ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an insight into how “village-turned-communities” are constructed as a new type urban unit during the process of urbanization by analyzing changes in the physical space of rural communities and rebuilding of social relationship and social order in such communities. It describes a spatial dimension to the research on the impact of urbanization on rural communities. With respect to the large number of “village-turned-communities” emerged, the chapter focuses on how peasants get land compensation and how they are relocated, with little attention paid on how to manage “village-turned-communities” as a new type of grassroots units in cities. Under the urbanization dominated by the up-down logic of the state, with the disappearance of traditional villages as a result of village demolition and consolidation, and relocation of peasants, a new type of urban space – “village-turned-communities” emerged. Therefore, the order in “village-turned-communities” is achieved through non-conflict governance under the ongoing “change-adaptation” mechanism.
