资源型城市经济可持续发展的理性思考

资源型城市在发展过程中，面临着经济结构畸形、资源面临枯竭、城市布局不合理、基础设施差以及生态破坏严重、环境污染加剧等问题，走可持续发展之路成为资源型城市发展的必然选择。要克服资源、经济、体制等方面的制约，通过经济政策、生态化改造、市场需求拉动等手段，加快城市转型步伐，促进经济多元化，把资源优势转化为经济优势，实现经济的可持续发展。     

我国中小城市经济结构战略性调整的新思路

经济结构调整是我国“十五”期间经济工作的一条主线。中小城市是我国整个城市化体系的基础，同时也是我国小农经济向现代工业经济发展的桥梁和纽带，中小城市要在现代社会和经济的发展大潮中发挥并保持其基础地位，就必须伴随宏观经济结构的新趋势进行相应的调整，以形成先进的生产力，推进跨越式发展。     

中国城市竞争力聚类分析

研究城市竞争力要清楚各城市综合竞争能力的大小，更要通过对城市竞争力诸方面的分析，了解各城市竞争力方面的鲜明个性和共同特征，以便制定有针对性的竞争战略。本文运用以前研究的基本数据和相关成果，采用聚类分析的方法，对中国47个城市的竞争力进行聚类实证分析，并根据分析结果把城市分成五大阵营，同时总结出相应的基本特点。     

中国矿业城市经济发展状况分析

本文选择了我国 51个矿业城市 ,以现有统计资料为依据 ,从经济发展水平、产业结构、所有制结构与外向度、经济发展效率、技术进步、财政状况等几个方面系统分析了矿业城市的动态特性、演变规律及其形成的原因。结果显示 ,矿业城市与一般城市之间、不同类型矿业城市之间 ,其经济发展的效益与效率存在很大的差异性。     

Translating sustainable and smart city strategies into performance measurement systems

This paper shows how sustainable and smart strategies can be implemented in cities and how these strategies influence, and are influenced by, performance measurement systems. Drawing upon the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, the authors present the case of Gothenburg in Sweden, where they interviewed the key actors involved in a new sustainability strategy. Translating strategy into performance measurement systems requires collaboration across organizational boundaries and considerations of financial goals and social and human aspects.     

山区绿色发展研究热点与前沿探讨——基于CiteSpace可视化分析

作为中国的生态屏障,山区的绿色发展是中国可持续发展以及生态文明建设的重要保障。通过对我国山区绿色发展的现状及存在的问题进行归纳总结,阐明绿色对于山区区域经济发展的重要性。结合CiteSpace可视化分析,从文献数据库检索相关文献,提取关键词,并对其进行热点分析,聚类分析和时序分析,探索出山区绿色发展的研究热点与前沿。结合山区绿色发展的实际背景,根据可视化分析结果,提出坚持绿色发展理念,强化绿色产业发展,明确绿色发展思路,加强欠发达山区研究,加大基建资金投入等措施,为中国山区经济和社会发展带来新篇章。     

山区城市打造区域职业教育中心的分析及建议

本文在分析永安市开展职业教育工作优势和劣势的基础上,就山区城市如何打造区域职业教育中心提出了合理化建议。     

Skyscrapers and the economy in Latin America

Skyscrapers are an intellectual challenge for urban analysis because of their imposing visual presence in the city landscape, and because of their environmental and real estate impacts. These characteristics however have not received much attention in the literature, particularly in analyses about Latin American cities. In this paper, we describe and test four theories about record-breaking buildings height: traditional microeconomic theory, game theory, business cycle, and global cities. We use a 2000–2012 panel database of 29 cities from 10 different Latin American countries, in order to contrast the contesting explanations about buildings’ height. We design a baseline model and then, using four different estimation techniques and diverse specifications, find that traditional theory and more strongly, global cities are good predictors of buildings’ height.     

Creative Cities,Graffiti and Culture-Led Development in South Africa: Dlala Indima (‘Play Your Part’)

Creative cities and culture-led development discourses have come under increasing scrutiny as elite-centric economic development agendas tend to trump ‘civic creativity’ ideals as imagined by Charles Landry. In South Africa, culture-led development and cultural policy tends to primarily mimic that of the global North, largely focusing on culture as a catalyst for economic and property development. Public art commissioning processes tend to focus on decorative projects as part of urban upgrading, which are often associated with ensuing gentrification and displacement of the urban poor. In contrast to focusing on these kinds of regeneration strategies, this article investigates Dlala Indima, a hip-hop-led graffiti project in a rural township in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. This article situates graffiti as a critical social and spatial practice to argue that this case challenges normative cultural planning paradigms. Dlala Indima's work is an alternative approach to cultural development by and for young people who are usually marginalized by the mainstream practice of culture-led economic development. The project challenges dominant creative cities and culture-led development discourses in three ways: first, it challenges the normative processes of regeneration; secondly, it grounds participatory practice; and finally, it shifts participation from ‘tyranny to transformation’ through the ubuntu of hip-hop, the notion of ubuntu being based on the communitarian notion of ‘ubuntu, ngubuntu ngabantu’—‘I am because you are’.