@phdthesis{Baron, author = {Baron, Nicole}, title = {Natural Urban Resilience: Understanding general urban resilience through Addis Ababa's inner city}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4416}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210428-44166}, school = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar}, abstract = {This dissertation describes the urban actors and spatial practices that contribute to natural urban resilience in Addis Ababa's inner city. Natural urban resilience is a non-strategical and bottom-up, everyday form of general urban resilience - an urban system's ability to maintain its essential characteristics under any change. This study gains significance by exposing conceptual gaps in the current un-derstanding of general urban resilience and highlighting its unconvincing applicability to African cities. This study attains further relevance by highlighting the danger of the ongoing large-scale redevelopment of the inner city. The inner city has naturally formed, and its urban memory, spaces, and social cohesion contribute to its primarily low-income population's resilience. This thesis argues that the inner city's demolition poses an incalculable risk of maladaptation to future stresses and shocks for Addis Ababa. The city needs a balanced urban discourse that highlights the inner city's qualities and suggests feasible urban transformation measures. "Natural Urban Resilience" contributes an empirical study to the debate by identifying those aspects of the inner city that contribute to general resilience and identifies feasible action areas. This study develops a qualitative research design for a single case study in Addis Ababa. The data is obtained through expert interviews, interviews with resi-dents, and the analysis of street scene photos, which are abstracted using Grounded Theory. That way, this thesis provides first-time knowledge about who and what generates urban resilience in the inner city of Addis Ababa and how. Furthermore, the study complements existing theories on general urban resilience. It provides a detailed understanding of the change mechanisms in resilience, of which it identifies four: adaptation, upgrading, mitigation, and resistance. It also adapts the adaptive cycle, a widely used concept in resilience thinking, conceptually for urban environments. The study concludes that the inner city's continued redevelopment poses an incalculable threat to the entire city. Therefore, "Natural urban resilience" recommends carefully weighing any intervention in the inner city to promote Addis Ababa's overall resilience. This dissertation proposes a pattern language for natural urban resilience to support these efforts and to translate the model of natural urban resilience into practice.}, subject = {Stadtforschung}, language = {en} } @article{Birkholz, author = {Birkholz, Marie Luise}, title = {M{\"a}chtiger Boden. Essay {\"u}ber den Versuch, einen Staatsapparat zu erlaufen}, series = {sub\urban. Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Kritische Stadtforschung}, volume = {2015}, journal = {sub\urban. Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Kritische Stadtforschung}, number = {Band 3, Heft 2}, publisher = {ub\urban e.V.}, address = {Berlin}, doi = {10.36900/suburban.v3i2.200}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220112-45591}, pages = {141 -- 154}, abstract = {Der Text folgt in essayistischer Form einem Spaziergang durch das politische Zentrum Bras{\´i}lias in Brasilien. Die Konzentration liegt auf der Gestaltung des Bodens. Wie ist die Planhauptstadt „vom Reißbrett" in der Horizontalen gestaltet? Wie sehen repr{\"a}sentative Pl{\"a}tze einer Stadt aus, die vor allem f{\"u}r Autos gebaut worden ist? Der forschende Blick liegt auf dem erlebten Ist-Zustand und wird assoziativ mit Ergebnissen der Forschungsarbeit aus Deutschland reflektiert. „M{\"a}chtiger Boden" entstand als Satellit zur aktuellen Forschung der Autorin im Rahmen eines Aufenthalts in Brasilien.}, subject = {Brasilia}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Brasil2011, author = {Brasil, Daniela}, title = {EXPERIMENTING WITH THE URBAN EXPERIENCE: Rio, Lisbon and Weimar. A (re)search for creative collaborations and active exercises of citizenship}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1456}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20110811-15525}, school = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This practice-based research examines platforms and encounters that have a participatory character as a strategy to create lived and shared experiences where new forms of appropriation of the city can emerge. The selected case studies propose and initiate certain urban