Urban Village: A Field Study of a New Community

Author: Lan Yuyun
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: "New Village Community" is a concept that corresponds to and differs from the traditional small rural community. It is a "new type of village community" built on a non-agricultural economic foundation, mainly including "industrialized" village communities and "post-industrial" village communities. The urban village community studied in this research is a "post-industrial" "new village community," i.e., an urban village community. Therefore, this research is a study of a specific type of "new village community." This book proposes the concept of the urban village community, adding a type of "community on the verge of decline" to the study of village communities. Through the research on the urban village community, which is closely associated with the urban village and carries a distinct transitional meaning, it reveals that it is precisely this unique community, this "small tradition," that shapes