From sustainable urbanism to climate urbanism
From sustainable urbanism to climate urbanism
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从可持续城市主义到气候城市主义
作者：
Joshua Long;J. Rice
随着气候变化的负面影响日益明显，许多城市领导人和决策者开始将气候行动视为财政挑战和战略经济机遇。然而，在这座新自由主义、后金融危机时代的城市，应对气候变化日益明显的威胁，提出了几个关于公平执行的问题。本文认为，优先考虑一种特定的气候适应性城市发展模式代表了对过去几十年可持续城市化运动的背离。我们将这种新的发展模式称为“气候城市主义”，这是一种政策取向，它（1）促进城市成为最可行和最适当的气候行动场所，（2）优先努力保护城市经济的物质和数字基础设施免受气候变化相关危害。我们认为，气候城市化的潜在社会正义的影响还没有得到充分的审问。当然，城市是应对气候变化的适当场所，但在当前的新自由主义背景下，从政策言论到气候行动的过渡可能带来不平等和不公正的问题。考虑到这一点，本文提供了一个关键的透镜，以评估气候城市化的优点，并询问其潜在的结果。
As the negative impacts of climate change become increasingly apparent, many city leaders and policymakers have begun to regard climate action as both a fiscal challenge and strategic economic opportunity. However, addressing the increasingly evident threats of climate change in the neoliberal, post-financial-crisis city raises several questions about its equitable implementation. This paper suggests that the prioritisation of a specific mode of climate resilient urban development represents a departure from the previous decades’ movement toward sustainable urbanism. We refer to this new development paradigm as ‘climate urbanism’, a policy orientation that (1) promotes cities as the most viable and appropriate sites of climate action and (2) prioritises efforts to protect the physical and digital infrastructures of urban economies from the hazards associated with climate change. We argue that the potential social justice impacts of climate urbanism have not been fully interrogated. Certainly, cities are appropriate sites for addressing climate change, but in the current neoliberal context, the transition from policy rhetoric to climate action presents a potentially problematic landscape of inequality and injustice. With that in mind, this paper offers a critical lens to evaluate the merits of climate urbanism and to interrogate its potential outcomes.