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来源

JOURNAL OF HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT,Vol.33,Issue2,P.319-337

语言

英文

关键字

New-build gentrification; Gentrifiers; Residential choice; Spatial capital; Cultural capital; Beijing; NEW-BUILD GENTRIFICATION; MIDDLE-CLASS; RURAL GENTRIFICATION; FAMILY GENTRIFIERS; CITY-CENTER; HONG-KONG; LONDON; CITIES; CHINA; NEIGHBORHOOD

作者单位

[Huang, Xing; Liu, Yuting] South China Univ Technol, State Key Lab Subtrop Bldg Sci, Sch Architecture, 381 Wushan Rd, Guangzhou 510641, Guangdong, Peoples R China. [Yang, Yongchun] Lanzhou Univ, Sch Resources & Environm, 222 South Tianshui Rd, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China. Huang, X (reprint author), South China Univ Technol, State Key Lab Subtrop Bldg Sci, Sch Architecture, 381 Wushan Rd, Guangzhou 510641, Guangdong, Peoples R China. E-Mail: huangxing57@scut.edu.cn; yangych@lzu.edu.cn; ytliu@scut.edu.cn

摘要

This paper aims to examine gentrifiers' motivations behind their residential choice in newly built housing estates in the city center and what kind of capital they aspire to gain through such decisions, specifically in the context of Beijing, China, a non-Western metropolis undergoing market transition. Based on household surveys of residents in a new-build gentrified neighborhood in Xuanwumen, Beijing, a new finding has been uncovered that the main reason for gentrifiers' residential choice in Beijing is to increase and reproduce their spatial capital and institutionalized cultural capital, which differs from the facts in Western metropolitan areas. In particular, gentrifiers in newly built housing estates highlight the importance of factors relating to proximity, accessibility and convenience of life, irrespective of their household type. These factors help to reconcile the trade-off between a professional career and daily life in a wide time-space zone, acquiring a high capacity to be mobile and thus increasing their spatial capital. Moreover, family households, the biggest grouping in this study, highly value education and schooling, which will enable them to increase and reproduce their institutionalized cultural capital. In doing so, these gentrifiers can consolidate and increase their high social status and at the same time distinguish themselves from other groups in Beijing.