Zeng, W, Rees, P and Xiang, L orcid.org/0000-0002-2032-9706 (2019) Do residents of Affordable Housing Communities in China suffer from relative accessibility deprivation? A case study of Nanjing. Cities, 90. pp. 141-156. ISSN 0264-2751
Abstract
Affordable housing has emerged as a key issue in urban development in a wide range of countries. Themes in research on affordable housing development across the world are reviewed. Affordable housing communities for low income households have been built on a large scale in developing countries such as China during the last two decades, mainly in urban fringe areas. Evidence on the impact of the location on access of residents to services is rare. Studying Nanjing, this paper compares spatial access to services between Affordable housing communities and Other housing communities by measuring distances and imputing walking time between residential land parcels and facilities. Affordable housing communities have significantly poorer access than Other housing communities, because of poor neighbourhood provision of low order services and poor access to high order services. A household survey of Affordable housing communities and Other housing communities records the daily lives, degrees of satisfaction and community attachments of residents. Residents in affordable housing have low degrees of satisfaction, weak community attachments and desire to move. The findings emphasize that service provision should be planned to keep pace with Affordable housing construction, so that these communities become better places to live.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Cities. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Relative accessibility deprivation; Affordable housing communities; Nanjing; Services; Spatial patterns of access |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2019 14:32 |
Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cities.2019.01.038 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:142749 |