Study on Status Analysis and Countermeasures of Anhui Urbanization

2014 ◽  
Vol 1010-1012 ◽  
pp. 1344-1349
Author(s):  
Li Juan Zhu ◽  
Lu Yao Chen ◽  
Ping Fang
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Anhui Province ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
General Law ◽  
Power Base ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Urbanization Development ◽  
Status Analysis ◽  
The City

Urbanization is an inevitable path of economic and social development.It refers to the process which includes population aggregation to the city, expansion of urban scale and a series of economic and social change resulted from above. According to the general law of urbanization development, Anhui has entered the acceleration stage of urbanization. This paper attempts to analysis the situation of Anhui province in a comprehensive and system perspective, put forward empirical analysis of the situation, problems and the main constraints of urbanization of Anhui province, and then proposes the ways to speed up urbanization of Anhui province: powerfully develop the economy, strengthen the power base of urbanization; deepen reform of the system and promote the system innovation; adjust the industrial structure, vigorously develop the tertiary sector.

Urban Literature: A User’s Guide

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-805
Author(s):  
Carlo Rotella
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Urban Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Urbanization Development ◽  
Sister Carrie ◽  
The City

This article addresses urbanists in various fields—history, the social sciences, planning, and more—who are interested in incorporating literary works into their teaching and research and may be looking for critical approaches that connect such work to their own expertise. It begins from the premise that the traits that make a city a city present writers with opportunities to tell stories, experiment with form, make meaning, and otherwise exercise the literary imagination. When we use “urban literature” as a category of analysis, when we try to identify relationships between cities and the writing produced in and about them, we are asserting that this writing takes shape around confronting the city as a formal, social, and conceptual challenge. This article explores examples of texts ranging from Sister Carrie to I Am Legend and beyond that engage signature urban processes such as urbanization, development, and the dense overlap of orders.

The Speed of Place and the Space of Time: ­Toward a Theory of Postcolonial Velo/city

2018 ◽  
pp. 241-258
Author(s):  
Peter Hitchcock
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Will ◽  
Slow Violence ◽  
The City ◽  
Ecological Catastrophe

There are a number of reasons why an understanding of speed is vital to postcolonial critique, from how to read rates of ecological catastrophe (Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence) to unpacking the scalar profusions of disjuncture and difference (Arjun Appadurai’s Modernity at Large). I am particularly interested in the cultural representations of the postcolonial urban that distill and problematize the notion that all compressed modernization is simply an expression of speed up and the will-to-hegemony of neoliberal desire. Speed is at the heart of every city, but how does an understanding of velocity enable critique to think the city as postcolonial? Is decolonization measured by the rates in which urbanization is lived? To address the agon of lived postcoloniality in the city I will use two complementary concepts, the speed of place and the space of time. The aim is not to solve deep social and economic contradictions through cultural articulation but is to suggest that the postcolonial contemporary is also a problem of cognition.

Memahami Transformasi Urban di Asia: Belajar dari Kasus Jakarta

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Social Relation ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Growth Machine ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urbanization Development ◽  
The City

<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Amasis MT','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-AU">Urbanization is not a new phenomenon anymore, yet the ongoing worldwide urbanization now, seen from its dimension, acceleration, and complexity, is incomparable to the previous one. In many Asian countries, most people believe that creating a city as an economic growth machine is the only way to overcome the problem of urbanization development. This trend has pushed the cities away from their primary function as a human habitat which is built based on the coexistence among social groups that live there. One of the factors which likely aggravates the social situation, if the economic crisis happens, is the weakened social relation among the society due to the occurrence of global economic. In this paper discusses the three processes which serve as a catalyst to the process of city restructuring that are commodification, privatization and commercialization. The result of the development is that the city functions as a social institution is increasingly ignored and worsens the social inequality.</span>

Environmental Capacity Study for Hangzhou Urban Agglomeration

2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 1296-1299
Author(s):  
Cheng Long He ◽  
Wen Li Liu ◽  
Xin Guo Wu ◽  
Xian Jun He
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Efficiency Index ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Environmental Capacity ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
The City