experiences that induce changes in perception, the exchange of perspectives, and that denaturalize habits and patterns of behavior. I suggest that when these sensitive experiences become imprinted in body memory, they can empower citizens to have more active, creative, and/or critical attitudes towards their environments. Searching for new repertoires of everyday practices that contest commodification of both the body and the city, this thesis is oriented towards open-ended processes of constructing mentalities rather than those of planning changes on the material conditions of public space. It uses forms of academic investigation that merge intellectual debate and experimental practice, joining art, urbanism and social engaged practices in an extradisciplinary (Howes 2007) attitude towards the city. Based on the materials generated by the case studies (combining theoretical knowledge with artistic sensibility), the affective and corporeal involvement of researchers in the situations they analyze and co-create, is sustained in opposition to the traditional academic critical distance.}, subject = {Erlebnis}, language = {en} } @article{BrokowLogaNessler, author = {Brokow-Loga, Anton and Neßler, Miriam}, title = {Eine Frage der Fl{\"a}chengerechtigkeit! Kommentar zu Lisa Vollmer und Boris Michel „Wohnen in der Klimakrise. Die Wohnungsfrage als {\"o}kologische Frage"}, series = {s u b \ u r b a n. zeitschrift f{\"u}r kritische stadtforschung}, volume = {2020}, journal = {s u b \ u r b a n. zeitschrift f{\"u}r kritische stadtforschung}, number = {Band 8, Heft 1/2}, publisher = {Sub\urban e.V.}, address = {Leipzig}, doi = {10.36900/suburban.v8i1/2.572}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210122-43333}, pages = {183 -- 192}, abstract = {Die derzeitige Wohnungskrise hat eine sozial-{\"o}kologische Kernproblematik. Dabei ist die sozial ungerechte und {\"o}kologisch problematische Verteilung von Wohnfl{\"a}che meist unsichtbar und wird weder in wissenschaftlichen noch in aktivistischen Kontexten ausreichend als Frage der Fl{\"a}chengerechtigkeit problematisiert. Denn Wohnraum und Fl{\"a}che in einer Stadt sind keine endlos verf{\"u}gbaren G{\"u}ter: Wenn einige Menschen auf viel Raum leben, bleibt f{\"u}r andere Menschen weniger Fl{\"a}che {\"u}brig. Und die Menschen, die am wenigstens f{\"u}r eine Verknappung von Wohnraum verantwortlich sind, leiden am meisten darunter. Dieser Artikel arbeitet zun{\"a}chst den Begriff der Wohnfl{\"a}chengerechtigkeit heraus, wobei auf die Ungleichverteilung von Wohnfl{\"a}che und deren gesellschaftliche Implikationen unter derzeitigen Wohnungsverteilungsmechanismen Bezug genommen wird. Anschließend wird der Verbrauch von (Wohn-)Fl{\"a}che aus {\"o}kologischer Perspektive problematisiert. Der Artikel diskutiert scheinbare und transformationsorientierte L{\"o}sungs- und Handlungsans{\"a}tze. Abschließend fordert er in der kritischen Stadtforschung und in aktivistischen Kontexten eine st{\"a}rkere Debatte um eine Wohnfl{\"a}chengerechtigkeit, deren Verwirklichung gleichermaßen eine soziale wie {\"o}kologische Dimension hat.}, subject = {Wohnen}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Boelling2007, author = {B{\"o}lling, Lars}, title = {Das Bild der Zwischenstadt. Dekodierung und Inszenierung "r{\"a}umlicher Identit{\"a}t" als Potenzial zur Qualifizierung der verst{\"a}dterten Landschaft.}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1377}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20090122-14598}, school = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar}, year = {2007}, abstract = {Die Arbeit „Das Bild der Zwischenstadt" sucht nach M{\"o}glichkeiten zur Qualifizierung der verst{\"a}dterten Landschaft, f{\"u}r die Thomas Sieverts den Begriff „Zwischenstadt" gepr{\"a}gt hat. Die Auseinandersetzung mit „r{\"a}umlicher Identit{\"a}t" steht dabei im Mittelpunkt: In deren Dekodierung und Inszenierung wird ein Potenzial erkannt, die Aufenthalts- und Erlebnisqualit{\"a}t der Zwischenstadt zu verbessern. Der Betrachtungsraum der Arbeit zwischen Frankfurt am Main und seinen prosperierenden Umlandgemeinden eignet sich in besonderer Weise, die „Anatomie der Zwischenstadt" zu dekodieren. Schicht f{\"u}r Schicht wird der Versuch unternommen, die eigene Sprache dieses Raumes zu entziffern. Dabei werden Methoden der Beschreibung und Darstellung entwickelt, die den spezifischen r{\"a}umlichen Eigenschaft der Zwischenstadt gerecht zu werden suchen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Auseinandersetzung lassen deutliche Transformationen in der Zwischenstadt erkennen und entheben sie aus ihrer vermeintlichen Eigenschaftslosigkeit. Orte mit Bedeutung, Zusammenh{\"a}nge und Raumgeschichten werden lesbar, es zeigen