郑州市城市环境建设可持续发展初探

文章通过对郑州市城市环境问题及城市建设发展概况的分析，认为城市发展与环境建设是相辅相成的，并探讨了保证城市环境建设可持续发展的对策，切实做好总体规划，加强水资源管理，注重绿化效果，提高清洁能源的使用率等。     

乌鲁木齐集聚扩散的空间分析

城市的集聚扩散涉及政治、经济、文化、科技、信息等，其中实质性的是经济的集聚和扩散。集聚扩散的强度与距中心城市的远近有关，距离越远，强度越小。集聚扩散的方式主要通过人口流、物质流、信息流、技术流来实现。基于大量的调查资料，采用定量、定性相结合的方法，对乌鲁木齐的空间集聚扩散的范围和强度做具体的分析和探讨。     

城市相互作用关系的一种新模式--近域城市整合研究

市场机制下的生产要素流动以及经济发展全球化、区域集团化的走向，改变了近域城市间要么行政协调、要么纯粹竞争的传统相互关系，代之以“整合并共同繁荣”这一新的发展模式，以前期实证研究为基础，从理论上论述了城市整合的背景、理论内涵和城市不整合的状态特征；指出制度创新、生产要素互补、企业集团化、统一市场体系建设、基础设施和生态环境共享共建是近域城市整合的动力机制和“结节点”；同时还提出了“成长三角”，“雁行式”、“多极式”、“双核式”等近域城市整合发展模式。     

国外大都市区管理的实践及其借鉴

大都市政府和都市议会是发达国家对大都市区和都市连绵区进行宏观管理的重要机构，本文简要介绍了各种类型的大都市政府和都市议会的形成与发展，在此基础上提出了我国相应的宏观管理机构为城镇密集区政府和都市区规划局，最后，对我国城镇密集区规划管理的可行性与规划管理体系问题进行了讨论。     

On Invisible Trade Relations between Mesopotamian Cities during the Third Millennium B.C.

The idea that the emergence of writing was necessity due to the increase in both the number of economic transactions and political complexity has been recently emphasized by Matthews, who also underlines that writing acted as a feedback in enabling and encouraging the growth of ever more complex modes of exchange. The intertwinement of trade and writing suggests that clay tablets left by the civilizations from the third millennium B.C. in Mesopotamia, where writing was invented, may be considered as traces of trade links and transactions between cities. We estimate a gravity model based on clay tablets, as if they represented trade flows. The parameters lead us to conclude that Mesopotamia formed a strongly integrated market.     

Building Temporal Topology in a GIS Database to Study the Land‐Use Changes in a Rural‐Urban Environment

This article addresses the issue of linking temporal and spatial information into a GIS database structure to investigate the land‐use changes in a rural‐urban region over a thirty‐five‐year period. More specifically, it describes the application of a programming package developed to build temporal topology in an historical land‐use GIS database to efficiently perform spatiotemporal queries. The program was created within the MapInfo environment using MapBasic language. Different types of information, such as the rate of change, the relationship between the change of land use and zoning regulations, and land‐use succession were extracted from the database. A user‐friendly interface was also developed to easily address spatiotemporal queries to the database. This approach represents a flexible and performing tool for scientists and planners who need to efficiently capture essential spatiotemporal information required for geographical inquiry and decision‐making.     

Manuscript Reviewers for Volume 53

Books reviewed: Bassin, Mark, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840 – 1865 Shortridge, James R., Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell's Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893 – 1922 Jakle, John A. and Sculle, Keith A., Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age Boeschenstein, Walter, Historic American Towns along the Atlantic Coast McKee, Jesse O., Ethnicity in Contemporary America: A Geographical Appraisal Luciuk, Lubomyr Y., Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Ottawa, and the Migration of Memory Hausladen, Gary, Places for Dead Bodies Phillips, Richard, Watt, Diane and Shuttleton, David, De‐Centering Sexualities: Politics and Representations beyond the Metropolis Goldin, Liliana R., Identities on the Move, Transnational Processes in North America and the Caribbean Basin McDonald, David A., On Borders: Perspectives on International Migration in Southern Africa Fox, Roddy and Rowntree, Kate, The Geography of South Africa in a Changing World Takeuchi, Keiichi, Modern Japanese Geography: An Intellectual History Amery, Hussein A., and Wolf, Aaron T., Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace Karl, Thomas R., Nicholls, Neville and Ghazi, Anver, Weather and Climate Extremes: Changes, Variations, and a Perspective from the Insurance Industry Pittman, Blair, Texas Caves     

烟台市城市工程地质基本问题

该文深入分析了烟台市城市工程地质研究的基本问题,诸如建筑场地稳定问题、地基岩土特性的有效利用问题、供水水源问题、地表水、地下水的环境污染问题、城市环境工程地质问题、城市地质环境的利用与保护问题等.     

Urban renewal in East African port cities: Mombasa's Old Town waterfront

The urban waterfront redevelopment diaspora, formerly confined to advanced countries, is starting to impact upon coastal settlements in former colonial territories. In diverse contexts ranging from postcolonialism and globalization to cultural revival and tourism development, developing countries are seeking to revive their historic port cities. This paper reports on the experience of Mombasa, Kenya, where waterfront redevelopment is a problematic element in the conservation of the historic urban core, and relates local issues to wider policies, relevant literature and experience elsewhere.     

长江三角洲南部“大城市圈振兴”理论的质疑

工业发展和城市化的传统理论，对亚洲的某些具有较高生产力水平，且还在发展中的“大城市圈”不能充分地解释，本文对长江三角洲南部空间经济转为的“大城市圈振兴”理论进行了批判地评论，根据最新的现场调查结果，从根本上对“转为过程”的假说提出质疑，并且提出了更适当的的区域发展战略，此外还证明，关于亚洲大城市带的一般结论，必须建立在对地方性经济变革认识的基础之上。