20世纪90年代以来非洲城市化的特点和动因

一般来说,持续的经济发展和城市化是相伴发生的,但是在非洲,城市化进程并没有带来相应的经济发展,非洲的快速城市化主要是由大量农村人口向城市的盲目流动导致的。文中主要针对非洲快速城市化和经济发展不同步的独特现象,具体分析了导致农村人口向城市迁移的主要原因,并总结出其对中国城市化进程的启示。     

非洲的城市化速度超过了亚洲

最近在肯尼亚采访联合国人居署时，一对数字很让人诧异：非洲的人口城市化比例已经超过了70％，而亚洲还只有40％多。也就是说，非洲的城市化速度已经大大超过了亚洲!     

中国城市非正规就业的发展特征与城市化效应

在城市化过程中,大部分农村剩余劳动力并未进入城市正规部门,而进入非正规部门,但关于非正规就业对城市化的作用却不清楚.基于国际劳工组织提出的中国城市非正规就业估算方案,采用协整和误差修正模型测度与解释非正规就业对城市化的作用.自1990年以来,非正规就业已发展成为中国城市就业的主要方式和就业增长的主要来源,其空间分布总体上呈现自东部,中部到西部依次减少的特征,其在城市就业的比重与城市化水平的关系符合倒U形的规律.模型显示:尽管短期内非正规就业,正规就业和城市化之间存在波动关系,但长期看非正规就业对城市化具有显著的推动作用,非正规就业每增长1%,推动城市化水平提高0.1%.这种作用主要体现在非正规就业推动农村人口向城市地区的转移过程与劳动力在正规就业与非正规就业之间的流动过程.结论强调,中国城市化面临的挑战不仅是失业问题,而更多是如何应对处于社会保障系统以外的非正规就业问题.     

快速城市化进程中的太湖水环境保护:困境与出路

太湖流域经济发达、城市化水平高,伴随着城市化过程的各种环境问题十分突出。城市化过程对太湖水环境质量的负面影响主要表现在生活污水排放量增加、人畜粪便对水污染的程度加剧、化学肥料施用量增加、非点源污染负荷增加以及自然景观对污染物的去除能力降低等方面,由此导致的营养盐入湖量增加将严重制约太湖水质的改善。充分认识并努力减轻这些负面影响是改善太湖水环境质量的前提,在分析问题的基础上提出了一些针对性的应对策略。     

广州城市化进程中郊区农民迁移意愿分析

以广州市10村为例,采用因子分析法对郊区农民的迁移意愿进行分析.结果表明,在城市化进程中,郊区农民进城的意愿不强,小城镇和卫星城是主要的拟迁目的地.因子分析发现,农民愿意进城的主要动因是城乡预期收入、失地压力、城乡预期生活收益、养老和望子成龙的心理,而乡土情结和小农心理、城乡意识淡泊、预期就业风险和搬迁成本、预期生计成本、农村既得权益等则是阻碍农民进城的主要动因.推进城市化的政策制定应充分考虑影响农民迁移意愿的因素.     

非洲欠发达地区首都新城开发策略研究

近年来,以各国首都为代表的非洲城市呈现高速扩张态势,由此催生了新城开发的浪潮。本文梳理了非洲新城开发的理论和实践,总结了其背景和驱动力、关键性角色及面临的挑战。以刚果共和国首都布拉柴维尔市东部新城开发实践为例,通过实地调研获取资料,总结其驱动因素,概述了所在国政府、企业、金融机构等的作用,以及其存在的政治经济形式不稳定、土地交易市场不成熟、地质灾害风险等现实挑战。以新城概念规划方案为蓝本,提出设计弹性城市规划方案、建立完善土地管理制度、政企协同开发、多渠道筹备资金、工程设计保障地质安全、建设通达的道路交通系统、各类需求或文化背景人群分片开发住宅区、建造经济便捷的住宅产品、配建符合各方需求的公共服务设施、设立与当地经济发展相适应的产业园区开发策略。     

东北老工业基地改造的城市化困境与对策研究

东北老工业基地改造要通过走新型工业化道路,实现经济结构的系统优化与区域发展的全面振兴。城市化能够发挥对改造的拉动、支撑与承载作用。当前,东北地区城市化速度下降,动力不足,城镇体系不尽合理,资源型城镇转型的城市化支撑不足,众多老城区需要改造,农村城镇化滞后。未来要着力完善城市化动力机制,促进区域城市整合,培育城市群,促进大城市空间升级与老城区改造互动发展,发挥大城市对农村城市化的带动作用,统筹资源型城镇产业、就业、空间与环境建设。     

城市化水平与城市化速度的关系探讨——中国城市化速度和城市化水平饱和值的初步推断

从城市化水平的Logistic方程出发,推导出如下关系式:城市化速度最快时期的城市化水平=城市化水平的饱和值÷2,最大城市化速度=城乡人口增长率差×城市化水平的饱和值÷4。对概念的定义和方法的应用给出了限定和说明。借助美国1790¹960年的城乡人口普查数据验证了上述推导结果。利用上述关系分析了中国的城市化水平数据,结论是:2005年前后城市化速度达到峰值,由此判断中国的城市化水平饱和值为80%左右;2005年之后,中国的城市化水平增长速度在理论上应该减缓,在实际工作中不宜继续推动加速过程。     

