Abstract: As the epitome of China's new urbanization, relocated communities were important places to promote the modernization of grassroots governance and realize innovations. From a spatial perspective and combined with field investigations, it was found that the Y community in K City was faced with governance dilemmas such as the rupture of residents' social networks, insufficient psychological adaptation, and conflicting living habits. Based on this, it was proposed that the spatial reconstruction strategy was a powerful governance practice to deal with contradictions and conflicts under spatial evolution. The interaction of spaces, diverse participation and cultural links were important action logics to achieve community harmony, good governance and co-governance. Community committees could use the expansion of physical, psychological and cultural space to strengthens the identity of residents.

Key words: spatial reconstruction, relocated community, community governance, community committees