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In the context of rapid urbanization, this study focuses on how to build child-friendly street environments within a 15-minute living circle. By exploring children's perceptions and preferences of street environments, the study reveals the complex interactions between the physical and social environments and children's daily lives. Data were collected and analysed using a qualitative approach, combining observation and interviews. The results show that street environments have a significant impact on children's well-being and sense of place identity, and that safe, accessible and engaging street spaces are essential for fostering positive experiences and a sense of belonging among children. The study also identifies key factors that influence the usability of the street environment and children's access behaviour. Based on the findings, the study's recommendations for promoting pedestrian-friendly design, incorporating play spaces into street design, encouraging community engagement, and fostering intergenerational integration, will guide urban planners and policymakers in creating more child-friendly and sustainable urban environments. These recommendations are expected to provide important references for theoretical advances, methodological innovations and policy formulation, thereby promoting the healthy growth of children and the comprehensive development of cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The local traditions, including arts and crafts, are considered as the important things by which the tourism industry can be attracted by a particular country. The souvenirs are the best tool to tell friends or family about your concern towards them during traveling. Chinese ceramics are considered classic souvenirs to purchase while traveling because the ceramic products have been utilized by the residents for many years. Chinese people have a very significant and firm attachment to their native products they call them souvenirs. The purchase of souvenirs is an integral part of a country's tourism sector. Therefore, this conceptual paper explores the role of souvenir image, and place identity in boosting the re-purchase intentions of Chinese tourism industry employees for souvenir products. The researcher has reviewed the existing literature to propose a framework to investigate the determinants of the re-purchase intentions for souvenir products. Thus, the study contributed to the existing body of literature on the determinants of repurchase intentions. The proposed research framework has made a significant addition to the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces the concept of individual authenticity from psychology into tourism research, aiming to develop and test the intricate mechanisms of individual authenticity, place attachment, and the behavioral intentions of tourists. Several relevant hypotheses are formulated and empirically tested using a structural equation model (SEM), with data from China. Results demonstrate that individual authenticity experience is an important antecedent of tourists' behavioral intentions, where place dependence and place identity play a partial chain mediating role. The research provides fresh insights into the role of subject-related authenticity in tourism, which also provides anchor points for enhancing destination marketing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building on institutional theory, we examine the effect of politicians' hometown favouritism on a firm's philanthropic engagement in China. We propose that firms headquartered in the politicians' hometowns tend to reduce their philanthropic investment because identification with their hometown activates the politicians' tendency to extend political legitimacy to hometown firms. Analysing a large sample of publicly listed Chinese firms for 2003–2015, we demonstrate that hometown firms evade their social responsibility by taking advantage of the incumbent provincial political leader's "home bias". We also find that such a "home bias" effect exists when the political leader comes into power and disappears after the leader leaves office. Further analyses show that the firms' political dependency strengthens the "home bias" effect, so that firms in sensitive industries, with greater financial resources and private ownership, are more likely to evade their social engagement by taking advantage of the politicians' hometown favouritism. Our study highlights the critical role of hometown connections in corporate social responsibility in the Chinese relationship‐based business system. It also advances a normative institutional assessment of hometown‐based favouritism by highlighting its distinct dynamics and impacts on focal firms' social decision‐making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper investigates urban image-making through the lens of different sets of design control tools and mechanisms in use in the Chinese planning system before 2019. It takes the South Railway Station area of Nanjing, part of a planned new town, as the case study and examines the design and planning of the overall area, a sub-area and two selected building sites. The research offers an understanding of the performative role of urban planning in place promotion with its distinctive Chinese characteristics, which are related to the planning culture and socio-political context of China. The paper identifies a few problems resulting from an image-oriented approach to planning in the case studies. Firstly, planning strategies have stressed grandness as opposed to the human scale and wide spatial qualities. Secondly, the approach has emphasised marketability of urban images rather than the representation of socio-cultural values. The study suggests that place identity catering for the interests of ordinary citizens should be foregrounded in design control in new town development in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relationship between golf activities and tourist perceptions and intentions using data from 592 golf tourists