TY - JOUR
T1 - Stuck between the historic and modern China
T2 - A case study of children's space in a hutong community
AU - Wang, Fang
AU - Liu, Jing
AU - Pan, Bing
AU - Zhao, Luyin
AU - Zhang, Min
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51078003 ) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 8092016 ). The authors would like to acknowledge that Professor Lv Bin in Peking University offered assistance and support throughout this project, and Kevin Smith in the Office of Tourism Analysis in the College of Charleston provided thorough copyediting.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - Physically and psychologically, children demand special-purpose space for activities. With the fast urbanization and population growth in modern China, the conflict between the needs for economic development and human-friendly environment becomes increasingly prominent. The study adopts an in-depth ethnographic research method and applies the research framework of Sudeshna Chatterjee (2005) to investigate children's environmental friendliness of a hutong community in Beijing. The study investigated spatial preferences of those children and the characteristics and affordance of their space. This study suggests that different emotional dimensions demand different spatial attributes, which are lacking in the hutong community. The results show that in China's historical residential areas, children's environmental and spatial needs remain unfulfilled. The researchers suggest that improving specific environmental affordance could help enhance the overall child-friendliness.
AB - Physically and psychologically, children demand special-purpose space for activities. With the fast urbanization and population growth in modern China, the conflict between the needs for economic development and human-friendly environment becomes increasingly prominent. The study adopts an in-depth ethnographic research method and applies the research framework of Sudeshna Chatterjee (2005) to investigate children's environmental friendliness of a hutong community in Beijing. The study investigated spatial preferences of those children and the characteristics and affordance of their space. This study suggests that different emotional dimensions demand different spatial attributes, which are lacking in the hutong community. The results show that in China's historical residential areas, children's environmental and spatial needs remain unfulfilled. The researchers suggest that improving specific environmental affordance could help enhance the overall child-friendliness.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.10.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84455169617
SN - 0272-4944
VL - 32
SP - 59
EP - 68
JO - Journal of Environmental Psychology
JF - Journal of Environmental Psychology
IS - 1
ER -