New Spatial Concepts Between Innovation and Lock-in: The Case of the Dutch Deltametropolis

It is often proclaimed that planning concepts serve an innovative function in the political process. They are praised as powerful tools that carry new insights and understandings into policy arenas. By examining the emergence and development of a new planning concept in the Dutch national spatial policy-making process, the deltametropolis concept, this paper questions this position. It argues that new spatial concepts tend to lose much of their innovative capacities when they enter the political arena and become encased in the traditional urban–rural planning discourse, thus reaffirming established planning orientations. The Dutch case of the deltametropolis illustrates that new spatial concepts may entail potential for innovation as much as for lock-in.     

Unequal Regionalism: Regional Planning in China and England

This paper responds to the revival of regionalism in the past two decades by showing that such a re-emergence is unequal. Comparing the practice of regional planning in China and England, this paper has demonstrated that the party-state in China and the liberal-democratic state in England have responded differently to this revival and developed different framework for regional administration and planning. These variations have not only elaborated planners' concern about planning practice in a ‘context of difference’ from social dimension to geographical variations, but also echoed geographers' affirmation that global trends take on different characters in local setting.     

四合院与四合院思维

四合院作为有历史价值的建筑物,是有保存价值的;作为民居已经过时,且不符合中国人多地少的国情.四合院那个时代形成的以封闭保守为特征的城市建设思维,称之为四合院思维,却是需要破除的.对于北京城市建设来说,更是急迫需要解决的.     

城市环境治理研究的热点领域、特点及启示——基于SSCI来源文献(2004～2019年)的知识图谱分析

为推动中国城市环境治理理论和实践发展,以2004～2019年间SSCI数据库中收录的5 332篇相关文献为样本源,采用共词分析方法、社会网络分析方法以及可视化技术,对国际城市环境治理研究文献进行知识图谱分析,研究城市环境治理研究的现状、特点和趋势。研究认为,近16年来城市环境治理研究的五大热点领域是城市可持续性、城市气候变化治理、中国城市化发展、城市生态系统以及城市环境治理模式; 城市可持续性是城市环境治理研究热点领域的基础,气候变化与生态系统具有高度的相关性,中国城市化发展速度快但伴随一定程度的发展不协调、城市景观破碎化等城市问题,可持续性、弹性为城市环境治理模式提供概念分析框架,多层次治理和多元化为城市环境治理模式提供理论基础; 气候变化治理、城市生态系统服务以及促进绿色空间的建立将成为未来城市环境治理研究的重要趋势; 未来的城市环境治理研究,还应高度关注城市环境治理理论的本土化研究和跨学科研究。     

A Pilot Study About the Needs of Older Gays and Lesbians

Abstract

In a pilot study, a population of gay and lesbian elders were surveyed to determine what types of long term plans they have made in preparation for their old age, what types of information they feel service providers need to know to better meet their long-term needs, and what is their perception of aging. The results of this pilot study demonstrated that almost three-fourths of the total sample have started to make plans for growing old. The respondents reported that social workers needed to be more knowledgeable about gay lifestyles and the importance of their partners. It was also found that the views of aging became more positive as the gay and lesbian individuals grow older.     

中心城市建设综合交通系统的经验、启示与对策——以伦敦、广州为例

通过分析伦敦的交通规划、建设、运营与管理措施，发现我国中心城市的严重交通拥堵主要源于落后的城市交通规划理念，大量引入多层高架公路进入市中心而忽视轨道交通建设，对公交优先存在认识上的误区和执行不力；城市公共交通工具营运各自为政，缺乏有效的协调与接驳；运营的低效率和管理不当，由此造成了典型的“大城市病”。根据后现代主义城市建设思想，结合当前中心城市公共交通体系建设的现状，提出了广州市综合交通体系建设的12项具体措施。     

The Changing Face of Public Adoption Practice

ABSTRACT

A study analyzing the workload of California's public adoption workers revealed how much adoption practice in the public sector has changed in recent years. Using focused discussion groups, this study found that compared to practice of an earlier time, (1) children available for placement come from more problematic families and are more difficult to place; (2) some decisions traditionally with the domain of adoptions are now being made by other social workers; and (3) increased oversight by the judicial system has had several unanticipated consequences, including adoption work taking on a “paralegal” quality and judges making traditional casework decisions.     

论中国企业的人才管理新思维

随着全球一体化经济和科学技术的迅猛发展，“人才管理”逐渐在中国落地生根，但在企业的实践中却遇到了许多问题，此时中国企业急需寻求更加科学、高效、低成本的人才管理方法，以满足企业发展对人才的需求。     

重读《马丘比丘宪章》

1977年通过的《马丘比丘宪章》修正了《雅典宪章》的一些条文，对于城市的规划与保护提出了一些新的理念。这些理念对于今天我国的城市化进程有一定的借鉴指导作用。因此本文将以对宪章文本解读的形式，联系我国城市的现状，具体分析这些借鉴指导作用。     

The limits of planning in China: equalizing basic education through the Internet

Planning, in its reinvented form, is an important tool for government macro-steering, but the role of the Internet in planning has been overlooked by researchers. Educational reforms are illustrative of the planning processes that characterize policy-making in China. Through a case study of educational policy in Qingbaijiang District in Chengdu, this paper examines how the Internet changes the limits of planning in educational equalization. The trial-site status of the district allows us to see how pragmatic adaptation of the new technology works on the ground, enabling an overall improvement in quality. However, at the same time, this strengthens elite schools, thus, paradoxically, creating inequality on a different level. Hence, this is a unique case to understand the limits of planning in China, and the key implication for research is that the Internet – and indeed techno-science as a social order – should be included in future analyses of planning.