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书评作者 孟庆贺 陆明 ‖ Meng Qinghe, Lu Ming
书名 《人民的宫殿:社会基础设施如何消除 不平等、两极分化和公民生活的衰退》Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
出版时间 2018年
出版社 Crown Publisher
摘要
纽约大学社会学教授Eric Klinenberg在本书中提出 “社会基础设施”的概念，指出社会基础设施对发展和维持社会联系至关重要，认为民主社会的未来和健康不仅取决于共同的价值观，也取决于共享的空间，即社会基础设施。这本书的学术价值在于提出了“社会基础设施”概念，从社会价值视角，解释诸如图书馆、公园、咖啡馆等社会基础设施对城市中社会联系与社会生活的重要作用。书中利用了大量社会科学研究证据和案例，论证了社会基础设施在建设一个好的城市中起到关键作用。本书有8部分内容，第一部分和第八部分是背景和总结内容，其余6个部分是书中核心章节。书中开篇引出社会基础设施概念，鲜明地指出社会基础设施是描述社会生活的基础术语，并指出社会基础设施与物理基础设施具有同等重要地位，共同构成城市生命线系统。本书的六个实证章节，作者利用大量的社会调研案例，对比展示了社会基础设施在其中所发挥的现实作用，比如缓解社会隔离问题、不同社会基础设施的社会效应、对人的健康的作用、强大的应对能力等。在本书最后，作者指出社会基础设施的重要性仍然还未被充分认识。在建筑与规划领域，空间是核心的研究对象，被视为政治、经济、社会等非物质态的物质载体。本书提出的社会基础设施，从多维度的社会效应证实了空间生产的社会价值，弥补了传统空间观中对公共空间生产的认识不足。在我国快速城镇化发展的背景下，引入社会基础设施概念，可以拓展研究空间资源与更广泛社会矛盾的关联，通过优化配置社会基础设施资源，推动城市社会健康发展。
In his latest book, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, introduces the concept of social infrastructure and asserts that social infrastructure is crucial to the maintenance of social connection and collective life. Klinenberg believes that the health of a democratic society depends not just on common values but also on shared social infrastructure. The academic merit of this book lies in its introduction and elaboration of the concept of “social infrastructure,” offering a social value perspective to explain the importance of social infrastructure, such as libraries, parks, and cafes, in social connection and collective life. This book uses an abundance of social research evidences and case studies to demonstrate that social infrastructure plays a key role in building a good city. This book is structured into eight parts, of which the first and the eighth are introduction and conclusion respectively, and the other parts are the six core chapters. The book begins with the concept of social infrastructure, pointing out that social infrastructure is a term to describe the foundational elements underpinning social life and that social infrastructure and physical infrastructure together constitute the lifeline system of a city. From Chapter 1 to Chapter 6, the author employs a large number of social cases to illuminate the pivotal networking role of social infrastructure, including mitigating social isolation in American cities, social effects of different types of social infrastructure, its influence in people’s health, its strong resilience in times of crisis, etc. In the conclusion part of this book, the author points out the dilemma that social infrastructure faces at present, in which the importance of social infrastructure is yet to be comprehensively acknowledged. In the realm of architecture and urban and rural planning, space, as the core research object, is the physical carrier of politics, economy, and society. The concept of social infrastructure proposed in this book underscores the social value of space production from the multi-dimensional social effects, thereby complementing the limited understanding of public space production in the traditional view of space. In China, the study of social infrastructure, by interpreting the relationship between space systems and social interaction, can facilitate the efficient integration of social infrastructure resources and actualize the value of space production, thereby offering a constructive path to building harmonious, livable, resilient, and inclusive cities.
书评作者简介
Meng Qinghe, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture and Design, Harbin Institute of Technology; Key Laboratory of Cold Region Urban and Rural Human Settlement Environment Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin, P. R. China.
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