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Record W217040633 · doi:10.11821/yj2008060018

Regulation beyond formal regulation: Spatial gathering and surviving situation of the informal sectors in urban village case study in Xiadu Village of Guangzhou City

2008· article· en· W217040633 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGeographical Research · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicChina's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInformal sectorGovernment (linguistics)Quarter (Canadian coin)Local governmentBusinessUrban villageAutonomyGeographyEconomic growthUrban planningEnvironmental planningPolitical scienceCivil engineeringEngineering

Abstract

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The most important characteristics of the informal sectors,based upon the general knowledge and existing research,are that they are out of the reach of the formal regulation founded by governments.We found that this is partly wrong for the situation of the informal sectors in the urban villages of Guangzhou City.We chose Xiadu,one of the typical urban villages of Guangzhou,as a study case,and conducted deep research mainly through the methods of field investigation,mapping,interview,etc.We also used some materials from various websites in our analysis.The main economic sectors of the informal sectors in Xiadu are retail,restaurant,barber's,photocopying,and other neighborhood services.One quarter of the informal sectors are outdoor fakers,the other three quarters are indoor shops.Most of the informal sectors are spatially distributed near the entrance from outside surrounding areas to the urban village and along the main roads inside it.The main reasons for the gathering of the informal sectors within urban villages are: loose regulation from the municipal government provided easy business environment;cheap houses provided right space;and good accessibility provided market demand.The everyday surviving state of the informal sectors is influenced by a system consisting of players of the municipal government(the real players are its departments involved in urban management,urban planning,and land use administration,etc.),local community(or village) autonomy,local ruffian group,the local registered residents of the village,and the surrounding areas' residents.The municipal government,according to its various major political aims,is exerting sometimes direct and sometimes indirect,but the greatest influence on the informal sectors;the local community autonomy protects and supports the informal sectors mainly because of seeking the economic interests from them;the local ruffians are exploiting the informal sectors;the local registered residents of the urban villages support and help the informal sectors because they are renting their houses to them;the surrounding areas' residents are partly customers and partly sufferers(from bad sanitation,noise,and pollution,etc.) of the informal sector,so they are at most time opposed to it.We conclude that the existence and operation of the system is affecting the real surviving state of the informal sectors in the urban village.It could be understood as a special regulation system different from the generally known regulation,also from that of pure informal governance out of governmental regulation.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.167
Threshold uncertainty score0.890

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it