sich Ans{\"a}tze eigener Urbanit{\"a}t und Zentralit{\"a}t. Die Zwischenstadt hat sich von ihrer einseitigen Dependenz zur Kernstadt gel{\"o}st, tritt aber gleichzeitig in einen umfassenden Wandel, um sich ge{\"a}nderten Lebensformen und Bed{\"u}rfnissen anzupassen. {\"A}ltere, den Raum pr{\"a}gende Einfamilienhausgebiete und Großsiedlungen, aber auch monofunktionale Gewerbegebiete und die typischen suburbanen Einkaufszentren erf{\"u}llen keineswegs mehr automatisch die Wohnw{\"u}nsche und Anforderungen einer Dienstleistungs- und Freizeitgesellschaft. Die Arbeit greift die unverkennbare Transformation des Bildes der Zwischenstadt als Chance zur Qualifizierung dieses Raumes auf. Entwickelt werden Qualifizierungsmodelle, die der Tendenz zu Segregation und Abtrennung mit einer neuen Integrationskultur f{\"u}r die Zwischenstadt begegnen: Als pr{\"a}gender Lebensraum der Stadtregion muss die Zwischenstadt einen großen Teil der Bed{\"u}rfnisse Ihrer Bewohner und Benutzer an den Raum befriedigen. Zunehmend sind diese Bed{\"u}rfnisse nicht nur funktioneller Art, sondern werden {\"u}berlagert von einem Bed{\"u}rfnis nach Raumqualit{\"a}t, Verortung und Identifikationsm{\"o}glichkeiten. F{\"u}r diese Bed{\"u}rfnisse angemessene und auratische Raumbilder zu finden oder zu inszenieren, ist im Angesicht des Status Quo der Stadtlandschaft eine wichtige Herausforderung.}, subject = {Architektur}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Huck2001, author = {Huck, Christian}, title = {Der wirtschaftliche Strukturwandel in Th{\"u}ringen und seine Auswirkungen auf die Raumordnung und Stadtentwicklung - dargestellt an der Entwicklung des Einzelhandels von 1989 bis 1999 mit Schlußfolgerungen f{\"u}r eine aktive Raumordnungs- und Stadtentwickl}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.65}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20040311-689}, school = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar}, year = {2001}, abstract = {Der Verfasser, in der Zeit von Anfang 1991 bis 1995 in der Industrie- und Handelskammer Erfurt als Gesch{\"a}ftsf{\"u}hrer zust{\"a}ndig f{\"u}r die Bereiche Handel, Verkehr, Dienstleistungen, Raumordnung, Stadtentwicklung und Tourismus, bewertet den in Th{\"u}ringen stattgefundenen wirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozess unter besonderer Beachtung der Einzelhandelsentwicklung. Standort-, Fl{\"a}chen- und Unternehmensstrukturentwicklung werden in einzelnen Entwicklungsetappen klassifiziert und die in den jeweiligen Zeitfenstern eingeflossenen Steuerungsfaktoren auf Bundes-, Landes- und Kommunalebene bewertet unter Bezugnahme auf die vor 1989 vorhandene Handelsstruktur und Zentral{\"o}rtlichkeit. Die Ausgangslage der Handelsstruktur Th{\"u}ringens, 10 Jahre nach der Deutschen Einheit, wird verglichen mit den allgemeinen und konkreten Entwicklungstendenzen im Einzelhandel Deutschlands und der weltweit ablaufenden Konzentrationsprozesse. Konkret werden der Einzelhandelsumsatz, die Struktur des Einzelhandels, die Standort- und Fl{\"a}chendynamik mit ihren neueren Betriebsformen wie Factory Outlet Center, Urban Entertainment Center aufgef{\"u}hrt und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Raumstruktur und Stadtentwicklung dargestellt. Neben der Anbieterseite, verk{\"o}rpert durch die Handelsunternehmen, wird die Konsumentenseite untersucht und das differenzierte Einkaufsverhalten zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland dargestellt. Die daraus resultierenden Disparit{\"a}ten in der Handelsstruktur werden diskutiert. Nachfrager- und Anbieterseite haben unterschiedliche Auswirkungen auf die Raumstruktur und Stadtentwicklung. In diesem Zusammenhang werden die Stadt- und Umlandprobleme dargestellt und die raum- und stadtentwicklungspolitischen Leitbilder, wie nachhaltige Raumentwicklung, Europ{\"a}isches Raumentwicklungskonzept und nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung unter Beachtung ihrer Umsatzstrategien betrachtet und gewertet. Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Handelsstruktur und Verkehr werden gesondert dargestellt. Aus den realen Ergebnissen der bisherigen Handelsstrukturentwicklung Th{\"u}ringens werden Handlungsfelder f{\"u}r Maßnahmen zur Revitalisierung der St{\"a}dte in Th{\"u}ringen durch den Einzelhandel aufgezeigt. Der Verfasser schl{\"a}gt eine aktive Raumordnungs- und Stadtentwicklungspolitik vor, die die Instrumente der Raumordnung mit Mitteln der Wirtschaftsf{\"o}rderung zur effizienten Prozesssteuerung unter Wahrung einer nachhaltigen Raumentwicklung kombiniert, um durch den Einzelhandel die Zentralit{\"a}t der St{\"a}dte wieder zu erlangen. Dieser Raumentwicklungshandlungsrahmen, bestehend aus den Komponenten Angebotsplanung, Wirtschaftsf{\"o}rderung, Ansiedlungssteuerung und interkommunaler Kooperation ist in der Lage, die k{\"u}nftigen raumrelevanten Anforderungen im Sinne einer Nachhaltigkeit zu beantworten.