How feminist is the ‘feminist capital’?

San Jose, in California's Silicon Valley, is the self-proclaimed ‘feminist capital of the United States’ and, along with Santa Clara County, has a female majority on its council. This article describes the rise of San Jose's women to positions of power and their impact on public policy.     

The Project of Modernity: Can Architecture Make It?

The title of this essay suggests that architecture's relation to modernity is a complex one. What needs to be discussed is the specificity of architecture's conflict with modernity. While historical analysis theorizes socio-cultural and political phenomena, the thematic of architecture's entanglement with capitalism necessitates an argument, addressing the dialogical relationship between theory and practice. Historical analysis is one thing; mobilization of history to change the present situation is another. This much is clear from the discourse of thinkers who are associated with ‘critical theory,’ and the work of architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri, among others.

This essay attempts to read Tafuri's Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development, translated into English in 1976,¹ in the context of current critical theories and to demonstrate the relevance of his argument today. To be more specific, the intention is to approach Tafuri's text from the argument presented in the first chapter of Susan Buck-Morss's Dreamworld and Catastrophe.² The author re-writes the interaction between the early modern states and avant-garde artists in reference to space and time. Her paradigm suspends the idea of Zeitgeist and shows how space (territory) was the subject matter of an idea of progress that was imagined by both capitalist and socialist states of the 1930s. Secondly, Buck-Morss discusses the ways architecture occasionally went out-of-time in the historical cosmology, formulated by the forces of modernization that were unravelling during the early decades of the last century. Her discourse provides a system of periodization that surpasses historicism. Tafuri's vision of history also questions historicism,³ but if read in the light of Buck-Morss's discourse, one can see ideas in Tafuri which are perhaps more relevant to architecture's situation today than when they were written.     

80’ I Can

在学院接受两年的基础课程后，和我们当初为自己设计的一样，我们选择了环境艺术设计这个专业一个令人着迷，充满梦想与挑战的专业；一个有强大压力同时又让许多人羡慕的专业；一个“诱惑”与“危险”并存的专业。但是我们看到的是一个个孤立的身影，一层层距离的隔膜。迷茫不知所从，困窘不知所需。学习的自主性变异成自卑性。我们无法忍受“传统”继续，无法面对外界传来的“冷眼”。     

Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated by Income?

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Income segregation has risen in each of the last four decades in U.S. metropolitan areas, which can have lifelong impacts on the health, economic productivity, and behaviors of residents. Although it is widely assumed that local land use regulations—such as minimum lot sizes and growth controls—exclude low-income households from wealthier neighborhoods, the empirical research is surprisingly limited. We examine the relationship between land use regulation and segregation by income using new measures for the 95 biggest cities in the United States. We find that density restrictions are associated with the segregation of the wealthy and middle income, but not the poor. We also find that more local pressure to regulate land use is linked to higher rates of income segregation, but that more state control is connected to lower-income segregation.

Takeaway for practice: Density restrictions do drive urban income segregation of the rich, not the poor, but should be addressed because rich enclaves create significant metropolitan problems. Planners at the local level need assistance from regional and state efforts to ameliorate income segregation. Inclusionary housing requirements have a greater potential to reduce income segregation than bringing higher-income households into lower-income parts of the city. Finally, comprehensive and consistent data on the impacts of local land use regulations should be collected to inform future research and planning practice.     

Can global cities be ‘age-friendly cities’? Urban development and ageing populations

Understanding the relationship between population ageing and urban change has become a major issue for public policy. An emerging theme has concerned the need to develop supportive urban communities for older citizens. This paper provides a critical perspective on what has been termed the development of ‘age-friendly cities and communities’ by exploring such policies in the context of urban change arising from globalisation, urban regeneration and austerity. A key argument is that research and policies on age-friendly cities require stronger integration with analyses of the impact of global forces transforming the physical and social context of cities. This theme is developed by examining: first, the arguments behind the development of the ‘age-friendly’ approach; second, the pressures affecting urban environments, and their relevance for the ‘age-friendly’ debate; and third, challenges for improving the urban environment for older populations. The article concludes by discussing the need to combine a conceptual model of ‘age-friendliness’ with analysis of the economic and social forces transforming urban environments.     

The project sponsor role and benefits realisation: More than ‘just doing the day job’

The project sponsor role has been identified in both guidance and research as being a key factor affecting project success. However, there is still a knowledge gap in terms of how the project sponsor role is experienced and understood by the senior managers undertaking the role, including their understanding of their accountability for benefits realisation. Phenomenography is ideally suited to address these issues, and was used to explore project sponsor experiences at a hospital in England. One conception of the project sponsor role was ‘just doing the day job’, which is contrary to project sponsorship guidance, but is consistent with some of the evidence on the role in practice. Using the interactionist perspective from role theory, it is suggested that seniority enables ‘role making’ individuals holding such views to conflate it with their substantive position. This contrasts with the ‘role taking’ conception of the sponsor as ‘wearing two different hats’.     