Hangzhou urban agglomeration (HzUA) plays a decisive role in Zhejiang province and even in the Changjiang delta. Whose core is Hangzhou, the main body is Hangzhou district and Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing city is the vice center. It is an important subject to evaluate sustainability of the HzUA quantitatively.The article constructs the city ecological efficiency index (CEI) with the emergy analysis theory, analyzes quantitatively the resources supply and environmental capacity of the HzUA. The case study shows that the CEIs of the four major cities are all not high, among 0.15-0.19. Especially, the CEI of Jiaxing is the minimum, although whose renewable natural resources of unit area is the maximum. It is worth attention. To realize the HzUA steady, harmonious and healthy development, two aspects measures must be adopted, namely, adjust industrial structure and strengthen environmental protection.

“Living in a Holy City Is Work”: God’s Work as the Work of Urban Place

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noga Shani ◽  
Meirav Aharon-Gutman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Urban Place ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Relational Concepts ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City ◽  
Holy City ◽  
God's Work

This article tackles a gap in our understanding of holy cities by proposing an approach that accommodates both the centrality of these cities in a religious sense and their socioeconomic peripherality from state-capitalist system perspective. Through the combined use of urban survey and ethnographic fieldwork in the case of the holy city of Safed, this article understands “center” and “periphery” not as dichotomous notions but as relational concepts that are mutually constitutive by Avodat Hamakom, a Hebrew-language concept with a double meaning that turns on the two different meanings of the word Makom—that of “place” and one of the many names for God in the Jewish tradition. So the performance of “God’s work” is the work of urban place. Avodat Hamakom strengthens the city as a religious center and simultaneously limits the ability of individuals to enter the labor market, so it brings the city to be a peripheral city in the socioeconomic sense. Adopting a critical way of thinking, this article aims to enrich our understanding of the notion of “work” and its dialectical impact on the construction of urban space.

Wise Expansion Strategy of Urban Fringe Area in Chengdu

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2399-2402
Author(s):  
Xiao Han ◽  
Min Min Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Ecological Security ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Expansion Strategy ◽  
Mixed Land Use ◽  
The City ◽  
Fringe Area

In the high-speed urbanization of China, urban fringe is at the forward position of urban expansion whose ecological security pattern, special form, land uses, industrial structure and traffic model would determine the future of the city. Based on PLUREL program, this article analyzed the negative and positive influences of urban fringe to urban expansion, pondered the reasons behind those negative influences and put forward advice to Wise Urban Expansion in Chengdu such as crack-shape land layout, mixed land use, tie-in implementation for ecological Greenland, conversion from traditional agriculture to ecological agriculture and so on.

scholarly journals Exploring Limited Capacity in the Grid: Actors, Problems, and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Palm
Keyword(s):  
User Engagement ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
The People ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Energy Grid ◽  
The City

An extensive and reliable electricity grid is essential for all the sectors of society. In parts of Sweden, the electricity grid has been suffering from a lack of capacity. This is something affecting all the sectors and all the people in these regions. The capacity problems have, however, so far, mainly been analyzed from a technical system perspective, focusing on incumbent actors, whereas other actors have been less researched. This article aims to fill this gap and include a variety of perceptions of Swedish actors’ on the lack of electricity grid capacity. It is, however, a challenge to capture the views of others than the professionals working in the area because the electricity grid is not something people, in general, reflect upon. The article takes an explorative approach to the subject by analyzing the problems and the solutions raised in four arenas: the regulative, the media, the technocratic, and the user. It also focuses on the city of Malmö in Sweden and two projects where the lack of grid capacity has been discussed. Sweden’s lack of capacity concerns that, although electricity is available, the energy grid cannot transmit the required amount of electricity to all parts of the country. The article concludes that the electricity grid has been developed within a technocratic frame, with a few professionals dominating the agenda, which has led to convergence of perspectives and narrowing options. In the regulative arena, which often decides what issues are prioritized and in the end implemented, there is a focus on investment in transformers and lines rather than demand-side solutions and user flexibility. Technological and economical values are dominating all arenas, and other values, such as user engagement and ownership, are marginalized.

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