The gloomy city: Rethinking the relationship between light and dark
The gloomy city: Rethinking the relationship between light and dark
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10.1177/0042098013504009
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发表时间：
2015-02
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4.7
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T. Edensor
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作者：
T. Edensor
鉴于地理学对明亮空间和黑暗空间的忽视，本文探讨了黑暗的各种特质，这些特质对城市体验有所贡献。在近代历史中，黑暗被负面地概念化，例如，“黑暗面”和“黑暗势力”被视为启蒙和照亮之物的对立面。也许这样的隐喻证明了早期的城市状况，在那种状况下，各种危险潜伏在夜间的城市中，夜幕降临时人们就紧闭门户。然而，现代照明已经改变了夜间的城市体验，产生了具有规范、等级选择性、消费、幻想和想象的城市景观。然而，本文认为黑暗更积极的特质被忽视了：在黑暗中培养欢乐和亲密的潜力、黑暗和阴影的美学及氛围、通过其他感官感知世界的可能性以及对布满繁星的天空的忽视。
Given geography’s neglect of illuminated and dark space, this paper explores the various qualities of darkness that have contributed to the experience of the city. In recent history, darkness has been conceptualised negatively, for instance, with the ‘dark side’ and the ‘forces of darkness’ conceived as the opposite of that which enlightens and illuminates. Perhaps such metaphors testify to earlier urban conditions in which perils of all sorts lurked in the nocturnal city and doors were closed when darkness fell. Yet modern illumination has transformed nocturnal urban experience, producing cityscapes of regulation, hierarchical selectiveness, consumption, fantasy and imagination. However, this article suggests that the more positive qualities of darkness have been overlooked: the potential for conviviality and intimacy to be fostered in the dark, the aesthetics and atmospherics of darkness and shadow, the possibilities for apprehending the world through other senses and the dismissal of the star-saturated sky.