ABSTRACT This article discusses urban residents’ familiarisation and conceptualisation of the Australian ex-urban migration trend “tree-change”. Urban residents from Sydney, Australia were surveyed and asked whether they were familiar with the term tree-change and to nominate imagery and locations considered to reflect a tree-change move. Many survey respondents were not familiar with the term tree-change, but had little difficulty understanding the concept after brief prompting. Tree-change was linked with the visuality of the rural idyll through selecting imagery such as green vistas and heritage facades. Places nominated by survey respondents as tree-change locations were mostly proximal to Sydney, or large regional centres . These findings suggest that representations of tree-change are being received by urban residents, but urban residents’ familiarity with rural and regional Australia is low. This article highlights the place-specific nature of ex-urban and lifestyle migration, suggesting a “one size fits all” theoretical approach is ineffective.

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城市对树木变化迁移的看法

摘要本文讨论了城市居民对澳大利亚前城市移民趋势“树木变化”的熟悉和概念化。对来自澳大利亚悉尼的城市居民进行了调查，并询问他们是否熟悉“树木变更”一词，并提名考虑反映树木变更行为的图像和位置。许多受访者不熟悉“树变”一词，但经过短暂的提示后，对这个概念的理解并不困难。通过选择图像（例如绿色远景和遗产外墙），树木的变化与乡村田园的视觉联系在一起。被调查者提名为树木更换地点的地点大多位于悉尼或大型区域中心附近。这些发现表明，城市居民正在接受树木变化的表征，但是城市居民对澳大利亚农村和地区的了解程度很低。本文强调了前城市和生活方式迁移的特定地点性质，表明“一刀切”的理论方法是无效的。