TY - JOUR
T1 - Activity spaces and sociospatial segregation in Beijing
AU - Wang, Donggen
AU - Li, Fei
AU - Chai, Yanwei
N1 - Funding Information:
1This study is sponsored by a GRF grant from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (HKBU245008) and a grant from the National Science Foundation China (Project No. 40671058). We acknowledge the assistance in data collection and processing of Mr. Zhang Wenjia (Peking University), Ms. Sun Bingxia (Hong Kong Baptist University), and other postgraduate students at the Department of Urban and Economic Geography, Peking University. We are grateful to Eric Leinberger, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, for assistance in preparation of the figures. 2Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Donggen Wang, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; telephone: (852) 34117128; fax: (852) 34115990; email: [email protected]
PY - 2012/2/1
Y1 - 2012/2/1
N2 - The widespread development of gated communities has generated much concern over urban fragmentation and social segregation. The social division and segregation between residents inside and outside urban enclaves exist not only in their residential spaces, but also in their values, social relations, and daily lives. In this study, it is argued that sociospatial segregation research should pay more attention to individuals' actual usage of urban space in their daily lives. By examining the activity space of the residents from different types of neighborhoods, a spatiotemporal approach to studying sociospatial segregation in Beijing, China is described. Significant differences are found in the usage of time and space between residents inside and outside the so-called privileged enclaves. Their activity spaces are found to vary significantly in terms of extensity, intensity, and exclusivity. The study suggests that the fragmentation of urban space is the result not only of residential segregation, but also of how different social groups spend their time and use urban space.
AB - The widespread development of gated communities has generated much concern over urban fragmentation and social segregation. The social division and segregation between residents inside and outside urban enclaves exist not only in their residential spaces, but also in their values, social relations, and daily lives. In this study, it is argued that sociospatial segregation research should pay more attention to individuals' actual usage of urban space in their daily lives. By examining the activity space of the residents from different types of neighborhoods, a spatiotemporal approach to studying sociospatial segregation in Beijing, China is described. Significant differences are found in the usage of time and space between residents inside and outside the so-called privileged enclaves. Their activity spaces are found to vary significantly in terms of extensity, intensity, and exclusivity. The study suggests that the fragmentation of urban space is the result not only of residential segregation, but also of how different social groups spend their time and use urban space.
KW - activity space
KW - Beijing
KW - economically-privileged enclaves
KW - institutionally privileged enclaves
KW - Sociospatial segregation
KW - spatiotemporal approach
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U2 - 10.2747/0272-3638.33.2.256
DO - 10.2747/0272-3638.33.2.256
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84859806517
SN - 0272-3638
VL - 33
SP - 256
EP - 277
JO - Urban Geography
JF - Urban Geography
IS - 2
ER -