Abstract
In the context of urban expansion and regeneration, development-induced resettlement has had inevitable impacts on place attachment and residential satisfaction of residents. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the social-psychological performances of both attachment and satisfaction, and the possible influences of the former on the latter. Such deficiency also emerges when considering different resettlement patterns in peripheral urban China. This study conducted a semi-structural survey on two neighborhoods affected by the construction of Higher Mega Education Center (HEMC) in Guangzhou with different resettlement patterns. Based on multidimensional measurement, residents in relocated subsidized housing expressed higher attachment and satisfaction through the remaining social bonding as ‘acquaintance society’ than those in in-situ urban villages relying on self-identified clan-kinship and stable reciprocity. Hukou status is found to be fundamental in building attachment and life fulfillment, especially for the urban villages with plural population structure. Significances are found in the impacts of place dependence, social bonding and place identification on residential satisfaction in in-situ neighborhoods while only social bonding was found to be significant in the relocated ‘enclave’ one. However, deeper integration with affective connections are insufficient for both. The findings generally indicate that positive outcomes are also achieved for self-regeneration after resettlement.
Highlights
In the ‘Anthropocene’, unprecedented urban expansion and regeneration have gradually taken over the planet with the proliferation of massive development projects [1]
Fifteen years after the resettlement, the percentage of migrant residents there reached a high level in the context of ascending temporary migrants and the younger generation, like students, which is typical for urban villages in China [21]
While urban expansion and regeneration have become predominant in contemporary China, development-induced displacement and resettlement are usually utilized as a governmental strategy for land expropriation and development in peripheral urban areas, which inevitably imposes direct impacts on indigenous people functionally, socially and psychologically
Summary
In the ‘Anthropocene’, unprecedented urban expansion and regeneration have gradually taken over the planet with the proliferation of massive development projects [1]. In the new era of market-oriented reforms, housing commodification and land financialization, modern China finds no way to dispense with intensified DIDR [15], and placelessness or displacement driven by urban regeneration projects will not be rare in the future This diminishes the intimate human-place relationship with which individuals manifest an affective and cognitive experienced bond to the settings of particular environment [16,17], or the ‘genius loci’ widely identified from the ‘characteristic’ meanings of more than an abstract architecture/place connected with human beings [18], especially injuring the social-psychological construction of attachment after resettlement
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