Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2018, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (4): 124-130.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2018.04.013

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The Governance Logic and the Forming Logic of Informal Housing Market: A Case Study of the Unauthorized Building Demolition in an Urban Village in Shanghai

ZHAO Ye-qin   

  • Online:2018-07-15 Published:2018-07-26

Abstract:

Unauthorized building demolition in urban villages is not only one of the most concerned issues in the reconstruction of the urban village, but also one of the main tasks of the city construction in urban China in recent years. Taking M village as an example, which is the largest urban village in Shanghai, this paper tries to rethink the housing problem of internal migrants and the corresponding urban governance logic. As a legal means of urban governance and environmental regulation, unauthorized building demolition in urban villages is endowed with unquestionable legitimacy and rationality. Nevertheless, it is also a comprehensive clean-up and rectification of the internal original social ecological structure in an urban village. For those internal migrants living in the urban village, such kind of "legal expulsion" has strengthened the institutional social exclusion. It indicates the fragility and uncertainty of the urban living life, and even to a certain extent, it has aggravated the fracture and fragmentation of the society.

Key words: urban village, internal migrants, unauthorized building demolition, governance logic