云南人口城市化与土地城市化耦合协调发展研究

从人口城市化质量与土地城市化质量两方面,构建人口城市化与土地城市化耦合协调发展评价指标体系。以2007~2016年相关数据为支撑,定量计算云南省多年人口城市化与土地城市化耦合度、综合发展指数和协调发展度,并根据协调发展类型划分标准对研究时段内云南人口城市化与土地城市化的协调发展类型和对比类型进行划分,并在此基础上对二者的协调状态进行评估;同时在GIS技术支持下,分别以2007年和2016年为时间节点,揭示不同时段云南省各市（州）人口城市化与土地城市化协调发展的空间格局特征与空间格局的变化特征。研究表明：从时间序列特征看,云南自2010年起土地城市化快于人口城市化,土地规模扩展过快,存在造成空城的风险;城市化水平总体发展趋势良好,人口与土地之间的相互依赖程度高;人口城市化与土地城市化协调发展趋势良好,逐步进入协调阶段;从空间格局特征看,呈现以昆明为中心,从中部“协调型”逐步转变为边缘“失调型”的空间格局;土地城市化滞后型数量少,且集中分布于滇中和滇西北地区;人口城市化滞后型数量多,广泛分布于滇东、滇西、滇南和滇东北的大部分地区;各市（州）协调发展状态分属协调阶段、磨合阶段和失调阶段,协调发展对比类型空间差异显著。     

珠江三角洲的工业化与城市化

分析影响珠江三角洲城市化的因素，尤其是工业化对城市化各个方面的作用，以及城镇发展对区域经济的意义。     

Provincializing urban appropriation: Agonistic transgression as a mode of actually existing appropriation in South African cities

Urban appropriation is a key dimension of both Lefebvre's widely hailed ‘Right to the City’ and Bayat's concept of ‘quiet encroachment’. For Lefebvre, appropriation is a (generally unrealized) claim by those who do not ‘have’ the city of a right to ‘take’ it. Bayat, in contrast, characterizes actually existing appropriation as motivated by everyday needs, not aimed at wider social change. While both theorizations may be useful, we argue that a third mode of appropriation is apparent in South African urban contexts. Actors often act in ways that could be characterized as appropriative, yet do not work to consolidate an abrogated appropriative right or durable permission. Nor are they adequately explained as apolitical or individualistic; the logic used to justify them similarly is based neither on rights nor needs. We label such appropriation ‘agonistically transgressive’. We argue that agonistically transgressive appropriations are particularly evident in post‐apartheid South Africa, in part because of changing urban conditions and consequent renegotiations of spatial regulation. Using examples of urban land appropriation for housing in South Africa, we briefly illustrate how thinking pluralistically about urban appropriation might help better understand its actually existing forms in—and beyond—the global South.     

Livelihoods and the transformative potential of cities: Challenges of inclusive development in Rustenburg,North West Province,South Africa

Urban geographers increasingly incorporate the potential of so‐called informal livelihood activities to provide resources that can be creatively managed in the transformation of urban space, particularly to the benefit of less well off and marginalized residents. This paper reports a case study in Rustenburg, North West Province, South Africa, where city managers began to promote inclusive development in the early 1990s, just prior to the formal dismantling of the apartheid system. The findings reveal that Rustenburg's urban transformation process, over a decade later, continued to reproduce repressive practices that limit the informal livelihood activities of the urban majority. Apparently efforts of well‐meaning city managers to implement a sustainable and inclusive development process are often rendered futile at the point of actually defining the constituents of urban socioeconomic transformation.     

Spatiotemporal Variation of South African Jobless Trends: Policy Directions

The need to understand the spatiotemporal change in South African unemployment trends underlies this research. The country has undergone significant socioeconomic change since the fall of apartheid in 1994. Not only has the labor market expanded, but unemployment has also increased. This necessitates a detailed spatial understanding to ensure effective policies at the municipal level to address unemployment. A database of unemployment statistics at the municipal level between 1991 and 2007 was created and used to spatially group municipalities. The results showed that metropolitan municipalities had unique unemployment characteristics and, contrary to findings elsewhere, an overall decrease in the dissimilarity between the unemployed and employed took place after 1991. Therefore, policies should promote economic growth and skills development in municipalities where education levels are low.     

Urban transformations,migration and residential mobility patterns in African secondary cities

Abstract

Urban growth is a significant trend in Africa. Scholarly attention and urban planning efforts have focused disproportionately on the challenges of big cities, while small and medium-sized urban settlements are growing most rapidly and house the majority of urban residents. Small towns have received some attention, but very few studies have focused on secondary cities. This paper offers a study of urban transformations, migration and residential mobility patterns in Arusha, a rapidly growing secondary city of Tanzania. Arusha functions as a major attraction for migrants and in-migration is a central dynamic shaping transformation processes in central areas characterized by high population turnovers, vibrant rental markets and widespread landlordism. There is also a considerable degree of intra-urban residential mobility within and between central areas. Intra-urban residential mobility is the most important dynamic shaping transformation processes in peripheral areas characterized by long-term urban residents moving from central parts of the city as part of a process of establishing themselves as homeowners. Overall, the paper provides crucial insights on how migration and residential mobility patterns influence processes of urban growth and transformation in the context of large secondary city, and thereby contributes to fill a significant knowledge gap on secondary cities in Africa.     

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THE MOST PERFECT EXAMPLE OF AN ALIEN ECOLOGY EVER CONSTRUCTED

Much science-fiction literature is based upon the creation and exploration of alternative environments. Stanley G. Weinbaum's short story, “Parasite Planet,”introduces an unusual environment that may be wrong in the light of recent evidence on Venus but still stimulates the geographical imagination.