Domesticating Dalang: Finding a feeling of home in a productive cityscape

Facilitating migrants' adaptation process in a typical industrial neighbourhood in Shenzhen through activating spaces, which non-verbally encourage to create ties within the community and the locality.

Perceived Control and Liveability: Environment and behaviour interaction in two urban villages of Shenzhen

Urban village is a very special type of neighbourhood, created in the fast urbanisation process in Chinese cities like Shenzhen in the past three decades, playing an essential role in accommodating migrant groups, including rural-urban migrant workers and the young professionals. Built by the villagers whose farmland was transformed into urban...

Evolving Danwei housing: An alternative way to develop former public housing in Shenzhen, China

Nowadays, many Chinese cities like Shenzhen are experiencing intense spatial transformation. Downgrading neighbourhoods are being replaced by high-end housing, shopping malls and office in order to promote economic growth. The former socialist public housing is one of the redevelopment hot spots. However, such land-based development focuses on...