大城市边缘区中小城市可持续发展战略探讨——以广州增城市为例

大城市边缘区中小城市的发展具有其特殊性,特殊的区位和特殊的功能定位决定它必须与大城市协调发展。当前"撤县设区"、"撤市设区"发展大城市,加快城市化进程成为我国当今城市发展的一个主导趋势。行政区划调整使城市总体发展战略发生调整,其边缘区的发展条件、发展背景发生了变化,其发展战略也相应要调整。本文通过揭示新的背景下广州市边缘区增城市的城市产业发展、空间发展、生态保护、基础设施布局等方面的战略取向,探讨了大城市边缘区可持续发展的道路。     

Coffeehouses And The Art Of Social Engagement: An Analysis Of Portland Coffeehouses

Coffeehouses have been a part of America's cultural landscape since the seventeenth century. Their fortunes have risen and fallen with the changing demand for coffee and consumer preferences. This paper examines their historic function of promoting social engagement as so‐called third places among independently owned coffeehouses in the city of Portland, Oregon. Individual coffeehouses were evaluated to determine the extent to which they provided a supportive physical environment for social engagement in which a space is transformed into a place and detailed patron behavior was recorded over a three‐week period. Few coffeehouses provided a supportive physical environment. The majority of coffeehouse patrons during the weekday and weekend ordered drinks ‘to go.’ Among those who stayed during the weekday most sat alone and worked. Coffeehouse are spaces to ‘be alone together.’ It was only on lunchtime weekends that coffeehouses were full of the sound of conversations. Further study should consider the effect of eliminating free Wi Fi and banning laptops on social engagement and whether other place attributes need to be incorporated to promote social engagement.     

向海湿地景观格局变化及其原因分析

以5km为环间距,将向海湿地分割为5个同心圆。选用1980年和2000年遥感影像为基本信息源,在ARC/INFO、ERDAS8.5和FRAGSTATS3.3软件的支持下,对景观指数:斑块密度、平均斑块面积、景观多样性指数和分维数进行分析。结果表明,自20世纪80年以来,向海湿地面积萎缩、斑块破碎化。人类活动强度和自然因子变化幅度的分析表明,湿地变化是人为因子和自然因子共振迭加的结果。要保护湿地,必须控制人类对向海湿地的干扰。     

Proposed Revisions Of Constitution And Bylaws

A useful index of the status of women should be mappable, in order to allow global and regional comparisons. Ideally, such an index should include political, economic, and social components. In actuality, data that measure political and economic equality are available only in Western societies. An index that measures the general well-being of women, however, can be mapped and used crossculturally. An index is proposed that includes indicators from the areas of health, education and fertility.