on Hainan Island, China. The results obtained from structural equation modeling show that the attractiveness of the destination can improve the identity of the location, and both factors significantly increase the travel intentions of golf tourists (i.e. revisit intentions and word-of-mouth recommendations). The results also show that place identity has significant mediating effects between destination attractiveness and travel intentions. In addition, the results reveal that the disposable income of golf tourists has significant moderating effects on the attractiveness of the destination, the identity of the destination, and the intention to revisit. This study has some important economic implications for golf destination management. Golf course managers can improve the attractiveness of the destination and strengthen the identity of the location to enhance the behavioral intentions of golf tourists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study connected slow tourism with the concept of authenticity and place attachment using a mixed-method approach. Different factors were seen as likely to influence the behavioral intention. Yaxi town (the first international slow city in China) was chosen as the research site. Results show that authenticity in the context of slow tourism include objective authenticity, constructivism authenticity and existential authenticity. Authenticity partly influence place attachment and behavioral intention; two dimensions of place attachment have significant effect on behavioral intention. Findings of this study can be applied to slow tourism marketing and slow destination management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The construction of nostalgia is no longer predicated upon the existence of original historical environments. • A cyclical place-making process in an interdisciplinary discourse is revealed by a co-creation model. • The assessment of authenticity should go beyond the subject-object dichotomy in a post-modern society. In order to shape a nostalgic atmosphere, recreating traditional built environments has emerged as a new spatial typology in China's urban development, termed in this paper as "new nostalgic space". Although scholars have extensively discussed this spatial phenomenon from various perspectives, a comprehensive and dialectical understanding has yet to be fully formed, particularly at the level of place-making. Taking Lane 1192 in Shanghai as a case study, this paper employs qualitative research methods to illustrate how different roles shape a nostalgic atmosphere and stimulate emotional resonance, aiming to explore the process, approach, and logic of place-making while discussing the academic debate on authenticity. The findings reveal a dynamic and interactive place-making logic involving four core elements: filtering, construction, landscaping, and imagination. It creates a sense of place through cyclic practice, ultimately resulting in place identity. It demonstrates that beyond materiality, everyday life and experiences equally hold an indispensable role in shaping the authenticity and meanings of places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Place-based identity theories prove to be valid in better understanding resident attitudes towards support for tourism. Yet, its effectiveness is not verified in the context of dark tourism and resident attitudes towards dark tourism remains unknown. Based on a survey of 526 local residents in China's Yingxiu, the epicentre of the Great Wenchuan Earthquake, the authors examined the relationships between the local residents' place-based identity motives and their attitudes towards support for dark tourism development. Results show that the motive of 'belonging/meaning' is one of the most important determinants; residents' involvement in dark tourism and bereavement affect their identity motives and attitudes towards support for dark tourism. The theoretical contributions and managerial implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the antecedents of local residents' heritage resource protection and conservation responsibility behaviors that were identified based on the conceptual premises of value orientation and identity theories for the purpose of providing further insight into the impact of residents' identity on their responsibility behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed model explores the impacts of place identity, place satisfaction and personal norms on local residents' heritage resource protection and conservation responsibility behaviors, which was tested following a two-step structural equation modeling process using data (N = 221) collected from a very popular heritage tourism destination, Phoenix Old Town, in China. Findings: Findings show that value orientation and identity theories provide strong conceptual frameworks for the relationships among place identity, place satisfaction and personal norms and their impacts on heritage responsibility behavior. Practical implications: This research identifies critical factors influencing residents' heritage responsibility behaviors in China. Improving residents' identification and satisfaction with a place can have positive impacts on their understanding of heritage protection responsibility and their intention to take responsible actions for heritage resource protection and conservation. Originality/value: This study addresses a research gap regarding residents' role in the protection and conservation of heritage resources through developing and empirically testing a theoretical model that incorporates residents' identity and responsibility perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to examine whether any cultural difference exists on the influence of residents' place-based perceptions on perceived tourism impacts and support for tourism. A survey was distributed to urban residents in China and the United States. Structural equation modeling results show that self-esteem and self-efficacy were two important factors that influence residents' attitude to tourism impacts in both