The impact of neighborhood environment and shared activity space on neighborhood attachment
Under the background of social transition and mobility society,how individuals interact with their neighborhood environment is constantly reconstructed.This makes it more complicated to form an emotional attachment to a community.The shared activity space at the neighborhood level refers to the spatial connection formed by neighbors through the use of the neighborhood space and its surrounding environment to carry out daily activities.It represents the intersection of different residents'activity spaces at a micro-scale.The shared activity space has complex extensity,intensity,and structural characteristics.However,the impact of these complex characteristics on residents'neighborhood attachment belonging remains understudied.This study utilizes data obtained from the Shanghai residents'activity and travel survey and employs ordered logit models to investigate the influence of neighborhood environment and shared activity space on residents'sense of attachment to their neighborhood.Shared activity space is measured based on the extensity and intensity of the public contact potential index,as well as the cross-group public contact potential index.The extensity index quantifies weak spatial relationships,while the intensity index measures strong spatial relationships.Additionally,the intergroup index portrays the social composition characteristics in daily interactions.The study findings indicate that the extensiveness of public contact potential index and cross-income group public contact potential index have a negative impact on neighborhood attachment,while cross-hukou public contact potential index exhibited a positive effect.Moreover,a higher proportion of migrant residents within a neighborhood contributes to stronger neighborhood attachment,suggesting that diversity in the demographic composition positively influences emotional ties to the neighborhood.Additionally,subjective evaluations of the neighborhood environment are linked to enhanced neighborhood attachment.Residents of commercial housing are more likely to have high neighborhood attachment compared to other types of neighborhoods.Furthermore,local residents,middle-income residents,married residents,and homeowners demonstrate higher likelihoods of developing strong emotional attachments to their neighborhoods.Individuals whose daily activities are distanced from the neighborhood may struggle to form a robust emotional bond with their neighborhoods.This study proposes to construct a mechanism to promote social integration in the neighborhood in the context of mobility through shared activity space.This enriches the theory of social integration and provides a reference for building an inclusive city and promoting quality development.
behavioral geographyhukousocial integrationneighborhoodactivity space
万方数据
维普
