Community Emotion and Community Building

Author: Shan Jingjing
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Publish Date: 2005-11-24
Features: The author ingeniously chooses community emotional issues as the research starting point, reviews a large amount of domestic and international literature, and systematically organizes, compares, and summarizes the basic theories and experiences of academic research on urban communities, urban community emotions, and urban community construction from ancient to modern times both at home and abroad. It is closely integrated with China's community construction practices, fully reflecting the essence of "people-centered" in urban community construction and development. The essence of community emotional research among residents is to study "community people" and to research the community from a "people-centered" perspective, which has strong practical significance and theoretical innovation significance for China's humanistic community construction. This work systematically constructs a distinctive theoretical framework system for community emotional research on regional communities and non-regional psychological communities. Currently, there is a significant lack of research on the community emotions of urban residents, and this work fills this gap in the field.
— Fu Chonglan
This is a rare and excellent work that stands out among numerous achievements in urban community academic research. It holds both important theoretical and practical significance and, to some extent, fills research gaps. There are many brilliant and commendable aspects in the book, such as the substantial research on the psychological community and social adaptation of "urban floating populations." Migrant workers construct their own social networks and psychological communities within cities, which have become means for them to obtain social resources and achieve self-development. The social adaptation and development process of migrant workers is not a replacement of "urbanity" with "rurality," but rather an overlay process that adds "urbanity" to "rurality." This process helps migrant workers transition to modernized division of labor society and modern lifestyles. These academic perspectives are highly insightful and creative.
— Chen Guangting
The book focuses on the community emotions of urban residents during China's current social transformation period and their influencing factors, exploring the priorities and directions of urban community planning and construction under new circumstances from the perspective of "people" and the perspective of community emotions of urban residents. It reviews the development of urban communities worldwide and the evolution of urban community theories, summarizing the shift in the focus of urban community construction from "material" to "human," from "management" to "meaning," and from the material domain to the spiritual space. It conducts extensive empirical research on the community planning, construction, and development in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and China. Based on an examination of the issues in China's urban community construction, it proposes recommendations for building sustainable communities from a humanistic perspective and advocates for a community planning and construction approach that combines bottom-up (public participation) and top-down (government guidance).