Moving cities: rethinking the materialities of urban geographies
Moving cities: rethinking the materialities of urban geographies
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移动城市：重新思考城市地理的重要性
DOI：
10.1191/0309132504ph515oa
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
7.1
通讯作者：
D. Mccormack
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作者：
A. Latham;D. Mccormack
在本文中，我们讨论了城市的“物质性”。这一讨论是在该学科各个领域最近呼吁“重新物质化”人文地理学的必要性的背景下进行的。虽然我们同意这些呼吁的精神，但如果人文地理学（以及其中的城市地理学）要回归物质，更不用说阐明“物质”与“非物质”之间的某种和解，它需要明确它所使用的术语。因此，通过借鉴当代文化理论、社会学、城市研究、城市历史、建筑理论和城市地理学的一系列著作，我们更准确地勾勒出“再物质化”的城市地理学可能涉及的内容。至关重要的是，我们认为，对物质的更多关注实际上需要对非物质进行更广泛的参与，而不是将城市地理“扎根”在更“具体”的现实中。在阐述这一论点时，我们概述了一些重要的概念工具，用它们来理解逐渐出现的物质，然后提供两条可以有效理解城市物质性的途径，避免“物质”和“非物质”之间简单对立的途径，同时重申理解城市复杂空间性的重要性。
In this paper we offer a discussion of the ‘materiality’ of the urban. This discussion is offered in the context of recent calls in various areas of the discipline for the necessity of ‘rematerializing’ human geography. While we agree with the spirit of these calls, if human geography (and, within that, urban geography) is going to return to the material, let alone articulate some kind of rapprochement between the ‘material’ and ‘immaterial’, it needs to be clear about the terms it is employing. Therefore, and drawing on a range of work from contemporary cultural theory, sociology, urban studies, urban history, architectural theory and urban geography, we sketch out more precisely what a ‘rematerialized’ urban geography might involve. Crucially, we argue that, rather than ‘grounding’ urban geography in more ‘concrete’ realities, paying increased attention to the material actually requires a more expansive engagement with the immaterial. In developing this argument we outline some important conceptual vehicles with which to work up an understanding of the material as processually emergent, before offering two pathways along which the materialities of the urban might be usefully apprehended, pathways that avoid simple oppositions between the ‘material’ and ‘nonmaterial’ while also restating the importance of understanding the complex spatialities of the urban.