Promoting smart cities in developing countries: Policy insights from Vietnam

Smart city initiatives have been researched primarily in the developed country context. In developing countries, however, emerging technologies are enabling progress on urban functionality, productivity, and livability. A deeper understanding of facilitative policy conditions unique to developing countries would be useful to both theory and practice. This study presents empirically grounded insights about the policy implications of smart city development in developing countries, based on surveys of experts from the public and private sectors in 10 Vietnam cities. The study makes three contributions. First, it provides new evidence that pursuing smart city development (SCD) is not a mere alternative but a crucial strategic imperative. While facing persistent problems, Vietnam's cities exhibit significant and rapidly improving readiness for SCD. Second, the study provides new insights into related policy issues and challenges, including the positive link between e-government development and control of corruption, the risk of bias toward operational management over institutional reform, and the lack of a clear development strategy. Finally, the study proposes a model for guiding smart city initiatives in developing countries.     

A Missing Citizen? Issue Based Citizenship in City-Regional Planning

City regions are significant sites of economic development, policymaking, and everyday living. Yet in many countries they are weakly institutionalized and therefore lack established democratic practices. This article is based on a study exploring citizen participation in city-regional planning in Finland, where traditional participatory means have largely failed to invite and involve citizens. The analysis approaches city regions relationally, as evolving processes with a changing spatial shape and scope. Through the notion of lived citizenship, including the dimensions of status, practices and acts, the article reveals how the dominant ideas of citizenship in city-regional planning hide from view elements that are significant for citizen participation. Whereas people's rights to participation can largely be fulfilled on a territorial basis in municipalities and states through legal membership in political communities, in the context of weakly institutionalized city-regional planning such status-based forms of participation are typically not available. This vagueness has created an image of a missing city-regional citizenry, which the article sets out to challenge and rework through the notion of issue-based participation as lived citizenship.     

关于上海“十四五”发展的若干思路与设想

“十四五”是我国改革开放以来国内外形势最为复杂的五年,也是我国在百年变局之际进一步推动高质量发展的关键五年。上海将在新阶段起点上全面深化“五个中心”建设,提升城市能级和核心竞争力,加快建设具有世界影响力的社会主义现代化国际大都市,形成发展新格局。     

澳大利亚水敏城市设计(WSUD)演进及 对海绵城市建设的启示

海绵城市建设需要多层面、全方位综合推进，针对目前中国海绵城市建设中面临的问题，通过解析澳大利亚城市水管理目标的转型及水敏城市设计(WSUD)演进过程，将水敏城市设计演进分为萌芽、产生、示范及应用4个阶段，进而分析其演进中的成功经验与前沿趋势，为我国当前海绵城市建设与低影响开发景观规划设计以启示与借鉴。认为我国海绵城市建设需要从行政与制度建设、设计科学依据、项目监测与评价、项目示范推广，以及处置序列合理组织5个方面进行改进与突破，从而真正实现海绵城市的建设目标。     

城市物流系统模式的统计划分方法

本文首先论证了构建中心城市物流系统的必要性；其次以中心城市流通客体的流向、流量为主要参数，综合考虑影响中心城市物流系统的经济因素、产业结构和物流基础设施水平等，得出中心城市物流系统的三种模型，即产出型、消费型和综合型物流系统。     

论"经营城市"的必然性及其风险

经营城市是将城市各种资源视为有经济价值的商品,按照价值规律要求进行市场化运筹,以扩大城市发展所需的资金来源.经营城市客观上容易扩张城市建设规模,产生大量的财政赤字和过度负债,形成经营风险.而为弥补建设资金缺口所采取的土地、市政基础设施和城市无形资产等的经营,又进一步扩大了风险波及范围.     

工业化进程中的路径依赖及“闭锁”退出：广东省个案

路径依赖意味着工业化可能进入良性循环的轨道并迅速优化,也可能顺着原来的错误路径下滑而进入"闭锁"状态;当工业化进入不良的路径依赖时,恰当的政策可以引导其转入良性的方向。广东东莞的例证表明,对外资经济和粗放型增长方式的路径依赖导致"产业空洞化"、环境污染加剧、人才缺失等危机;建立自由的市场机制,打造城市核心竞争力,加强区域合作,塑造文化形象,形成全面策动的人才机制,有利于东莞退出工业化的不良路径依赖。     

西宁市房地产市场存在的问题及思考

近年来,西宁市房地产市场发展总体是理性的、健康的,一定程度上带动了社会经济的发展。但运行中也存在住房供应结构局部不合理等问题,若不加以重视,必然会影响到西宁市经济的进一步发展和社会的全面进步。本文试图通过对住房供应结构失衡问题及产生的负面影响的分析,探索满足中低收入家庭住房消费需求、实现住房小康的思路与对策。     

资源型城市的专业商贸物流发展初探——谈广东省云浮市的石材专业商贸物流发展

以广东省云浮市为案例,初步探讨了资源型城市专业商贸物流业的发展,阐述了资源型城市专业商贸物流的形成机制、发展路径和发展专业商贸物流的积极意义。