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Lecture 7 2019 City Community and Neighbourhood
Lecture 7 2019 City Community and Neighbourhood
Lecture 7 2019 City Community and Neighbourhood
and
neighbourhood
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Q&A
● Prof, can you explain the meaning of "poverty traps" ? Is it
good or bad?
● POVERTY CYCLE
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Themes/issues
●Exploring social change as neighbourhood change
●What is neighbourhood? What is community?
●Community lost?
●Social capital, community and neighbourhood
●Neighbourhood and community in Hong Kong
●So does neighbourhood matter these days?
https://youtu.be/YA45UBu5cJM
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● Community
• Geographical expression
• A local social system
• Human relationship
• Community as ideology
• Reflective community “we” rather than “I”
• Neighborhood (Spatial)
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● Home office
● The technology is being sold as giving the individual greater
control over their lives and activities
● It could also lead greater dependency on IT
● It could create a further division between those with access to
technology and those without as well as encouraging less
interaction between neighbours and even household members.
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●Neighbourhood effects
The ‘local’ as a social laboratory 10/22/2020 13
●Tipping points
●Very influential
Eg.Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowlingwith urban
alone: America’s policymakers
declining social capital. In Culture and politics (pp. 223-
234). Palgrave Macmillan US.
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Associational Activity and People co-operate with one another through the formation
of formal and informal groups to further their interests.
Common Purpose
Supporting networks and Individuals and organisations co-operate to support one
another for either mutual or one-sided gain. expectation
reciprocity that help would be given or received when needed.
Collective norms and values People share common values and norms of behaviour
Trust People feel they can trust their co-residents and local
organisations.
Neighborhood-based social
capital
● There is a decline of “local community” sense/
● Why?
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●Gang culture
●And note view that people may still associate but for
negative/defensive reasons (ie protect property
values, neighbourhood watch) (Frances Fukayama,
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What about
neighbourhood and
community in Hong
Kong/Guangdong?
●High rise, high density
●Unemotional relationship with our residence?
Investment not a home?
●The past more or less eradicated….so no
historic/nostalgic landmarks..it all looks the
same???
●Popular view that ‘neighbours’ and ‘neighbouring’
not important in HK?
Do you think your neighbourhood has
its own character compared to other
neighbourhoods in …?
Yes 28 35 34 60 36 40
No 72 65 66 40 64 60
Commitment and Sense of Belonging
Regularly/sometimes 20 25 17 49 40 37
visit neighbours in their
homes
Trust and Neighbourliness
Hong Kong Gaungzhou
Percentage of respondents OLDER NEW MIDDLE OLDER WORK COMM.
who: URBAN TOWN CLASS URBAN UNIT AREA
AREA ESTATE AREA AREA
Trust most/many people 23 37 23 73 55 33
in their n’ hood
Know most/many people 33 42 19 76 68 37
in their n’hood
Strongly agree/agree that 78 86 86 87 78 77
people in this n’hood look
out for each other
Strongly agree/agree that 42 45 28 75 67 49
it is easy to make friends
in the n’hood
Safe Neighbourhoods?
18-24 53 27
25-29 41 28 62 51
30-39 54 38 65 42
40-49 53 48 65 48
50-59 50 48 66 52
60 and over 34 53 67 53
Neighbouring: Shenzhen, Guangzhou and
Hong Kong Compared
Means (5 Strongly Agree to 1-Strongly Disagree) ANOVA,
P-value
deprivation,poverty etc
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And consider….
●The difference between neighbourhood and
community?-tend to be used interchangeably,
linguistic and cultural differences
●Social ‘tectonics’-different groups live in the same
neighbourhood but occupy different worlds?
●Neighbourhoods without neighbouring?
●Big data, neighbourhood classifications and more
clustering of similar kinds of people-more
homogeneous neighbourhoods? (more next week)
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