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本期为“论文快递”栏目的第二百六十期,将介绍Urban Studies Online First中的五篇论文。主题包括数字时代的街区概念,房屋共享作为一种可负担住房策略,中国城市更新中的协作规划,种族资本主义城市研究,以及金融与城市再市政化。欢迎阅读。
A conceptual framework for understanding neighbourhoods in the digital age
理解数字时代街区的概念框架
Digital platforms are a central infrastructure that has dramatically changed our daily lives. Like any other urban infrastructure and amenity, the digital platform has a heterogeneous influence on social groups. Studies exploring the influence of the digital on the mundane tend to focus on users, their socioeconomic status and their digital skills. However, digitisation is not an exogenous force; rather, it relates to culture and place. The departure point of this article is to conceptualise the idea of neighbourhood in the digital age, which offers a path towards understanding the role of the digital in our daily lives in relation to places. The article starts by discussing the neighbourhood and digitisation, addressing gaps and links that connect these themes. This discussion is followed by presentation of a framework linking the material with the virtual in understanding neighbourhoods. This framework is based on gathering data on four key issues: spatial configuration, digital infrastructure, demographic profile and digital participation in a neighbourhood. Jointly, these four issues are viewed as the means to contextualise and expand the way we think about the interplay between infrastructures and the agency of the neighbourhood’s inhabitants.
数字平台极大地改变了我们的日常生活,是核心基础设施。与任何其他城市基础设施和便利设施一样,数字平台对不同社会群体的影响是异质性的。探索数字技术对日常生活影响的研究往往侧重于用户、其社会经济地位和数字技能。然而,数字化并不是外力,而是与文化和地点有关。本文的出发点是将数字时代的街区理念概念化,为理解数字技术在我们日常生活中与地方相关的作用提供途径。本文首先讨论了街区和数字化,探讨了这两个主题之间的差距和联系。之后,我们提出一个将物质与虚拟联系起来理解社区的框架。该框架基于四个关键问题相关数据的收集:空间配置、数字基础设施、人口统计资料和街区的数字参与度。总的来说,这四个问题被视为一种途径,旨在将我们对基础设施和街区居民能动性之间相互作用的思考置于环境背景中并加以扩展。
digitisation, inhabitants, methodology, segregation, smart cities
https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241257392Access to the exclusive city: Home sharing as an affordable housing strategy
跻身排他的城市:房屋共享作为一种可负担住房策略
Julia Gabriele Harten(加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学)
Home sharing, particularly via online platforms, is becoming a mainstream housing strategy as social processes evolve and housing costs rise. Recent research has studied shared rentals as a modality for students and kin-based households, as one strategy among diversifying pathways to housing and as a social phenomenon. However, we still know little about whether it actually creates opportunities for home seekers in unaffordable markets. Analysing online rental listings in Los Angeles, we find that shared rentals are both more affordable and more widely available across diverse neighbourhoods than traditional whole-unit rentals. Shared rentals have historically been understudied due to their limited data trail, but they offer important entryways into unaffordable markets. We argue for shared housing research to shift its traditional focus away from students and young adults and towards a broader exploration of the diverse populations that may benefit from or depend on shared housing.随着社会进程的发展和住房成本的上升,房屋共享,尤其是通过在线平台共享,正成为主流的住房策略。最近的研究将共享租房作为学生和亲属家庭的住房模式、多样化住房途径的策略以及一种社会现象予以关注。然而,我们仍然不太清楚它是否真的为那些想寻找住处的人在负担不起的市场上创造了机会。通过分析洛杉矶的网上租房信息,我们发现共享租房比传统的整套租房更便宜,而且在广大街区中拥有更佳的可及性。共享租房历来因数据线索有限而未得到充分研究,但其为进入负担不起的住房市场提供了重要的入口。我们主张共享住房研究应将重点从学生和年轻人转移到可能受益于或依赖共享住房的不同人群。
affordability, Craigslist, rental housing, housing search, shared housing
可负担性、Craigslist公司、出租房屋、住房搜索、共享住房https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241258297Examining collaborative planning processes and outcomes in urban regeneration: A deliberative turn in China?
审视中国城市更新中的协作规划过程和结果:面向协商的转变?
