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| PRODUCTION OF SPACE IN THE URBAN-RURAL FRONTIER: A CASE STUDY OF RAINBOW, A FLOATING POPULATION CONCENTRATED COMMUNITY IN GUANGZHOU |
| WU Ting-ye1, LIU Yun-gang1, WANG Feng-long2 |
1. School of Geography Sciences and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
2. Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China |
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Abstract As a main tool to explain the spatial development of Chinese cities, the theory of production of space is now become one of the important theories of the current academic research in China. This paper apply the micro perspective of the theories of production of space, by interviewing the floating population in Rainbow village in Guangzhou city, the floating population concentrated communities in urban fringe, we learned about the floating populations' living and production conditions. We find that the spatial production process of the floating population of the urban neighborhoods is the result of the game of the behavioral relying on the social network relationships of the floating population under the current system, floating population in the current system of household registration, land, government regulation and urban renewal, under a positive location choice, the relationship of social networks to drive to maintain the space to occupy and consolidate the space. The production results of the production of space is formed a stability of the isolated homogeneous production communities which consist of floating population and maintained by the social network. At the end of the paper, we can see that the theories of spatial production can provide a new perspective to understand the diversity of floating population concentrate communities in cities and can help us to understand the Dialectical relationship between the social network and urban space.
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Received: 04 June 2012
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2013, Vol. 28 
