Governance Mechanism of Community Regeneration Based on Property Rights Regime: A Case Study of Shanghai KIC Garden

With the focus of urban regeneration gradually shifting to the community level, community regeneration has become an important path for improving residents' quality of life and the governance of grassroots society. How to innovate the governance model and how to improve the community public space utilization efficiency become vital questions. From the perspective of property rights regime, this paper puts forward the theoretical framework of “property rights regime-governance model-space utilization,” and argues that the property rights regime can be adjusted through the subdivision of property rights, which can change the governance model of public space and affect the space utilization efficiency. Through an in-depth investigation of the community regeneration of Shanghai KIC Garden, this study finds that different property rights regimes affect the process and results of collective action in public space governance, and the monocentric governance model formed by the concentration of governmental power can easily lead to the governance dilemmas such as rent-seeking, ineffective supervision, and information asymmetry. By subdividing and decentralizing property rights, social organizations, and community residents can be introduced to participate in the process of spatial governance, so as to facilitate the sinking of governance centers to the grassroots level and form a polycentric governance model. Moreover, multiple stakeholders can be motivated to make full use of public space through the property rights regime adjustment, and the public space utilization efficiency can be enhanced as a result.

农村宅基地改革需求下的大农业地区村庄规划方法研究——以哈尔滨为例

Farmers'homesteads reform is an important measure to improve land use efficiency and achieve high-quality development of villages.And village planning under the background of territorial and spatial planning is one of the important ways to implement this measure.In Harbin,the large-scale agricultural development is an obvious characteristic of its rural areas.With the rapid agricultural modernization and industrialization of Harbin,the rural population is constantly migrating with a large amount of rural land is left idle,and the phenomenon of“hollow village”in rural areas gets increasingly serious.Therefore,it is urgent to carry out the reform of the homestead system to integrate resources and promote the land use efficiency.Responding to the characteristic of rural development in Harbin,this paper suggests to implement the homestead reform through village planning.Balancing the benefits of the country,the collectives,and farmers,it proposes to restrict the size of homestead through the control method with two planning lines,i.e.,the homestead control line of the village and the single-family homestead control line.What's more,the paper also suggests to replan the saved land and explore multiple ways of land use in large-scale agricultural areas.

城市环境对心理健康的影响研究进展

Neuroscience research shows that the environment shapes people’s physical and mental health through its effects on the brain and nervous system.Currently,mental health issues are increasingly highlighted,and research on the psychological impacts of the urban environment brought by urbanization has received increasing attention.This article,from an view of multidisciplinary perspective,gives a brief overview of the concepts and theories relating to urban environment and mental health,using Citespace to investigate various domestical and international studies in this field,and introducing research progresses in terms of the overall characteristics of urban environment,their impacts on mental health,and the main environmental influence factors and functional mechanism.It then summarizes the weakness of the studies in China and makes proposals for furthering the research in the future,such as setting up a multidisciplinary integrated theoretical method framework,deepening factor identification,process analysis,and mechanism interpretation,promoting the establishment of evidence-based healthy city planning and design,and finally exploring research paradigms suitable for Chinese conditions and pushing for the development of urban public mental health enhancement strategies with Chinese characteristics.

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The Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China Released On Feb. 27, 2023, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued The Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China(hereinafter referred to as the Plan). The Plan points out that the construction of digital China is an important engine for advancing Chinese modernization in the digital era and a powerful support for establishing new national competitive advantages.

Evolution Characteristics of the Ecological Space Network of Resource-Based Cities:A Case Study on Xuzhou

The territorial and spatial planning is an essential tool for ecological civilization construction in spatial development and urban governance.Since ecological space has been an important part of the territorial and spatial planning,this study established a spatial structural pattern of"ecological source-ecological corridor-ecological node"along with methods including landscape connectivity analysis and ecological resistance surface analysis.Taking the ecological space of Xuzhou City,a typical resource-based city,as a case study,this research analyzed the ecological spatial network structure and evaluated the evolution characteristics before judging the breadth threshold value of the ecological corridor and providing planning control strategy.The study found that since the urbanization of Xuzhou City resumed its growth,the quantity of ecological sources,corridors,and nodes have grown along.The resistance of the ecological corridor increases year by year,with the proper breadth threshold value around 100–200 m.The development of an ecological network structure shows a single-polarization evolution characteristic that is high quality and high resistance.

A Pluralistic and Participatory Community Governance Model for Urban China in the Era of Economic and Spatial Restructuring

As China’s socio-economic development is entering into a transitioning era,urban residents’demands are becoming more diversified,complicated,and fragmented.Ought to address issues regarding community environmental renovation,infrastructure and facilities constructions,and efficient public service supplies,measures should be adopted to adjust the urban community governance model in China to face emergent challenges.Against this background,this paper argues that the"participating actors,""community management and organization framework,""related laws,regulations,and policies,"and"resources allocation and management"are the four crucial dimensions in urban community governance.We then adopted these four underpinnings as the theoretical framework to unravel the complex dynamics of community governance in contemporary urban China.This paper argues that the current community governance system falls short in accommodating the growing demands of community development due to"ambiguity of participating actors,""excessive administrative intervention on community management,""insufficient legislation supports,"and a"deficiency in financing management system."Therefore,this paper argues that through the pluralization of public participation,diversification of community organization modes,and the enhancement of participation accessibility,community governance performance in urban China could be drastically improved.Therefore,a pluralistic and participatory community governance model is proposed in this paper to provide additional policy implications for community governance in urban China.

