PLACE, PLACENESS AND THE SOCI-CULTURAL INVESTIGATION ON URBAN VILLAGE REDEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF LIEDE VILLAGE
HUANG Wen-wei1, YUAN Zhen-jie2
1. School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China;
2. Center for Social and Cultural Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Abstract：Currently, the rapid modernization and urbanization in China deeply and sharply reshape the interrelationship between rural and urban, promoting a huge wave of demolition and reconstruction of urban villages. In contrast to existing knowledge of urban village which heavily base on economic and urban planning perspectives, this paper attempts to interrogate the reconstruction of placeness of urban village with the perspectives of culture and place. On the basis of ‘place’, this paper conducts on the construction of placeness, concluding that landscape, text, symbol and perception (subjective feelings) constructed placeness. As mentioned above, this paper deconstructs placeness into four main dimensions. Landscape is the physical presentation of placeness, which reflects interrelationships between human and natural environment. Additionally, text and symbol contribute memory, description and imagination of a place, which constructs the uniqueness of a place. Last but not the least, local people's subjective perception of place also plays an important role in construction placeness. Fashioning these four dimensions as theoretical framework, this paper analyze the chronological development of the placeness of a specific place. Taking Liede village as example, which is the so-called most successful case of urban village redevelopment project, we found that the construction of placeness is embedded on the developmental context of a place, which is going through an ongoing process. Interview and field research are taken as research methods to collect first hand data. Additionally, local chronicles and official documents are also collected. Research objects includes local villagers, government and property developers. To conclude, placeness is under an on-going process of construction.
黄文炜, 袁振杰. 地方、地方性与城中村改造的社会文化考察——以猎德村为例[J]. 人文地理, 2015, 30(3): 42-49.
HUANG Wen-wei, YUAN Zhen-jie. PLACE, PLACENESS AND THE SOCI-CULTURAL INVESTIGATION ON URBAN VILLAGE REDEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF LIEDE VILLAGE. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2015, 30(3): 42-49.
