城镇化进程中的城市记忆和乡愁

城市是流动的空间,时间是流动的记忆.城市是文化的载体和文化的舞台.城市和乡村、传统和现代、实物和精神、本土和他乡,这些都是城市记忆和乡愁中相互缠绕的要素.留住城市记忆,记住乡愁,才能让城市有韵味,人们生活有回味,生活更美好.     

无形城市时代城市社会生活特征探析

无形城市是在“后”之时代和全球地域空间这样的时空背景下涌现的新城市形态，它以高流动性和不确定性为主要特征。这种特征成就了特定的城市社会群体，也使得城市社会生活呈现出极具时代感的特征。城市社会心理体现了个性的张扬和自由的释放；城市生活方式因讲究格调和充分享受闲暇而得到提升；城市居民的交往方式既处在一个平等开放的互动平台之上，但也处在互动深度遭受质疑的困境之中。     

基于城市文脉的城市设计研究

我国经济快速发展的同时引发了城市千篇一律等问题,为推动城市可持续发展,彰显城市特色和文化自信,笔者以城市文脉为切入点,通过涵义、 要素及价值分析对城市文脉进行详细说明,进而针对当前城市设计中存在的主要问题,基于城市文脉提出城市设计策略及方法.     

城市化发展、城市居住空间结构分化与城市农民工居住空间分析——以上海市为例

城市化既是“人口的城市化”,也是“空间的城市化”。随着城市化发展,城市内部空间结构重组明显,社会分层现象明显体现在居住空间分化上,城市居住空间分异程度加剧。通过上海人口城市化的发展历程分析,对城市化进程中的上海市城市居住空间结构演变及特征进行剖析,进而对农民工居住空间演变、特征及存在问题进行分析和研究,并提出相应的对策建议。     

城市增长与生活碳排放的理论研究

实现“低碳城市”不仅需要产业转型和技术革新，也需要生活方式逐步向“低碳”方式转变。本文重点关注城市的生活碳排放，从经济学的研究视角，综述国内外有关城市发展（主要体现为经济增长、人口增长和空间蔓延三个标志特征）与生活碳排放的理论研究成果；并根据国内的研究，简要介绍当前中国城市生活碳排放的构成及空间分布特点。     

基于消费需求的城市商业街复合化设计

商业街是一个城市体现经济繁荣、彰显商业文明的窗口,它浓缩了城市的历史文化,体现了城市的地域特征,反映了城市风貌、表达了城市精神。消费行为、购物方式、消费需求是商业街存在的基础,其变化迫使商业街的业态配置和空间环境必须作出相应的调整和提升。     

关于沈阳智慧城市建设问题研究

智慧城市是以城市基础建设、信息通信技术为支撑,以物联网、云计算、3S等为手段来对城市各系统进行智能化建设,实现城市发展智慧化,政府运营智能化,人民生活便利化的发展理念。通过对当前沈阳市智慧城市建设现状的分析,结合中国其他智慧城市在建设过程中的经验以及沈阳市智慧城市建设运营模式,从政府角度和技术角度对当前沈阳智慧城市建设中存在的问题做基本研究。     

基于SPSS的北京市功能区内的城市竞争力分析

笔者采用SPSS中的主成分分析对北京市16个区进行城市竞争力评价,按照 《北京市关于区县功能定位及评价指标的指导意见》 划分的城市功能分区,对各功能区内的区县进行比较分析,从而得出北京市各区实力相差悬殊,不仅体现在市区与郊区的差异,在市区内还呈现出朝阳区和海淀区占绝对优势,而丰台区和石景山区明显落后的局面,首都功能核心区和城市功能拓展区内的各区实力相差比较大,城市发展新区和生态涵养发展区内各区的实力相差不大的结论,并对功能区内的城市如何提升综合竞争力提出了建议.     

人口聚集、收入水平与城市环境污染——基于广州的经验数据:1997-2013

城市化进程的持续深入在增加城市数量和规模的同时,也不断提高城市人口聚集程度。基于广州1997-2013年统计数据,沿用主流的人口、资源和环境研究思路与方法,对广州人口聚集、收入水平与城市环境污染进行协整分析、ECM误差修正分析以及Granger因果分析,发现广州人口聚集与城市生活污水排放和生活垃圾存在显著长期和短期关系,但与工业固体废物只在长期关系中显著。收入水平的增加在短期中对生活垃圾和生活污水排放影响较大,而在长期过程中城市化的资源集约利用效果逐渐呈现。本文研究结论对城市化是一种更集约的自然资源利用方式与生活方式的观点提供了量化支撑。     

网络文化提升城市认同的路径探析

城市认同感体现着城市对于主体的凝聚力、感召力和吸引力,是城市文化和城市软实力建设的重要维度。网络媒介作为一种强势崛起的新的文化范式和传播范式,在城市认同感的构建中具有不可忽视的重要地位。要加强对于网络文化提升城市认同的路径和机制的研究,充分发挥网络文化在时间、空间、符号、仪式、共同体等维度对于城市认同的构建作用,促进网络所形构的城市记忆、城市地方感、城市符号、城市媒介仪式、城市共同体想象,增强网络主体与城市之间的情感、记忆和审美等纽带联结,使网络媒介成为构建城市认同、增进城市文化魅力和文化软实力影响效果的有效途径和方式。     

Homeless and Indigenous in Minneapolis

SUMMARY

Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in the homeless population. This paper examines the extent to which homelessness and some of its possible antecedents and consequences differ for indigenous peoples and majority whites residing in the city of Minneapolis. We conclude that being homeless and indigenous in Minneapolis is a significantly different experience for this group than it is for majority whites. The cultural context of indigenous homelessness reflects higher poverty and inconsistent patterns of employment. It also reflects higher support in family and friend relationships. Higher misuse of alcohol reflects personal disability while lower use of mental health services reflects a structural disability. Discrimination is reflected in previous childhood out-of-home placements.     

