community development in villages-in-the-city
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Community development in villages-in-the-city. The concept of community. Development and social change Different propositions of community A modern form of community: different types of social relations Community building A bottom-up process Participation, empowerment Self-governance. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Community Community development in development in villages-in-the-villages-in-the-
citycity
The concept of communityThe concept of community• Development and social change
– Different propositions of community– A modern form of community: different
types of social relations
• Community building– A bottom-up process– Participation, empowerment– Self-governance
Urban space in ChinaUrban space in China• The domination of ‘danwei’ space
before 1990s• The emergence of new urban space
since reform– Commercialization of land use right– Urban expansion– People movements
The emergence of new The emergence of new urban spaceurban space
Commodityhouses
Migrant ghetto
Villages in thecity
Community development in Community development in ChinaChina Source: Ren (2006, p.298)
Urban expansion and villages in Urban expansion and villages in the citythe city
farmland
residential land
urban land use
Red village, a case studyRed village, a case study• Location: Tianhe district, Guangzhou • Population: around 8,000 • Size: around 4,000 mu in 1980s, now
300 mu of residential land• Red village villagers’ committee: 14
people• Red village Economic Development
Company
Villager’s committee
Neighborhood committee
Share-holding company
Neighborhood committeeManagement office (issue based)
Administrative, socialand economic functions
Administration
Economic
Social
A rural organization
An urban organization
Concluding…Concluding…• An integration of traditional top-down
and bottom-up approaches• Key feature: business builds
community• Resources: share-holding company• Development: local driven• Collective unit and self-sufficiency• The dead of villages or an extension
of the rural community?