}, subject = {Th{\"u}ringen}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Javanmardi, author = {Javanmardi, Leila}, title = {URBANISM AND DICTATORSHIP. A Study on Urban Planning in Contemporary History of Iran, Second Pahlavi: 1941-1979}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4597}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220224-45971}, school = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar}, pages = {237}, abstract = {The evolution of urbanism under dictatorship forms the core of the current research. This thesis is part of a research network at Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar, which studies the 20th century's urbanism under different dictatorships. The network has provided a cross-cultural and cross-border environment and has enabled the author to communicate with other like-minded researchers. The 2015 published book of this group 'Urbanism and Dictatorship: A European Perspective' strengthens the foundation of this research's theoretical and methodological framework. This thesis investigates urban policies and plans leading to the advancement of urbanization and the transformation of urban space in Iran during the second Pahlavi (1941-1979) when the country faced a milestone in its history: Nationalization of the Iranian oil industry. By reflecting the influence of economic and socio-political determinants of the time on urbanism and the urbanization process, this work intends to critically trace the effect of dictatorship on evolved urbanism before and after the oil nationalization in 1951. The research on the second Pahlavi's urbanism has been limitedly addressed and has only recently expanded. Most of the conducted studies date back to less than a decade ago and could not incorporate all the episodes of the second Pahlavi urbanism. These works have often investigated urbanism and architecture by focusing merely on the physical features and urban products in different years regardless of the importance of urbanism as a tool in the service of hegemony. In other words, the majority of the available literature does not intend to address the socio-economic and political roots of urban transformations and by questioning 'what has been built?' investigates the individual urban projects and plans designed by individual designers without interlinking these projects to the state's urban planning program and tracing the beneficiaries of those projects or questioning 'built for whom?' Moreover, some chapters of this modern urbanism have rarely been investigated. For instance, scant research has looked into the works of foreign designers and consultants involved in the projects such as Peter Georg Ahrens or Constantinos A. Doxiadis. Similarly, the urbanism of the first decade of the second Pahlavi, including the government of Mossadegh, has mainly been overlooked. Therefore, by critically analyzing the state's urban planning program and the process of urbanization in Iran during the second Pahlavi, this research aims to bridge the literature gap and to unravel the effect of the power structure on urban planning and products while seeking to find a pattern behind the regime's policies. The main body of this work is concentrated on studying the history of urbanism in Iran, of which collecting data and descriptions played a crucial role. To prevent the limitations associated with singular methods, this research's methodology is based on methodological triangulation (Denzin, 2017). With the triangulation scheme, the data is gathered by combining different qualitative and quantitative methods such as the library, archival and media research, online resources, non-participatory observation, and photography. For the empirical part, the city of Tehran is selected as the case study. Moreover, individual non-structured interviews with the locals were conducted to gain more insights regarding urban projects.