The Engineer and The Plumber: Mediating Mumbai's Conflicting Infrastructural Imaginaries

Two decades ago, the rules governing the provision of piped municipal water supply in Mumbai became linked to the policy frameworks governing eligibility for a property titling scheme. This article outlines the ideological basis and practical implications of the shift, as well as the contradictions of the new regulatory regime. The article demonstrates how these contradictions have been mediated by the material and practical knowledge, embodied expertise, local authority and wide‐ranging socio‐political work of two sets of actors: municipal water engineers and a cast of characters known locally as ‘plumbers’. The social, political and hydraulic imaginaries animating the work of ‘plumbing’ are bound up with a temporal and spatial imaginary distinctly at odds with the network‐flow conception of hydraulic engineering within which the work of water supply planning and distribution in Mumbai is conceptualized, materialized and institutionalized. The hydraulic and legal contradictions of these clashing infrastructural idioms––of flow and event––have rendered the regulatory framework highly unstable. These contradictions eventually erupted in Mumbai's waterscape, leaving the city's water infrastructures suspended in a highly politicized state of limbo between dueling infrastructural imaginaries.     

辽宁省旅游资源地区差异研究

以辽宁省14个地级市为单位，分别对各市旅游资源的、数量(包括丰度和密度)、组合状况、可达性、质量等方面进行了定性、定量评价及市际间横向比较。大连市、沈阳市综合旅游资源优势明显，本溪市、丹东市、营口市、鞍山市、锦州市综合旅游资源水平较高，抚顺市、辽阳市、阜新市、葫芦岛市综合旅游资源水平一般，朝阳市、盘锦市综合旅游资源水平较低。全省各市综合旅游资源水平与旅游总收入还有一定的差异，反映出旅游开发和管理现状及潜力。     

搞好中小城市绿化建设的几点思考

作者根据自身的实践 ,认为中小城市绿化建设应树立四种意识 :一是树立“规划见绿”理念 ,对城市绿化也要编制总体规划和详细规划 ,并构思布局一批特色绿化工程 ;二要强化“空间绿化”意识 ,以城市道路轴线 ,构建绿化网络 ,扩展绿色绿量 ;三要树立“精品绿化”意识 ,提高绿化质量 ,打造草坪、花坛、公园、街道等名牌 ,四要树立“市场经营”意识 ,建立起多元联动、全社会参与的城市绿化投融资新机制。     

不同区位小城镇成长理论与模型--以欠发达地区为例

通过分析和论证不同区位时欠发达地区小城镇成长的影响,并与发达地区小城镇成长的区位条件相比较,揭示了欠发达地区小城镇成长的区位独特性以及区位制约机制,探讨了不同区位条件下小城镇成长的不同模式.     

Land use externalities, open space preservation, and urban sprawl

Parcel data on residential land conversion are used to investigate how land use externalities influence the rate of development and modify policies designed to manage urban growth and preserve open space. Several “smart growth” policies are found to significantly influence land conversion, including a development clustering policy that concentrates development and generates preserved open space. In addition to directly affecting a parcel's hazard rate of conversion, this policy is found to affect neighboring parcels' conversion by generating a positive open space externality that hastens their development. The implication that the clustering policy could generate a more sprawled pattern of development is explored using spatial simulation.     

江苏沿江八市物流联合配送初探

首先论述了沿江八市（南京、苏州、无锡、常州、镇江、南通、扬州、泰州），实行联合配送的必要性，其次分析了沿江八市实行联合配送的优势条件，探讨了沿江八市实行联合配送的难点之所在及解决办法，最后着重就沿江八市实行联合配送的神经中枢——联合配送信息平台的构建，提出了一些看法和建议。     

城镇市政设施投资项目特点与后评价

明确了城镇市政设施及城镇市政设施投资项目的定义,分析了城镇市政设施投资项目的特点,揭示了城镇市政设施投资项目后评价的必要性及意义,呼吁全社会重视和关注城镇市政设施项目后评价及城镇市政设施项目的投资效果。     

中国城镇化进程中社会保障制度的城乡统筹

长期以来,我国实行城乡二元保障格局和严格的户籍管理制度, 使城乡居民享受不平等的社会保障待遇,导致城乡隔离和分割,限制了农村剩余劳动力的转移和向城市的流动,延缓了我国城市化进程.适应城镇化建设需要,构建一元化的社会保障制度是中国社会保障制度设计的终极目标.根据当前实际,应从户籍制度改革、城乡社会保障项目整合、制度完善等方面采取对策措施.     

中国城镇劳动力供求及失业率短期预测

近年来,随着改革的深化及一些深层次矛盾的暴露,失业问题日益突出,成为当前中国经济生活中的一个重要问题。本文在《中国统计年鉴:2003》公布的数据基础上,对中国城镇范围内劳动力的短期供求状况和失业率进行了预测,并从中得到了一些有益的启示。     

浅析物流信息化与资源节约型城市的可持续发展

21世纪是全球物流发展的时代,其中信息在物流中发挥重要的作用。全社会掀起物流信息化建设的热潮,资源节约型城市要抓住这一有利时机,充分利用有利信息来发展物流业,实现经济的转型,从而保证本地经济的持续、健康、稳定的发展。本文从分析物流信息化与资源节约型城市的可持续发展关系入手,指出目前其原型城市在物流信息化建设中存在的问题及形成的原因,最后提出合理的建议。