contexts. Distinctiveness was only observed as influential in the China study, while continuity was not evident in either culture. Results imply the need for destination marketers to use various strategies to reach the target market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we extend recent discussions on the relationship with the host place of ‘temporary’ or non-hukou migrants in major Chinese cities through the lens of three psychological processes: familiarity, attachment and identity. The empirical analysis is based on fieldwork conducted in selected villages-in-the-city in Guangzhou. A mixed methods approach is employed. The findings highlight the emotional distance between temporary migrants and their urban milieu: while some become familiar with the city through their prolonged stay, very few establish attachment and identity. The analysis shows that the dominance of indigenous villagers is a major obstacle for migrants to develop attachment to the given village-in-the-city; moreover, perceived institutional discriminations negatively affect migrants’ attachment to the city. The findings also corroborate a social constructionist perception of place identity: when place identity is legitimated and reproduced by the hukou system, it is difficult for migrants to challenge the hegemonic constructions of place and identity and to create their own narratives of identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism academia has attempted to individually explore the concepts of visiting experience, place identity, narratives, and history museums, but it has rarely delved into the deep and sometimes murky waters of the intimate connection among these notions. Focusing on the Museum of History in present-day identity torn Hong Kong, the current study sheds light on the identitarian and ideological implications visiting this museum has for Hong Kong born-and-raised Millennials. The findings challenge the current understanding of place identity at heritage sites of contested identity by revealing the subtle, sensitive, and fluid connections between individual and official narratives, and also among the investigated concepts. They also raise important critical assumptions about the politics of museography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The development of information technology and the popularization of the internet economy have triggered the transformation of rural livelihoods and social networks, impacting villagers' emotional connections to their places. Taking Beiqishui village, a typical specialized village that produces kiwi fruit, as a case, this study examines how the villagers' economic roles, economic links, and economic rhythms have changed and how these changes are associated with the changes in the emotional connection between humans and places in the context of the internet economy. First, as a new means of livelihood for rural residents, WeChat business has encouraged them to become active economic actors, facilitating the development of their self-worth, family attachment, and place identity. Second, the collective mutual assistance and trust that are established through online economic links have a positive effect on the development of rural communities and the formation of collective identity and a sense of pride. Third, the economic rhythms influenced by WeChat business have made the construction of place identity dynamic. Our study suggests that the construction of place identity cannot be fully understood without considering economic factors, which are fundamental and even decisive in the place identity formation process. As a result of WeChat business, Beiqishui village has transformed into a lively, attractive, and booming area that benefits from digital technologies. • As a new mode of livelihood, WeChat business has reshaped the relationship between humans and place in rural China. • New economic roles, economic links, and economic rhythms led by WeChat business has promoted place identity reconstruction. • Economic factors have significant effects on cultural meaning and identity. • WeChat business has transformed the village into a lively and attractive community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Social environments still matter in the rapid market transition context of China. • Commodity housing residents do not necessarily have stronger place attachment. • Social ties are the strongest predictor of place identity. • Housing conditions are the strongest predictor of place dependence. • Place attachment should be understood from both identity and dependence. Place attachment, as an important emotional and functional bond between people and place, has received extensive attention in the early-21st century. This trend is especially evident in China, where rapid market transitions have fundamentally changed urban neighborhoods. Using a survey of residents in Guangzhou, China, remote sensing imagery, geographic information system (GIS) techniques, and hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), this study investigates the role of physical and social environments in place attachment. Results indicate that commodity housing residents generally do not necessarily have strong place attachment. However, higher quality physical and social environments do contribute to stronger place attachment. Specifically, perceived housing conditions, social ties, sense of security, and lower floor area ratio (FAR) are positively associated with place identity, while perceived housing conditions, perceived neighborhood environment, social ties, lower FAR, and built environment quality are positively associated with place dependence. Social ties are the strongest predictor of place identity while housing conditions are the strongest predictor of place dependence. We conclude that social environments still matter as social and physical environments play different roles in place identity and place dependence. Based on the findings, we advocate that urban (re)development and housing policies should shift the focus from large-scale demolitions to