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Daily Activity Space And Exposure: A Comparative Study Of Hong Kong’S Public And Private Housing Residents‘ Segregation In Daily Life, Donggen Wang, Fei Li
Daily Activity Space And Exposure: A Comparative Study Of Hong Kong’S Public And Private Housing Residents‘ Segregation In Daily Life, Donggen Wang, Fei Li
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Differences in individuals' exposure to social/physical environment in daily life or activity–space segregation have aroused renewed interests in socio-spatial separation in geography and urban studies. However, there are not many empirical studies that comprehensively assess activity–space segregation perhaps due to the scarcity of detailed data to define and characterize activity space. This paper aims to help fill in this gap by contributing an empirical study in Hong Kong. We compare the daily life experiences of public and private housing residents in terms of activity space and exposure to people in their daily life. We find that inhabitants of public housing …
Activity Spaces And Sociospatial Segregation In Beijing, Donggen Wang, Fei Li, Yanwei Chai
Activity Spaces And Sociospatial Segregation In Beijing, Donggen Wang, Fei Li, Yanwei Chai
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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 …