The constant interplay between top‐down authority and bottom‐up agency in the production of urban space has invigorated much scholarly debate in urban studies. China, with its astonishingly rapid urban change, offers a fruitful context for empirical investigations. In this article, we seize the opportunity of Shanghai's recent waterfront development to unpack the process by which the local state in Shanghai planned, designed, delivered and governed the city's much‐storied waterfront. Ostensibly framed as an initiative for the people, the development of Shanghai's waterfront was decidedly not by the people. Powerful state actors and their affiliates in universities and architectural firms collaboratively pursued an urban developmental process that paradoxically enhanced residents’ right to urban space and denied citizens’ right to participation. The local state reconciled this apparent paradox by articulating a ‘quality people’ it sought to serve, fabricating an entire profile of their supposed aesthetic values, leisure habits, spatial preferences and luxurious lifestyles. In its essence, this ‘people’ framing represents an extraordinarily cunning approach to state hegemony, enabling the local state to pursue heavy‐handed interventions while upholding a gentle, humanistic ‘for the people’ discourse.
Currently, the teachers and students in universities attach importance to the professional learning, while ignoring the humanistic education. This paper gives the present situation of lack of humanistic quality in university English teaching, then analyzes the reasons of the phenomenon, and finally gives the suggestions such as changing teaching ideology, using classroom teaching, developing second classroom and enhancing teachers' quality to improve humanistic quality in university English teaching. Concept of Humanistic Quality "Humanities" is a concept that covers a wide range of things. In the modern sense, "humanities" mainly refers to the social morality, value idea, aesthetic taste and thinking mode formed in the process of social development. The essence of the humanistic quality education lies in the cultivation of humanistic spirit. Humanistic quality education is the education process. It aims to mankind in the long social activities by the accumulation of spiritual wisdom to cultivate people, educating people, emphasize the value of human moral spirit, attention on the goodness and beauty understanding, guide people to seek the truth, from goodness and beauty, make the person can insight into the life of the purpose and significance of, find the correct way of life. Simply speaking, the "Humanistic Quality Education" means the education to cultivate students' humanistic spirit and to improve students' humanistic quality. Present situation of lack of Humanistic Quality in University English Teaching At present, the universities always overemphasized the importance of the professional learning due the pressure of employment. However, at the same time, the humanity quality, which is also necessary in the employment and the life, is ignored. Universities should attach importance to the cultivation of students' humanistic knowledge and improve the humanistic quality of the university students, and put the idea to carry out the teaching of the humanities, especially as learning to university English Teaching in the language of western countries, to enable the university to cultivate graduates to become the all-round development of talent, not only has the expertise to solve practical problems, but also the basic culture. Learn the language at the same time, can open view of life, expand the space of the mind, the subject of a solid knowledge, widespread interest hobby, rich social experience, with good humanistic spirit, but also has a higher realm of life. Traditional university English teaching, teaching method is relatively simple, the teacher, students listen, take notes, the word back, do homework, heuristic teaching, participation type teaching difficult, active participation of students lack. Most of the teachers in universities are engaged in the teaching progress and plan. The teachers and students are busy with the examination of the four and six levels. However, graduates face is employment and employment, graduate studies and reality. The job market of students English proficiency requirements i...
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