%0 Journal Article
%T Sociospatial Differentiation in Transitional Shanghai<br>转型期上海社会空间分异研究
%A LI Zhigang
%A WU Fulong
%A <br>李志刚
%A 吴缚龙
%J 地理学报
%D 2006
%I 
%X Using the 5th census data on the spatial level of neighborhood committee, the lowest administrative level of urban China, this paper examines sociospatial differentiation in post-reform Shanghai. By applying the traditional method of factorial analysis, six types of social areas are identified: worker villages built before reform, migrant communities, professional complexes, peasant villages, new-worker villages and aged accumulated inner-city. Accordingly, the post-reform sociospatial structure of Shanghai is a model combining the three classic structures: concentric layers, clusters, and multi-nuclei. Our findings suggest that residential district (jiedao) is heterogeneous, thus we argue that the social area should be studied on lower spatial levels. In this sense, we further examine to what extent social space is differentiated. It suggests that neither demographic variables nor socio-economic variables have significant differentiation as those in the West; instead, there is rather a high extent of housing differentiation. The underlying reason is attributed to the institutional forces such as work-unit, i.e. their impact upon housing in history and their impact in the post-reform era. This distinctive mechanism indicates that now the extent of sociospatial differentiation of urban China is still much lower than that of Western cities.
%K Shanghai
%K sociospatial differentiation
%K extent of differentiation
%K factorial ecology
%K indices<br>社会空间分异
%K 因子生态
%K 分异度
%K 上海
%U http://www.alljournals.cn/get_abstract_url.aspx?pcid=E62459D214FD64A3C8082E4ED1ABABED5711027BBBDDD35B&cid=869B153A4C6B5B85&jid=F7B5B947C24B9D649491012214E4BEF4&aid=7B46D5D84BE01747&yid=37904DC365DD7266&vid=1D0FA33DA02ABACD&iid=0B39A22176CE99FB&sid=FCD27DC5E1F2EEE7&eid=CC0ECB9C52F1B85F&journal_id=0375-5444&journal_name=地理学报&referenced_num=41&reference_num=50