micro-scale dwelling improvements; and in addition to objective measures, subjective evaluation by residents should also be used to evaluate urban (re)development projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taiwan is an aspirational leisure and tourism destination for many potential visitors from Mainland China. In recent years, the number of individual visitors from Mainland China to Taiwan has been constantly increasing. This not only has created significant economic benefits for Taiwan, but has also promoted greater cross - strait exchanges and increased understanding among the people on both sides. To date, there has been no published research about individual visitors from Mainland China to Taiwan and their leisure activities while staying in Taiwan. Through empirical analysis based on a questionnaire survey, this research explored differences in the basic characteristics and trip planning behaviors of individual visitors from Mainland China to Taiwan, and determined the relationships between place identity and leisure benefits. Individual visitors from Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen were sampled and five departure ports in Taiwan were the survey locations for intercepting these individual visitors from Mainland China to Taiwan. The total number of valid questionnaires obtained was 376 and the valid questionnaire ratio was 92. 8% . Item analysis was used to determine whether each item in the questionnaire could be retained. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to establish the construct validity of each questionnaire scale and reliability analysis tested the consistency among all questionnaire scales. One -- way ANOVAs and Scheffé post hoc tests were conducted to detect differences in travelers' basic characteristics and trip planning behaviors. Pearson product - moment correlation analysis tested the correlation between place identity and leisure benefits and canonical correlation analysis determined whether there was a canonical correlation between place identity and leisure benefits. The major research conclusions were as follows; (1) for the place identity scale, "environment identity" was rated the highest and "attachment identity" lowest by the individual visitors from Mainland China to Taiwan; (2) for leisure benefits, "social benefits" had the highest rating and "physiological benefits" were rated the lowest by individual visitors from Mainland China to Taiwan; (3) there were significant differences in the degree of place identity and leisure benefits according to the basic characteristics and trip planning behaviors of individual visitors from Mainland China to Taiwan; (4) place identity had a positive and significant correlation with leisure benefits; and (5) place identity had a canonical correlation relationship with leisure benefits. These findings should enrich the theories and research methods related to place identity and leisure benefits. Future researchers should build upon the results of this study by conducting more diverse investigations with varied themes and topics. Furthermore, the research conclusions suggest that tourism administrations and tourism businesses in Mainland China and Taiwan must improve regulations, environmental conditions and product portfolios to maximize the leisure benefits and raise place identity levels for individual visitors from Mainland China to Taiwan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigate whether the Yingge Wares brand with marketing elements which include the quality of cultural products, cultural landscapes, and strategic alliances, affects the globalization and cultural consumption of the Yingge Ceramics Museum through brand value and place identity of customer recognition and attitude. The empirical results show that methods are provided for promotion through strategic alliance. Amongst, successful cooperation can develop customer brand awareness to increase profit and improve reputation to achieve cultural consumption. Additionally, enhancing the cultural landscape in Yingge can strengthen the customer's impression and achieve globalization. Consequently, Yingge Ceramics Museum manager can employ our results to develop marketing strategies for the Yingge Wares brand to achieve the goal of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Visitors on sight-seeing tours in contemporary globalizing Shanghai observe the futuristic ambitions, exponential development and chaotic polyrhythmicity of New Shanghai. The nostalgia industry simultaneously 'teleports' the tourists on tours back to a time when Shanghai was a legendary world metropolis; the Golden Age of the inter-war era. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's critical rhythmanalysis, and by Jonathan Sterne's conceptualization of communication as organized movement and action, this paper explores bus tours by commission of the municipal government. Shanghai is the place where the movements of the buses, as well as the tourists on board, become part of communicating the place identity and multiple rhythms of the city. The buses are conceived as means of communication, in a twofold sense, and as both underscoring and binding together the many incommensurabilities of place: old and new, Western and Chinese, industrialism and post-industrialism, nationalism and globalism. The author argues that mobility, media modernity and a confounding mixture (reflexively manifested on the tour ' Confused and Mixed Shanghai') constitute a collective memory of the city, and that the buses in all their seeming banality, communicate Shanghai's particular rhythms of retromodernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we investigate the cultural imageries of place and their relation to the politics of difference within China's emerging space of modernity. Using a case study of the place politics in Xiaozhou Village, Guangzhou, we consider how particular subject positions in relation to the ideologies of modernity and rurality shape particular imaginative structures of place and cognitive mappings of social relations. We argue