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| THE SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND DETERMINANTS OF INTRA-URBAN RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY IN GUANGZHOU |
| LIU Wang-bao, YAN Xiao-pei, CAO Xiao-shu |
| Center for Urban and Regional Sudies, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China |
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Abstract As a spatial adjustment process of households' residential demand and an intrinsic impetus of urban restructuring process, residential mobility is the main research topic of geography, planning and sociology in the West. Making use survey of the housing samples the collected in Guangzhou in 2001 and 2005, this paper analyzes the characteristics of spatial distribution and it's evolutional trends from 1980 to 2005. The results of the analysis shows that most of the residential moves are of show distance with the absolutely big proportions of moves in the same districts and between neighboring districts. The general moving direction is from inner towards the outer city. or Housing tenure, household's life cycle, household's income and the year of mobility significantly affect the residential moving directions. Residential suburbanization is correlation with the rise of home ownership. Organizatioral and municipal housing bureau are the primary driving forces for suburbanization in China.
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Received: 17 March 2006
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2007, Vol. 22 
