Closed Community With A Sense Of Community

Recently, great interest has been aroused in research on gated community, whose effects on city community also attract a lot of attentions of researchers. In this thesis, the influence of gated community on community attachment has been studied. Based on current literature and references, the influence on community attachment has already been intensively attributed to other factors such as residence continuality, social relation network, community participation and satisfaction, residence social economic status. In the mean time, the influence of gated community on community attachment has also been pointed out. Currently, there are two opposite opinions concerning this point: One is the community closeness can increase the sense of security of the residence, improve the environmental conditions, and enhance the community belongingness; while the other one is the community closeness can hardly enhance the community belongingness even though it could increase the sense of security and improve the environmental conditions. In this thesis, the community closeness has been acknowledged in a certain degree to improve the community's security, environment, distribution, management and so on, which could also increase the residence community satisfaction. Nevertheless, higher community closeness usually implies higher social economical status. Therefore, community closeness could improve community attachment. Based on sample date collected in Shanghai during 2006 to 2008, this thesis has conducted detail analysis about the influence of residence continuality, social relation network, community participation and satisfaction, residence social economic status on community attachment. The factor community closeness has been particularly discussed here. Specifically, there are three conclusions drawn from this thesis: 1, there is obvious relationship between gated community and community attachment; 2, higher community closeness has better control over floating population, which results in a lighter damage to the environment; 3, communities with better environment, distribution and establishment have better residence satisfaction and community attachment.