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Zwischenstadtland Schweiz: zur politischen Steuerung der suburbanen Entwicklung in Schweizer Gemeinden
Get PDFDie Schweiz unterliegt seit zwei Jahrzehnten starken Urbanisierungstendenzen, die sich vor allem zwischen den großen Kernstädten abspielen. Um Herausforderungen des gesteigerten Flächenverbrauchs wie der Zersiedelung zu begegnen, ist eine Analyse der heutigen kommunalen Entscheidungsprozesse und -logiken überfällig. Lineo Umberto Devecchi thematisiert Fragen hinsichtlich der kommunalen Steuerung raumwirksamer Prozesse und deren Auswirkungen auf die Gestaltung des suburbanen Raums
Von politischen Grabenkämpfen zur kooperativen Planung: der Paradigmenwechsel in der Stadtentwicklungspolitik hin zu einem urbanen Regime in Zürich
No full textThe city of Zurich's shape has changed dramatically during the last two decades. In the late 1970s and in the 1980s, such a transformation seemed impossible due to political polarisation and different urban development agendas of Zurich's important stakeholders – i.e. the local government, private investors and land owners. This article sheds light on the political transformation processes that took place in the 1990s, using urban regime theory. Urban regimes are defined as a stable and longstanding form of cooperation between the most important political and private actors, which enables them to draw a common agenda and to use common resources. The emergence of such an urban regime had a crucial impact on the development processes in Zurich, because it has been able to bridge the different interests of the relevant political and private stakeholders. The result was a much more coherent and stable development agenda and a massive development of new construction projects. The most important factors why such a cooperation scheme could be established have been the abandoning of the industrial areas in the late 1980s; the globalisation processes that made a new city development strategy necessary; the mutual need for long-term security in planning; but also the new established policy goals of the social democratic party and its leaders in the city government
Zwischenstadtland Schweiz
Get PDFDie Schweiz unterliegt seit zwei Jahrzehnten starken Urbanisierungstendenzen, die sich vor allem zwischen den großen Kernstädten abspielen. Um Herausforderungen des gesteigerten Flächenverbrauchs wie der Zersiedelung zu begegnen, ist eine Analyse der heutigen kommunalen Entscheidungsprozesse und -logiken überfällig. Lineo Umberto Devecchi thematisiert Fragen hinsichtlich der kommunalen Steuerung raumwirksamer Prozesse und deren Auswirkungen auf die Gestaltung des suburbanen Raums. Die theoretisch abgestützten Erklärungen sowie die nachvollziehbaren Fallstudien sind nicht nur für ein interdisziplinäres akademisches Publikum, sondern auch für Praktiker_innen aus Planung und Architektur von Interesse
Who governs and how: governance arrangements, decision making and implementation processes of spatial development policies in Swiss suburban municipalities
Get PDFSwiss metropolitan areas and their municipalities face challenges as e.g. the increasing number and the bigger mobility of their inhabitants, economic structural changes or the on-going urban sprawl in suburban regions. Whereas the core cities of such areas have been studied intensively, there exist little theoretical and empirical knowledge about the political decision-making and implementation processes in smaller suburban municipalities concerning the important relations between the public and the private for planning and generating the built environment.
I thus investigate the following research questions: What different kinds of governance arrangements exist in suburban municipalities and which factors let these types emerge? How then can public and private stakeholders influence the decision making and implementation processes of local development policies within these arrangements? Theoretically I draw on literature about local governance-types, recent work on small democracies and on urban regime theory. The case selection bases on two criteria theoretically relevant for the emergence of different governance arrangements: The size and the economic situation of a municipality.
The results of the qualitative analysis show that different governance arrangements exist in the four suburban municipalities related to the collaboration between relevant actors, the decision and implementation rationales and the political resources used. Bigger municipalities tend to be governed by urban regime-like forms of cooperation between public and private actors. Governance arrangements in smaller municipalities are however characterised by looser forms of cooperation. Where public actors are able to dominate the local governance arrangements in economically positive surroundings, they are more dependent on private actors in shrinking municipalities, but only when it comes to pivotal building projects because the mayors interpret the role of the state more in an active, than only in an intervening way
Governance im Wirtschaftswachstum: Grossunternehmen in aufstrebenden Regionalzentren in der Schweiz
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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