}, subject = {Stadtplanung}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Kalugila, author = {Kalugila, Shubira}, title = {HOUSING INTERVENTIONS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Opportunities and Challenges in Mixed Informal Settlements, in Dar es Salaam - Tanzania}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2293}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20140902-22930}, school = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar}, pages = {304}, abstract = {Rapid urbanisation that is not accompanied by socio-economic development strains the capacity of local and national governments to provide even basic services such as shelter. Informal settlements i.e. settlements not built or developed according to the formal regulations have become a solution to many urban dwellers in developing countries. In Tanzania informal settlements accommodate people from low, middle and high income groups. The study explores the nature of potentials and challenges posed by the existence of mixed socio-economic groups in informal settlements, including an assessment of what can be done to optimise utilisation of potentials and mitigation of conflicts. Using a case study strategy, the study was conducted in Dar es Salaam city focusing on Makongo mixed informal settlement. The results show that mixed informal settlements are as a result of several factors including uncoordinated energies of people. The urban development forces that bring change in the development of the city are stronger than the public states capacity to coordinate and manage them. Informal settlements also offer user-friendly land tenure, flexibility in house construction and proximity to livelihoods. Other factors include the nature of socio-economic living patterns and extension of urban boundaries. Community members operate using social norms. Advantages of mixed informal settlements include availability of plots according to needs and affordability while a disadvantage is, people of different socio-economic groups perceive problems differently. For policies to be effective, their formulation should be derived from what is happening on the ground i.e. addressing informal settlements according to their heterogeneity. Moreover, empowered local authorities can assist in implementing national development plans; also actors in land development including government institutions, non-governmental institutions, financial institutions, private sector, professionals, political leaders, research institutions, policy-makers and training institutions need to recognise, understand and respect each other's roles, and pull resources together to minimise problems related to informality in land development; utilise potentials and minimise challenges in mixed informal settlements in Dar es Salaam. Key words: Informal settlements, land development, urbanisation}, subject = {Verst{\"a}dterung}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Long, author = {Long, Jiang}, title = {The spatial formation and transformation of Chinese rural clan settlements : A case study of Furong and Cangpo villages in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1818}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130117-18187}, school = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar}, pages = {285, 275}, abstract = {This dissertation attempts to describe, analyze and evaluate how the settlement spaces of Chinese clans in rural areas were shaped by local clan lives in ancient times and transformed along with the transition of those clan organizations in modern China. In approaching this subject, two major questions are raised: what was the role of ancient Chinese rural clans in the spatial formation of their settlements and, nowadays, do they still play the same role as before? To approach these answers, this dissertation sets out to draw on systematically interdisciplinary research from the perspectives of socio-culture and architecture- planning to have an overall understanding of a Chinese clan organization and clan settlement. Then, the basic characteristics of traditional Chinese clans and their importance to the Chinese people are discussed by tracing the history and evolution of Chinese clan organizations in the dissertation. Two old villages, Furong and Cangpo in now Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, are selected for case study research. And the research reveals that it was the clans that took charge of planning and managing the various construction activities, especially those of communal buildings and facilities, within their own settlements, and the clan lives exerted a decisive impact on shaping the settlement spaces, branding the characteristics of the clan lives clearly and deeply on the spaces. Following that, in the dissertation is described the transformation process of traditional Chinese clans in modern and contemporary China. The clan lives in rural areas have been reshaped and this exerts a great impact on clan settlement spaces. It is shown in the case studies of Furong and Cangpo.