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Nature engagement practices do not transfer intact across geographical contexts because they are anchored in place-specific social, material, and digital infrastructures, although platform-enabled competences can reproduce familiar modes of engagement abroad. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To investigate how the infrastructural configuration of urban nature shapes everyday green space practices, examined through the international relocation of Chinese students.

September 2, 2026Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

Infrastructuring urban nature in contemporary China: Walking, lighting and platformised practice across borders

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Qualitative study reveals that urban nature engagement relies on place-specific physical, social, and digital infrastructures in relocated Chinese students, highlighting transnational planning gaps.

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To investigate how the infrastructural configuration of urban nature shapes everyday green space practices, examined through the international relocation of Chinese students.
Conducted a qualitative research study grounded in social practice theory.
Evaluated 14 Chinese international students relocating to Manchester, UK, between 2021 and 2022.
Identified that relocation disrupts nature practices across three distinct infrastructural registers: social routines of walking, material nighttime illumination, and platformized digital interaction.
Demonstrated that while place-specific social and material nature interactions fail to travel intact across borders, transferable platform skills on applications like Xiaohongshu sustain familiar, platform-mediated nature engagement abroad.

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Junyan Ye (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e25ec562ede874ec671c https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223261476798

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September 2, 2026Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

Infrastructuring urban nature in contemporary China: Walking, lighting and platformised practice across borders

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JYJunyan Ye

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Overview

Qualitative study reveals that urban nature engagement relies on place-specific physical, social, and digital infrastructures in relocated Chinese students, highlighting transnational planning gaps.

Key Points

To investigate how the infrastructural configuration of urban nature shapes everyday green space practices, examined through the international relocation of Chinese students.
Conducted a qualitative research study grounded in social practice theory.
Evaluated 14 Chinese international students relocating to Manchester, UK, between 2021 and 2022.
Identified that relocation disrupts nature practices across three distinct infrastructural registers: social routines of walking, material nighttime illumination, and platformized digital interaction.
Demonstrated that while place-specific social and material nature interactions fail to travel intact across borders, transferable platform skills on applications like Xiaohongshu sustain familiar, platform-mediated nature engagement abroad.

Cite This Study

Junyan Ye (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e25ec562ede874ec671c https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223261476798

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