A Comparative Study on the Measurement Methods of Urban Mixed Land Use

The study aims at exploring the applicability and limitations of domestic and foreign methods for measuring the function mixing of urban land use,and sorting out various classic measurement methods according to the logic of “conceptual reflection–characteristics comparison–limitation analysis.” The study shows that:① the connotation and types of mixed land use functions are still controversial at home and abroad;② there is a lack of research on measurement methods in China;③ for medium and micro-scale planning,current measurement methods cannot fully reflect the differences in the degree of mixing caused by the planar and three-dimensional layout of building functions within the grid;④ the measurement methods for refined planning governance should improve the measurement model in terms of the number of functional types and the mixed layout of various functions in the horizontal and vertical directions at the medium and micro-scales,and improve its accuracy of the measurement results of a single grid and the whole area.

Inter-Firm Linkages:Distribution Network of Patent Consulting Businesses in Cities of the Yangtze River Delta

Corporate-based networks have provided an important lens for the understanding of regional configuration,but the sole focus on intrafirm linkages limited the revealing of the whole picture of a region.In this regard,this study centers at the inter-firm linkages in the Yangtze River Delta,and employs the data concerning business interactions between patent consulting companies and their clients to supplement the analysis on the urban network in the region.The results show that the local administrative power represented by provincial government is still decisive in determining the economic relations among enterprises.Provincial capital cities including Nanjing,Hangzhou,and Hefei occupy the center positions of the regional network,while Shanghai,due to its lack of administrative hinterland,fails to show significant centralized functions.A comparative analysis on urban network from multiple perspectives shows that although the Yangtze River Delta region presents the characteristics of a flat spatial structure in certain fields,significant administrative constraints are still observed in the advanced producer service functions,demonstrating a distinctive feature of market division in the region.By employing new data,this study introduces a new lens for the research on urban network,and,to a certain extent,achieves a breakthrough in the existing theoretical framework of related research.

Territorial and Spatial Planning and City Upgrading in the Post-Pandemic Era:Opinions of Experts from the Annual Conference of the International Urban Planning Academic Committee

Introduction With the theme of"Territorial and Spatial Planning and City Upgrading in the Post-Pandemic Era,"the 2021 Annual Conference of the International Urban Planning Academic Committee of the Urban Planning Society of China(UPSC)was successfully held at Soochow University from May 29 to 30,2021.This conference aimed at sharing new thoughts and practices in China and other countries in the fields of territorial and spatial planning and coordinated development,urban resilience enhancement and green ecology sustainability.

Newborn and Transformation:The Formation of Chinese Urban Planning Knowledge in Early Modern Times(1840-1911)

This paper focuses on urban planning knowledge and its formation in the early modern China,comparing the urban function framework defined in the Athens Charter with Chinese city development in the late Qing Dynasty,selecting"road,""park,"and"commercial port"as keywords to analyze the construction practices and historical documents,in order to sort out the basic characteristics of the formation and development of urban planning knowledge.Based on the database of Airusheng Shenbao,this paper conducts keywords-frequency statistical analysis,and verifies the public acceptance of various planning knowledge in early modern times,expecting to reveal the origin and connotation of modern urban planning in China.

Space Governance for High-Quality Development:The 2020/2021 Annual National Planning Conference and 2021 China Urban Planning Academic Season Successfully Held

On Sept.25,2021,the"2020/2021 Annual National Planning Conference and 2021 China Urban Planning Academic Season"opened in Chengdu.The 2020 Annual National Planning Conference was postponed and combined with the 2021 Annual National Planning Conference due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,and was combined with the 2021 China Urban Planning Academic Season to present an unprecedented academic event to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Urban Planning Society of China(UPSC).

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Full Text of the Outline of the 14^(th)Five-Year Plan Released OnMar.13,2021,the Outline of the 14^(th)Five-Year Plan(2021–2025)for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035(hereinafter referred to as the Outline)was officially released.

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Being People-Centered to Create a New Situation in the Protection and Inheritance of Urban-Rural History and Culture On Sept.4,2021,the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Strengthening the Protection and Inheritance of History and Culture in Urban-Rural Construction(hereinafter referred to as the"Opinions"),and released a notice requiring all regions and departments to seriously implement them in accordance with the actual situations.

Xi Jinping:Apply the Concept of Life-Cycle Management Throughout the Entire Process of Urban Planning,Construction,and Management

Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee,President of the People’s Republic of China,and Chairman of the Central Military Commission,presided over a symposium of experts and delivered an important speech on the afternoon of Jun.2,2020.He stressed that only by building a strong public health system,perfecting the early warning response mechanism,comprehensively improving the prevention,control,and treatment capacity,weaving a tight protective net,and building a solid quarantine wall can we effectively provide strong safeguards for people’s health.