Resettlement Residents’ Sense Of Place To New Community During Urbanization Process

With the acceleration of urbanization in China, the development zones as a rapid urbanization process emerging.Since Nanchang Hi-tech Development Zone was establishmented, its develop rapidly. At the same time, in its construction and development process, bringing large-scale land acquisition and building demolition and resettlement communities. Sense of place is one of the focuses of human geography, but some of the existing domestic research on sense of place mainly in tourism research and related fields, the study of local feeling generated in the process of urbanization placement of community residents particularly scarce.Based on the perspective of sense of place, this paper focus on rural development zones located within the resettlement community objects to study the process of urbanization in rural resettlement of local residents’ sense of place to their community.Firstly, based on the literature research, designing a scientific and rational sense of place measurement scale for the resettlement community, and then through questionnaires and SPSS17.0 sample of descriptive analysis, factor analysis, two independent tests of Mann- Whitney U test, K independent samples of the Kruskal-Wallis H test method, second-order clustering analysis to constitute dimensions sense of place, and the overall features, characteristics and differences in the performance of research clusters. Secondly, find the influence factors of residents’ sense of place to resettlement rural community though the process of urbanization.Finally, according to the findings, proposes some reasonable measures to enhance residents’ identity and a sense of dependence to community, improve the level of attachment and enhance local residents’ embeddedness to new community in the background of rapid urbanization process.The main conclusions of this article include:(1) Residents’ sense of place to resettlement rural community in High-tech Development Zone have six dimensions which named sense of belonging,experience,social bonding,memories,landscape identity and pleasure;(2) Residents’ sense of place to resettlement rural community in High-tech Development Zone have low level, and the main source of residents’ memories, pleasure, social links and psychological identity. Life experience and landscape identity are lower down the level of residents’ sense of place tocommunity;(3) Different demographic characteristics of High-tech Zone resettlement’sense of place and its six dimensions was found be significant differences between community residents;(4) According to the characteristics of their sense of place,resettlement rural community residents in High-tech Zone can be divided "place attachment type people," "weak attachment type local residents," "ambivalent attachment type people," "emotional appeal based resident" four groups;(5) The main factors affecting the internal environment of rural resettlement community residents’ sense of place is the time, economic status, education level and personal characteristics, external environmental factors are changes in the geographical landscape, life experience was interrupted, shared collective memory. Based on this,the article proposes to foster and improve local residents’ sense of community resettlement suggestions and countermeasures.