W Breitung
Biographic Data
| ID | 26623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Breitung |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Breitung |
| SIGNATURE | BREITUNG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2871-7762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Urban planners and the production of gated communities in China: A structure–agency approach
This study takes an actor-oriented perspective and focuses on the role of urban planners in the production of gated communities in China. It probes their related values and the structural factors influencing their preferences and planning choices. The main empirical basis is a large-scale survey of urban planners throughout China. The results show for example that most of the surveyed planners are residents of gated communities themselves. This i…
Debordering and rebordering in the residential borderlands of suburban Guangzhou
Gated communities and enclave urbanism in China have recently drawn considerable attention of researchers and policy makers. The integration of urban space is now even on the agenda of the Chinese Central Government. This article therefore sets out to advance our understanding of how exactly urban borders function and how they change over time. This is done by applying concepts of border theory to what may be called residential borderlands. The e…
What makes you feel at home? Constructing senses of home in two border cities
In times of global mobility, home must be understood as a multiscalar and context‐dependent concept, which is socially constructed through experiences and imagination. While most research on home is based on qualitative case studies in the context of international migration, there is a lack of systematic analyses based on larger samples of how people draw on different resources in developing a sense of home and how this differs in different place…
Suzhou’s water grid as urban heritage and tourism resource: An urban morphology approach to a Chinese city
Historically, many cities were served by water transport as an important mode of circulation. Suzhou in China is a case in point. Its orthogonally designed water-based grid was connected to the Grand Canal and the Tai Lake. Merchants and travellers entering into Suzhou would go through city gates serving both waterborne and road traffic. The water grid once played an important role for commercial activities and social interactions in the city, bu…
Migrant Street Vendors in Urban China and the Social Production of Public Space
This article focuses on the dynamics between migrant street vendors and public security forces and the complex social production of urban public space in Guangzhou. As an answer to daily contestation of public order, security agencies reluctantly open flexible windows of business opportunities to hawkers. Zones and periods of control, ‘soft’ approaches, and categories of ethnic belonging influence everyday governance and accessibility of public s…
Creating and defending concepts of home in suburban Guangzhou
This paper uses the concept of “home” to analyze recent urbanization processes in suburban China from a cultural geography perspective. Urban growth, land development, and human mobility have had great impacts not only on land use and the built environment, but also on people’s concepts of identity and belonging. As the current Chinese leaders have turned to explicitly viewing urbanization also as a social project, we need to understand better ho…
Enclave Urbanism in China: Attitudes Towards Gated Communities in Guangzhou
Under the conditions of differentiated local governance emerging in urban China, enclave spaces have become fundamental features of the spatial structure of Chinese cities. With an interest in the rationale and consequences of intra-urban boundaries, this study investigates residents' attitudes towards gated living in private commodity-housing estates, using surveys and interviews conducted with residents living both inside and outside three such…
The social networks of new-generation migrants in China’s urbanized villages: A case study of Guangzhou
The Changing Meaning of Neighbourhood Attachment in Chinese Commodity Housing Estates: Evidence from Guangzhou
The housing reform in urban China since the 1990s and the ensuing spatial and social dynamics gave rise to new kinds of neighbourhoods with new logics of neighbouring and neighbourhood attachment. Meanwhile, neighbourhoods are actively promoted as platforms for policy implementation. Both are reasons to revisit the meaning of neighbourhood attachment in the Chinese context. This article focuses on the roles of neighbourly interaction and physical…
Macau Residents as Border People – A Changing Border Regime from a Sociocultural Perspective
The concept of border people refers to people living with borders, dealing with the related difficulties and taking advantage of the respective opportunities. This concept is here applied to the residents of Macau, whose border checkpoint to the mainland has become one of the busiest in the world. Even though the border control is still in place, it has become very common for Macau residents to cross the border on an everyday basis. This paper li…
Transformation of a Boundary Regime: The Hong Kong and Mainland China Case
Since 1997 the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China has been officially referred to as a boundary, instead of a border. In this paper the author analyses to what extent actual changes in cross-border interactions support this notional change. It points to an ongoing step-by-step integration process on the functional level. The main empirical basis of this analysis is a survey on cross-border trips in 1999, supplemented by additional data. …
Immigration, neue Armut und Segregation in Peking
Dieser Artikel untersucht die aktuellen sozialen und planerischen Probleme infolge von Binnenwanderungen, speziell der starken Migration in die chinesischen Metropolen. Am Beispiel einer Stichprobenerhebung aus Peking gibt er einen Einblick in die Sozialstruktur der sogenannten floating population in der chinesischen Hauptstadt. Das Hauptinteresse gilt den Ursachen und Formen der städtischen Armut und Segregation. Diese werden im allgemeineren Zu…
