HU Yuchen, ZHANG Min, JIAO Linshen, CHEN Peipei, CHANG Enyu

Keywords： urban regeneration; residents’ well-being; influential mechanism; research progress; research review

Abstract：

As urban regeneration comes into a new stage, urban residents’ well-being has attracted increasing attentions. Researchers have widely examined how urban regeneration influences residents’ well-being. Based on the key-word search of Web of Science, this paper aims to review the related researches. We summarize five main research themes, including the relationship between the aims of urban regeneration and wellbeing, the influence of physical environment change on well-being during urban regeneration, the influence of social environment change on well-being during urban regeneration, well-being justice in urban regeneration and the framework of urban regeneration based on well-being. The results show that if the aim of urban regeneration could meet residents’ needs, the preconditions of improvement of physical environment brought by urban regeneration, if the disturbance of social environment by urban renewal involves social participation and empowerment, and the gentrification and group differences brought by urban regeneration are important aspects of improvement or decrease of well-being during urban regeneration. Finally, we give suggestions on future research in China. First, longitudinal data should be collected and there should be a decision platform based on simulation of well-being under the context of urban regeneration. Second, the mechanism of urban regeneration impact on well-being should be further explored. Moreover, this paper suggested that the empirical research of how urban regeneration could influence well-being should be conducted under Chinese context to solve conflicts and problems during urban regeneration.

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