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?