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Land

Land (ISSN 2073-445X) is an international, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary open access journal of:

· Land system science and social–ecological system research;

· Land/land-use/land-cover change;

· Land management including agriculture, forestry, the built environment and others;

· Landscapes, landscape design and landscape planning;

· Land–climate interactions, including climate–biosphere–biodiversity interactions;

· Soil–sediment–water systems—hydro-ecological processes at multiple scales;

· Urban contexts, urban–rural interactions and urban planning and development;

· Assessment and evaluation frameworks, indicators, indices, methods, tools and approaches (ecosystem services, multifunctionality and sustainability);

· The water, energy, land and food (WELF) nexus;

· Land, biodiversity and health nexus;

· Emerging technologies of data processing (deep learning/machine-based learning).

· It publishes reviews, regular research papers, perspective and discussion papers, short communications and research notes, and there is no restriction on the length of the papers.

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Article: Zhang L, Ye Y, Wang J. Influential Factors and Geographical Differences in the Redevelopment Willingness of Urban Villagers: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China. Land. 2022; 11(2):233. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020233

Lizheng Zhang | Phd Candidate, School of Public Administration and Policy, RUC

Yumin Ye | Professor, School of Public Administration and Policy, RUC

Jiejing Wang | Associate Professor, School of Public Administration and Policy, RUC

Abstract

As a crucial part of China’s development strategy, the redevelopment of urban villages and the redevelopment willingness of villagers have attracted considerable scholarly interest. However, the literature to date has neglected the effect of the geographical location of urban villages on the redevelopment willingness of villagers. The purpose of this study is to examine the influential factors of the redevelopment willingness of urban villagers, especially with regard to geographical differences and their effects. Based on prospect theory and 1083 questionnaires administered in 45 selected urban villages in Guangzhou, we use the ordinal logistic regression model to explore the influential factors behind villagers’ redevelopment willingness in inner villages (<15 km from the city center), urban fringe villages (15–40 km from the city center), and suburban villages (>40 km from the city center). The results show that in inner villages the confirmation of residential land rights can significantly increase redevelopment willingness, but in urban fringe villages the number of stories in dwelling houses significantly decreases the willingness. Further, a high level of villagers’ trust in the government, market enterprises, and the village collective each has a significant positive impact on the redevelopment willingness of villagers in urban fringe villages. However, only trust in the government and market enterprises have significant positive impacts on redevelopment willingness in the inner villages and only trust in the village collective is significant in this regard in suburban villages. The effects of geographical differences imply that China’s redevelopment policy should be applied in a differentiated way based on the geographical locations of urban villages.

Key Words urban village; villager; redevelopment willingness; geographical differences; Guangzhou

Highlights

The geographical locations of urban villages may influence villagers’ subjective expectations of redevelopment. Figure 1 shows the price of housing for multiple geographical locations in Guangzhou. Based on commercial housing price data from a real estate website (https://house.focus.cn), we mark 1518 geographical points in Guangzhou and their corresponding housing prices in GIS and find that housing prices decline rapidly from the city center (Pearl River New Town) to the peripheral urban area. In the context of urban village redevelopment, the value of the villagers’ properties, the villagers’ rental income, and changes in wealth vary dramatically depending on geographical location, which may further influence villagers’ subjective expectations of redevelopment. It is important, therefore, to determine whether the geographical location (i.e., distance from the city center) of villages has systematic effects on the redevelopment willingness of villagers.

Figure 1. Housing prices from the city center to the periphery in Guangzhou

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