上海提升城市文化软实力的对策建议

城市是文化的载体,文化是城市的形态。从文化层面来看,文化软实力为城市发展提供了软环境,有助于提升城市竞争力,增强城市凝聚力。从理论视角来看,文化软实力体现了一个城市的价值取向和精神文明,是历史文化和人文素养长期积淀和不断塑造的结果。“十二五”期间,上海定位于国际文化大都市建设,以提升城市的综合实力为主要目标。从实践角度来看,上海城市文化软实力建设面临着如何突破改革创新,以进一步解放和发展文化生产力,以期构建智慧城市和创新城市。     

Moving through Time and Space: Performing Bodies in Derry, Northern Ireland

Abstract  This paper examines the embodied remembrance of Bloody Sunday (1972), when thirteen civilians were shot dead by British soldiers while peacefully marching against internment. The work of Paul Connerton represents a crucial analytical starting point in a growing number of studies examining the body as site of memory. While Connnerton's theorisation has been very influential and persuasive, I argue that there is some scope for improving his ideas about the changeability of bodily memory and the Bloody Sunday case represents an interesting empirical example of how embodied remembrance reflects and responds to transformations in the wider socio-political context.     

Rewritten in stone: imperial heritage in the sacred place of the nation

ABSTRACT

This article examines the relationship between architectural transformations and the reshaping of memory in post-imperial urban space. It reflects on two forms of symbolic violence: first, iconoclastic acts of reshaping space to reflect national self-determination and moving away from empire, and second, acts that embody the recovery of imperial legacies. It analyzes the recent restoration of the Habsburg-built Alba Iulia citadel in the eve of Romania’s Centennial celebrations of the 1918 Alba Iulia assembly which proclaimed the unification of Transylvania with Romania. It interrogates the intentionality of architectural transformations and how this heritage project expresses the frictions between memory narratives centred on the nation and forms of imperial duress and nostalgia. It traces how the after-lives of empire materialize in the built environment, as they do in the attitudes and yearnings of the cultural elite. Moreover, it reflects on parallels between European post-imperial and Global South post-colonial nation-building.     

Remaking the Image: The Changing Legibility and Visibility of Derby's City Center,UK

It was in 1960 when the concept of imageability was coined by Lynch, who also emphasized the importance of meaning, legibility, and visibility in the physical environment. Similarly, this study will explore the value of a memorable image within the city center's quarters, by analyzing socio-spatial interaction, pedestrian flow, and users' perception. This study will focus on the relationship between two retailing quarters of a city center and will analyze impacts of a hugely-scaled urban shopping mall on the whole image and memory of a city center. A case study of two main quarters in the City Center of Derby, UK will be analyzed to give analytical suggestions for planning and design in the future and possibly similar developments.     

城市社区中的"街角青年"问题研究——以湖南长沙某区为例

＂街角青年＂是城市中的一种特殊社会现象与社会问题,他们具有其独特的生活方式和社会心理特征,形成了与城市主流文化相对立的城市边缘亚文化,介乎主流文化视角下正常社会化的＂白色＂青少年和走向犯罪领域的＂黑色＂青少年之间,甚至成为城市社区建设和城市社会稳定的一大隐患。因此,城市社区如何把目光更多地投向边缘青年,关注边缘青年,理解边缘青年,是当前城市化进程中一个应该引起重视的问题。     

GIS technology and survey sampling methods: The Khayelitsha/Mitchell's plain 2000 survey

This paper explores the entwining of city and song with a focus on the genre of isicathamiya in the city of Pietermaritzburg. It argues that the making of song involves the shaping of new subjectivities and it looks in particular at the role of isicathamiya performance in the making and re‐making of a particular urban space. It argues that the life and history of a city or town holds within it the songs and singers that shape it culturally and thus write themselves into the memory and being of the place. The paper searches for a new cultural topography of place that embraces this view. It situates a study of two isicathamiya groups, the Washing Boys and Naughty Boys, within a study of the life of the changing and suffering city and argues that the resilience of the genre and of its singers gives it a unique place as an interpretive voice in the New Era of post‐1994 and in the Pietermaritzburg of the present.     

Palimpsest African urbanity: connecting pre‐colonial and post‐apartheid urban narratives in Durban

Durban, a city situated on the east coast of South Africa in the province of KwaZulu‐Natal, has always been marked by layered, imbricative and intricate meanings. Through narrative slices, this paper considers the interwoven relationships between identity and urbanity and presents Durban as a palimpsest space. The paper illustrates the co‐constituting nature of pre‐colonial Durban's form and society, highlighting the manner in which the context of contact left an impression on identity, urbanity and cultural memory. It thereafter suggests that contemporary attempts, through arts and culture, to contour the city in a more inclusive manner, have a long embedded precedent and history.     

Urban Ethnography of the 1920s Working Girl

The 1920s was the era of the city. The urban population of the USA for the first time exceeded the population of rural areas and the nascent institutions of city life were flourishing. This article discusses the urban ethnography of the era with a focus on the way women and work was conceptualized, especially how ‘the city’ figured in explanation. Three ethnographies are examined — Frances Donovan's The Woman Who Waits (1920) and The Saleslady (1929) and Paul Cressey's The Taxi‐Dance Hall (1932). Donovan and Cressey presented their empirical material to show that the so‐called working girl faced a multifaceted world of opportunity in employment, not of disadvantage, as commonly emphasized in today's ethnographic studies of women and work. The conclusion reflects on the past, present and future in terms of the city's explanatory prominence in various eras.