Green Infrastructure and the Hidden Politics of Urban Stormwater Governance in a Postindustrial City
Green Infrastructure and the Hidden Politics of Urban Stormwater Governance in a Postindustrial City
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DOI：
10.1080/24694452.2018.1507813
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发表时间：
2019-05-04
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Zivkovich, Joshua
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作者：
Finewood, Michael H.;Matsler, A. Marissa;Zivkovich, Joshua
基础设施讲述了城市中持续挑战的实质性故事，反映了不同社区的多样化、规范性愿望。在本文中，我们研究了将绿色基础设施技术引入城市基础设施系统，以批判性地思考这些挑战和愿望。绿色基础设施是一种有意设计的多功能技术，它直接利用或模仿土壤和植物的生态过程（例如，绿色屋顶、雨水花园和生物威尔士）。面对预算短缺以及减轻灾害和绿化城市的需求，城市领导人正在将绿色基础设施视为一种可以与传统服务一起提供多种协同效益的设施。然而，对基于雨水的指标的关注——有效地将绿色基础设施重新构建为绿色雨水基础设施——在话语上压制了城市的另类政治和愿望。通过对匹兹堡雨水治理的案例研究，我们认为，将绿色基础设施（再）技术化为绿色雨水基础设施的工作是一种去政治化的行为，它阻碍了有关基础设施成果的必要对话。我们从参与城市水治理的社区成员的定性访谈中汲取主题，表明这些过渡时刻提供了一个机会，可以阐明以前模糊的基础设施政治，并挑战将我们与城市环境治理的传统惯例联系在一起的知识形式。我们看到了重塑对话的机会，为历史上被剥夺权利的社区开辟了机会，让他们在雨水管理的技术官僚问题之外表达自己的需求。
Infrastructure tells a material story of ongoing challenges in cities, reflecting the diverse, normative desires of different communities. In this article we examine the introduction of green infrastructure technologies into urban infrastructure systems to think critically about these challenges and desires. Green infrastructure is an intentionally designed, multifunctional technology that directly uses or mimics the ecological processes of soils and plants (e.g., green rooftops, rain gardens, and bioswales). Facing budget shortfalls as well as demands to mitigate hazards and green the city, urban leaders are looking at green infrastructure as a facility that can provide diverse cobenefits along with traditional services. A focus on stormwater-based metrics, however-effectively reframing green infrastructure as green stormwater infrastructure-discursively tamps down alternative politics and desires for the city. Through a case study of Pittsburgh's stormwater governance, we argue that the work to (re)technologize green infrastructure as green stormwater infrastructure is an act of depoliticization that hinders needed conversations about just infrastructure outcomes. We draw on themes from qualitative interviews with community members engaged in urban water governance to suggest that these moments of transition provide an opportunity to illuminate previously obscured infrastructure politics and challenge the forms of knowledge that bind us to conventional routines of urban environmental governance. We see an opportunity to reframe the conversation in a way that opens up opportunities for historically disenfranchised communities to voice their needs beyond the technocratic problem of stormwater management.