The end of "Made in Hong Kong"? De-industrialisation and industrial promotion policy in Hong Kong
This article explores spatial aspects of Hong Kong's deindustrialisation, related both to the development of closer cross-border ties and to Hong Kong's evolution as a global city. Industrial promotion has always had its place in the generally non-interventionist economic policy ofthe government. However, under the new political and economical conditions industrial promotion has moved up on the agenda. In particular, the promotion of high-tech in…
The social networks of new-generation migrants in China’s urbanized villages: A case study of Guangzhou
Enclave Urbanism in China: Attitudes Towards Gated Communities in Guangzhou
Under the conditions of differentiated local governance emerging in urban China, enclave spaces have become fundamental features of the spatial structure of Chinese cities. With an interest in the rationale and consequences of intra-urban boundaries, this study investigates residents' attitudes towards gated living in private commodity-housing estates, using surveys and interviews conducted with residents living both inside and outside three such…
The Changing Meaning of Neighbourhood Attachment in Chinese Commodity Housing Estates: Evidence from Guangzhou
The housing reform in urban China since the 1990s and the ensuing spatial and social dynamics gave rise to new kinds of neighbourhoods with new logics of neighbouring and neighbourhood attachment. Meanwhile, neighbourhoods are actively promoted as platforms for policy implementation. Both are reasons to revisit the meaning of neighbourhood attachment in the Chinese context. This article focuses on the roles of neighbourly interaction and physical…
Migrant Street Vendors in Urban China and the Social Production of Public Space
This article focuses on the dynamics between migrant street vendors and public security forces and the complex social production of urban public space in Guangzhou. As an answer to daily contestation of public order, security agencies reluctantly open flexible windows of business opportunities to hawkers. Zones and periods of control, ‘soft’ approaches, and categories of ethnic belonging influence everyday governance and accessibility of public s…
Transformation of a Boundary Regime: The Hong Kong and Mainland China Case
Since 1997 the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China has been officially referred to as a boundary, instead of a border. In this paper the author analyses to what extent actual changes in cross-border interactions support this notional change. It points to an ongoing step-by-step integration process on the functional level. The main empirical basis of this analysis is a survey on cross-border trips in 1999, supplemented by additional data. …
Macau Residents as Border People – A Changing Border Regime from a Sociocultural Perspective
The concept of border people refers to people living with borders, dealing with the related difficulties and taking advantage of the respective opportunities. This concept is here applied to the residents of Macau, whose border checkpoint to the mainland has become one of the busiest in the world. Even though the border control is still in place, it has become very common for Macau residents to cross the border on an everyday basis. This paper li…
Urban planners and the production of gated communities in China: A structure–agency approach
This study takes an actor-oriented perspective and focuses on the role of urban planners in the production of gated communities in China. It probes their related values and the structural factors influencing their preferences and planning choices. The main empirical basis is a large-scale survey of urban planners throughout China. The results show for example that most of the surveyed planners are residents of gated communities themselves. This i…
Debordering and rebordering in the residential borderlands of suburban Guangzhou
Gated communities and enclave urbanism in China have recently drawn considerable attention of researchers and policy makers. The integration of urban space is now even on the agenda of the Chinese Central Government. This article therefore sets out to advance our understanding of how exactly urban borders function and how they change over time. This is done by applying concepts of border theory to what may be called residential borderlands. The e…
What makes you feel at home? Constructing senses of home in two border cities
In times of global mobility, home must be understood as a multiscalar and context‐dependent concept, which is socially constructed through experiences and imagination. While most research on home is based on qualitative case studies in the context of international migration, there is a lack of systematic analyses based on larger samples of how people draw on different resources in developing a sense of home and how this differs in different place…
Creating and defending concepts of home in suburban Guangzhou
This paper uses the concept of “home” to analyze recent urbanization processes in suburban China from a cultural geography perspective. Urban growth, land development, and human mobility have had great impacts not only on land use and the built environment, but also on people’s concepts of identity and belonging. As the current Chinese leaders have turned to explicitly viewing urbanization also as a social project, we need to understand better ho…
The end of "Made in Hong Kong"? De-industrialisation and industrial promotion policy in Hong Kong
This article explores spatial aspects of Hong Kong's deindustrialisation, related both to the development of closer cross-border ties and to Hong Kong's evolution as a global city. Industrial promotion has always had its place in the generally non-interventionist economic policy ofthe government. However, under the new political and economical conditions industrial promotion has moved up on the agenda. In particular, the promotion of high-tech in…
