URBAN REGIMES AND RACIAL POLITICS IN NEW ORLEANS

ABSTRACT: This paper describes and analyzes the nature of the New Orleans urban regime focusing on the first term of Sidney Barthelemy, the second black mayor of New Orleans (1986–1990). First, because the authors believe that regime theory needs to be more carefully theorized in relation to racial politics, they begin by discussing the changing relationship of blacks to the prevailing New Orleans regime. Second, in analyzing this racial politics, they focus on the relationship between the evolving structure of the electoral coalition, governing coalition development strategies, and the stability of the governing regime. They conclude that a caretaker regime is very difficult to maintain in a city with a recent majority black electorate. Such an electoral coalition has a tendency to support either a progressive or corporate regime. Finally, the authors pay particular attention to the development of the consensus-seeking para-apparatus, its relationship to racial politics, and its affect on development policy, governing coalition politics, and regime transition.     

SCALES,REGIMES, AND THE URBAN GOVERNANCE OF GLASGOW

ABSTRACT: Over the last two decades, urban regime theory has become one of the most dominant paradigms of thought in urban studies. In particular, regime theory offers a complex account of urban governance, or how local governments, the business communities, and community organizations gain the capacity to shape the policies that affect cities, that is, govern. Although regime theory is a dominant theory in urban studies, it does, nevertheless, have its share of detractors, and one criticism has been its failure to take into account geographical scale. While there is an acknowledgment in urban regime theory of wider economic processes, such as the broad transformations in international and national trade, investment, finance, etc., or the role played by federal or state governments, the bias has remained mostly local, particularly in regards to urban governance. In urban regime theory literature the policies and actions of international and national institutions either nicely conjoin with local interests or are nearly totally absent. Due to this oversight, urban regime theory tends to underemphasize how the capacity to govern a city effectively is sometimes the result of the interaction of actions of people at multiple scales. This article attempts to address this oversight in an analysis of Glasgow, Scotland, during the 1980s. By focusing on the role of the European City of Culture in the revitalization of the city, this article demonstrates how the capacity for a ruling coalition to transform the city and to govern effectively was the consequence of the policy and administrative actions undertaken at other geographical scales.     

URBAN REGIMES AND HUMAN CAPITAL POLICIES: A Study of Baltimore

ABSTRACT: Most of the research in urban affairs has centered on urban development and the politics of growth. This study shifts focus and examines how human capital development came to hold a prominent place on the local agenda in Baltimore. Urban regime theory has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the politics of physical redevelopment. This study applies regime analysis to examine the politics of human capital development.     

URBAN REGIMES AND NEIGHBORHOOD MOBILIZATION AGAINST URBAN REDEVELOPMENT: The Case of an Arab-Jewish Neighborhood in Israel

ABSTRACT: This study deals with the effects of an urban bureaucratic regime on urban development and neighborhood mobilization. It examines the sociospatial transformations in an Arab-Jewish neighborhood in a major city in Israel. During the period of 1948–1990, the neighborhood experienced population turnover, planned deterioration and decline, and subsequent renewal and gentrification. The paper deals with the factors which shaped those policies and processes. the author argues that the political economy of Israel contributed to the emergence of a bureaucratic urban regime which effectively drove off all private entrepreneurial involvement in the area's development process. It is also shown that the inherent features of the bureaucratic regime facilitated community mobilization opposing development plans and made the governing agencies vulnerable to citizens' protests and court rulings.     

URBAN REGIMES AND THE CAPACITY TO GOVERN: A Political Economy Approach

ABSTRACT: Regime theory starts with the proposition that governing capacity is not easily captured through the electoral process. Governing capacity is created and maintained by bringing together coalition partners with appropriate resources, nongovernmental as well as governmental. If a governing coalition is to be viable, it must be able to mobilize resources commensurate with its main policy agenda. The author uses this reasoning as the foundation/or comparing regimes by the nature and difficulty of the government tasks they undertake and the level and kind of resources required for these tasks. Political leadership, he argues, is a creative exercise of political choice, involving the ability to craft arrangements through which resources can be mobilized, thus enabling a community to accomplish difficult and nonroutine goals.     

BLACK CLERGY AND URBAN REGIMES: The Role of Atlanta's Concerned Black Clergy

ABSTRACT: This study examines the involvement of black ministers in urban regimes through a case study of Atlanta's Concerned Black Clergy organization. In the early years of black political leadership, the black clergy were promoters of racial solidarity, oftentimes against the interests of low income residents. With black political leadership secure, the clery emerged as frequent critics of development policies during Andrew Young's years as mayor. More recently, the Concerned Black Clergy have become active regime participants helping to influence policy decisions on behalf of the city's poorer citizens. Through their organizational efforts, the Concerned Black Clergy have become part of the process of regime change in the city.     

超越20世纪

<正>在20世纪的土耳其建筑史中,我们见证了它在阐释和表现一种"现代"身份时,为回应东/西方二元性所作的无数次尝试。建筑师们和学者们在这些尝试中摇摆不定,一头是要"提升"他们的西方身份,另一头是要创造一种"真实的"安那托利亚/土耳其的现代。前者把现代性理解为一个适合每个人的国际化情境;而后者则认为需要根据特定的国家情况来融入和吸收现代性。在21世纪,这些态度都不再重要了:身份问题不再     

URBAN WELFARE REGIMES,ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES,AND CLIENT‐STAFF TIE ACTIVATION: A COMPARISON OF TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAMS IN LOS ANGELES AND TOKYO

With state safety nets failing to keep up with expanding urban poverty, ties to community organizations can provide crucial resources. But what explains variation in such tie activation at urban, organizational, and individual levels? I advance a multilevel framework of organizational client–staff tie activation that centralizes the role of trust and specifies effects of multiple social contexts. I apply the framework to an exploratory comparison of transitional housing programs in Los Angeles and Tokyo, including analysis of qualitative data collected among clients, staff, and administrators. I argue that urban welfare regimes and organizational cultures are key contexts shaping how macro‐level forces like neoliberalism intersect with micro‐level processes of social capital building in differentiated ways. Urban scholars can inform theory and practice by further analyzing how organizational‐level trust building practices of holism and flexibility can be affected by urban‐level regulations on scope of aid and inter‐organizational ties.     

