Wild Dragons in the City: Urban Political Economy, Affordable Housing Development and the Performative World-making of Economic Models
Wild Dragons in the City: Urban Political Economy, Affordable Housing Development and the Performative World-making of Economic Models
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城市中的野龙：城市政治经济、保障性住房开发和经济模型的表演性世界构建
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2014
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Brett Christophers
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本文探讨了在城市背景下动员新兴文献对经济学绩效的关键见解的潜力。它认为，我们对当代城市政治经济转型的理解需要明确认识到经济在创造和重塑城市世界中的积极作用，而不是仅仅以某种被动的、超然的方式描述和分析它。本文通过详细阐述一个案例研究来阐述这一观点：自21世纪初以来，英国越来越多地使用经济模型来评估新住宅开发项目中经济适用房供应的可行性。文章认为，这些模型试图以公式化的方式描述的城市再开发世界，越来越多地按照模型及其包含的假设行事；从这个意义上说，这种模式已经在城市景观中逐步实现。这篇文章将这种可执行的经济模型概念化，作为米歇尔·卡伦（Michel Callon）所说的“野外经济学”的例子，并重点介绍了过去十年来经济适用房规划环境中这种模型的主要商业开发商和营销人员——一家名为“三龙”的咨询公司的工作。
This article explores the potential to mobilize in an urban context the key insights of the burgeoning literature on the performativity of economics. It argues that our understanding of contemporary urban political-economic transformation needs to explicitly recognize the active role of economics in making and remaking the urban world, as opposed to merely describing and analysing it in some kind of passive, detached fashion. It develops this argument through the elaboration of a case study of just such world-making in action: the growing use in the United Kingdom, since the early 2000s, of economic models for assessing the viability of affordable housing provision in new residential developments. The world of urban redevelopment that such models attempt to describe formulaically has, the article submits, increasingly come to act according to the model and the assumptions it contains; the model, in this sense, has been progressively actualized in the urban landscape. The article conceptualizes such performative economic models as examples of what Michel Callon calls economics ‘in the wild’, and it focuses on the work of the leading commercial developer and marketer of such models in the affordable housing planning environment over the last decade — a consulting company called Three Dragons.