市。这个跨学科项目侧重于空间和社会经济转型的相互作用及其对城市社区和公共服务获取的影响。它考察了城市化、移民和社会再分层如何重塑城市社区和中国城市居民的日常生活。该项目汇集了16位中英两国城市发展、规划、住房、公共政策和中国研究方面的专家。这使得该团队能够借鉴英国和欧洲在城市化、规划、社区和贫困以及公共服务提供方面的研究，从理论上和概念上了解中国正在进行的进程并提出政策建议。该项目有四个不同的工作包：在工作包1中，团队将使用定量数据和空间分析来确定三个中国城市的社会空间变化的精确特征。第二个工作包将与第一个工作包一起运行，包括分析过去15年来指导这三个城市变革的土地利用规划和政策。然后，这些发现将有助于为工作包3中的案例研究选择具有不同社会经济概况和移民-当地组成的社区提供信息。该小组将深入分析居民的城市化经历，特别关注社会分层和获得工作、教育、医疗保健和住房的机会。在这里，我们的目标是了解城市居民如何形成和重新形成社会经济网络，获取服务并协调不断变化的自然景观，以满足他们的日常需求。这些发现将反过来允许团队朝着工作包4中的综合分析工作。在这里，重点将放在对理论和实践的贡献上。我们的目标是重新定义“社区”，并为城市化、工业化和去工业化下的社区转型理论做出贡献。同样重要的是，我们还旨在提出建议，使中国的政策制定者和城市规划者能够更好地为城市中的所有人提供公共服务。

Concurrent processes of urbanisation, marketisation, industrialisation and service sector development have fundamentally transformed China's cities. This interdisciplinary project focuses on the interplay of spatial and socio-economic transformations and their consequences for people's experiences of urban neighbourhoods and access to public services. It examines how urbanisation together with in-migration and social re-stratification, are remaking urban neighbourhoods and Chinese urban dwellers' day-to-day lives. The project brings together 16 UK and Chinese specialists in urban development, planning, housing, public policy and China studies. This enables the team to draw on UK and European research on urbanisation, planning, neighbourhoods and deprivation, and public service provision to theoretically and conceptually inform understandings of the processes underway in China and policy recommendations.The project has four distinct work packages: in Work Package 1 the team will use quantitative data and spatial analytics to identify the precise characteristics of socio-spatial change in three Chinese cities. Work Package 2, which will run alongside Work Package 1, involves analysing land use planning and policies that have guided change in the three cities in the last fifteen years. These findings will then help to inform the selection of neighbourhoods with different social-economic profiles and migrant-local compositions for case study research in Work Package 3. The team will conduct in-depth analysis of residents' experiences of urbanisation, paying particular attention to social stratification and access to jobs, education, health care, and housing. Here we aim to understand how urbanites form and re-form socio-economic networks, access services and negotiate the changing physical landscape to satisfy their daily needs. These findings will in turn allow the team to work towards an integrative analysis in Work Package 4. Here the focus will be on making contributions to both theory and practice. We aim to re-conceptualise 'neighbourhood' and contribute to theory on neighbourhood transformations under urbanisation, industrialisation and de-industrialisation. Just as importantly we also aim to make recommendations that will enable Chinese policy makers and urban planners to better provide public services for all in cities.