Differences in the location of urban museums and their impact on urban areas

Traditionally, museums spaces have tended to be located in the central areas of cities, thereby reinforcing existing dynamics and limiting their potential impact on more peripheral areas. The present study examines the locations chosen for museums that have been opened in three European cities: Barcelona, Paris and Turin, between the years 2000 and 2013. It shows how the locating of museums and galleries has not been homogeneous and how each potential location has its strengths and weaknesses. This is particularly evident when we consider such factors as the environmental impact of museums and how they influence the commercial offer, image and attractiveness of their host city. This paper identifies and examines the different types of impact that museum location strategies have on urban areas.     

Of Gates in the Ground and Castles in the Air: A Case of Biblical Unreal Estate

ABSTRACT

The latter part of Psalm 24 describes the personified gates of Jerusalem as raising themselves up in order to allow the King of Glory to en-ter. This, in addition to the rest of the strong mythical overtones of the psalm, creates an image of architecture coming alive to join in the celebratory entry of the divine ruler.

There are numerous, but no definitive, suggestions as to the identity of who or what is supposed to be entering the gates and under what circum-stances as well as how the raising gates are to be understood. In this essay it is argued that the psalm only supplies half the data and that it forms the optimis-tic complementary ending to the anguished cry of despair of Lam 2,8–9. Ap-plying critical spatial analysis to these two texts, in addition to other support-ing material, will not only show that one is a response to the other, but may also provide a more secure dating for the psalm and its social setting as well as a clearer understanding of the specific metaphor of personified architec-ture.     

清代北京旗民分城而居政策的实施及其影响

本文深入分析清代北京城旗民分城而居的过程及影响。以往对北京旗民分居的讨论研究多从顺治三年始,本文在以往研究和传统史料的基础上,利用清代内阁大库档案部分奏折和《清初内国史院满文档案》等资料,论证北京旗民分城而居政策开始于清顺治元年五月入北京城时,并深入探讨其具体过程。在重新梳理清初旗民分城而居过程的同时,文章进一步分析旗民分城而居政策对城市建设及发展的影响,从北京城清代功能分区、人口流动、地理地价区位等方面探讨其影响的表现。     

抗战时期贵州城市发展特点

长期以来,贵州的城市空间布局与发展相对缓慢。经过抗战时期的建设,城市现代化发展有了长足的进步,但受高原、民族等限制,与西南其它省份和内地相比,城市发展相对滞后,却表现出典型的西南民族地区特有的城市发展的时代特征。     

Combining New Awareness and Public Support for Archaeology with In Situ Preservation of an Archaeological Monument

Preserving archaeological remains in situ is one of the main objectives of the Valletta Treaty, which was signed by the Dutch government in 1992. Subsequently, preservation in situ has become one of the pillars of archaeological heritage management in the Netherlands. Another objective of the Treaty is the promotion of heritage education and raising of public awareness for the protection and investigation of archaeological heritage. Until recently, this goal has received too little attention. The design and building of an underground visitor centre, DOMunder, raised an important question: How can we transform an archaeological monument into an asset for the community and at the same time ensure long-lasting preservation? Not many parallels exist, as most archaeological sites in urban environments are seen as a burden for development. Sites are generally either excavated or left in situ; in both cases the archaeology remains invisible and inaccessible to the public. In the case of DOMunder, the location in a wet sedimentary environment provided even more challenges. This paper focuses on a few of the many questions and problems that were raised before and during the building process and the (preliminary) answers and solutions.     

So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’

This paper investigates place and positionality in the regional novel against a background of evolving trends in geographical scholarship of place and placelessness. In re‐examining the representation of Glasgow in the urban regional novel, it proposes that a qualitative difference exists between rural and urban epistemologies which relates to the profoundly temporal essence of ‘cityness’. Aspects of both multi‐dimensionality in urban time‐space and of the city as the locus for working‐class oppression are reviewed in the context of a selection of urban imaginings.     

中国城乡关系的文化地理特质

城乡关系不是单纯的社会经济现象,需要对它进行文化地理的研究。影响中国城乡关系长期历史演变的主要是水域特征和政策-文化。中国和西方城乡关系历史的最大差异在于:地中海孕育了希腊化时代外向型的城市文明,而内河流域为主的地理特征奠定了中国内向型的农耕文明;中国农业文明对城市文明的牵制使得文化对政策的选择依附特征突出,从而形成长期的城乡融合,这与西方单线式的经由城乡对立达到城乡一体化的路径大相径庭。中国城乡关系变革的最终价值取向是实现城乡社会的平等与融合。     

同城化治理研究——以广佛地区为例

近年来,国家提出治理模式和治理体系现代化要求,其中,都市区治理作为重要组成部分,对其合理模式的研究成为城市管理领域的焦点。本文基于都市区治理理论,分析了中国都市区治理模式由强制性区划调整向城市协商合作的演变过程,认为同城化将成为未来区域治理的主要模式,是现代化治理模式的体现。进而提出以建立共识、渠道和激励为基础的同城化治理框架。在此基础上,以广佛同城化为例,采用实地调查和访谈等研究方法,通过对广佛行政管理体制差异的分析,认为管理层级架构的差异是影响广佛多层级治理效果的关键,发现建立"共识"是城市之间协调的核心,"渠道构建"和"激励机制"是同城化规划开展与实施的保障,以期为今后同城化规划提供借鉴。     

赛博空间视角下中国三大城市群网络特征——基于豆瓣跨城活动数据

随着全球化和信息化的推进,中国城市群内部联系成为区域研究的热点。本文以赛博空间为视角,以我国三大城市群城市的豆瓣同城数据为对象,通过点度分布、对称性、群集性和匹配性等指标对城市网络进行描绘与测度。实证研究显示:我国三大城市群的城市网络在赛博空间中呈现出多核心网络状的特征,北京、石家庄、天津、上海、杭州、南京、广州和深圳分别成为城市群中的枢纽或者次枢纽城市。高等级城市吸引人口集聚与跨越城市的联系增强的现象是同时存在的,一般城市在互动型活动上凭借其城市特色,同样吸引周边城市的关注。研究最后针对不同层级城市的活动容纳特征提出了相关规划建议。