Introduction: Worlding Cities, or the Art of being Global
Introduction: Worlding Cities, or the Art of being Global
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10.1002/9781444346800.ch
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2011-07
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Aihwa Ong
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城市兴衰，但城市命运的变幻莫测不能归结为资本主义或殖民历史确立的普遍规律的运作。受特定历史、民族愿望和文化流动的影响，城市一直是启动世界性项目的主要场所。如今，城市梦想和计划伴随着不断加速的机会和事故，这些机会和事故在全球范围内以不断扩大的螺旋式传播。新兴国家通过组装玻璃和钢塔来展现他们的新力量，以投射特定的世界愿景。正如雷姆·库哈斯（Rem Koolhaas，2004）指出的那样，“天际线在东方升起”，城市之间相互竞争，地区性的愿望被全球的新视野所取代。 20 世纪 70 年代，纽约市因其建筑群而闻名，这些建筑催生了一种“疯狂”的拥堵文化。库哈斯（Koolhaas，1997）将纽约称为“全球俘虏之城”，它将现代与永动结合在一起。但到了 21 世纪初，2008 年秋季的金融危机（称为“大衰退”）使纽约、伦敦和东京的命运发生了逆转。当这些强大的城市努力保持其作为金融强国的领先地位时，新加坡和迪拜正在成为全球金融中心。与此同时，中国作为世界银行家的角色使上海和香港成为世界股票销售之都。虽然大型经济体的首都仍然发挥着重要作用，但亚洲经济体已经飞速发展，亚洲世界见证了具有国际影响力的城市的惊人崛起。 2010年上海世博会简介
Cities rise and fall, but the vagaries of urban fate cannot be reduced to the workings of universal laws established by capitalism or colonial history. Caught in the vectors of particular histories, national aspirations, and flows of cultures, cities have always been the principal sites for launching world-conjuring projects. Today, urban dreams and schemes play with accelerating opportunities and accidents that circulate in ever-widening spirals across the planet. Emerging nations exercise their new power by assembling glass and steel towers to project particular visions of the world. Once again, as Rem Koolhaas (2004) notes, “the skyline rises in the East,” as cities vie with one another, and regional aspirations are superseded by new horizons of the global. In the 1970s, New York City was celebrated for its architectural constellation, which fostered a “delirious” culture of congestion. Koolhaas (1997) called New York “The City of the Captive Global,” one that unites the modern with perpetual motion. But by the early twenty-first century, the financial meltdown in the fall of 2008 (called the Great Recession) dealt a reversal of fortune for New York, London, and Tokyo. As these mighty cities struggle to retain their lead as financial powerhouses, Singapore and Dubai are emerging as centers of global finance. Meanwhile, China’s role as the banker of the world has made Shanghai and Hong Kong the shares-selling capitals of the world. While capitals of big economies remain crucial players, Asian economies have skyrocketed, and the Asian world has witnessed the stunning emergence of cities of international consequence. The 2010 Shanghai Expo Introduction