Invisible homelessness: anonymity,exposure, and the right to the city

The city of Denver, Colorado recently outlawed camping in all open space. Part of a broad effort to accelerate the profit potential of prime urban land through real estate speculation and commerce, the camping ban has dislocated homeless people from the city’s marginal spaces. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Denver, this article develops a tripartite approach to public space—prime, everyday, and marginal—to analyze challenging ways in which people who are homeless in Denver must now manage their exposure to others in everyday public spaces. In addition to eliminating places of hard-won safety and security, this singular new code disrupts hygiene, mobility, and sociability routines, thus throwing already precarious lives into further disarray by rendering housing status visible. To demonstrate how everyday social justice springs from interaction between different people co-present in public space, we foreground the voices of Denver’s homeless people, those most impacted by quality of life laws. Evicting individuals from marginal spaces and rendering them visibly homeless in everyday and prime spaces, the ban deprives them of a fundamental right to the city: anonymity.     

近代云南城市空间演化的外生动力分析

对19世纪70年代至1949年云南的城镇空间演化进行了纵向梳理和横向比较,研究了交通与政治两种演化影响因素的变迁,结果显示:(1)在1910年滇越铁路通车之前的清末,对外交通线路的兴衰对沿线城市空间演化有明显的影响,交通区位因素是云南城市空间演化的主要外生动力。(2)进入民国之后,地方政府对城市的建设管理和资源投入能力都强于清代,中心城市获得的资源尤其明显,因此政治因素开始成为中心城市空间演化的主要推动因素。(3)在空间分布上,铁路交通对城市演化推动的极化程度明显高于传统交通方式,因此,在交通因素与政治因素的协同作用下,在民国时期昆明城市演化的外生动力明显强于省内其他城市。     

基于空间句法的扩张强度指数及其在城镇扩展分析中的应用

扩张强度指数（Expand Intensity Index, EII）是目前城市扩展数量特征研究的常用指标,用以表征城市扩张程度和速度,但该指标是从城市扩张的结果,即从城市用地面积变化角度对物质空间变化的简单描述与分析,忽略了人在空间中的感受,未能从城市扩张的动因角度揭示城市扩张特征,缺乏对城市外部空间形态演变模式的深入研究,不能反映人在城市扩展空间上的活动。本文从交通网络对城市扩张的驱动作用入手,基于空间句法,提出一种新的扩张强度指数——基于空间句法的扩张强度指数（Space Syntax Expand Intensity Index, SS-EII）,SS-EII包涵可反映空间集聚和离散程度的句法变量,可用于分析空间可达性的变化等情况。与传统扩张强度指数相比,SS-EII是基于空间句法从城市扩张的驱动力方面计算扩张强度,不仅关注城市扩张的结果,同时关注交通对城市扩张模式、方向的导向作用和人主观感知下城市空间的变化。将SS-EII应用于广东省棉湖镇2002-2014年期间的城镇扩展特征分析中,研究结果表明,SS-EII可用于分析比较建成区不同方向的扩张速率与建设状况,其计算结果与棉湖镇建成区实际扩张情况相符,与EII相关度R²达0.95以上。     

旅游消费空间的建构与游客感知——以拉萨玛吉阿米餐厅为例

随着社会研究的"空间转向"以及地理研究的"文化转向",城市消费空间成为城市社会研究与文化地理学研究的热点;然而在全球化推进过程中,地方化也在悄然兴起,玛吉阿米餐厅正是地方化催生的产物,并且自其开业以来就受到中外游客的青睐。基于这种背景,本文从经营者的空间建构和游客的感知两个角度,运用质性的研究方法对玛吉阿米进行研究,发现:经营者运用各种景观符号及名人轶事对空间进行建构与重构,使其成为一个极具民族风情与有故事的空间;而作为消费的游客,通过对实体空间、名人轶事的感知获得一种深刻的消费体验,而对餐厅的功能价值的感知程度较差,这也说明旅游消费也具有符号消费的倾向。     