Immigration, neue Armut und Segregation in Peking
Dieser Artikel untersucht die aktuellen sozialen und planerischen Probleme infolge von Binnenwanderungen, speziell der starken Migration in die chinesischen Metropolen. Am Beispiel einer Stichprobenerhebung aus Peking gibt er einen Einblick in die Sozialstruktur der sogenannten floating population in der chinesischen Hauptstadt. Das Hauptinteresse gilt den Ursachen und Formen der städtischen Armut und Segregation. Diese werden im allgemeineren Zu…
Transformation of a Boundary Regime: The Hong Kong and Mainland China Case
Since 1997 the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China has been officially referred to as a boundary, instead of a border. In this paper the author analyses to what extent actual changes in cross-border interactions support this notional change. It points to an ongoing step-by-step integration process on the functional level. The main empirical basis of this analysis is a survey on cross-border trips in 1999, supplemented by additional data. …
Macau Residents as Border People – A Changing Border Regime from a Sociocultural Perspective
The concept of border people refers to people living with borders, dealing with the related difficulties and taking advantage of the respective opportunities. This concept is here applied to the residents of Macau, whose border checkpoint to the mainland has become one of the busiest in the world. Even though the border control is still in place, it has become very common for Macau residents to cross the border on an everyday basis. This paper li…
Enclave Urbanism in China: Attitudes Towards Gated Communities in Guangzhou
Under the conditions of differentiated local governance emerging in urban China, enclave spaces have become fundamental features of the spatial structure of Chinese cities. With an interest in the rationale and consequences of intra-urban boundaries, this study investigates residents' attitudes towards gated living in private commodity-housing estates, using surveys and interviews conducted with residents living both inside and outside three such…
The social networks of new-generation migrants in China’s urbanized villages: A case study of Guangzhou
The Changing Meaning of Neighbourhood Attachment in Chinese Commodity Housing Estates: Evidence from Guangzhou
The housing reform in urban China since the 1990s and the ensuing spatial and social dynamics gave rise to new kinds of neighbourhoods with new logics of neighbouring and neighbourhood attachment. Meanwhile, neighbourhoods are actively promoted as platforms for policy implementation. Both are reasons to revisit the meaning of neighbourhood attachment in the Chinese context. This article focuses on the roles of neighbourly interaction and physical…
Creating and defending concepts of home in suburban Guangzhou
This paper uses the concept of “home” to analyze recent urbanization processes in suburban China from a cultural geography perspective. Urban growth, land development, and human mobility have had great impacts not only on land use and the built environment, but also on people’s concepts of identity and belonging. As the current Chinese leaders have turned to explicitly viewing urbanization also as a social project, we need to understand better ho…
Migrant Street Vendors in Urban China and the Social Production of Public Space
This article focuses on the dynamics between migrant street vendors and public security forces and the complex social production of urban public space in Guangzhou. As an answer to daily contestation of public order, security agencies reluctantly open flexible windows of business opportunities to hawkers. Zones and periods of control, ‘soft’ approaches, and categories of ethnic belonging influence everyday governance and accessibility of public s…
Suzhou’s water grid as urban heritage and tourism resource: An urban morphology approach to a Chinese city
Historically, many cities were served by water transport as an important mode of circulation. Suzhou in China is a case in point. Its orthogonally designed water-based grid was connected to the Grand Canal and the Tai Lake. Merchants and travellers entering into Suzhou would go through city gates serving both waterborne and road traffic. The water grid once played an important role for commercial activities and social interactions in the city, bu…
What makes you feel at home? Constructing senses of home in two border cities
In times of global mobility, home must be understood as a multiscalar and context‐dependent concept, which is socially constructed through experiences and imagination. While most research on home is based on qualitative case studies in the context of international migration, there is a lack of systematic analyses based on larger samples of how people draw on different resources in developing a sense of home and how this differs in different place…
Debordering and rebordering in the residential borderlands of suburban Guangzhou
Gated communities and enclave urbanism in China have recently drawn considerable attention of researchers and policy makers. The integration of urban space is now even on the agenda of the Chinese Central Government. This article therefore sets out to advance our understanding of how exactly urban borders function and how they change over time. This is done by applying concepts of border theory to what may be called residential borderlands. The e…
Urban planners and the production of gated communities in China: A structure–agency approach
This study takes an actor-oriented perspective and focuses on the role of urban planners in the production of gated communities in China. It probes their related values and the structural factors influencing their preferences and planning choices. The main empirical basis is a large-scale survey of urban planners throughout China. The results show for example that most of the surveyed planners are residents of gated communities themselves. This i…
Political science (10 works) · China (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (4 works)