论特色文化城市理论体系建构研究与实践创新——中国本土化特色文化核心价值的理论体系与范式建构

本文从世界新文化产业分工理论和"城市文化资本"理论的双重视角出发,首次提出了本土化特色文化城市理论的结构框架、研究与建构入径、新的理论内核,特别是在总结、研究、比较国内外特色文化城市发展的历史经验和理论研究成果的前提下,提出了中国本土化的特色文化城市的核心价值论、"双核理论"和特色文化城市的理论研究与建构操作的整体范式。     

科学发展观视角下的城市化发展

城市化是社会经济发展的必然结果,与工业化效率密切相关,有着独特的发展规律,因此重新审视城市本质与合理解读城市化是把握这一规律的前提,也是避免在城市化过程中出现偏差,防止城市化负效应发生的必要.城市化是一项复杂的系统工程,仅从经济发展去考察是不全面的,必须按科学发展观要求,重新认识城市化以及其最终价值,实现城市的公平正义与可持续发展.     

Brexit,Global Cities,and the Future of World Order

The emergence and role of global cities provide a rubric by which we can understand Brexit and illuminate the present tensions between those who favor open economic policies and those who favor closed economic policies. Economic inequality, political disenfranchisement, and social exclusion at the regional level are now driving a fresh interrogation of the relatively open world order that requires global cities—sites densely populated with institutions necessary for orchestrating global economic activity. While questions about the legitimacy of economic openness may undermine the economic output, political power, and cultural influence of global cities, those same cities may, if they harness economic output for broader regional benefits, demonstrate the potential of an alternative and newly legitimate open world order.     

International Trade and the Urbanization of Developing Countries: Evidence from Asia

Abstract

A grain surplus and the grain trade are closely related to the urbanization of developing countries. However, existing literature has not given adequate attention to this issue. Our paper develops a theoretical model to explain the mechanisms whereby changes in the grain surplus constrain the level of urbanization in a closed economy context and the grain trade affects the level of urbanization by acting on the grain surplus in an open economy context. A test of the theoretical model applied to some developing countries in Asia during the period 1993-2010 shows that international trade is generally negatively correlated with level of urbanization. However, cereal and non-cereal trade vary in terms of their relation to urbanization: whereas the former is positively correlated with level of urbanization, the latter is negatively correlated with it. Since the net import of cereals relaxes the constraint imposed on the level of urbanization by the domestic grain surplus, it can have a marked positive effect on the course of urbanization. Our research findings show that provided grain production or grain security is guaranteed, developing countries may adopt a policy of importing an appropriate amount of grain to increase their level of urbanization.     

The Capitalization of Space and Cultural Resistance

中国的城市化建设正在飞速进行。与经济进步相伴随，出现了众多的问题，如大 城市中的交通拥堵、空气污染、资源浪费与匮乏并存等——这只是可见的表面问题。 从长远的角度看，在城市化过程中，空间的资本化使用导致了城市文化、城市样态、 自然环境等差异性的丧失，这将使人的存在更为物化、功能化与功利化。本文认为， 指导空间生产的价值观念是促使上述问题出现的根本原因；只有改变以往的以“技术 和资本增殖”为核心的消费社会的价值观念，建构新的“以人为本”的价值观念，才 能对抗空间生产的资本化洪流。

关键词: 空间生产?城市化?资本?价值观念

Urbanization is proceeding at full speed in China. Economic progress has been accompanied by enormous problems in our big cities, such as traffic congestion, air pollution, the coexistence of resource abuse and scarcity, etc.—and these are merely the problems visible on the surface. The capitalization of space in the course of urbanization has meant loss of diversity in urban culture and configuration and in the natural environment. In the long run, this will make human existence more objectified, functional and utilitarian. This paper argues that the fundamental reason for these problems lies in the value concepts guiding the production of space. Only when we abandon the existing values of consumer society, which revolve around “capital and technology appreciation,” and establish new values “putting people first” will we be able to withstand the mighty torrent of capitalized space production.     

Improving water service to the urban poor through delegated management: Lessons from the city of Kisumu,Kenya

Partnerships like the delegated management model (DMM), in which a utility delegates management of infrastructure and service delivery to slum residents, are being promoted to improve services to the urban slums in sub‐Saharan Africa. However, there is little empirical evidence of the benefits that DMM offers beneficiaries and its potential limitations. This study, conducted in 2013, compared water service in two slums in the city of Kisumu in Kenya where DMM has been implemented with another where it has not been implemented. Results showed that DMM had lowered the cost of water compared to water kiosks in neighbourhoods in which DMM had not been implemented. The study findings contribute toward an evidence base for stakeholders and regulators who see an opportunity in the integration of DMM into local drinking water provision solutions in urban slums.     

城市化进程中城镇社区体制改革研究——广东省佛山市南海区罗村街道的经验探析

在我国快速城市化的进程中，城镇如何推进社区体制改革、建设和谐社区是当前城镇基层实际工作者十分关心的问题。本文以广东省佛山市南海区罗村街道为例，总结了罗村街道社区体制改革的经验，提出了相应策略、建议。     

中国城镇化道路的战略选择

作为现代化重要标志之一的城镇化是社会发展的必然趋势 ,也是世界各国发展的自然过程。城镇化是一个农村人口和生产要素不断向新兴城镇转移并聚集的过程 ,包括城镇人口和新兴城镇数量的增加以及社会经济的现代化。进入 2 1世纪 ,城镇化在国民经济的发展中扮演着越来越重要的角色 ,如何选择一条适合中国国情的城镇化道路是推进城镇化快速发展的首要问题。文章分析了中国城镇化的严重滞后现状和城镇化的重要性 ,最后提出了适合中国国情的城镇化发展道路的建议。     

谈城市景观建设

近十年来,伴随着我国城市化的急速发展,城市景观建设出现种种弊端。城市景观建设应坚持“古为今用,洋为中用”的原则,取其精华,弃其糟粕,结合地方特色,坚持以人为本,尊重自然,保护生态环境,创造具有地方特色的富有人性化的城市景观。     

新疆绿洲经济活动的非连续性及封闭性研究

受区域生态环境的影响,新疆绿洲经济活动普遍具有非连续性、封闭性、局限性和不平衡性特征[1],经济规模小而内向,生态约束性强,市场化动力不足,城市化、工业化进程缓慢。绿洲经济是以封闭流域为单元的流域经济,应按流域生态规律来统一规划和协调绿洲经济发展,把专业化和区域协作建立在流域内部的统一性和流域之间的差异性基础上,以克服市场化结构和布局矛盾。