城镇土地定级研究的几个问题——以西安市中心城市区为例

本文以西安市中心城市区土地定级为例,对城镇土地定级的理论和研究方法进行了较深入的研究、探讨,拓宽和深化了地理学、土地经济学的研究内容。为我国城镇土地定级研究工作的进一步开展提供重要依据。     

Book reviews

Australian Books

Raymond O'Dea, Principles of Wage Determination in Commonwealth Arbitration, West Publishing Corporation, Sydney, 1969, pp. 300, $9.50.

A. H. Boxer, Experts in Asia: An Inquiry into Australian Technical Assistance, A.N.U. Press, Canberra, 1969, pp. 180, $6.00.

Malcolm Mackerras, DL.P. Preference Distribution 1958–1969, Occasional Monograph No. 3, Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, 1970, pp. 69 + ii, 75c. Cheques payable to Sydney Monographs.

D. W. Rawson and Suzanne Wrightson, A Handbook of Australian Trade Unions and Employees’ Associations, Occasional Paper No. 5, Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 1970, pp. 114, $1.50.

P. H. Partridge, W. F. Connell, S. W. Cohen, Social Science for the Secondary School, Ian Novak, Sydney, 1969, pp. 132, $2.70.

Non‐Australian Books

A. Robinson, et al., Black Studies in the University: a Symposium, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1969, pp. 231, $6.95.

G. Christenson (ed.), The Future of the University, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1969, pp. 292, $2.70.

J. Jeffery Auer (ed.), The Rhetoric of Our Times, Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, New York, 1969, pp. 493 + xv, $5.20.

P. J. Eldridge, The Politics of Foreign Aid in India, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969, pp. 289, $8.90.     

Octavia Hill Women Housing Managers in South Africa: femininity and urban government

Women trained in a system of housing management developed by Octavia Hill in Victorian England were employed in South Africa's Coloured and European townships from the mid-1930s. They were also involved in training South African women in this tradition which emphasized the mutual responsibilities of landlords and tenants and rested upon the formation of trusting relationships or friendships between women housing managers and the tenants. Octavia Hill's followers worked hard to make a place for women in the field of housing management and claimed that their femininity gave them special expertise in this area, especially in terms of training housewives in domestic skills and in building up the relations of trust required by Octavia Hill's system. This paper describes the implementation of this system of management in South Africa and considers the implications of the role of women in housing management for our thinking about the gendered character of the state. My main argument is that rather than being a precedent for the value of incorporating femininity and women into the state, Octavia Hill's management tradition had already incorporated both historically masculine and historically feminine practices. In so far as she and her followers (and perhaps other female reformers) played a role in shaping the nature of the state, then it could be argued the state reflected a mediation of masculinity and femininity rather than a dominant masculinity and a subordinated or segregated femininity.     

(Mal)Development in Central America: Globalization and Social Change

This article develops a globalization framework and a model of transnational processes for analysing social change and development, and then applies the model to Central America. The analysis emphasizes determinacy, in the last instance, of social forces in historic developmental outcomes, and documents how social forces in struggles in an emergent transnational environment have shaped Central America's changing profile within the global economy and society. Revolutionary movements, a new class structure, US geo-political considerations, and the internationalization of East Asian economies, have all contributed to a new model of development; from the 1960s into the 1990s the national model of development is being replaced by a transnational model. Maquiladora garment production, tourism, non-traditional agricultural exports, and remittances from emigrant workers are coming to eclipse traditional agro-exports as the most dynamic economic sectors linking the region to globalized circuits of production and distribution. The article also examines Central American migration to the US and gender dimensions of the new transnational model of development.