What do divided cities have in common? An international comparison of income segregation

This paper provides a comparative assessment of income segregation in cities of 12 countries. We use spatial entropy indexes based on small‐scale gridded income data and consistent definition of city boundaries to ensure international comparability of our segregation measures. Results show considerable variation in the levels of income segregation across cities, even within countries, reflecting the diversity within urban systems. Larger, more affluent, productive, and more unequal cities tend to be more segregated. Urban form, demographic, and economic factors explain additional variation in segregation levels through the influence of high‐income households, who tend to be the most segregated. The positive association between productivity and segregation is mitigated in polycentric cities.     

Africa's Next Debt Crisis: A Relational Comparison of Chinese and Western Lending to Zambia

Africa faces a new debt crisis fuelled by Chinese and Western lending. At the forefront is Zambia, which defaulted on Eurobond payments in 2020. The article sets the developing Africa-wide crisis within a relational comparison that draws the current Zambian moment together with the financial collapse of the 1980s. By placing Chinese lending within a comparative global frame, we make three contributions. First, Zambia provides a “spatial fix” for capital, but such African borrowing is not passive and shapes hegemonic struggles between China and the US. Thus secondly, Africa's relationship with debt is co-constituent in the remaking of the global economy, as signalled by the contested execution and interpretation of development-as-modernisation. Finally, a relational comparison of the two debt crises demonstrates that global capitalist hegemony is, partly, engineered by the consent and coercion of African governments, yet the human costs of borrowing are fully borne by the world's poorest.     

图们江地区物流长期预测研究的理论与方法

本文运用路线比较模型与重力模型,对通过图们江地区的港口与相关路线的物流状况(2000~2020)进行了预测与研究,深入探讨了影响图们江地区物流的主要障碍因素,对不同障碍因素的变化及其对图们江地区物流的影响进行了分析。     

中国大城市边缘区的概念辨析及其划分

城市边缘区是城市化的前沿地区,是城乡作用力交织碰撞的地域空间,对它的概念描述及划分因城乡发展的背景各异以及研究角度的差异而不同。本文回顾了国内外城市边缘区概念的发展,比较了我国描述城市边缘地带的几个概念之间的差异及其使用范围,针对当前国情,提出了突出地域空间、土地、社会、经济方面特征的城市边缘区概念;结合常用的划分边缘区的几种方法,以武汉市为例,提出从城市规划角度划分边缘区的主要原则及其方法。     

日本文学作品翻译的再创作问题

本文作者联系多年的翻译教学实践,分两部分对日本文学作品翻译中的再创作问题,结合具体译例进行了分析,据此论述了利用比较法在美学、修辞、句法等方面进行词语推敲所具有的重要作用和意义。     

基于比较视角的中日旅游法价值取向分析

研究法的价值取向有助于不断完善法律制度和法律体系,发挥、释放法的实践理性功能。我国《旅游法》按照市场经济和法治政府的要求,整合了旅游产业各要素和旅游活动全链条,构建了涵盖促进法、行政法和民事法三方面不同性质的法律规范。本文在梳理国内外旅游法价值取向研究的基础上,对日本旅游立法情况进行分析,并从比较视角对中日旅游法的价值取向进行探究,以期结合国外旅游立法成功的经验,探索我国《旅游法》实施中国际旅游规则、国外旅游立法与中国特色社会主义市场经济和法制建设的有机结合。最后基于一定的时代背景和语境提出中国旅游法的价值取向主要表现在秩序建立,权利维护,促进发展等方面。     

增长极理论的困境与产业集群战略的重新审视

随着福特制生产方式逐渐式微、"新区域主义"的兴起,联合国工业发展组织(UNIDO)所倡导的区域发展模式从20世纪60、70年代的增长极战略转向90年代以来的产业集群策略。纵观增长极理论的实践绩效,几乎乏善可陈,可是其在区域发展领域的思想影响却挥之不去,在区域和城市规划中仍被普遍搬用。本文从"新区域主义"的典型代表思想--产业集群理论视角,对存在和影响了近半个世纪的增长极理论进行反思。从集群策略实施的必要条件、普遍适用性、区域效应等方面对集群理论进行了思考,并指出实施集群策略应该汲取的教训。     

Crusade narratives in French and German history textbooks, 1871–1914

This article is a comparative study of crusade portrayals in French and German history textbooks published between 1871 and 1914. The crusades had been events that had moved practically all of Europe in the Middle Ages. In the course of the nineteenth century the crusades once more became a matter of scientific, cultural and therefore public interest. Crusade narratives portrayed these events as the climax and the heroic period of the Middle Ages and thus offered highly varied patterns of interpretation. Although in this nationalist age France and Germany consigned themselves to national history and thus the glorification of one's own nation, this article will not only analyse the national and sub-national (denominational, Laicist …) images conveyed via this European event. It will also ask if and how the tension between nationalism and concepts of Europe were made subject of discussion in this historical ‘European event’. Therefore, it focuses on school textbooks as a source that, during the period in question, was responsible for a significant portion of national mythology and cultural memory as conveyed by media.     

Historicism and constructionism: rival ideas of historical change

ABSTRACT

A seemingly unitary appeal to history might evoke today two incompatible operations of historicization that yield contradictory results. This article attempts to understand two co-existing senses of historicity as conflicting ideas of historical change and rival practices of temporal comparison: historicism and constructionism. At their respective births, both claimed to make sense of the world and ourselves as changing over time. Historicism, dominating nineteenth-century Western thought and overseeing the professionalization of historical studies, advocated an understanding of the present condition of the human world as developing out of past conditions. Constructionism, dominating the second half of the twentieth century, understood the present condition as the recent invention of certain ‘historical’ environments, without prior existence. As competing ideas of historical change, they both entail a comparison between past and present conditions of their investigated subjects, but their practices of temporal comparison are irreconcilable and represent two distinct ways of historicization.     

《长物志》和《闲情偶寄》园林陈设艺术比较

文震亨的《长物志》与李渔的《闲情偶寄》同为明清的著名文人笔记,在园林艺术和文化方面都有着卓越的成就,在关于园林陈设艺术的阐述方面,两者贡献巨大而差异明显,本文以文本分析为主,从物生活、身生活和心生活三个层面切入,探讨两者的区别和相通点,以期拓展对于明清江南园林陈设艺术理论范式的研究和思考。