Indexing the great ledger of the community: urban house numbering, city directories, and the production of spatial legibility

Despite the recent focus on the spatial politics of calculation, few studies have explored the historical geography of house numbering, a spatial practice that has arguably been one of the principal strategies for rationalizing the geographic spaces of everyday life over the course of the last two centuries. This paper provides the beginnings of a critical spatial history of street and house numbering in the gridded cities of the United States since the eighteenth century. City directory publishers were among the leading proponents of numbering houses at a time when many local governments had yet to firmly commit to systematic house numbering as an essential responsibility of the local state. I therefore examine the connection between the publishing of city directories and the development of urban house numbering systems, both of which were integral to the production of spatial legibility and the individualization of the urban population. The notion of viewing the city as a ‘text’ is historicized through a critical analysis of the modernist comparison of urban space to a recordkeeping book. The paper concludes by tracing the institutionalization of house numbering as a practice of spatial governmentality.     

宋代番禺县治所考

本文通过对相关历史文献记载的细致考证,认为宋太祖开宝五年(972年)番禺县曾被省并,宋仁宗皇祐三年(1051年)为了加强珠江三角洲的沙田开发与管理,复置番禺县,具体治所是在今广州市番禺区西南的紫坭,至宋神宗熙宁二年(1069年)出于广州军事防卫的考虑,又将番禺县治北迁至广州旧城东的赤泥巷,即今广州仓边路一带。再者,南宋新置香山县和明代新置顺德县,皆可视作是政府进一步努力协调珠江三角洲区域沙田开发与广州城防之间关系的必然结果。     

河南南阳市邢庄汉、宋墓群发掘报告

2006年8月,为配合南水北调中线工程,南京大学历史系等单位联合对位于南阳市蒲山镇李才村邢庄的古墓群进行发掘。发掘墓葬13座,出土器物很少,以陶器为主,年代为汉、宋时期。     

有价值的乌托邦--对霍华德田园城市理论的一种认识

19世纪末英国社会改革家埃比尼泽·霍华德提出的田园城市理论 ,不仅是城市规划的理论 ,还是关于社会改革的学说。它针对 19世纪工业化、城市化给城市带来的弊病而提出 ,具有丰厚的历史文化和社会背景 ,以及多种社会改革学说的渊源。田园城市理论虽具有很强的乌托邦色彩 ,但至今仍对城市和社会发展有借鉴意义。     

广西越州故城遗址玻璃珠饰的科学研究

本研究利用能量色散型X射线荧光光谱分析、共聚焦激光拉曼光谱分析、光学相干层析成像、超景深光学显微观测等多种方法对广西越州故城遗址出土的印度-太平洋玻璃珠饰进行科技分析,获取了玻璃珠的化学成分、物相结构、内部物理结构、表面显微形貌等综合物理化学信息,确定了玻璃珠的玻璃体系、制作工艺(着色工艺、成形工艺)和产地来源,探讨了以丝绸之路为主线的国内发现魏晋南北朝时期印度-太平洋玻璃珠可能的输入路线。广西越州故城遗址发现的印度-太平洋玻璃珠为中外文明交流提供了新实物证据,对深入研究我国南北朝时期中外文明交流具有十分重要的学术价值和研究意义。     

制度是发展城市社区服务业的保障

目前我国社区服务业还存在很多问题。这些问题归根结底是由于制度不完善造成的。只有建立和完善各项规章制度,才能进一步提高社区服务业的水平。     

Single Working-class Women and the City in Java and Vietnam

Through investigation into the lives of single migrant women who work as department store salesgirls in Surabaya and Ho Chi Minh City, this paper suggests that while commonalities exist with regard to their controlled use of beauty in the workplace, their lack of time and disposable income, and the temporary nature of their right to live in their respective cities as migrants, there are significant differences between them. These differences run contrary to conventional stereotypes of the “outspoken” Javanese woman and the “servile” Vietnamese woman, which in turn are based on stereotypes of the bilateral Southeast Asian kinship tradition and the patrilineal East Asian kinship tradition respectively. Taking into account the forces for and against conservative gender relations in both societies, this paper suggests that it is the Vietnamese working-class woman who exercises more power over how she lives in the city.     

The Social and Economic Complexity of Ancient Jerusalem as Seen Through Choices in Lighting Oils

This paper presents and discusses the results of residue analysis conducted on 78 ceramic lamps found in archaeological excavations in ancient Jerusalem, in an attempt to identify the types of oils used and the reasons for their preferential choice. The oil lamps chosen for the study were taken from a variety of contexts, which represent the different periods during which Jerusalem was settled and the different sectors of the city. The results of the study show that even the most mundane activity of lighting using oil held within it social and economic choices, as mirrored in the different excavation areas.     

“二里头商都说”的再检视

2005年以来公布的二里头等遗址的测年数据,对现有的"二里头夏都说"与"郑亳说"构成了挑战。借此契机,有必要反思二里头遗址研究的得失。测年数据以及二里头文化晚期的考古学考察,对于二里头文化三、四期已经进入商代的观点是有利的。二里头遗址是探索夏文化的重要对象,但将其落实到夏都斟鄩尚有疑点。     

城市演进的区位因素探析——以历史文化名城徐州为例

无论是在城市的产生还是发展中,区位及其变化都发挥着十分重要的作用。对于徐州这个"五省通衢"、历史文化名城之地而言,其意义更为突出。本文从剖析影响城市演进的区位因素出发,着重探讨了交通、政治、军事和自然等几种区位变化对徐州城市历史兴衰的具体作用,并根据未来区位变化的主要特点,提出了21世纪初徐州城市发展的基本走向。