The Conversion Of The Space: A Housing For Landless Farmers

The process of urbanization is a "double-edged sword", which propells rural urbanization as well as agricultural modernization, in the meantime, brings unprecedented influence to the lives of a great number of peasants. The extensive expropriation of land has been creating large quantities of land-expropriated peasants at an amazing rate. Dwelling is the most fundamental demand of human, the conversion of dwelling pattern and other relevant issues aroused by landlessness have a bearing on the immediate interests of land-expropriated peasants. What's more, having expropriated the land of the peasants, the government consciously leads the land-expropriated peasants to transform their fixed funds to houses. Thereout, houses have been transformed from basic living material to significant fixed asset, and become land-expropriated peasants' main investing channel and income origin.Taking some resettlement communities for land-expropriate peasants in Changsha as the prototype, this research extracts a model of resettlement communities for land-expropriated peasants in Changsha. We find through empirical investigation: The dwelling pattern of land-expropriated peasants has developed from scattered villages to uniformly-planned urban communities, together with which their dwelling culture has also changed to a certain extent, generally manifesting the transient feature of urbanity as well as rurality. The thesis uncovers the transformation of dwelling culture from the three perspectives of living habits, interpersonal relationship, and community environment. After the peasants have lost the most fundamental subsistence material, land, their houses constitute a kind of "capital" of the allocation. So towards the land-expropriated peasants, the significance of houses has increased compared with that of before land expropriation, thus housing capitalization can be constructed. As a result of the differences of housing resettlement policies and personal conditions (such as age, school record, income, and occupation), there are differences on the conditions of land-expropriated peasants' houses and the extent of housing capitalization, which reflects certain differenciation. At present, however, the differenciation of land-expropriated peasants' housing conditions and housing capitalization has not caused the definite classification on the aspect of dwelling space. During the course of transformation of land-expropriated peasants' dwelling space, the government should unwaveringly bring about well-balanced systematic environment and social situation for adjusting the dwelling culture of land-expropriated peasants, reasonably making use of housing capitalization, and building modernized dwelling space for land-expropriated peasants.