Marketplace orchestration of taste: insights from the Bridgewater Hall

ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to explore how a concert hall can orchestrate and shape individuals’ classical music tastes. The paper is based on an 8-month ethnography at the Bridgewater Hall concert venue in Manchester. Our emergent findings illustrate how classical music tastes are influenced via the spatial meanings of the concert hall. These meanings include various physical, historical and sociocultural aspects that are revealed in the context of the Bridgewater Hall. Our study contributes to various streams of consumer culture theory research and opens up avenues for future research on the interrelationships of space and place with taste.     

风景建筑五说

总结了笔者多年从事风景建筑设计的若干思考,讨论了风景建筑设计的相关问题。从建筑教育中对待城市及景观的态度论及建筑师的自然观,继而从风景建筑选址、场所感营造、地形地貌处理、建筑师对待遗存的态度、建筑的体量感及中心性控制、建筑风格与形式,以及风景建筑的材料选择与建构逻辑等方面展开论述,最后从方法论视角探讨了风景建筑设计的2种途径：哲学的途径和体验的途径。     

旅游地空间商品化的形式与影响研究--以云南省丽江古城为例

20世纪70年代法国学者亨利·勒菲弗尔(Henri Lefebvre)提出"空间生产理论",认为空间是在人类主体的有意识活动中被不断生产出来的.如果以勒菲弗尔(Lefebvre)空间生产概念为分析工具,旅游地空间也是在发展旅游业、刺激民众消费、获取经济效益等社会背景下被创造、生产出来的.人们以符号的制造与运用赋予地方价值,再把地方意象赋予实质可消费物品,提高商品的交换价值.旅游生产系统通过销售"地方",获取多重服务与消费之后的利润;游客则借由消费内含了丰富地方意象的物质商品和服务而消费地方.文章以社会学和旅游研究中的分析概念为工具,以丽江古城为案例,尝试分析在具有自然或文化特性的旅游地,地方符号被应用于商品消费的具体方式,以及具公共性的观光空间,如何被纳入到私人商品消费的范畴,并由此探究旅游地空间商品化的过程以及空间商品化对当地社会文化的影响,希望对今天的地方旅游规划和文化保护工作有所帮助.     

城市区位研究的回顾与评述

回顾了中心地理论提出以来国内外学者关于城市区位的相关研究,包括对中心地理论的修正与检验,基于该理论的城市体系空间分布模式研究,及其在聚落体系规划和中心城市服务功能研究中的应用等;总结了空间结构理论对城市区位研究的拓展,以及基于城市区位理论的城市形成发展动力相关研究;对城市区位相关研究的趋势和问题进行了评述.     

城市地名规划及命名规则

随着城市化的迅速推进,城市各类地名大量出现,城市地名管理面临诸多问题.由于城市地名重要的实用指位价值和历史文化价值,同时,"有偿地名"开始出现并成为"经营城市"的一个方面,因此,应将城市道路地名规划等作为专项规划纳入统一的城市规划体系之中.鉴于城市地名规划尚不能完全解决所有问题,建议还须制定"城市地名命名规则",该规则应按照不同类型、区域和级别的地名规定命名原则,使各类地名(如道路、居住区、建筑物等)形成体系(通名系列),各区地名(按照城市发展时序和空间分隔)形成特色(专名),各级地名(重要地名和一般地名)由不同级别机构或业主个体,经由不同程序,区分有偿无偿等来确定.     

内地与香港更紧密经贸关系的法律规制与保障——CEPA环境下货物贸易的法律适用问题

CEPA协议的实施对内地与香港的经贸合作起了很大的推动作用,零关税规定使内地与香港之间逐步成为自由贸易区域。但在CEPA的实施过程中,仍然存在着一些问题,如CEPA条件下港产品零关税规定对广东市场造成的冲击;现行香港原产地规则未能与实际情况相适应;原产地证书申领期限长、核查程序复杂等。这些问题在CEPA实施中应予以完善。     

The implications of differing tourist/resident perceptions for community-based resource management: a Hawaiian coastal resource area study

Despite globally increasing interest in restoring local-level management of natural resources, few studies examine differences between residents’ and tourists’ place connections and implications for community-based natural resource management. This article reports findings from a survey (n = 264) in Haena, Kauai, Hawaii, where resource management is shifting from state-level government to local residents. Tasked with creating new, local-level rules governing use of coastal resources, Haena community members must consider the perspectives, resource use, and values of residents as well as of multiple, diverse user groups including the burgeoning tourist population. We found significant differences in how residents and tourists learn about the area; the activities in which they engage; their perceptions of resource health; who they think is responsible for caretaking of resources; and their views of personal responsibilities to the place. The findings have implications for local-level resource management and use of popular tourist destinations including the importance of guidebooks in mediating visitor perceptions of a place, the possibility of concurrent but separate visitor and resident use of the same area, visitors’ and residents’ sense of responsibility to mitigate impacts of their actions, and the potential of engaging residents’ place caretaking preferences toward more organized community-based resource management efforts.     

Behavioral Adaptation of Alpine Skiers to Climate Change: Examining Activity Involvement and Place Loyalty

This study employed a visitor survey to analyze the influence that changing climatic conditions have on the substitution behaviors of alpine skiers (activity, spatial, temporal). It further focuses on the role that activity involvement plays in influencing behavioral adaptations (i.e., substitution) and also the extent to which place loyalty is affected. The Modified Involvement Scale (MIS) was used to segment respondents based on high, medium, and low levels of leisure involvement with activity. Highly involved skiers were more likely to change their skiing behavior as a result of poor snow conditions than were less involved individuals. Pritchard's Psychological Commitment Index (PCI) provided evidence that less involved skiers exhibit lower levels of commitment to particular service providers than do highly involved individuals.     

The “People” Aspect of Destination Attachment in International Tourism

The majority of research on place attachment has been conducted within a domestic context where local culture is fairly familiar to the visitor. International tourism research has begun to address destination attachment, but has not yet fully explored the concept where the people and the culture are substantially different. This research used in-depth qualitative interviews with international visitors to Thailand to examine the role of local people in destination attachment. Results show that one of the main attributes of international visitors’ attachment is the Thai people. A follow-on survey confirmed that “people attachment” is an integral part of the measurement of destination attachment.     

Potential responses by on-campus university students to a university emergency alert

University campuses across Canada and elsewhere are developing and implementing emergency alert systems to warn campus community members about a variety of threats. In this study, focus group discussions were used to examine how undergraduate students living on campus may respond to an emergency alert. A focus group activity used tornado, fire and threatening message alert messages to provide a context for the focus group discussions. After reading the warning message, most students understood the warning message but there was uncertainty about the non-specified threat and how and where to evacuate. Many would believe a message sent by the university as long as it was sent via a phone number that they associated with the university. Personalization of risk varied, and students reported that they would confirm a warning message with a variety of sources including student colleagues, faculty and teaching staff, television and internet sources. Taking protective action by sheltering in place was deemed to be feasible, however evacuation off campus was found to be problematic. We found that the nature of short message service text messages, the characteristics of universities, and the students’ home being in an on-campus residence influenced how the students may respond to an emergency alert message.