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Urban Planning International. 2019, (02) Core

A Preliminary Study on the Job-Housing Spatial Mismatch of Informal Employment and Its Planning in China’s Big CitiesChinese Full TextEnglish Full Text (MT)

Xu Miao;Chen Rui;Yang Bibo;

Abstract: Informal employment plays a great role in promoting and stabilizing the national economy, urban employment growth and urbanization. However, urban planning practice and research have not given sufficient attention to informal employment. The blurring of informal employment and formal employment has led to planning policies for low-income urban populations that created deviations and blind spots. This paper investigates the occupational and residential space characteristics of informal employees and the impact of planning policies on their commuting status by means of sample empirical survey. It firstly expounds the lack of space mismatch hypothesis in the perspective of informal employment. Secondly, it makes a theoretical review of the living space and employment space distribution of informal workers. Finally, this paper takes two communities of low-income people in concentrated communities as examples, using the Arc GIS platform to describe and analyze the occupational and residential relationships and commuting characteristics before and after the relocation of informal workers. This paper argues that informal workers have shorter commuting distances and time than formal workers, who are highly dependent on public transportation, and show close to the employment center’s job-housing preference. After the relocation, the commuting situation of informal workers deteriorated,showing the characteristics of "spatial mismatch". The empirical results show that in the formulation of planning policies, the characteristics of occupational residence and behavioral preferences of informal workers should be fully considered, and relevant planning tools should be used to actively intervene. These conclusions are helpful to recognize the particularity of informal employees’ preferences and decision-making and to reflect on the limitations and shortcomings of existing planning policies affecting informal employees.
Keywords：

Informal Employment; Affordable Housing; Urban Planning Intervention; Spatial Mismatch; Job-Housing Relationship;

  • Series：

    (C) Architecture/ Energy/ Traffic/ Electromechanics, etc

  • Subject：

    Architecture and Engineering

  • Classification Code：

    TU984.113

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