地铁经济与广州国家中心城市建设

地铁经济对城市的发展具有重要作用。广州正在建设国家中心城市，通过地铁建设带动产业发展，提升城市竞争力，是一个不容忽视的战略选择。文章就此提出了具体的政策建议。     

天津城市文化产业的结构创新与文化金融创新

文化是民族的血脉和灵魂,在经济和社会发展中的战略地位越来越突出,文化产业日益成为增强城市综合竞争力的核心要素,发展文化产业已成为天津下一阶段国民经济和社会发展的重要战略之一。在天津市第九次党代会上,市委、市政府提出了“把天津建设成为富有独特魅力和创造活力的文化强市”、“文化竞争力走在全国前列”的目标,天津城市文化产业在“十二五”时期必将获得更快的发展。     

交易成本视角下的区域中心城市竞争力研究——关于“广州模式”的理论与实证分析

本文在总结以往研究成果的基础上,对广州的区域中心城市竞争力进行实证分析,并对交易成本与城市经济绩效关系问题提出全新的解释,进而总结出“广州模式”的区域中心城市竞争力维度与特征。本文的聚类分析结果表明,从交易成本的视角看,广州的城市竞争力居于广东各大城市的“第一集团”,属于“较强”水平,为广东之首乃名副其实。     

城市文化产业孕育新的发展范式

当今世界，有全球影响的城市大都是文化产业集中和发达的城市，大城市以文化论输赢就是这个道理。因为城市的土地资源有限，人力和商务成本都很高，所以城市真正的比较优势就在于更好地发挥人的创造力，并通过工业制造、金融体系、市场和传播等配套体系，把人的文化创意转化为巨大的社会财富。文化不仅承载了城市的软实力，而且也可以理解为城市发展的硬支撑和硬资源，文化和经济的深度融合，源于人们创造力的文化创意活动，正是城市综合竞争力的精髓所在，正是通过文化产业集聚起人的无限创造力，城市才能成为一个巨大的点金石和聚宝盆。     

文化产业与城市经济融合发展的路径探究——以西安曲江新区为例

以当前国内外文化产业大发展为背景,针对我国文化产业发展的理论与实践,通过对国内外相关研究的文献评述,以西安曲江新区文化产业园区发展为例,对我国文化产业与城市经济融合发展的路径进行研讨,提出以文化资源为驱动、文化与旅游融合发展为引擎、以文化产业园区发展为载体以及城市经济发展为目标的内在逻辑路径。     

广州与若干国际中心城市的竞争力比较

城市竞争力是指一个城市在全球经济活动中集聚资源、创造财富和发挥辐射影响的能力。本文从经济实力、产业结构、基础设施、创新能力、社会发展、国际化水平、生态环境、政府管理、文化软实力、区域依托力等十个方面，将广州与伦敦、纽约、东京、大阪、首尔、新加坡、香港等七个国际中心城市的竞争力进行了比较。     

建设绿色环保城市的基本特点——以广州国际友城为例

当今世界,环境已成为提升城市竞争力的重要砝码。牺牲环境换取经济的增长已被证明是不可持续的发展模式。经过10多年不懈努力,广州城市环境逐渐得到改善。但如果以国际先进城市为标杆,广州在绿色环保城市建设上仍存在一定差距。本文选取了广州国际友好城市的几个典型——悉尼、温哥华、洛杉矶等,详细梳理和总结了这些城市在绿色环保城市建设方面的特点与经验,并提出对广州未来绿色环保城市建设可资借鉴的若干方面。     

建设生活品质之城,提升杭州城市综合竞争力

城市综合竞争力是城市经济、文化、政治、社会、环境等综合发展能力的集中体现。生活品质包括经济生活品质、文化生活品质、政治生活品质、社会生活品质、环境生活品质"五大品质"。因而,进一步提升杭州城市综合竞争力与杭州生活品质之城建设相辅相成、互为一体。文章在对杭州城市发展进行SWOT分析的基础上,从促进生活品质之城建设的角度来探讨如何进一步提升杭州城市综合竞争力,并就此给出相关对策建议。     

巴黎文化产业的现状、特征与发展空间

“文化产业”作为当前经济活动的一个重要概念，在城市经济活动中发挥着越来越重要的影响。巴黎作为法国的历史、文化、经济中心，其“文化产业”从20世纪70年代以来随着城市经济的转型呈现蓬勃发展的势头。进入21世纪，巴黎“文化产业”的领域与空间也在不断变化与扩展。本文将试图对巴黎“文化产业”的发展作一梳理，以期对其“文化产业”的发展面貌作一阐释。     

