Defensible Space on the Move: Revisiting the Urban Geography of Alice Coleman

This article traces the movement of the concept of ‘defensible space’ from New York City in the 1970s, where it was developed by the Canadian architect/planner Oscar Newman, to London in the 1980s and into design interventions in British public housing in the 1990s, through British geographer Alice Coleman, who acted as an especially powerful transfer agent. In focusing on this urban design ‘concept’ on the move we contribute to existing scholarship on policy mobility and city building in a number of ways. First, we explore an instance of the movement/mobility of a planning concept in a historical period (the recent past) largely overlooked to date. Secondly, we demonstrate that this movement was the result of a disaggregated series of expert knowledge transfers and localized translations of pre‐policy expert knowledge, generated through university‐based research work and networks. We theorize this instance of urban planning mobility by way of the interlinked insights offered by the sociology of science and policy‐mobilities literatures. As this is an instance of university research shaping public policy it also offers an opportunity to reflect upon the meaning of ‘evidence‐based policy’ and the impact agenda in contemporary higher education.     

The geography of tourism: An introduction

The geography of tourism is limited by a dearth of published research in geographic journals, the relatively few individuals who actively participate in the sub-discipline, and the lack of prestige the subject matter specialty has in geography. Despite these imperfections geographers make important contributions to the study of tourism because of their unique point-of-view. This characteristic perspective is seen in the context of a conceptual frame-of-reference which consists of a matrix based on two trichotomies. An analysis and interpretation of this framework and its application to the nine substantive articles included in the special issue constitute a majority of the article.     

区域竞争力研究的经济地理学价值

在经济全球化趋势中,日益激烈的全球竞争更加凸现了区域竞争力的经济地理特性,成为当前区域发展研究的前沿议题和经济地理学的发展方向之一;开展区域竞争力研究有利于丰富经济地理学理论,推动区域竞争力的宏观与微观相结合的研究,丰富我国区域竞争力理论研究的区域层次,促进区域在市场经济条件下开展竞争和发展竞争优势。     

加强基础地理框架建设，推进“数字甘肃”的发展

论述了建设基础地理数据框架和推进“数字甘肃”发展的重要意义，分析了现有的基础条件及存在的主要问题，并提出推进“数字甘肃”信息建设的若干建议。     

旅游地理学研究现状及其研究内容刍议

旅游地理学是一门新兴、尚不成熟的学科，它应是旅游学的一个分支。它以旅游资源、旅游行为、旅游地建设、旅游环境、可持续发展等范畴为主要研究内容。     

一种新的经济组织形态——产业联盟

产业联盟作为产业集群动态演化与创新的结果和新的趋势，将产权独立、跨越不同地区有密切关联的企业和组织联系起来，形成一个持续创新的竞合组织，不但实现了一些特定集群效应，而且在更高层次上使空间要素和资源的配置由混沌到秩序、由分散到聚集。产业联盟以其特有的稳定效应和持续创新效应，特别适合转型时期我国经济组织形态，并且通过山西磁性材料产业联盟的实证研究，揭示了有关产业联盟的特征及其运作规律，认为产业联盟可以作为我国现阶段产业经济组织形态的重要补充形式，与其他产业经济组织共同推动我国的区域经济发展。     

Multiple Temporalities of Policy Circulation: Gradual,Repetitive and Delayed Processes of BRT Adoption in South African Cities

In 2006, bus rapid transit (BRT) swept across South African cities. Within three years of learning of the Bogotá model of BRT, Johannesburg's Rea Vaya opened, followed shortly by Cape Town's MyCiTi, while several other cities are at various stages of planning and implementation. This article traces the circulation of BRT across the South African urban context to expose the multiple and varied temporalities through which BRT came to appear as the only available solution. These earlier encounters, which include the first published discussion of BRT in South Africa in a 1973 conference report, study visits to Curitiba in the 1990s and a failed attempt to implement a Bogotá‐style BRT system in Cape Town in 2003, were instrumental in creating a fertile ground for later adoption practices. While it may appear as if circulated policies shorten the gestation time from policy introduction to policy adoption, these repeated attempts to implement circulated innovations ensure that the turnover only seems accelerated. This article unravels the story of BRT adoption, departing from the theoretical discussions of the policy circulation process as a rapid phenomenon, instead demonstrating that it is gradual, repetitive and at times delayed.     

我国高师地理专业旅游地理教学改革探索

本文主要论述了我国高师地理专业旅游地理教学改革的依据,并集中阐述了旅游地理教学在课程设置、教材建设、教学方法以及师资建设中存在的主要问题,同时根据实际情况,对我国高师地理专业旅游地理教学提出了有效的构想,体现了旅游地理教学改革的必要性。     

新经济地理学的实证研究进展述评

尽管新经济地理理论研究已经形成一个相对完整的体系,但实证研究仍相对欠缺。新经济地理学试图解释区域要素价格和人口分布的关系,以及预测行业内的经济活动的选址行为。本文梳理的实证研究显示,市场准入和工资水平高度相关,规模收益递增、本地市场效应促进了产业的集聚,这些实证检验结果支持了新经济地理学的模型预测。本文还指出了NEG与其他领域研究的联系,比如区域经济和城市经济识别问题、潜在的其他解释等,并认为未来的实证研究可能会更关注变量的识别和不同集聚程度的测量问题,并与城市经济学紧密联系。     

地理教学中求异思维能力的培养策略

＂教育在培养民族创新精神和培养创造性人才方面,肩负着特殊的使命。＂因此,为创造而教,不仅是全新的教育理念,更是当前教学改革的一项重要任务。在地理教学中教师采用纵横递进,逆、侧思维,引导学生动手动脑的教学方式,是培养学生的求异思维和开拓其创造力的重要途径。