Charleston's newfound “entertainment zone”: should we be concerned?

This CIT Research Letter addresses issues related to the night-time economy and the rapid proliferation of bars along a section of a tourism oriented city's main street. Merely 10 years ago, locals did not frequent the area, it was of no interest to tourists, and it was regarded as a neighbourhood where one would not want to walk, especially at night. However, with the area's transformation to the nightlife centre of the city, issues have arisen that are of concern to city government officials. This paper considers these concerns.     

简述建筑设计与城市设计的关系

建筑设计与城市设计在许多理论和观点上是一致的,它们在设计上有共同交集的部分。但由于二者在城市建设中,处在不同层面,担当着不同角色,有着各自不同的利益,不免会产生矛盾。本文就我国的发展状况简单叙述如何处理好建筑设计与城市设计的关系,旨在提升城市的品位。     

我国城市居民最低生活保障制度发展与完善研究——以长沙市为例

我国城市居民最低生活保障制度是我国实施比较成功的一项社会救助制度。目前，长沙的低保制度在制度设计和运行方面仍存在消极的救助取向、平均式的救助标准、配套政策的负激励效应以及管理监督体系不健全等一些问题。为此，有必要对其进行探索改革，通过采取积极的福利政策、制定科学的保障标准，推行分类施助和差异救助、建立健全低保制度的管理监督体系等积极措施解决其存在的问题，更好地发挥最低生活保障制度的有效功能。     

The Primacy of Space in Politics: Bargaining Rights,Freedom and Power in an İstanbul Neighborhood

This article explores and theorizes the ways in which urban space and political contestations are mapped onto each other. The ethnography illustrates the multifaceted transformations in a notoriously secularist neighborhood of ?stanbul, Te?vikiye, as it first turns into a high‐consumption locality in the post‐1980s, then into a high‐conflict urban space in the new millennium on the arrival of Muslim high‐spenders, particularly headscarved women. Aiming to fill the gap left by the absence of spatial analysis from political science and political sociology, I argue that the urban neighborhood becomes central for political contestation when both government and opposition fail to protect and secure liberties and rights. Now that devout Muslims are integrated into highly contested urban sites and share bourgeois lifestyles, ordinary people act in defense of their ‘sphere’ of freedom and privacy. This new territoriality is largely symptomatic of increasing fears of losing freedom, privacy and social status. This spatial defensiveness is reinforced by people's decreasing trust in, and increasing demands from, the state for the protection and security of their rights and liberties. My overarching argument is that exclusive attention to the bipolar clash between devout Muslims and secularists under the rubric of ‘neighborhood wars’ obscures multipolar conflicts around the discontents stemming from authoritarianism and democratization.     

Neoliberalization,Housing Institutions and Variegated Gentrification: How the ‘Third Wave’ Broke in Amsterdam

Neil Smith argues that in the last two decades gentrification has become a generalized global urban phenomenon. His theory is at a high level of abstraction, as it links urban gentrification to globalization, financial capitalism and neoliberalization. With these global processes, all cities have experienced ‘third wave’ gentrification. The theory, however, leaves little room for variegations of gentrification, apart from characterizing geographical differences as idiosyncrasies or as minor variations. This downplays the role of intervening mechanisms that impinge upon the pursuit and social outcomes of gentrification. This article aims to amend abstract theory by looking at Amsterdam from a historical institutional perspective. In Amsterdam, gentrification was particularly made possible by a process of neoliberalization within the housing system. However, as institutional change is incremental and based on layering and conversion, many older institutional arrangements remain in place. These arrangements tend to slow gentrification and assuage social consequences. Nevertheless, neoliberal modifications to the housing system have been accelerating the pursuit of gentrification. Current policies will very likely lead to exclusionary displacement.     

社区变迁对区域经济的影响分析

社区变迁影响着区域经济的发展,社区在发展过程中所形成的固有优势影响着社区的进一步发展,社区的规模和制度创新引导着资源向城市、社区的流动,资源流动和资源优势使区域经济发展出现新的格局,区域经济的发展依赖于城市群经济和海洋经济的发展。     

浅谈公交优先对城市综合发展的作用

随着城市规模的扩大和城市人口的增加,城市交通的压力也正在不断加剧,公交优先的方向应当始终坚持。实行公交优惠票价政策,体现了社会资源共享的公平性和经济合理性,有助于缓解交通拥堵,减轻大气污染保护环境,也有助于建立和谐社会,促进城市繁荣和城市综合发展。     

城市群产业协调发展研究综述

通过回顾国内外城市群产业协调发展的文献,梳理城市群产业协调发展的相关概念内涵,总结协调发展的研究内容和调控措施,发现城市群产业协调发展概念缺乏明确的界定,理论发展滞后于新形势下不断丰富的协调内容。提出未来需继续构建并完善城市群产业协调发展理论体系,拓展城市群产业协调发展评价指标体系。     

The trend of the Gini coefficient of China (1978–2010)

ABSTRACT

This study proposes a new approach to analyse the effects of an overlap term on the calculation of the overall Gini coefficient and estimates China’s Gini ratios since the adoption of the economic reform and open-door policies. A decomposition of the Chinese Gini coefficient for 1978–2010 reveals that the key factor contributing to income inequalities is the income disparity between rural and urban inhabitants. We further investigate the features of this income inequality between rural and urban areas and employ statistical approaches to evaluate the effects of urbanisation and rural-to-urban average income on nationwide income inequality. The results show that accelerating the pace of urbanisation is mainly responsible for decreasing China’s income disparity. Drawing on these results, we conclude with suggestions for related policies.     

我国居民收入分配差距分析

现阶段我国居民的收入分配差距呈现出不断扩大的总体趋势,具体表现在城乡之间、地区之间、行业之间.对此,必须及时采取有效措施解决居民收入差距扩大化带来的问题.