that Massey's theory of a global sense of place needs to include a dimension concerning how concrete subject positions can be negotiated and challenged in the imagination of place. We also contend for a face-to-face politics of difference to analyze the anxieties and tensions between particularized subject positions. In concluding this paper we also suggest that the political potential of this model of place politics lies in its recognition that, while conflicts which are grounded in place-based social relations will not vanish, place should not to be mobilized as a citadel within which an enclosed subjectivity is protected from the interference of otherness. Thus the Other is also ascribed with the political potential to reproduce the cognitive mapping of the lifeworld of mine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Chinese migrant workers form a substantial body of people who move to large cities from rural areas to seek employment. As they settle into the large urban cities, these internal migrants experience challenges that are similar to those of international migrants, and of members of ethnic groups who engage in the process of acculturation. Many see this flow as a problem, one that needs to be understood through research using evidence based on concepts and methods used in international acculturation research. In the present study, we examine the Urban Identity of 787 migrants, using the Migrant Workers’ Urban Identity Questionnaire developed by . This instrument distinguishes two aspects of urban identity: social identity and place identity. In addition, 328 of these respondents were tested with the Satisfaction with Life Scale () and the Global Self-Worth Scale (). Findings show that the acculturation strategies model based on international immigrants’ identity can apply to the seasonal migrant workers’ identity. With respect to their acculturation strategies: (1) different operationalisations of the second dimension in the two dimension model lead to a different classification of acculturation strategies; the ‘deeper’ the psychological phenomena the less migrant workers want to engage the national society; (2) different acculturation strategies were favored in social identity and place identity domains; (3) data from the Satisfaction with Life Scale and the Global Self-Worth Scale shows, by and large, that integration is the best acculturation strategy (and the marginalization the worst) for achieving wellbeing in both social identity and in place identity. This corresponds to findings and conclusions of much of the previous research on acculturation based on international migration. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: A significant literature exists on the impacts of tourism on local communities. This paper examines this issue with reference to the impacts of tourism on the residents of Shi Cha Hai hutong in Beijing, but does so with reference to theories of place attachment or place identity. It therefore addresses two gaps in the literature—namely, (a) a comparative lack of empirical evidence on community impacts of tourism in Mainland China and (b) the absence of debate in the tourism literature about place attachment. The study involved both quantitative and qualitative methods, but this paper primarily concentrates upon the results derived from the quantitative study. It was found that, in general, concerns about heritage outweighed perceived advantages from economic development, and the role of heritage in place attachment is duly discussed. Additionally, a structural equation model is suggested whereby attitudes toward tourism are based upon attitudes toward heritage, tourism as a source of potential employment, length of residency and perceived intrusiveness of tourism, all of which impact on a sense of place identity. The findings from these tests raised issues about the role of government and self-efficacy in place identity in a Chinese environment. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Ageing in place enables older people to remain in familiar places, namely their homes and neighbourhoods, for as long as possible. However, neighbourhood decline and/or personal capacity decreases can threaten people's plans to age in place. Existing studies have paid great attention to creating supportive home environments to alleviate the pressures on older people induced by declining personal competence. However, this neglects the dynamics and the agency of places such as neighbourhoods in people's ageing process. Therefore, the present study examines how neighbourhood-based resources, especially older peoples' place identity, affect their experiences of ageing in declining neighbourhoods in Shenyang, China. A transcript analysis of 43 semi-structured interviews was conducted, showing that older residents from declining neighbourhoods face triple dysfunctions (social, cultural, and structural) due to the retreat of existing social ties, family safety nets, and institutions in various dimensions of their life. They also suffer from physical environmental degradation and residential composition changes in their neighbourhoods. Consequently, they rely on place identity to cope with environmental decline and decreasing personal competence. We found that older people can benefit from the recognition function of place identity, which provides physical and social insideness with their neighbourhoods and helps them recognize resources essential to their wellbeing. Moreover, the mediating change function and the defence function of place identity motivate them to adopt pro-environmental behaviours or to visit their past memories to sustain their sense of continuity and combat various neighbourhood declines. However, place identity and its associated anxiety and defence function also prevent older residents from adapting to the social changes induced by population turnover, and this further hinders them from socialising with migrant renters. This study also explores implications of the results and provides recommendations for policy and further research. • Long-term residence, collective experiences and family history enable older residents to develop place identity towards their declining neighbourhoods. • Older residents rely on place identity to overcome related neighbourhood decay. • The recognition and mediating change functions of place identity stimulate older residents to overcome various neighbourhood declines. • The anxiety and defence function of place identity prevents older residents from adapting to neighbourhood social changes induced by population turnover. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• High ratings of place dependence & identity for familiar urban park settings. • High ratings of restorative potential for familiar urban park settings. • Equal ratings of restorative potential for familiar urban park & natural settings. • Place dependence & identity to familiar park settings contribute to higher restorativeness. • Place identity with natural settings positively contribute to restorative ratings. Recent studies have supported the proposition that place attachment positively contributes to psychological restoration. However, fewer studies have been conducted regarding the relationships between place attachment and restorative components within China. This study explores residents' ratings of urban parks and natural settings for restorative potential and its four components in relation to two constructs of place attachment, place dependence and identity. We conducted a cross-regional comparative study using Fuzhouese and Macanese urban park setting images and natural images as stimuli, with local inhabitants as respondents. Respondents were asked to rate three groups of images in terms of familiarity, preference, place dependence, place identity, sense of being away, extent, fascination, compatibility, and restorative potential. The results showed that both Fuzhouese and Macanese respondents assigned higher ratings in all categories for familiar urban park settings compared to unfamiliar ones. Respondents' ratings of the restorative potential of natural settings and their familiar urban park settings were equivalent. In addition, both place dependence and place identity played significant and positive roles in contributing to the respondents' views of the restorative potential for familiar urban park settings. However, for natural settings, only place identity positively contributed to restorative potential. The results illustrate the significant role of local urban parks in enhancing residents' place attachment and providing psychological restoration. This finding can offer insight and impetus for landscape designers working in restorative environmental design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Intensive rural land consolidation in China contributes to improving its rural identity. • Place identity has a positive direct effect on perceptions of landscape changes. • Poor quality of rural land consolidation projects undermines rural residents' positive perceptions of landscape changes. • Place identity combined with the quality of rural land consolidation projects mediates perceptions of landscape changes. China's land use policies have largely discounted the significance of the relationship between landscape changes and residents' geographical cognition. Rapid urbanization has generated the double pressures of ensuring the protection of farmland and meeting rising demands for urban construction land. The propulsion of top-down rural land consolidation (RLC) projects by the Chinese government has been unprecedented in recent years. In the context of RLC, local governments have focused on the expansion of areas of cultivated land and on generating new construction land quotas. However, perceptions of the changes that large-scale RLC projects bring to rural landscapes among local residents, whose place-based identities (often referred to as place identity) are forged through lifelong associations with these landscapes, have received little attention. Consequently, we explored how place identity influences rural residents' perceptions of landscape changes in RLC areas in Eastern China, which has undergone rapid urban expansion and dramatic changes in its rural landscapes. We developed a structural equation model to analyse the effects of place identity, the intensity of RLC projects, and their quality on perceptions of landscape changes. A stratified sampling approach was used to collect data, and a good fit was found between the model and the sample data. The results of the model indicated that place identity, in conjunction with the quality of RLC projects, play a significant mediating role in relation to perceptions of positive landscape changes. Intensive RLC projects may induce positive perceptions of landscape changes. However, the quality of such projects may also be evaluated as being poor, which partially undermines the former effect. Positive evaluations of the quality of a RLC project can contribute to strengthening residents' positive perceptions of landscape changes, which are significantly enhanced through the mediating effect of place identity. We discuss and interpret these findings by incorporating them in China's governance system in relation particularly to land-use planning and rural revitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses examples of problem gambling and help seeking among Chinese international students in New Zealand to demonstrate place identity transformation. Two-wave narrative interviews were conducted with 15 Chinese international students. Place identity among participants is shown to be a process that features the transformation of participants' identity. While the casinos in which the Chinese international students gambled gave rise to negative place identities, positive place identities facilitated the participants to change their problematic gambling. Through the investigation of place identity transformation, this article promotes a strength-based, non-labelling approach to intervention for people who are concerned about their gambling behaviours., (© The Author(s) 2015.)