Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Invisible fish: The selective (dis)connection of elite Chinese gated community residents from urban public space. |
| Authors: |
Liu, Yixin1 (AUTHOR) yixin.eason.liu@gmail.com, Atkinson, Rowland2 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.). Feb2025, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p347-366. 20p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*MIDDLE class, *PUBLIC transit, CITY dwellers, MUNICIPAL services, OPEN spaces, PRIVATE communities, PUBLIC spaces |
| Abstract (English): |
Gated communities remain identified with strong forms of socio-physical segregation, yet there has been relatively light engagement with the question of how their residents engage with the city more broadly. This relationship, of protected privacy to open public space, is important because segregation is found in modes of mobility as well as in fixed residential spaces. This article contributes to the understanding of mobile forms of segregation by examining the use of public space, and sites of work, leisure and city services, by the (upper) middle-class residents of two high-end gated communities in Zhanjiang, a middle-tier Chinese city. In these relatively new elite residential spaces, newly status-conscious inhabitants reveal how their use of private modes of travel, avoidance of public transportation systems and efforts at seamless traversal of urban spaces connect to ideas of social achievement. Through extensive qualitative fieldwork in these two sites, we are granted a privileged insight into the ways in which China's nascent middle classes utilise shielded addresses from which to access what they see as status-conferring lifestyle and taste destinations through private modes of mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Chinese): |
封闭式社区的社会-物理隔离仍然严重，但对于其居民如何更广泛地融入城市，人们的关注却相对较少。受保护的隐私与开放的公共空间之间的这种关系非常重要，因为在交通系统和固定的居住空间中都存在隔离。本文通过考察中国中等城市湛江的两个高端封闭式社区的（上层）中产阶级居民，加深对移动隔离形式的理解。我们主要考察其对公共空间的使用，以及对工作、休闲和城市服务场所的使用情况。在这些相对较新的精英居住空间中，新近具有地位意识的居民展示了他们私人出行方式的使用、对公共交通系统的回避以及无缝穿越城市空间的努力如何与社会成就理念相联系。通过对这两个社区进行广泛的定性实地考察，我们获得了宝贵的见解，了解到中国新中产如何利用隐私地址，通过私人出行方式实现他们认为可以体现地位的生活方式以及到达有品味的目的地。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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