以文化创意产业强化区域文化中心地位

发展文化创意产业是广州进一步落实科学发展观，实现经济增长方式转变和产业结构转型的需要，也是提高广州城市综合竞争力、提升广州城市文化品位、展示广州国际化大都市形象的需要。广州的文化创意产业有着较好的发展基础，取得了一定的成就。广州还应强化区域文化中心的地位，促进文化创意产业的持续、健康发展。     

Back and Forth and Beyond

The Journal invited Tom Andersen, author of major pioneering work on the reflecting team, and his colleagues, to offer comment on The Reflecting Team Process in Training. We thought such a north-south dialogue was in keeping with the spirit of reflecting teams, and the team members in Melbourne and Tromsø agree — Editor.     

Time and aging--mechanisms and meanings

A recent European Molecular Biology Laboratory Conference on Science and Society entitled "Time & Aging--Mechanisms & Meanings" fascinated scientists from different research areas as well as nonscientists. Topics discussed included not only the biological aging process but also the psychological effects of aging and social influences that affect this process.     

Arts and Crafts and Reconstruction

Abstract

This paper examines the role of arts and crafts in reconstructing communities after times of upheaval, their use in creating employment opportunities, and their impact on the nature of South African art history. It looks at craft initiatives during and after the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and draws parallels with early twentieth-century initiatives, particularly those of Florence Phillips, who founded the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1910, Emily Hobhouse, who established Boer home industries, and the South African National Union, which promoted the manufacture and use of local products.     

Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women

Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous research, the findings indicated that gay and bisexual men were significantly higher in SC when compared to lesbian and bisexual women. Similarly, sexually compulsive gay and bisexual men were more likely to report drug use with sex than their non-sexually compulsive peers, suggesting that “party n' play” may play a larger role for men with SC. In addition, the findings demonstrated empirical support for the proposition that lesbian and bisexual women with symptoms of SC were more likely to engage in specialized sexual behaviors in comparison to their non-sexually compulsive peers. These data suggest that SC manifests differently in gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women.     

Acceptance and Caregiving of Married and Divorced Custodial Mothers and Fathers

The study examined whether differences in gender and family status affect parental caregiving disposition and acceptance of children among parents of children in mid-childhood. The number of participants were 122 divorced-custodial fathers, 107 married fathers, 85 divorced-custodial mothers, and 82 married mothers (n?=?398). A comparison among four groups of parents revealed the following gender differences: mothers scored higher on anxious caregiving and parental acceptance than fathers, and lower on avoidant caregiving. Regression analysis indicated that the higher the caregiving avoidance or anxiety, the lower the parental acceptance. Family status moderated parental acceptance, as avoidant caregiving was associated with reduced parental acceptance among married parents, but not among divorced custodial parents. The finding that avoidant caregiving was not associated with reduced acceptance among divorced custodial parents implies that their parental acceptance behaviors toward their children are affected by their parental status as sole custodial parent, and the associated responsibilities, rather than by gender.     

Thinking and Speech and Protocol Analysis

Some form of verbal report—that is, a research participant' s concurrent or retrospective verbal account of thought processes during problem-solving activities—has been used throughout this century as the database from which psychologists have developed theories of human mentation. Newell and Simon (1972) and Ericsson and Simon (1980, 1993) have provided extensive justification for using one such method, protocol analysis, as a tool for investigating cognition from an information-processing (IP) perspective. Their arguments have characterized protocol analysis as a methodology capable of providing evidence of the ways in which people attend to information stored in short-term memory to solve problems, with the evidence providing them with the grounds from which to generate models of human cognitive processes. A different view of protocol analysis is available from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) based on the work of Vygotsky (1987), Leont'ev (1981), and others, and its concern with the mediation of human development by culturally and historically grounded signs and tools. Because of its emphasis on culturally channeled development, a CHAT perspective views speech, including the speech that serves as evidence for cognition in psychological research, as a tool that potentially enables changes in consciousness. In this article I outline a CHAT perspective that accounts for protocol analysis along three key dimensions: (a) the relation between thinking and speech from a representational standpoint, (b) the social role of speech in research methodology, and (c) the influence of speech on thinking during data collection. The purpose of this discussion is not to refute the IP perspective on protocol analysis but to illustrate how this method can be viewed through a CHAT lens and to identify alternative assumptions that must be made to use it from a CHAT perspective.