农民自办文化:新农村文化建设的着力点

农村文化建设是社会主义新农村建设的重要组成部分。要想让农村文化建设走上健康的发展道路,必须发挥农民这一主体在农村文化建设中的作用,让农民自办农村文化是农村文化建设的重要内容,这也是社会主义新农村建设的本质所在。     

城市土地利用效率的综合评价

从城市土地利用的社会效益、经济效益和生态环境效益三个目标出发,构建了城市土地利用效率的评价指标体系,并对城市土地利用效率的多属性综合评价方法进行了分析.     

东北地区城镇化的类型、特点及问题

改革开放以来,东北地区城镇化有了新的发展,大城市数量成倍增长,涌现出一批新型城镇,小城镇建设取得长足进步;东北地区城镇化具有鲜明特点,主要是大城市群集中,城镇化水平高,城镇类型齐全,同时存在城镇分布不均衡、农村城镇化发育不充分、资源枯竭型城镇转型任务重和城镇化率虚高等问题.     

京平高速公路对沿线农村城镇化的影响

高速公路的建设使沿线区域的潜在优势得以发挥,促进了产业结构的优化和区域经济的发展,对农村城镇化进程具有重要影响.对京平高速沿线农村城镇化发展条件及现状进行了实证分析,按照各地优势资源的不同,探讨了各种城镇化类型的最佳路径.     

农村居民点用地调控与城乡一体化

农村居民点用地的盲目、无序发展将对社会经济发展产生诸多不利影响,对农村居民点用地演化进行科学的调控和引导,对加快城乡一体化进程以及促进社会主义新农村建设具有重要意义.在对农村居民点用地演化调控的内涵以及指导思想进行分析的基础上,提出了农村居民点用地调控的主要内容,并对调控过程中的关键策略进行了论述.     

从演进经济学视角解读城市形成原因

从经济学演进变迁的视角,梳理不同时期经济学家对城市形成原因的不同解说,可以内在统一地解释城市的形成规律,也能给当前我国的城市发展和城市化进程以理论启示.     

城市郊区化模式比较与我国的选择——以英美澳日等国为例

英美澳日四个发达国家分布在文化背景不同的四个大陆,其城市化进程的模式不完全相同,尤其是后城市化阶段表现出的特点更加鲜明.对比分析发现,四个国家的城市化进程中在政府政策、城乡关系、不同规模的城市所起的作用等诸多方面存在着差别,英澳日等国的政府在投资、规划以及法律建设等方面的介入发挥着重要作用,而美国则是市场机制起主导作用的城市化模式.发达国家取得的这些经验对于我国的城市发展有非常重要的借鉴意义.     

Creative Mediations of the City: Contemporary Public Art as Compass of Metro Manila's Urban Conditions

In this article, public art is proposed as creative agency mobilized to form urban imaginaries. These alternate visions are largely facilitated by artists and art collectives using urban communities as performative grounds. These projects promote a view of art as an effective channel for ‘recentering’ — the identification of a multitude of centers that endlessly fracture and shift, very much resembling the nature of cities themselves. An alternate vision of the city through cartography informed by contrast, temporality and ephemerality is proposed alongside dominant representations of the city. Works by artists Alma Quinto, Mark Salvatus and Wire Tuazon are representative examples of such strategies. Diverse in tactics and platforms, defined by site‐specific mediations, the projects facilitated by these artists reveal the uneven conditions that beset Metro Manila and its outlying areas. Quinto's altered Urban Plan/Duyan is the result of her engagement with women in an informal settler community in San Andres Bukid, Manila, while Salvatus's web‐based Neo‐Urban Planner is an astute observation of the obsessive yet futile ordering of people and space by the state. Tuazon's Amphibian installation is a commentary on the encroachment of multinational interests in local communities. These interventions are foils to state‐ and private‐led urban development schemes. Their strength lies in their direct engagement with the sphere of public dialogue and self‐determination. These artistic practices and strategies are shaped by community interaction, revealing that meanings residing in urban forms are relentlessly negotiated by the numerous actors that inhabit the city.     

The best of both worlds: how rural entrepreneurs use placial embeddedness and strategic networks to create opportunities

Entrepreneurial activities are strongly influenced by the context in which they occur. It is therefore imperative to understand how different contexts enable entrepreneurs to create opportunities. In this paper, we focus on the spatial context of rural entrepreneurs and explore how the rural context impacts on their opportunity creation. Based on a multiple case study, we find that rural entrepreneurs mix what we refer to as placial embeddedness – an intimate knowledge of and concern for the place – with strategically built non-local networks, i.e. the best of two worlds. Notably, the entrepreneurs seek to exhaust the localized resource base before seeking out non-local resources. Our findings thus contribute to our understanding of entrepreneurship in context and challenge future research to explore how different forms of contexts are bridged in different settings to create varieties of entrepreneurial activities.     

Financial social innovation to engage the economically marginalized: insights from an Indian case study

Abstract

New sources of finance within the label of ‘impact investing’ have emerged as mechanisms to promote entrepreneurship within marginalized communities. Different vehicles for impact investment have emerged over the years; however, our understanding around their emergence, configuration and adoption is limited. Hence, the main purpose in this research is to study the role of the contextual drivers and conditions that gave rise to a unique form of impact investment in India, a financial social innovation – developmental venture capital (DVC). Through the lens of capital theories, insights from the case of India’s largest and oldest DVC firm along with three of its most prominent investees are presented. Findings highlight that the social entrepreneurs behind the case DVC wholly re-conceptualized silicon valley-style venture capital financing to suit small brick and mortar investments in rural India, developed mechanisms for deploying funding frugally, and created partnerships of equals between themselves and their investees. Investee founders leveraged human and social capital throughout the social innovation process via deep immersion in the socio-cultural milieu of India.