THE LOS ANGELES COAST AS A PUBLIC PLACE

ABSTRACT. In the public‐space discourse Los Angeles is usually portrayed as more “anti‐city” than city. Its landscape is overrun by houses, “private‐public” squares and plazas, theme parks, shopping malls, and so on and lacks inclusive public places. Yet this discourse has essentially disdained to contemplate a major public space that contradicts its general thesis: the Los Angeles coast. The coast is meaningful public place in two specific senses. First, it symbolizes Los Angeles as a whole and therefore provides a basis for regional public identity. Second, Angelinos themselves take the coast seriously as a public place, and they have striven to make it inclusive in practice.     

基于ITCM的旅游者地方依恋价值评估——以九寨沟风景区为例

旅行费用法(TCM)已被广泛运用于旅游地的游憩价值评估中。地方依恋作为“人—地”关系的重要组成部分,其经济价值的评估对旅游地的发展有重要意义。本文选取九寨沟风景区为案例地,按不同交通工具分类测量了旅游者的旅行费用并构建了旅行费用与地方依恋的结构方程模型。研究发现,地方依恋的两个维度:地方依赖和地方认同之间存在显著的正向影响。地方依赖和地方认同从不同程度上促进了九寨沟游客旅游需求的增长。通过ITCM计算消费者剩余,得出地方依恋对九寨沟总体游憩价值的贡献率为5.6%,直观反映了地方依恋对景区的经济推动作用,对地方理论在经济管理领域的运用及旅游地地方性的营造和整体形象的提升有重要的指导意义。     

批判视角下广州地铁站命名与更名研究

收集各类网站有关广州地铁站命名与更名争议的素材,通过文本分析方法进行解读,指出地方命名过程中涉及的商业、政治和文化因素共同指向命名权这一核心。中国社会群体通常采取非抵抗式的网络话语来参与地方命名过程,尽管争取到一定话语权,但地方的最终命名仍很大程度上取决于相关权力机构。     

Insights from a Qualitative Study of Rural Communes: Physical and Social Dimensions of Place

Existing research on people–place dynamics often focuses on either physical environment or social dimensions, but many theoretical models posit that both factors are important. I argue that rural communes provide unique settings to explore both social and environmental aspects of place. Based on qualitative interview data with members of two communes, I address emotional connection to the land, changing social relationships over time, and the interplay of physical and social aspects of place. Results demonstrate how the connections to land and social ties are both prevalent. However, social interaction has decreased while commitment to sharing and protecting the physical environment has endured.     

Place invaders: Identity,place attachment and possum control in the South Island West Coast of New Zealand

The pesticide 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) is used in New Zealand as the primary means of controlling the Australian brushtail possum, a problem pest. This study identified place and its role in identity as an important mediator of the perspectives of those that either strongly supported or opposed its use. Individuals' differing constructions of place influenced the way they perceived ‘others’ as a threat to their place and their views on control of its management and protection. This study may contribute to a new understanding of the importance of place in this and other similar natural resource disputes.     

流动与想象：西藏地方意义的多元互构研究

研究聚焦于“地理想象”这一典型的文化地理现象,借助鲍曼的“流动的现代性”概念工具,分析了两种多元空间在同一时空进程中的混杂状态,尝试从流动性的视角重新阐释西藏地方意义的多元互构方式。以西藏为例,研究初步验证了如下两个理论猜想：① 未到西藏之前,人们的惯常思维是以经历过或正在经历的现实空间来对未经历的西藏空间加以想象,因为这种现实“在场”与想象“不在场”的时刻混杂,从而引发了一些改变人地关系的流动,如“我要去西藏亲眼看看”和“我想去真实地感受那里”等;② 真实到达西藏以后,“身体触摸”下的陌生西藏空间却不同于原本接近于诗意化表达下的那个想象空间,多元空间在同一时空进程下的混杂使得旅游者这一典型的现代人群体产生某种错觉,仿佛又置身于另一个新的现代性进程,于是在一个新的“第三空间”中通过与地方联结开始反思现代性之于个体的生命价值与存在意义。研究结论揭示了西藏地方意义的构成背后所隐藏的现代人对于流体化现代性生活的反身性思考,同时从学理上赋予地理想象概念以新的流动性解释。     

古村落旅游地居民旅游感知分析——以黟县西递为例

该文通过对黟县西递古村落旅游地的实地问卷、访谈调查以及运用SPSS软件进行数理统计，从旅游的经济、社会－文化、环境影响等角度分析了古村落旅游地居民的旅游感知及其差异，并探讨有关居民旅游感知的影响因素。     

Challenging a place myth: New Zealand's clean green image meets the biotechnology revolution

The 'clean green image' of New Zealand is a well-known example of what has been called a 'place myth'. But more recently, emerging alongside this place myth is an image that the government is trying to co-create of New Zealand as an innovator in biotechnology. In nationwide focus groups, whilst a matter of pride, participants typically saw this clean green myth as a temporally distant utopia. However, when considered alongside the futures proposed by biotechnology, clean green New Zealand was mobilized into the present moment to defend a general reluctance to take up these practices. Alternately, some participants saw the possibility for co-evolution of the place myths, with biotechnology enabling the re-construction of a 'picture-perfect', clean green country.     

RACE,IMMIGRANTS, AND RESIDENCE: A NEW RACIAL GEOGRAPHY OF WASHINGTON,D.C.*

ABSTRACT. This study examines the residential patterns of immigrant newcomers within a relatively new immigrant destination, Washington, D.C. Particular attention is given to how these patterns are shaped by the newcomers' race and ethnicity. Our analysis is based primarily upon data on immigrant flows from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for the 1990–1998 period. Evidence from our study suggests a racial and ethnic hierarchy to the residential location of Africans, Asians, Europeans, and Latin Americans, providing some support for the pattern expected in the place‐stratification model. When their residential patterns are compared with those of non‐Hispanic blacks, we find that African newcomers are more likely to settle among blacks than are other regional‐origin groups. However, Africans are also found to reside in multiethnic zip codes where large numbers of newcomers are concentrated. The findings suggest that race is an important but not exclusive factor in explaining the residential choices of recent immigrants.     

The space of the dream: a case of mis-taken identity?

This paper examines the inherent contradictions presented by locating 'the space of the dream'. In this case it is the fictitious lamasery of Shangri-La described by James Hilton in the novel Lost Horizon, claimed to have been inspired by a monastery to the north of Zhongdian in the Chinese province of Yunnan. Whilst some of the idyllic attributes of Hilton's vision of paradise on Earth are grounded in the natural and cultural diversity of the entire region, contingencies of place were bound to compromise any attempt to promote any one location as such for the purposes of international tourism. If it is a case of mis-taken identity, however, does it matter? The tourists may internalize their expectations and build a composite image of their diverse and disparate experiences which they take back home.