Jochen Monstadt(荷兰乌特勒支大学)Pieter Hooimeijer(荷兰乌特勒支大学)Collaborative planning practices have recently emerged in China to deal with the complexity and conflicts of interest in urban regeneration. Building on the concept of authoritarian deliberation, this study develops a conceptual framework to examine the reasons for initiating collaborative planning, and its processes and outcomes. Through the case study of Guangzhou’s Enning Road micro-regeneration project, this research deepens understanding of collaborative planning in an authoritarian context. It reveals that deliberative methods were used by the local government to mitigate conflicts and improve governance performance in urban regeneration. While deliberations in an authoritarian context met many process criteria of collaborative planning, the collaborative processes had limited influence on planning outcomes. In addition, this study marks the increased level of participation in Chinese urban regeneration and discusses the limitation of deliberative practices in an authoritarian context. Lastly, this study reflects on the adoption of collaborative planning approaches as a state strategy to balance various interests and reinforce its dominance in market-driven urban regeneration, ultimately to achieve goals beyond economic benefits.在中国,最近出现了协作规划的做法,旨在解决城市更新过程中的复杂问题和利益冲突。本文以威权协商的概念为基础,建立了一个概念框架来检验启动协作规划的原因及其过程和结果。以广州恩宁路微更新项目为案例,本文加深了对威权背景下的协作规划的理解。本文表明地方政府采用了协商方法来缓解城市更新过程中的冲突,并提高治理绩效。虽然威权背景下的协商符合协作规划的一些特征,但协作流程对规划结果的影响有限。此外,本文还表明中国城市更新的参与度有所提高,并讨论了威权背景下协商做法的局限性。协作规划法被用作政府战略,来平衡各种利益并加强其在市场驱动的城市更新中的主导地位,最终实现超越经济利益的目标。最后,本文对此进行了思考。
authoritarian deliberation, collaborative planning, planning outcomes, planning processes, urban regeneration威权协商、协作规划、规划结果、规划流程、城市更新
https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241259985Racial capitalism in urban studies: From spaces of victimisation to spaces of benefit
城市研究中的种族资本主义:从受害空间迈向受益空间
Jason Hackworth(加拿大多伦多大学)
Prentiss Dantzler(加拿大多伦多大学)
首次出版时间:2024/07/27|评论文章
Abstract
The burgeoning growth of racial capitalism work within urban studies (RCUS) has garnered considerable attention. In this critical commentary, we embark on an examination of existing scholarship to ascertain its theoretical relevance within this domain. Our inquiry reveals a predominant focus on the plight of individuals ensnared in the web of everyday racial capitalism. The existing body of work predominantly directs its gaze towards what we term ‘spaces of victimisation’, while largely neglecting those who derive advantages from this system. Transcending from the study of victimisation to the exploration of spaces characterised by benefit presents formidable challenges. We consider some of the challenges to making the leap from spaces of victimisation to spaces of benefit: the routineness of benefit, the scale(s) of benefit, and the remoteness of benefit. In sum, we suggest how the application of RCUS might confront these multifaceted challenges, offering a unique vantage point for critical analysis.
城市研究中种族资本主义研究(RCUS)的迅速发展引起了广泛关注。在本文中,我们考察了现有学术研究,以确定种族资本主义研究在城市研究领域内的理论相关性。我们的研究显示,人们主要关注的是日常陷入种族资本主义网络的个人的困境。现有的研究主要关注我们所说的“受害空间”,而很大程度上忽视了那些从这个体系中获益的人。从受害研究转向对利益空间的探索面临着巨大的挑战。我们考察了从受害空间跨越到受益空间所面临的一些挑战:受益的常规性、受益的(多)尺度和受益的遥远性。总之,我们就如何应用种族资本主义研究应对这些多方面的挑战提出建议,为批判性分析提供了独特的视角。
beneficiaries, racial capitalism, urban space, urbanisation, victimisation受益者、种族资本主义、城市空间、城市化、受害
https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241262197(De)Financing remunicipalisation
再市政化的(去)金融化
David A McDonald(加拿大女王大学)One of the primary impediments to the realisation and success of remunicipalisation can be financing. Not all remunicipalisations require additional funding, but the costs of bringing services back in-house can be enormous, preventing remunicipalisation efforts from getting off the ground and constraining what is possible once in place. This article discusses the conditions under which financing is necessary for remunicipalisation and examines a variety of (potential) sources of funding. It compares the financial needs of ‘pragmatic’ versus ‘transformative’ remunicipalisations and discusses the availability and suitability of different sources of financing for each. The paper also asks whether remunicipalisation provides an opportunity to ‘definancialise’ public services, exploring the pros and cons of different funding options in this regard, with a focus on the potential for public banks to play a role in reducing the influence of private finance in the public arena.摘要
融资可能会成为实现和成功进行再市政化的一项主要障碍。并非所有的再市政化都需要额外的资金,但让服务回归市政体系内的成本可能是巨大的,这会阻碍再市政化工作的启动,也可能会限制再市政化目标在执行过程中的实现。本文讨论了在何种情况下,融资是再市政化的必要条件,并考察了各种(潜在的)资金来源。本文比较了“务实的”再市政化与“变革性的”再市政化的资金需求,并讨论了每种再市政化下不同融资来源的可用性和适用性。本文还对再市政化是否为公共服务的“去金融化”提供机会提出了质疑,探讨了这方面的不同融资选择的利弊,重点关注在减少私人金融对公共领域的影响方面,公共银行的潜力。
finance/financialisation, governance, infrastructure, local government, policy, public services, remunicipalisation金融/金融化、治理、基础设施、地方政府、政策、公共服务、再市政化
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