How losers can turn into winners in disputatious public policy: a heuristic for prospective herestheticians

The study of heresthetic is a quest to explain how potential political losers might become winners. Local Government amalgamation is invariably a controversial and hotly contested political decision. It thus represents the ideal context to locate a pedagogical discussion regarding how clever herestheticians might act to bring about unlikely political success. Specifically, we extend the heresthetic literature by drawing attention to the costs (opportunity, contingency and legacy costs) inherent to various strategies, the need to carefully evaluate the heresthetic potential of different dimensions according to which amalgamations might be argued, and the importance of ensuring that the rhetorical seasoning is appropriate. This leads us to propose a heuristic that we argue has the potential to turn losers into winners on the vexed matter of local government amalgamations. We conclude by considering the implications of our heuristic for both prospective herestheticians in other public policy areas and for the wider heresthetic research agenda.     

元大都孔庙、国子学的建筑模式与基址规模探析

本文依据文献史料,对元大都孔庙、国子学的建设过程进行梳理,对建筑平面进行复原,确定其用地范围与基址规模,并通过分析探寻其设计规律与手法,发现设计中采用两套平格网．孔庙、国子学的基址规模与大都城市平格网的基准长度存在倍数关系,基址边界均在11步×12．5步的平格网线上;建筑群内部的平面布置受8步×10步的平格控制,总平面中重要控制线大多与网格线对应。根据这一规律,本文进一步对明清北京孔庙、国子监进行分析,发现明太祖、英宗两朝对元代孔庙、国子学展拓时,基址规模仍受元大都城市平格网控制,而永乐朝重建孔庙时沿用元代8步×10步的平格网,将东西廊庑分别向内收进一格,从而揭示元、明建筑模式与基址规模的内在一致性。     

城市土地利用结构的熵值定律

根据对郑州、广州等城市的土地结构分析,总结出关于城市土地利用的信息熵值规律:大城市用地结构的信息熵一般大于小城市的信息熵,综合性城市的信息熵严格大于专业化城市的信息熵,城市化地区的信息熵必须大于各功能区的信息熵。基于信息熵值规律,提出了关于城市空间形态的分维包容原理:城市化地区土地形态的分形维数必须大于各类型土地空间分布的分形维数。     

旅游地公共交通性能的游客感知研究——以黄山市为例

以黄山市为案例,研究了旅游地公共交通性能感知维度及其游客满意度水平。结果显示:(1)利用游客对黄山市公共交通性能各要素的重要性评价数据,得出黄山市公共交通性能的维度由"公共交通的时间性"、"公共交通的便捷性"、"公共交通的合理性"、"公共交通的安全性"等构成。(2)在游客对黄山市公共交通性能的满意度评价上,游客对黄山市公共交通性能18个要素的满意度评价均在3.4以上,对黄山市公共交通整体满意度也为3.66;从维度上看,"公共交通的安全性"评价最高(均值为3.81),其次是"公共交通的时间性"(3.6),"公共交通的便捷性"和"公共交通的合理性"分别为3.57和3.5;同时回归方程分析表明,"公共交通的时间性"和"公共交通的便捷性"2个维度对黄山市公共交通整体满意度产生显著影响。(3)分析得到游客对黄山市公共交通性能各要素的重要性和满意度评价的IPA方格图,包括优势区(含8个公共交通性能要素)、弥补区(含3个要素)、忽略区(含6个要素)、保持区(含1个要素)。     

The art of displacement – curating a preschool context in a public transport system

ABSTRACT

This article discusses ways of enabling the youngest children at preschool (1–3 years) to participate in creating space in the public transport system. One researcher, two preschool educators and six preschool toddlers travelled on foot, by bus and by underground train to the Brunkeberg tunnel, a pedestrian tunnel in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden. Drawing on artistic site-specific methods of displacement, this article details three propositions for how to ‘do’ preschool in the public transport system: locations, dimensions and positions. By placing the routines and rhythms of a preschool practice into the urban spaces of transport, the ‘miniature preschool’ comes to curate context. The article proposes methods for a preschool practice to curate context through activating mobile but particular locations within a specific place; creating a vocal mobile architecture; and enabling multiple and mobile positions within one specific situation.