Abstract
Under the background of educational commodification, the premium price phenomenon of school district houses (SDH) is prevalent and the comprehensive livability of SDH warrants further exploration. The comprehensive livability of SDH should consider the objective livability and the subjective satisfaction of residents. This paper evaluates the objective livability of SDH from four aspects (i.e., safety of living space, convenience of public facilities, convenience of transportation, comfort of living environment) and the residents’ satisfaction of SDH from five dimensions (i.e., living environment, architecture design, spatial planning, infrastructure, and community service). The entropy method is used to determine the weight of each index. To assess the comprehensive livability, the coupling coordination degree model between objective livability and residents’ satisfaction of SDH is constructed. Furthermore, the matching degree among comprehensive livability, housing price, and educational resources is discussed. The results show that the distribution pattern of objective livability is high in the center and low in the periphery. The SDHs with high residents’ satisfaction are mostly distributed in Xincheng District and Saihai District, and the residents’ satisfaction of new SDHs is higher than that of the old one. Saihan District and Xincheng District, characterized by better economic development and well-established infrastructure, exhibit a greater number of SDHs with high comprehensive livability. Conversely, Yuquan District and Huimin District, marked by lower economic development and relatively inadequate facilities, have fewer SDHs with high comprehensive livability. These findings can provide decision-making basis for the construction of livable city and the balance of the high-quality educational resources.
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The “nearby enrollment” policy: Article 9 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on compulsory Education, adopted at the fourth session of the Sixth National People’s Congress on April 12, 1986, stipulates that local people’s governments at all levels shall reasonably set up primary and junior secondary schools to enable children and adolescents to attend school nearby.
The “key school” policy was proposed during a meeting of the political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on May 17, 1953, where educational work was discussed and a policy of “rectification, consolidation, development, quality improvement, and steady progress” was determined. As part of this policy, it was proposed that “key middle schools” should be established.
10.5 million in the basement school district! This is how local tyrants buy school-district housing. https://www.sohu.com/a/229370564_99967267
Beijing’s 11-square-meter school district sells for 5.3 million yuan: worth 20 kg of gold. http://china.cnr.cn/yaowen/20160303/t20160303_521518034.shtml?spm=zm5151-001.0.0.1.q8nEju&file=t20160303_521518034.shtml
The Scientific Evaluation Standards for livable Cities is a reference, which can provide guidance for existing cities to carry out scientific evaluation and analysis of livability.
This version of the urban master plan has a guiding role in urban spatial layout, functional zoning, large-scale infrastructure construction, etc. www.huhhot.gov.cn/zfxxgknew/fdzdgknr/ghjhnew/202005/t20200520_935530.html
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Zou, Y., Rao, Y., Guo, X. et al. Are school-district houses truly livable against the background of educational capitalization? evidence from the city of Hohhot in western China. J Hous and the Built Environ 39, 201–226 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-023-10078-2
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