Urban Citizenship,the Right to the City and Politics of Disability in Istanbul

Since the late 1990s, the ‘urban citizenship’ literature has accentuated the burgeoning potential of the city as host to more democratic interpretations of citizenship. A more recent literature highlighted the ‘local trap’ in such assumptions, arguing that the local cannot exist outside of neoliberalization. This article examines some of the recent institutional transformations in Istanbul's local government and seeks to understand where these might be situated in this discussion. Three institutions dealing with disability are scrutinized with regard to their power dynamics, discourses and practices. The argument is that, although superficially such developments seem to represent some of the tendencies highlighted by the urban citizenship literature (in terms of their scale, timing and appeal to a group previously excluded from modern citizenship), deeper analysis shows that these often promote charity‐ rather than rights‐based approaches. This is because the push factors in the emergence of these institutions are not the urban struggles on the part of the disability community, but rather the ruling party's populism, the impact of supranational agencies and the demands of non‐disabled residents at district level. Each of the three institutions examined is shaped primarily by one factor, leading to differing degrees of charity‐ and rights‐based practices. Arguments concerning the prospects of more democratic interpretations of citizenship at local level need to consider experiences in diverse settings.     

特区扩容:破解深圳市"一市两法"困局的路径选择

近年来,深圳市一直在被"特别的优势"和"特殊的局限"这两个问题所困扰,即如何用好较大市立法权以及如何用好特区立法权.特区扩容提供了一种有效的解决方案,并对促进特区内外一体化进程、平衡深圳市社会和经济发展以及提高城市的竞争力和辐射力等都有着深刻而长远的意义.     

国外建设创业型城市的主要做法与启示

相关国家推进创业，建设创业型城市的基本做法是：各具特色的创业教育体系，包括全社会参与的美国创业教育，政府财政资金支持下的英国创业教育，瑞典、荷兰和法国等国的创新型创业教育，注重实践运用的日本创业教育，置于国家战略下的印度、新加坡创业教育，从中小学开始的澳大利亚创业教育；重点突出的创业扶持政策，包括以小企业为重点的美国创业扶持政策，以高新技术为产业重点的日本创业扶持政策，健全的欧洲国家小企业创业扶持政策，更加优惠的大学生创业扶持政策和全方位的留学归国人员创业扶持政策，适合女性特点的创业扶持政策，支持创业孵化基地建设等。这些做法对于我国相关城市在确定创业扶持政策时的主要启示至少有：因地制宜，分类扶持，政策配套，从起步开始。     

对加快病险水库除险加固工作的思考和实践

广西崇左市是一座新兴地级市，各项基础设施建设较薄弱。文章分析了广西崇左市水利部门在新形势下按要求完成病险水库除险加固工作任务的现状和目标，并提出病险水库除险加固工作的实施方案和建议。     

南京市规划管理办公自动化系统的设计与实现

本文通过对南京市城市规划的管理模式和业务审批流程的分析,介绍了规划管理办公自动化系统的设计、周期控制思想、实现方法及其特点。     

广西-东盟城市管理合作的层次、价值与策略研究

广西与东盟诸国在城市发展水平上存在明显的梯度差异与梯度效益,双方在城市管理合作方面有着诸如政治共睦、经济互利、社会双赢、文化同育等充分的理论和现实价值。广西地方政府应采取多项措施,比如实现合作主体的多元化、拓展友好城市合作模式、实施"走出去"与"引进来"战略、创建并完善广西-东盟城市合作论坛等,实现并深化双方的城市管理合作。     

阿拉山口构建丝绸之路经济带国际物流节点城市研究

运用物流节点理论分析了阿拉山口市建设丝绸之路经济带国际物流节点城市的可行性,并就阿拉山口在建成丝绸之路经济带国际物流节点城市中的制约因素做了阐述,从区域发展的战略角度出发,提出将阿拉山口经济区设定为丝绸之路经济带建设的先导示范区,将阿拉山口市规划培育成为中亚区域性国际物流节点城市的对策。     

海滨城市旅游目的地非功用性定位研究——以大连为例

全球化背景下旅游产品的同质化增强,传统依靠功用属性定位的方法日渐乏力。纳入"情感选择"和"自我一致"机制,研究开发并实际阐释了一个目的地非功用性定位的概念模型。以海滨城市目的地大连相对于其北方4个竞争对手的重定位分析为案例,借助实证研究,识别出最佳情感形象和品牌个性定位因子。最终,提出了对大连非功用性定位的建议性战略,并对研究的理论和实践启示进行了总结。     

城市测绘数字化技术综述

测绘技术在城市建设工程中占有重要的作用,尤其在现代化科学技术迅速发展的时期,测绘技术数字化的迅速发展更是顺应了时代的需求,以先进的技术为城市工程带来高效、精确地数据依据。如今我国的测绘技术已成为获取数字城市空间数据的重要技术,下面本文就针对测绘技术在数字城市中的应用与发展进行了论述。     

Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of ‘Command and Control’

The article argues that the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the global economy as being subject to ‘command and control’ results from that contention being a neo‐Marxist myth. First, imagining the global economy as being subject to ‘highly concentrated command’ through the function of some major cities as ‘strategic sites’ for the production of ‘command and control’ is traced back through several neo‐Marxist authors to narrate its genesis, and to argue that the lack of evidence for that proposition is a consequence of those antecedents envisioning capitalism as a totalizing structure, thus making the assumption that it is subject to control and coordination from a distance. Second, Taylor's interlocking world city network model is forensically examined to explain that it is fallacious because it is a structuralism that, bedevilled by a sorites paradox, contains the further problem of containing no credible evidence for the existence of ‘command centres’. Finally, the article moves beyond neo‐Marxism's key concepts by juxtaposing their assumptions with ethnographic results from social studies of finance, a manoeuvre which forges an understanding of cities as socio‐technical assemblages and eventful multiplicities, beyond, inter alia, the baseless assumption that the global economy is subject to ‘command and control’.