城市复兴中的城市设计

在城市复兴 (UrbanRe generation)的理论框架下对有关城市设计的内容进行了进一步的分析与研究。从基本的概念入手 ,对城市设计在城市复兴中的重要作用 ,城市设计的要素 ,国家城市设计框架 ,城市设计的评估与管理 ,城市设计与空间总体规划的关系等问题进行了阐述与分析。     

城市增长与城市发展

文章试图明确城市增长和城市发展的定义,分析在我国城市化和城市现代化快速进程中,城市规划对城市增长促进城市发展的作用,讨论了一些"热点"问题。从城乡规划层面,提出要使城市增长更有效地促进城市发展,关键是确定切合实际的城市定位和目标,启用人才,建立城市自主增长的积累机制、自觉投入的基础设施发展机制、城乡规划编制的组织创新机制、法制管理和监督机制。     

PLANNING,ANXIETY AND IMPERIAL IDENTITY IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY SYDNEY

Imperial identity in Australia in the first half of this century was a complex affair, with ties to Britain intersecting nationalist sentiments. It was also strongly marked by class concerns. This paper examines certain imperial sentiments as expressed through the ideals of the early proponents of town planning in Sydney. Planning was seen as an adjunct to the strengthening of Empire through its concern with producing fitter and healthier urban inhabitants. How planning advocates proposed to go about this, and to what specific ends, reveals much about their ideals, their anxieties and their embrace of planning as an ideological reflex.     

城市设计与当代城市设计

本文简要介绍了城市设计的沿革及其内涵经历“学科交叉”“多学科渗透”和“学科融贯”的演变过程,在阐述当代城市设计“二次订单设计”的概念后,提出当代城市设计思潮所体现出的多元的设计集群、动态的设计成果和理性的行动计划这三个主要特征.     

城市无形结构——城市缠绕

＂城市无形结构＂是城市空间的一个装置。通过应用非确定性过程去设计算法。最终,这个复杂的结构使公众能够步行进入一个自由轨迹的迷宫,体验各种各样的空间密度。该设计根据结构网格确定多重结构体验,并使用加强编织芳纶纤维编造。     

城市特色与城市形象塑造

在对城市特色和城市形象的概念、内涵进行辨析的基础上,认为城市特色和城市形象存在密切的逻辑联系,即城市特色是“真”,城市形象是“美”;城市特色是城市发展之“源”,城市形象是城市发展之“流”,最后,提出“基于城市特色的城市形象塑造”命题。     

论新城市时代城市规划制度与管理创新

通过对现行城市规划制度与城市规划管理方面存在与新城市时代发展相悖的深层问题评析,指出现有城市规划制度的异化与混乱、城市规划管理的“失灵”与“失败”,提出必须加快城市规划全方位适应性、战略性调整,并从宏观层面提出对新城市时代来临中国城市规划在城市规划制度创新与管理创新方面应把握的思路、方向和若干对策。     

城市低收入住区治理与克服城市贫困——基于对深圳“城中村”和老工业基地城市“棚户区”的分析

针对城中村和棚户区这两种我国当前典型的城市低收入住区,分别以深圳和老工业基地城市为案例地域,分析其特征、性质、问题与传统改造模式的不足,从改造途径、空间区位、政府职能、城市规划管理事权等角度,提出治理城市低收入住区、克服城市贫困的创新要点。     

关于“城市空间绩效”及城市规划的作为

由于空间本身的复杂性,"城市空间绩效"在很大程度上未被真正理解,这限制了我们理解城市的深度及对城市问题的判断。因而,认识和把握城市空间绩效,探讨城市建设用地的完整性、边际替代、空间距离和空间分割与垄断等内在机理,对于理解和改善快速城市化时期的城市规划作为,尤其是处理当下住房等现实问题,都具有重要意义。本文以城市用地及其功能用途的基本常识为出发点,分析探讨城市空间绩效的内在机理及与经济社会运行的关联性。在梳理内在机理基础上,进而以空间思维和推论方式进一步分析包括规划在内的公共政策作为。     

城市更新规划与城市规划更新

<正>王学锋(中国城市规划学会理事,江苏省住房和城乡建设厅城乡规划处处长,博士):第一、城市更新的范围在不断拓展,不少新建地区被列入更新改造范围。早期旧城改造主要是改善人居环境、完善基础设施和服务设施等。2007年出台的《城乡规划法》强调"旧城区的改建,应当……合理确定拆迁和建设规模,有计划地对危房集中、基础设施落后等地段进行改建。"2008年出台的《循环经济法》规定,"对符合城市规划和工程建设标准,     

城市规划对招商引资的支持方法

分析了现阶段城市政府的一项重要工作———招商引资的条件 ,提出了城市规划对于招商引资的支持方法 ,并由此反馈到城市规划本身方法观念的转变