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School-gentrifying community in the making in China: A case of study of Liwang Community in Changchun

Oct 24, 2025, 1:50 PM
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Speaker

WEI SONG (University of Louisville)

Description

School gentrification has been powerful in reshaping urban demographic and socio-economic spaces. An emerging school-gentrifying community in Changchun, China was taken as an example in this study to explore the interrelationships among education, real estate, and gentrification. The analysis revealed that in the context of China’s educational inequity and educational reform, the combination of private school and real estate project spawned the school-gentrifying community, which is built on a “real estate and elite school” model. School gentrification has strong embeddedness and its formation mechanisms in China's context are more complex and highly related to real estate projects and local government's “land finance” policy. The emergence of school-gentrifying community inevitably causes the marginalization of urban poor, but it contributes to a more balanced distribution of educational resources and diversification of educational providers.

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Authors

Shuju Hu WEI SONG (University of Louisville)

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