Abstract：By analyzing the frequent property owner's right-keeping movement in urban communities of China through the perspective of community governance,the authors try to summarize the main characteristics of the property owner's right-keeping movement and it's driving forces, and discuss the mechanism of spatial tension among different interest groups in the background of fast urbanization and the policies to ease it.
In resent years, the right-keeping movement shows some new characteristics:firstly, right-keeping movement becomes a mass movement rather than an individual action; secondly, the institutions involved shift from single to multiple ones, including the property management company, the real estate company and the local government, which makes the movement much more complex and difficult; finally, the forms of the movement become diversified.
The movement's driving forces are complex. In the background of urban development,social transformation may lead to the possible violation of civil rights. In the industry of real estate, information asymmetry is ubiquitous, which results in the frequent conflicts among different interest groups. In the background of fast urbanization, in the areas where the construction of market mechanism is slower than the process of urbanization, opportunism arise. Another driving force of right-keeping movement is the miss of the function of the local government.
Along with the rise of the awareness of democratic rights, especially after the enforcement of the law of property, civil society has grown up to a part of political power in the middle class communities, which will be a good basis for the establishment of the community autonomy model. Analysis shows that community governance has its both theoretical and realistic basis.
The conclusion is that both the government and the real estate companies should pay more attention to the roles citizens play in the "post-exploit" period of urban community construction. The key point of keeping the civil rights of the property owners, improving the community autonomy and constructing the harmonious urban community is the reconstruction of the power structure of the community governance.
李立勋, 温锋华, 许学强. 从业主维权刍议中国城市社区管治重构[J]. 人文地理, 2007, 22(6): 72-75,67.
LI Li-xun, WEN Feng-hua, XU Xue-qiang. PROPERTY OWNER'S RIGHT-KEEPING MOVEMENT AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF URBAN COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE IN CHINA. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2007, 22(6): 72-75,67.
