INHABITING OCULAR GROUND: Kinshasa's Future in the Light of Congo's Spectral Urban Politics
INHABITING OCULAR GROUND: Kinshasa's Future in the Light of Congo's Spectral Urban Politics
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01099.x
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
De Boeck, Filip
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作者：
De Boeck, Filip
本文讨论了刚果民主共和国首都金沙萨城市居民的生活与刚果政府目前正在发起的旨在创造一个新的、尽管是排外主义的城市环境的官方尝试之间存在的紧张关系。在2006年总统选举前夕的竞选活动中，卡比拉总统启动了他的“Cinq Chantiers”计划，这可以说是自1960年殖民统治结束以来最雄心勃勃的项目，旨在彻底改革国家并满足其最迫切和迫切的需求——或者至少是其精英阶层的城市化需求。本文首先介绍了金沙萨从殖民时代至今扩张的主要阶段。然后，通过考察两个具体案例，分析“Cinq Chantiers”计划的影响：马莱博池的田地扩张（着眼于当前城市空间“非正式”扩张的模式）和新城市项目 Cite du Fleuve 的开发（其逐步抬升，导致大量人口被排除在外）。这些是非洲未来的例子吗？他们为谁设想了一种新的城市生活？
This article addresses the tensions that exist between the lives of city dwellers in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and those official attempts currently being launched by the Congolese government to create a new, albeit exclusionist, urban environment. During the campaign leading up to the 2006 presidential elections, President Kabila launched his "Cinq Chantiers" program, arguably the most ambitious project since the end of colonization in 1960 to overhaul the country and respond to its most pressing and urgent needs-or at least that of its elites-with regard to its urbanization. The article first situates the main phases of Kinshasa's expansion from the colonial era to the present day. It then turns to an analysis of the impact of the "Cinq Chantiers" program by examining two concrete cases: the expansion of fields in the Malebo Pool (looking at current modes of "informal" expansion of the urban space) and the development of a new urban project, the Cite du Fleuve (whose progressive uplift leaves out a large swath of the population). Are these examples of an African futurity, and for whom do they envision a new kind of urban life?.