A Postsuburban World? An Outline of a Research Agenda
A Postsuburban World? An Outline of a Research Agenda
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10.1068/a427
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2010-02
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N. Phelps;A. Wood;D. Valler
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作者：
N. Phelps;A. Wood;D. Valler
在过去的30-40年里，北美和其他地区出现了各种各样的边缘城市、无边缘城市和后郊区发展，这对城市理论和理解城市增长和管理政治的现有方式提出了一系列挑战。“洛杉矶学派”的成员用最广泛的术语概述了这些挑战及其全球意义。在本文中，我们试图以可能允许比较分析的方式发展其中一些挑战的细节。我们首先考虑三个分析维度，沿着这些维度可以识别出独特的后郊区定居点。这些维度并非没有其局限性，但我们将其视为一种启发式工具，围绕其开展正在进行的比较研究。然后，我们继续强调后郊区发展过程中出现的三个政治矛盾，这些矛盾似乎来自于这些定义维度。在某种程度上，这种后郊区的增长和政治是独特的，它们对既定的城市政治理论提出了重要的挑战。在本文的结论部分，我们简要地考虑了这些挑战。
The emergence over the last 30–40 years of what is variously termed edge city, edgeless, and postsuburban development in North America and elsewhere raises a set of challenges for urban theory and existing ways of understanding the politics of urban growth and management. These challenges and their global import have been outlined in their broadest terms by members of a ‘Los Angeles School’. In this paper we try to develop the detail of some of these challenges in ways that might allow for comparative analysis. We begin by considering three analytical dimensions along which distinctively postsuburban settlements might be identified. These dimensions are not without their limitations but we regard them as a heuristic device around which to centre ongoing comparative research. We then go on to highlight three political contradictions attending postsuburban growth which appear to flow from some of these defining dimensions. To the extent that such postsuburban growth and politics are distinctive, they pose important challenges to established theories of urban politics. We briefly consider these challenges in the conclusion of the paper.