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Urban Neighborhood Gap Between Public Governance

Posted on:2011-07-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207360305994442Subject:Administrative Management
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The neighborhood lives of urban grassroots are affected by changes in society as a whole, and have become the window for observing the social operating system changes. The reform makes the whole neighborhood gradually prosperous, and also makes neighborhood lives and functions change. Before reform, Neighborhood was a welfare-based way of living arrangement, and was the social organization for achieving political control and passing the word under unit of society. Current neighborhood lives have strengthened and formed much livelier self-organization and the public living space. The urban high-rises have been constructed constantly, landmark buildings and commercial areas have been reformed constantly, urban morphology has changed quickly, which have been cleverly disguised, but we often ignore the changes of the roots, which are also vivid and colorful.City planning and its continuing construction of residential area, change and maturity in neighborhood public service, Organization of neighborhood life changes from administrative control to strengthen the self-organization, public participation, and the expression of interests and needs; Contents of neighborhood life change from grocery shopping, repairs to the neighborhood concerns and participate in political acts such as activists and residents generated internal elections; Neighborhood residents emerged to the public interest and collective action-oriented property committee. As the new type of activist in the neighborhoods, they negotiate and regulate things in the neighborhoods; as a result, governance structure in the urban grassroots is in the process of rebuild.The researching methods in the paper include Social Integration Theory and network analytic method. I take a mixed community in changsha as a research example to do the work. In this community, I begin with interviewing method and participatory method in order to understand the human communication statuesque in urban community. The main findings can be summarized as follows:1.Enhance in the living standards of residents and its intercourse attitude changes has weaker their enthusiasm in building communication network. Compared to the traditional community, the scope of social networks in modern residents of the community gradually extended to outsider space.2. Modernity living space created an environment which makes separation in neighborhood communications. Positive elements of traditional residential areas should be used to the modern architecture.3. Even in the same geographical region, or of the same community environment, communication barriers will still be found between residents because of their heterogeneity and indifferent to each other.4.The dominant factors of the community identity formation changes to the approval of "real estate" identity, but such recognition is only a symbolic, a mutual Economic status recognition. That's the difference compare to the traditional communities in the neighborhood. A fact shows that rising of owner's committee and self-organization will help the neighborhood rebuild its interpersonal networks.5. Residents groups or self-organizations will gradually establish a new relationship when they have to take actions to protect their common of interest, it will improve the builds of the whole neighborhood networking.Speaking overall, to lots of the residents, neighborhood's intercourse no more plays a important role in their life, but such emotional communication between people is can not be replaced by any network technologies, intercourse between neighbors will always be our eternal theme. It's strengthening means a lot to the maintain community stability, to Constructs harmonious community living environment, establishes good habits, and to a harmonious society.
Keywords/Search Tags:neighborhoods intercourse, neighborhood estrangement, social network, urban community
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