| 摘要: |
| 中国当前城市更新的重点正在从房
屋、基础设施建设等“硬件更新”向关注社
会、经济、环境协同的“软件更新”扩展。社
区花园作为重要的基层可持续创新实践，可以
活化闲置空间，促进公众参与，激活社区资
本，提升城市韧性。本文旨在通过空间、社会
和生态的多维视角，围绕社区公园的公众参与
建设与维护议题，分析可持续城市社区更新的
微观治理机制。研究以北京三个社区花园项目
为例，构建行动者网络分析框架。案例一以居
民视角揭示社区花园运营中的空间再生产困境；
案例二以大学社区共建的堆肥花园发起者的视
角探讨社区花园的功能性建构如何促进多中心
互动与融合；案例三通过课程实践以连接者的
视角考察“共创伙伴关系”下的灵活运营模
式，以及普遍性的老龄化趋势对基层社区可持
续实践的现实冲击。研究发现，社区花园实践
面临公共空间功能受限、居民参与不足、专业
运维市场不完善等困境。结论强调，社区花园
是实现“以人为本”城市更新的有效工具。未
来政策应将其纳入城市更新制度框架，明确社
区共建属性，赋予社区更大自治能力，扩大社
会环境功能价值创造与分享，以释放其在社会
包容、环境改善和社区活力方面的协同效益。 |
| 关键词: 城市更新 社区花园 行动者网络理
论 可持续发展 北京 |
| DOI：10.13791/j.cnki.hsfwest.20260427002 |
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| 基金项目:国家社会科学重大项目（25&ZD152） |
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| Sustainable urban renewal empowered by community gardens from the perspective ofactor-network theory: A case study of three communities in Beijing Municipality |
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TONG Xin,XU Weidi,MO Wenbiao,HAN Ling
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| Abstract: |
| China’s urban renewal paradigm is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The
dominant model, long characterized by “hardware renewal” centered on large-scale housing
demolition, infrastructure overhaul, and physical reconstruction, is gradually giving way to
a “software renewal” approach that prioritizes the coordinated development of social fabric,
economic vitality, and ecological sustainability. Within this evolving context, community gardens
have emerged as a significant grassroots innovation practice. By revitalizing idle and underused
urban spaces, activating latent community capital, fostering genuine public participation, and
enhancing urban resilience, these micro-scale green interventions offer a promising pathway
toward more inclusive and sustainable urban futures. This study investigates the micro-governance
mechanisms that drive sustainable urban community renewal, with a specific focus on community
garden construction as a vehicle for multi-dimensional collaborations from spatial, social and
ecological perspectives. Grounded in actor-network theory, the research constructs an analytical
framework drawing on three distinct community garden projects in Beijing, each examined from a
different stakeholder perspective to capture the full complexity of grassroots governance dynamics.
The first case, analyzed from a resident’s perspective, reveals the spatial production mechanisms
through which diverse actors including long-term residents, newcomers, property managers, and
local authorities negotiate, contest, and co-construct the operational realities of community
gardens. It highlights how spatial use, access rights, and maintenance responsibilities become sites
of ongoing negotiation, exposing the tensions inherent in transforming publicly owned idle land
into collectively governed green spaces. The second case, examined from an initiator’s
perspective, illustrates how community gardens serve as catalysts for cultivating new
neighborhood relationships and promoting multi-centric interaction and social integration through
composting of local generated food waste and organic waste. Through participatory governance
processes, initiators demonstrate that gardens function not merely as physical spaces but as social
infrastructures that bridge biological, generational, occupational, and cultural divides, thereby
strengthening community cohesion and collective efficacy. The third case, explored from a
facilitator’s perspective, investigates flexible operating models emerging under “co-creation
partnerships” between government agencies, urban planners with academic background, and
community groups. It further examines the realistic impact of China’s widespread aging trend on
the long-term sustainability of grassroots community practices, raising critical questions about
intergenerational participation, institutional memory, and the scalability of volunteer-driven
maintenance models. The study identifies several persistent challenges facing community garden
practices in contemporary Chinese cities. These include the over-reliance on single public space
functions, where gardens serve primarily recreational or aesthetic purposes without deeper socialor economic integration, insufficient and uneven resident participation that limits governance legitimacy, and an underdeveloped professional operation and
maintenance market that constrains long-term sustainability. The conclusion emphasizes that, despite these challenges, community gardens remain an effective
and versatile tool for achieving “people-oriented” urban renewal. They embody a governance logic that is bottom-up, adaptive, and ecologically embedded.
Future policy directions should formally integrate community gardens into the institutional framework of urban renewal, explicitly clarify their attributes as
community co-construction projects, grant communities greater decision-making autonomy, and expand the value creation and sharing mechanisms for their
social and environmental functions. By doing so, policymakers can unleash the synergistic benefits of community gardens in promoting social inclusion,
environmental improvement, and community economic vitality, ultimately advancing the broader goals of China’s urban regeneration agenda. |
| Key words: urban renewal community garden actor-network theory sustainable development Beijing |
