Proximate Distances: The Phenomenology of Density in Mumbai
Proximate Distances: The Phenomenology of Density in Mumbai
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邻近距离：孟买的密度现象学
DOI：
10.2148/benv.33.2.227
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发表时间：
2007
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通讯作者：
V. Rao
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作者：
V. Rao
城市密度通常被认为是不言而喻的，并被视为城市空间的指标或属性，城市规划和个人规划决策是根据城市空间来制定的。本文阐述了将密度视为一种关系和社会质量的观点，这种质量是由可识别的人类互动的关联、实践和系统（特别是基础设施技术）产生的。基于孟买的民族志研究，本文将考虑几个不同的“地点”，在这些“地点”，密度在社会关系框架内实现了持续的临时性和预期感。这些密度的地理产生了对功能和规划的令人惊讶的规避，但它们也使得现有关系框架内的转变成为可能。最近许多关于孟买的城市主义文献主要关注贫民窟，不仅作为经验地理学，而且也是分析地理学。基于孟买的民族志研究，本文提出了除贫民窟之外的其他地点来对大众进行理论化。这样做可能会对建筑形式和城市设计之间的关系以及对城市的描述产生新的见解，这些见解不会被城市的规范和规定模型所束缚，也不会被需要转向对混乱和苦难进行救赎性解读的束缚。
Urban density is often taken to be self-evident and treated as an indicator or attribute of urban space upon which urban planning and individual planning decisions are made. This article makes the case for thinking about density as a relational and social quality produced by identifiable associations, practices and systems of human interactions, specifically with infrastructural technologies. Based on ethnographic research in Mumbai, the paper will consider several different ‘sites’ at which density operationalizes an incessant sense of temporariness and anticipation within the frame of social relations. These geographies of density yield surprising circumventions of functionality and planning but they also make possible transformation within existing frames of relations. Much of the recent urbanist literature on Mumbai focuses mainly on the slum not only as an empirical but also an analytic geography. Based on the ethnographic work on Mumbai, the article suggests other sites beside the slum for theorizations of the multitude. Doing so might yield new insights into the relationship between built form and urban design as well as accounts of the city that are not trapped either by normative and prescriptive models of the city or by the need to turn to a redemptive reading of chaos and misery.