The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control
The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control
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维持城市流通：基础设施控制的运行逻辑
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2016
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Simon Marvin
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Andrés Luque;Simon Marvin
本文探讨了通过信息技术和城市服务的选择性整合的紧密结合而发生的城市基础设施的可见性增加。它通过关注与“智能”技术相关的新形式的治理，询问如何在当代城市中管理循环流。借鉴福柯的治理，并根据里约热内卢的运营中心（COR）的案例研究，本文认为，新的理解城市正在开发，代表了一种新的模式的城市基础设施的基础上，部分和选择性的重新捆绑分裂的网络和碎片化的城市空间。COR通过城市基础设施的“非黑箱”运作，将控制室逻辑扩展到整个城市，这表明了它们的脆弱性以及在其运营成就中所涉及的持续努力。它还通过日常和紧急控制关系的崩溃发挥作用，这是由公众参与运营控制所实现的，进一步提高了公众对城市基础设施的认识。这些特征表明了一种特定形式的城市治理，其基础是基础设施流的运作以及看待和参与城市的新方式的发展。
This paper examines the increased visibility of urban infrastructures occurring through a close coupling of information technologies and the selective integration of urban services. It asks how circulatory flow is managed in the contemporary city, by focusing on the emergence of new forms of governmentality associated with “smart” technologies. Drawing on Foucault’s governmentality, and based on a case study of Rio de Janeiro’s Operations Centre (COR), the paper argues that new understandings of the city are being developed, representing a new mode of urban infrastructure based on the partial and selective rebundling of splintered networks and fragmented urban space. The COR operates through a “un-black boxing” of urban infrastructures, where the extension of control room logics to the totality of the city points to their fragility and the continuous effort involved in their operational accomplishment. It also functions through a collapse in relations of control—of the everyday and the emergency—, which, enabled by the incorporation of the public in operational control, further raise public awareness of urban infrastructures. These characteristics point to a specific form of urban governmentality based on the operationalisation of infrastructural flows and the development of novel ways of seeing and engaging with the city.