会展业与城市软实力互动发展的辩证思考

软实力对城市经济的发展具有重要影响,作为创意经济和城市经济重要组成部分的会展业,其在发展推进中与城市软实力能够互动提升,相互促进.城市能够为会展业提供完善的基础设施、集聚的产业支撑和先进的科技文化等条件;现代会展业对城市软实力的提升包括塑造城市品牌、提升城市形象、给城市带来文化效应等.城市软实力在提升过程也能推动城市会展业品质的提升,如吸引更多优质会展项目落户、提高会展项目内涵等,二者相撑相持.     

New lamps for old: financialised governance of cities and clean energy

ABSTRACT

Using a six-year case study of Glasgow’s Sustainable City business model, this paper examines interactions between financialised governance of cities and clean energy strategies. Research on the role of cities in developing clean energy has paid limited attention to the interaction with financialised governance of infrastructure, which makes the implementation of plans largely dependent on private investment. A conceptual approach combining economic sociology of actor networks and urban political economy is used to analyse the career of the business model designed to transform old infrastructures into new clean energy assets. The analysis focuses on interactions between city council, public bodies and electricity distribution network business. Climate policies are creating uncertainties for energy businesses over revenues from ageing networks, suggesting scope for alliance with local governments. Making new liquid assets for clean energy from old infrastructure is however shown to be a process marked by instability and reversals. In conclusion, it is argued that concepts from actor-network theory and urban political economy used together reveal the hidden contingencies of financialisation in particular socio-technical interactions, and their materiality in the context of climate change.     

Governance for system optimization and system change: The case of urban waste

This paper analyses urban waste systems to explore how local authorities can resolve challenges related to climate change, urbanization and resource depletion. The paper investigates how different public governance regimes affect local authorities’ ability to move upwards in the waste hierarchy. It identifies three different governance regimes – traditional bureaucracy, new public management and networked governance – and uses the insights from innovation in urban waste in three Norwegian city regions – Oslo, Drammen and Bergen – to illuminate how these regimes possess both strengths and weaknesses in how they affect system optimization and system change. The observed working practices signal that the issue of urban waste systems is perceived as a challenge of system optimization rather than system change. Viewing this as a challenge requiring system change would probably have ensured a stronger directionality and a broader anchoring of actors. Such an approach is likely to have arrived at a waste prevention mode earlier than the step-by-step-solutions implemented so far. The paper concludes that there is not one best governance regime, but a need to acknowledge their co-existence and carefully consider the characteristics of the respective regimes in order to arrange urban waste systems for long-term dynamic and sustainable city regions.     

From objects to subjects: Repositioning teachers as policy actors doing policy work

Within policy discourses, teachers are positioned as objects of reform who enact policies under rational systems of observation and accountability and are, therefore, situated as de-professionalized actors lacking expert knowledge. This research project asks relatively straight-forward questions: If practicing teachers were given a voice in political debates over urban education policy and reform, what would they say? What macro-level policy problems would they identify as being important? Findings indicate the primary policy problems include Systemic Inequity and Bad Policy. The primary policy solutions include, Schools as a Community Resource; Shared Decision-Making; Contextual Goals; and Time, Space and Resources.     

Motivation profiles of urban preservice teachers: Relations to socialization,initial career perceptions,and demographics

Given the perennial challenge of attracting and retaining high-quality teachers, especially in large cities, there is a need to understand why preservice teachers in urban districts choose a teaching career, their perceptions of the profession, and how these relate to their initial career commitments and aspirations. Using latent profile analysis, we examined patterns of motivational perceptions with variables from the Factors Influencing Teacher Choice model alongside perceived task effort cost, opportunity cost, and emotional cost of teaching within a diverse sample of 630 preservice teachers. We identified four distinct profiles that differentially related to theorized antecedents (prior teaching and learning experiences, social encouragement, fallback career) and outcomes (satisfaction, planned persistence, planned professional development, leadership aspirations). Race, gender and certification-level were distributed in unique patterns across profiles. Results provide a holistic perspective of preservice teacher motivations and indicate that perceived costs in relation to FIT Choice variables were a defining characteristic of motivational patterns.     

鞍山城市形象广告的文化建构

重点从广告定位、广告媒体整合、视觉化广告等角度入手来探讨鞍山城市形象广告的文化建构，以期更好地打造鞍山城市形象，进一步促进鞍山的旅游经济与招商引资工作。     

中国产业结构变动对城市贫困的影响分析

产业结构变动无疑是影响城市贫困的重要因素之一。从理论上分析,产业结构的变动首先影响到各产业、各行业之间的劳动力数量及其构成,并进而对居民的收入结构产生影响,不同收入者表现出不同的贫困发生概率;但就现实情况而言,由于多种因素的共同作用,产业结构变动对城市贫困的影响可能并不明显。我国20世纪90年代前后的产业结构变动对城市贫困的作用过程就说明了这一点。     

细柳营与咸阳

历史文献和参考资料表明:以西汉名将周亚夫治军严明而闻名于世的细柳营,其具体位置就在今咸阳市城区西部吕村一带。研究细柳的的历史文化,重现昔日的细柳景观,应是当前咸阳城市建设不可或缺的课题。     

城市空间结构决定的城市功能模式探讨

现代城市化的过程就是产业要素空间集聚的过程,城市为产业要素的流动和配置提供了空间平台,而不同空间结构的城市类型又表现出不同的功能。     

开掘城市理念提升鞍山形象

城市经营的核心和依据是城市理念。本文从历史延续、产业现状及城市行为、城建风格等方面就鞍山市城市理念的开掘进行了探讨，明确了鞍山市诚信、实力、开放的城市理念。