"GET SMALLER"? Emerging geographies of micro-living
"GET SMALLER"? Emerging geographies of micro-living
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DOI：
10.1111/area.12625
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发表时间：
2020-05-20
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2.2
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Nowicki, Mel
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作者：
Harris, Ella;Nowicki, Mel
世界各地的城市都陷入日益严重的住房危机，大多数人越来越难以获得负担得起、安全且合适的住房。利益相关者面临着越来越大的寻找解决方案的压力，但与此同时，对于那些挑战新自由主义逻辑（将住房金融化置于优先地位）的住房模式，也存在持续的反对意见。在这种背景下，许多提出和开发的“解决方案”都聚焦于住房如何——用一个建筑竞赛参赛作品的话来说——“变得更小”。被称为“微型居住”的一种趋势正在兴起，即住房模式缩小居住空间，要么提供低于最低空间标准的独立单元，要么提供可使用共享公共空间的小私人房间的“合租”租约。微型居住被描述为具有创新性和吸引力，它不同于明显有问题的小户型住房，比如香港的“棺材房”或英国的“棚屋床位”。虽然微型居住正在改变人们对城市的想象、建设和居住方式，但地理学家对其研究还很少。针对这一研究空白，本文追溯了西方主要城市中微型居住的新兴地理分布，并论证了这一主题在地理学中的重要性。除了详细阐述微型居住的类型外，我们还挖掘了微型居住的起源，并思考它在自我呈现为一种理想的居家形式时所依据的话语。在此过程中，我们强调了微型居住所应对、加剧和巩固的一些问题，包括2008年经济衰退以来千禧一代受限的机会以及当代劳动力经济的不稳定。
Cities across the world are in the grip of an intensifying housing crisis, in which access to affordable, secure, and appropriate housing is increasingly inaccessible for the majority. There is rising pressure on stakeholders to find solutions but, simultaneously, persistent opposition to housing models that contest the neoliberal logics which prioritise housing's financialisation. In this context, many proposed and developed "solutions" have focused on how housing can - in the words of one entry to an architectural competition - "GET SMALLER." Termed "micro-living," a trend is emerging for housing models that shrink living spaces, either by providing self-contained units at below minimum space standards or by offering "co-living" tenancies in small private rooms with access to shared communal spaces. Presented as innovative and aspirational, micro-living distinguishes itself from unequivocally problematic small housing, such as Hong Kong's "coffin homes" or the UK's "beds-in-sheds." While micro-living is transforming ways of imagining, producing, and inhabiting cities, it has, as yet, been little explored by geographers. Responding to this gap, this paper traces the emerging geographies of micro-living in major Western cities and demonstrates the importance of the topic in Geography. As well as detailing micro-living's typologies, we excavate the lineages of micro-living and consider the discourses it draws on in self-presenting as an aspirational form of homemaking. In doing so, we highlight some of the issues that micro-living responds to, exacerbates, and entrenches, including the stunted opportunities of millennials since the 2008 recession and the precarity of contemporary labour economies.