Broken Windows Policing and Constructions of Space and Crime: Flatbush,Brooklyn

While broken windows policing has triggered explosive debates about law enforcement and racism across US cities, it has maintained considerable support by racialized urbanites. Focusing on Flatbush, Brooklyn, this paper seeks to understand the striking resilience of broken windows in inner‐city contexts. It uses Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory to analyze dialogue at Precinct Community Council meetings and interviews with attendees. The paper makes the case that the New York Police Department normalizes broken windows through discursive constructions of social space and crime that naturalize the precinct scale, produce spatial meanings, and cast social difference in the mold of broken windows theory. The article illustrates beyond the politics of racialized fearmongering, the normalization of broken windows also occurs through this meticulous production of geographic knowledge. It also emphasizes that deconstructing the way the police portray space and crime provides signposts for substantive reform to broken windows.     

网络时代高校宣传思想工作的现实思考

随着网络时代的到来,网络技术的发展和普及对高校师生生活的各个方面都产生着深刻的影响,高校宣传思想工作面临着新的机遇与挑战。如何趋利避害,抓住机遇,应对挑战,主动利用网络的技术优势,充分利用网络的丰富资源,采取得力措施切实加强宣传思想工作,是网络时代高校宣传思想工作者面临的重要课题。     

亲子家庭城市公园游憩机会满意度影响因素研究——以北京奥林匹克森林公园为例

文章通过构建结构方程模型研究亲子家庭城市公园游憩机会满意度的影响因素。结果表明,出游动机对城市公园物质环境和社会环境的满意度影响较大,可达程度对城市公园管理环境满意度影响较大;"培养孩子的能力"、"让孩子学习自然环境知识"、"与孩子感情交流"对出游动机影响较大,"出行路上时间"、"与居住区距离"对可达程度影响较大,"景观品质"、"公园规模"、"游玩场地设置"对物质环境满意度影响较大,"文娱活动"对社会环境满意度影响较大,"游线安排"、"员工服务"对管理环境满意度影响较大。     

The Palace of Westminster: Another Window of Opportunity?

The Palace of Westminster is in need of urgent, substantial repairs. This provides a ‘window of opportunity’ for change. This essay traces the restoration and transformation (or lack of) that the Palace of Westminster has seen in the last half a century, before assessing its current state, and considering whether parliament is fit for purpose. It provides a ‘long‐view’ understanding of previous missed ‘windows of opportunity’. The essay focuses on drawing insights from history in order to add a depth of understanding to the contemporary issue. An understanding of the preceding renewal and restoration projects enables us, potentially, to avoid some of the problems that have been previously experienced, and finally seize this opportunity to build a parliament which is fit for purpose.     

Troubled kids? Locational disadvantage,opportunity structures and social exclusion

ABSTRACT

Young people growing up in poverty often have restricted access to out-of-school enrichment activities that are important for generating the soft skills that support post-school transitions. This paper compares young Australians’ accounts of their opportunity structures – their engagement with enrichment activities, their post-school aspirations, and their knowledge of routes to achieve them – in two suburb types – improver suburbs (close to the median on many indicators) and isolate suburbs (severely disadvantaged on most indicators). While young people in improver suburbs felt able to access facilities and networks in equally or more affluent neighbouring suburbs, young people in isolate suburbs felt excluded from neighbouring suburbs, and experienced more restricted opportunity structures than young people living in improver suburbs, even those who were themselves economically disadvantaged. The paper argues that this geographical experience of exclusion prevents many economically disadvantaged young people from accumulating knowledge and skills valued in post-school settings.