Examining the long-term social legacy of mega urban projects - A comparison of Shanghai and Dujiangyan City

审视巨型城市项目的长期社会遗产——上海与都江堰市的比较

• 批准号: ES/W003104/2
• 负责人: Zheng Wang
• 金额: $ 29.83万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW003104%2F2
• 关键词: Examining; long; term; social; legacy; Examining; long; term; social; legacy

Defined as costly large scale urban development schemes with substantive impacts on the economy, society and environment (Fainstein, 2008), mega projects have become a significant form of urban expansion and renewal globally. Current research on mega projects mostly focuses on the immediate effects of displacement and loss of community. This analytical framework fails to capture the long-term social problems of mega projects that emerge after the development's completion such as residents' access to public amenities after being resettled. Current research also forecloses the possibility of positive outcomes, such as the ability of residents to rebuild their community. This project thus seeks to examine the long-term and variegated social impacts of mega projects and how they can be improved through the collective efforts from state, private and public stakeholders. The study will focus on two population groups affected by mega projects: 1) Residents who were resettled by the mega projects. In China, due to strict resettlement policies, residents living in areas designated for development are all resettled (including forced evictions) and moved to dedicated relocation settlements. However, little is known about their livelihood after resettlement.2) Left-behind residents (Wang, 2020) who live inside or nearby the mega project but have not been resettled and instead suffer from in-situ marginalisation. Little is known about the livelihood of left-behind residents and what forms of marginalisation they suffer from. The project adopts a mixed methods approach combining quantitative (household survey) and qualitative research methods (semi-structured and go along interviews, ethnographic research) to examine:i) the material livelihood (income, well-being, access to social services) and sense of community (place attachment; collective identity, neighbourly relations, community participation) of both resident groups;ii) how the mega projects' urban governance and planning strategies influenced the long-term social outcomes of the developments (e.g. provision of public amenities);iii) the strategies residents and local governments employed to rebuild residents' material livelihood and sense of community.Theoretically, the project will develop a post-displacement framework to study the variegated and long-term social outcomes and experiences of mega projects which cannot be captured by the displacement concept. Studying the sense of community of affected residents will also advance the conceptual understanding of how place-based relations and practices can help rebuild communities and stimulate the genesis of new communities.The project will compare the 2010 Expo in Shanghai and the 'First Boulevard District' (Yijie Qu) mega project in Dujiangyan city, Sichuan province. Shanghai, as a global city, is economically advanced and attracts political support and global investments. Dujiangyan is a third tier city in Sichuan province representing 'ordinary cities' (Robinson, 2013) that struggle economically and enjoy much less political and scholarly attention. The comparison of Shanghai and Dujiangyan helps illuminate how two mega projects situated in starkly different socio-economic contexts have attempted to balance economic and political objectives with social responsibilities. Tracing the lives of displaced residents is notoriously difficult (Easton et al., 2020) and the case of China, where resettled residents are all moved to resettlement neighbourhoods, offers a rare opportunity to study the post-displacement livelihood of residents. The project's impact-related activities and academic and non-academic outputs will focus on raising awareness of the long-term social legacy of mega projects (IO1) amongst the public, policy-makers and academics, and will provide practical tools for policy-makers and planning practitioners to assess the long-term social outcomes of planned mega urban projects (IO2).

被定义为昂贵的大规模城市发展计划，对经济，社会和环境产生实质性影响（Fainstein，2008），大型项目已成为城市扩张和全球更新的重要形式。当前对大型项目的研究主要集中在流离失所和社区丧失的直接影响上。该分析框架未能捕获开发项目完成后出现的大型项目的长期社会问题，例如居民被重新安置后获得公共便利设施。当前的研究还取消了积极成果的可能性，例如居民重建社区的能力。因此，该项目试图研究大型项目的长期和各种社会影响，以及如何通过州，私人和公共利益相关者的集体努力来改善它们。这项研究将重点关注受大型项目影响的两个人群：1）被大型项目重新安置的居民。在中国，由于严格的重新安置政策，居住在指定开发地区的居民都被重新安置（包括强制驱逐），并转向了专门的搬迁定居点。但是，对重新安置后的生计知之甚少。2）左撇子居民（Wang，2020年），他们居住在大型项目内或附近，但没有被重新安置，而是遭受了耐用的边缘化。关于左撇子居民的生计以及他们遭受的边缘化形式知之甚少。该项目采用了一种混合方法，将定量性（家庭调查）和定性研究方法结合在一起（半结构和进行访谈，人种学研究）来检查：i）物质生计（收入，福祉，社会服务的机会，获得社会服务）和社区意识和社区意识（地点依恋；集体认同，邻居的关系，社区参与，统治策略，统治策略，ii）; ii; ii; ii; ii'ii trure trut trut termage; ii; ii'ii'durtan trut trut terma事态发展的结果（例如提供公共设施）； iii）居民和地方政府的策略，用于重建居民重建居民的物质生计和社区意识。从理论上讲，该项目将开发出一个解散后框架，以研究无法通过被塑造的巨型社会和长期社交和长期社会经验和长期的社会经验和象征的概念概念化的概念。研究受影响居民的社区意识还将提高人们对基于地点的关系和实践如何帮助重建社区并刺激新社区的起源的概念理解。该项目将比较上海的2010年博览会和“第一个林荫大道区”（Yijie Qu）（Yijie Qu）Mega Mega Project在Sichuan dujiangyan City，Sichuan Sichuan Province。作为全球城市，上海在经济上是先进的，并吸引了政治支持和全球投资。 Dujiangyan是四川省的第三层城市，代表“普通城市”（Robinson，2013年），在经济上挣扎，享有更少的政治和学术关注。上海和Dujiangyan的比较有助于阐明如何在不同的社会经济环境中的两个大型项目试图平衡经济和政治目标与社会责任。众所周知，追溯流离失所的居民的生活是困难的（Easton等，2020）和中国的案例，在那里，重新安置的居民都被转移到安置社区，提供了难得的机会来研究居民的置换后生计。该项目与影响相关的活动以及学术和非学术成果将着重于提高对公共，政策制定者和学者的巨型项目长期社会遗产（IO1）的认识，并将为政策制定者和计划从业人员提供实用工具，以评估计划中的Mega Urban Projects（IO2）的长期社会成果。