}, subject = {Sattlement}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Ma2006, author = {Ma, Hang}, title = {"Villages" in Shenzhen- Persistence and Transformation of an Old Social System in an Emerging Megacity}, doi = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.771}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20060806-8094}, school = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar}, year = {2006}, abstract = {In the history of 'villages' in Shenzhen, rich traditional cultural resources that are directly related to the folk life in urban corporate community still exist today, synchronously agricultural economy of urban corporate community is transformed into joint-stock economy, and natural villages are transformed into 'heterogeneous' space of city. The most significant fact in the modern social transition is that modern societies have surpassed traditional societies, and cities have surpassed the country. Weber, Durkheim, T{\"o}nnies, Simmel and others devoted themselves to cultivating the essence of social transition. The most influential theory to observe and analyze it is the two-tiered approach of ideal type. T{\"o}nnies made distinction between 'Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft', Durkheim distinguished 'mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity', and Redfield analyzed 'folk society and urban society'. In those classical theories, the former transit to the later is considered to be a general rule of transition from traditional society to modern society, and from traditional community to modern community. However, ever since Redfield used the dependent relationship and interactive framework of 'great tradition' and 'little tradition' to explain various complicated phenomena in the transition from tradition to modern in 1950s, he suggested that a folk-urban continuum can be formed in the transition from folk society to urban society. 'Both terms, 'city' and 'country', are not and have never been limited or restricted to their obvious denotations: 'city' is not and has never been only urban. As a category it always encompasses (includes, embodies, embraces) itself and its opposite, the country' (Hassenpflug 2002, 46). Generally, social groups and culture characterized by weak 'potential' will take their own 'little tradition' as 'bridge' and agency, in order to enter or melt themselves into a 'great tradition' that embodies great 'potential' to seek for space to live and develop. There are many different types of transitions that villagers enter and get melt into 'great tradition' through their individual 'little tradition'. There are exploration and development of traditional resources in 'segmentation', such as the frequent relation between a great flow of peasants to cities and the network of kinship, and of earthbound relations; alternatively, there are assistances and utilization of resources of a whole corporate network, such as the traditional corporate community's organization of local resources during the process of non-agriculturization of villages; and 'villages' in Shenzhen is of the latter situation. The following conclusion can be made based on the above analyses: urban corporate community formed in the process of non-agricultural development and urbanization is an organizing dependency on which villagers melt into city and adapt to urban life. The unique inner-structure and function determine that comparing with other organizations, it has a better performance, efficiency and more humanity care. Firstly, corporate community which is re-organized in the non-agricultural process currently is the only and the most effective organizational resources that can be utilized and has significant meanings in protecting villagers' interest and benefit; secondly, in the short term, other approaches do not have the advantage and the effect as urban corporate community has on the focusing degree of public affairs in the comprehensive urbanization process; thirdly, the 'new' key connotation of urban corporate community, including its community management functions, is the main reason for which such community has the rationality of being; fourthly, urban corporate community will inevitably face many problems in the urbanization due to its inner fixed characteristics (lack of external support), but to a certain degree it has the ability to self-repair and problem solving under the precondition that, the government and society have a fair, impersonal view of 'villages', and base on this view providing multi-supports, especially providing rational system arrangement and policy supports. Consequently, in order to preserve and protect social system and cultural heritage within the 'villages', and gradually make the coordinative development of 'great tradition' represented by cities and of 'little tradition' represented by 'villages', 'soft reconstruction' rather than 'hard reconstruction' should be adopted by the government, during the recent reconstruction of 'villages' in Shenzhen.}, subject = {China}, language = {en} }