基于地理国情普查数据的空间规划底图智能编制处理系统研究与实现

2015年6月,全国已完成地理国情普查数据的采集、处理与底图制作等工作。本文基于地理国情普查数据,探讨利用普查数据成果完成空间规划底图的快速智能编制工作,基于研究成果完成空间规划底图智能编制处理系统的设计与开发,为空间规划底图编制的快速化、智能化需求提供一种新的解决思路。     

浅谈基于ERDAS的三维GIS系统实现

主要研究利用三维空间数据、DOM及DEM创建三维虚拟场景。将ERDAS IMAGINE的Virtual GIS模块与第三方建模软件相结合,解决了模型导入ERDAS Virtual GIS Viewer中贴图丢失的问题,实现了立体模型的仿真构建和三维GIS系统的动态管理。同时,对模拟雾气分析、空间视域分析和洪水淹没分析等方面的应用进行了研究,使该系统更具应用价值。     

陕北黄土高原植被覆盖度动态变化分析研究

以Landsat TM归一化植被指数(NDVI)为数据源,运用像元二分模型提取陕北黄土高原1990、2000、2010年夏季的植被覆盖度,分析陕北黄土高原植被覆盖度的空间变化情况。结果显示:研究区植被覆盖度呈波动上升趋势。不同等级植被覆盖度在数量和空间位置上的转移较为活跃。大于等于60%的植被覆盖度和小于等于40%的植被覆盖度在空间上呈西南—东北两个方向扩张的分布趋势。受气候和人为等因素的影响,陕北黄土高原植被改善良好。     

HLJCORS系统性能测试与分析

通过定位精度测试、可用性测试和兼容性测试,本文分析评估了HLJCORS的实时和事后定位精度、空间可用性、时间可用性以及兼容性。测试表明,HLJCORS测试精度均达到或优于设计要求,可为黑龙江省建立统一的现代化测绘基准提供重要支撑。     

Past and future carbon sequestration benefits of China’s grain for green program

Carbon sequestration through ecological restoration programs is an increasingly important option to reduce the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. China’s Grain for Green Program (GGP) is likely the largest centrally organized land-use change program in human history and yet its carbon sequestration benefit has yet to be systematically assessed. Here we used seven empirical/statistical equations of forest biomass carbon sequestration and five soil carbon change models to estimate the total and decadal carbon sequestration potentials of the GGP during 1999–2050, including changes in four carbon pools: aboveground biomass, roots, forest floor and soil organic carbon. The results showed that the total carbon stock in the GGP-affected areas was 682 Tg C in 2010 and the accumulative carbon sink estimates induced by the GGP would be 1697, 2635, 3438 and 4115 Tg C for 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050, respectively. Overall, the carbon sequestration capacity of the GGP can offset about 3%–5% of China’s annual carbon emissions (calculated using 2010 emissions) and about 1% of the global carbon emissions. Afforestation by the GGP contributed about 25% of biomass carbon sinks in global carbon sequestration in 2000–2010. The results suggest that large-scale ecological restoration programs such as afforestation and reforestation could help to enhance global carbon sinks, which may shed new light on the carbon sequestration benefits of such programs in China and also in other regions.     

PPGIS approach for defining multimodal travel thresholds: Accessibility of popular recreation environments by the water

It is essential to ensure equal accessibility to services, such as sport and recreation facilities or green and water environments. Differences in accessibility can potentially cause negative health and social welfare implications. Accessibility and service area analyses from the perspective of access equality are typically rather simple. They are often based on arbitrary travel-distance thresholds and made only with a single mode of transport in mind. Thus, they exclude the multidimensional nature of accessibility where individuals' travel behavior and perceived accessibility also play an important role. In this paper, a PPGIS method was used to empirically investigate distances and durations that respondents travel with different modes of transport to access popular water environments. Service area analyses were built on person-based and objectively measured threshold values that not only take into account the spatio-temporal elements of transport networks and a land use component but also recognize the requirements and preferences of individuals and their capacity to access and participate. The results showed that the most common mode of transport to access waters is walking. Generally, the residents travel by foot for 1.7 km to access water environments. Cars were found as the second most common mode of transport used, and most of the popular water environments are accessible by car from every corner of the study area in a given travel threshold time. The results demonstrate the importance of deriving local parameters and the potential of the PPGIS approach for accessibility and service area delineation.