‘甜心’玉簪

玉簪为百合科玉簪属(Hosta)多年生宿根草本。玉簪属是一类变异很大的植物群体,共有70多个种,原产中国、韩国、日本和前苏联,现在世界各地广泛栽培,以美国为主已培育出大量的园艺杂交品种。根据美国玉簪协会的资料,目前已登记的玉簪品种有2000多个,其性状千变万化,是阴生花园的宝贵财富。如果说萱草为阳性花卉之最,那么玉簪则可称为阴生花卉之王。玉簪叶片有蓝绿色、黄绿色和绿色之别,且常具有不同颜色、不同形状的花斑,叶片大小和形     

尤加利‘蓝梦’

桃金娘科按属植物，常绿阔叶乔木。原产澳大利亚，高可达10－15米。幼态叶近圆形，直径1－3厘米，对生，被白粉；成态叶则变成长卵圆形，渐尖，叶色蓝绿。因其幼态叶圆圆的，被白粉，     

‘Springtecture’ B

Masaaki Takahashi describes a house, designed by Shuhei Endo, whose coiled corrugated-steel surface seamlessly unifies the inside with the outside, despite its surprisingly rural setting.     

尤加利‘冰点’

尤加利为桃金娘科、桉属植物,原产澳大利亚,是一种非常好的制作鲜切花和干花的植物,同时也是非常优秀的园林绿化观赏植物。目前在我国南部及西南部有种植,主要在云南省和海南省的部分地区,另一些省区也曾做过相应的引种实验,均因品种、种源选择及相关的引种技术等问题而失败。上海诚功投资发展有限公司于2002年从澳洲引入新品种在上海种植,历经3年选择、培育,终于选育出尤加利‘冰点’。该品种完全适应上海地区的各种气候条件因子,并经历了2004年冬季低温及2005年夏季高温的考验。形态常绿大乔木,生长速度中等偏快,树干圆而直立,枝叶亮丽;树高可达25米,树冠圆形,树皮红棕色,主干树皮在夏季易裂而     

浅谈‘土风’抬梁式和‘木风’穿斗式

“大兴土木”作为对古代一切建筑活动的概括,从中可以窥见土和木在古代是建筑的主要材料。而关于建筑的起源,则有两种：“掘土为穴”以及“构木为巢”。以中原文化为代表的“土风”和以楚国文化为代表的“木风”,各有其独自的特点。文章想要阐述的一个观点是：以官方建筑为主的抬梁式实际上是“土的风格”,而以民间建筑为主的穿斗式则是“木的风格”。     

‘紫花’醉鱼草

在烈日炎炎的夏季,走进上海市园林科研所邬桥墓地,有一种盛开着蓝紫色花的灌木给你凉爽的感觉;在众花凋落的深秋,它仍开着清秀的花朵向你微笑。这种植物就是近年我们从荷兰引进并已开始推广应用的优良花灌木品种‘紫花’醉鱼草(Buddleja ‘Lochinch’),株高1.5～2.5米,冠幅2.5～3米,叶片披针形,灰绿色。圆锥花序顶生于枝端,长15～20厘米。花蓝紫色,有芳香,花期很长,从春末一直到初霜前开花不断。     

The ‘People’s City’

The mid-20th-century communist ideal was for cities that were ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Wang Jun , an editor at Outlook Weekly magazine and author of a best-selling book on the planning of Beijing, describes how the ambition to accommodate public life in urban space is a relatively modern phenomenon that goes against the grain of a long tradition of landownership in China. Given this background, can the original notion of the ‘People's City’ ultimately survive the current wave of property privatisation? Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Muscular strain in ‘heavy’ and ‘light’ building work

In this Finnish study, the causes and frequency of musculoskeletal strain among concrete reinforcement workers and painters on house maintenance are analysed from observations at 30s intervals, from accident report forms and from interviews about unreported minor accidents. Various measures are then suggested to prevent the problems revealed, including careful work planning and site layout, and care over means of access to the work point.     

新材料作文“‘视野’与‘幸福感’”导写

<正>文题根据以下材料,选取角度,自拟题目,写一篇不少于800字的文章;文体不限,诗歌除外。有人说,人的视野小了,容易知足,幸福感就随之增强;也有人说,人的视野小了,格局就会小,人生之路越走越窄,幸福感就随之下降。写作指导这是一则思辨性材料作文,文题材料把人对外部世界的体察与自己内心的满足度结合起来,表现"视野"与"幸福感"的关系。材料涉及两个核心词语:"视野"指眼睛看到的空间范围或眼界,也指观察和     

‘粉花’美秀溲疏和‘钟花’溲疏

溲疏(Deutzia)为虎耳草科溲疏属植物,该属包括约70种落叶灌木,原产于亚洲东部、南部等,我国约有40种,广泛分布于南北各地。溲疏株高因不同种类而异,多数为1～2米。春末夏初开花,花朵灵巧清雅,花色以白色为主,     

‘零存整取’视听区

一个线条流畅的视听区，必须要以合理的设计为前提，既要使日常用品方便取用，又要满足视觉空间流畅美观，在这其中，收纳的确是一门学问。