This thesis analyzes Chinese danwei through socio-spatial characteristics and their roles as urban development strategies. These interventions can facilitate the interaction of groups of different ages, cultures and gender. Nowadays many Beijing’s danwei have been transformed into other facilities, some of them are transformed into art districts, but successful flagship projects are scarce, while others are left to their selves conditions, making them huge barriers inside city center. Through the research on work units both in Beijing and in Mainland China, past and present, it will attempt to clearly identify the correlation of danwei compounds and well established communities backgrounds.