Geographies of Algorithmic Violence: Redlining the Smart City

City governments are embracing data-driven and algorithmic planning to tackle urban problems. Data-driven analytics have an unprecedented capacity to call urban futures into being. At the same time, they can depoliticize planning decisions. I argue that this shift calls urban studies scholars to investigate geographies of algorithmic violence—a repetitive and standardized form of violence that contributes to the racialization of space and spatialization of poverty. This article examines this broader phenomenon through the case of a proprietary market value assessment that is being used to guide development in cities across the United States. The assessment employs an algorithm that helps city officials make critical decisions about which neighborhoods to target for investment, disinvestment and public service upgrades or disconnections. I argue that the racial, infrastructural, and epistemological violence associated with this evaluation can potentially lead to a new kind of municipal redlining. The article brings insights from critical race theory into conversation with critical scholarship on algorithms by analyzing how algorithmic violence works through data-driven planning technologies to depoliticize and leverage power while further entrenching racism and inequality.     

Paradigm Shifts in Social Housing after Welfare-State Transformation: Learning from the German Experience

Welfare-state transformation and entrepreneurial urban politics in Western welfare states since the late 1970s have yielded converging trends in the transformation of the dominant Fordist paradigm of social housing in terms of its societal function and institutional and spatial form. In this article I draw from a comparative case study on two cities in Germany to show that the resulting new paradigm is simultaneously shaped by the idiosyncrasies of the country's national housing regime and local housing policies. While German governments have successively limited the societal function of social housing as a legitimate instrument only for addressing exceptional housing crises, local policies on providing and organizing social housing within this framework display significant variation. However, planning and design principles dominating the spatial forms of social housing have been congruent. They may be interpreted as both an expression of the marginalization of social housing within the restructured welfare housing regime and a tool of its implementation according to the logics of entrepreneurial urban politics.     

现代网络型城市的区域规划理论思辨--长株潭地区的案例

借鉴城市地区网络化组织新理论,对全球化时代城市空间发展的非场所性进行研究,对传统中心地规划理论下的长株潭城市地区发展政策和概念性规划研究工作进行反思,提出了建设长株潭地区网络型城市地区的建议.     

城市边缘区大型公共设施的规划

本文从大型公共设施在边缘区发展的影响因素入手 ,借鉴、分析国外的经验和教训 ,研究大型公共设施的建设与城市演变的关系 ,提出大型公共设施的建设应从城市发展战略、城市交通体系与政策、城市经济与环境以及城市建筑设计等多角度进行综合一体化规划设计 ,并以此促进城市重要建设项目的规划选址、规模布局、建筑计划等工作程序进一步规范和完善     

北京市城乡劳动力统筹就业问题研究

北京市城乡劳动力统筹就业存在的主要问题是：宏观缺乏指导，就业渠道不畅和劳动力素质偏低。推进城乡统筹就业的原则是：将农村富余劳动力转移与城市就业、再就业置于同等地位，既要统筹兼顾北京市农村和城镇劳动力，又要统筹兼顾北京市和外省市劳动力，最终建立起城乡一体的、公平竞争的、高效有序的劳动力市场，促进城乡劳动力充分就业。主要对策有：出台统一指导农村劳动力转移就业的相关政策，完善农村就业服务体系，加强流动劳动力的监控力度，完善资金支持体系，扶持骨干乡镇企业发展。     

试论城乡发展差距的统计监测

在传统经济向现代经济转变过程中城乡发展差距的出现有一定的必然性,但过大的城乡差距如果长期存在也会带来一系列严重的社会问题,因此必须加强对差距大小的监测分析.本文专题探讨了开展城乡发展差距统计监测的意义、城乡发展差距统计监测体系基本框架的构建、以及实施城乡发展差距统计监测的保障措施.     

统筹城乡经济发展的策略研究

目前,我国经济社会发展中的一个突出问题是城乡差距扩大,这个问题如果解决不好,社会和经济生活中的矛盾就会更加突出,从而影响国民经济和社会的持续、稳定、协调、健康发展.针对这一问题,文章提出了具体的应对策略.     

浅析公共艺术在当代城市建设中的意义

本文就公共艺术在当代城市建设中的意义进行研究与探讨,提出作为艺术性的创造物和作为城市景观环境的重要组成部分,公共艺术对营造美好环境,提升环境场所的艺术格调,增强环境场所的文化氛围,加强场所环境的指示性,调节心理、缓解压力以及创造强大的经济效益等方面具有重要的作用和现实的意义。     

城市污水和垃圾处理的市场化机制研究

分析城市污水和垃圾处理市场化的现状及存在问题，研究发达国家的成功经验，提出我国城市污水和垃圾处理市场化的模式和所要采取的措施．     

浅谈城市市政工程建设与管理

市政工程与市民的生活质量休戚相关。城市市政建设、设计、规划和管理是全方位的,要求市政工程的外观景观设计、规划、文明施工、环境的日常管理等,都要纳入正规化、标准化管理。