Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus
Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus
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基础设施连接时代的城市：城市关系的政治和空间性
DOI：
10.1177/0042098019833907
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发表时间：
2019
期刊：
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
O. Coutard
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
Jochen Monstadt;O. Coutard
在过去的几年里，联系思维已成为城市研究和实践中的流行语。这也适用于最近关于加强传统上单独管理和分拆的城市基础设施的整合或协调的主张。这个想法是为了更好地解决它们日益增长的社会技术复杂性、外部性及其在城市系统体系中的运作。本文介绍了一系列案例研究，旨在批判性地评估联系和基础设施整合的概念如何成为绿色、弹性或智慧城市发展的指导愿景。它评估了基础设施领域内和跨领域的联系概念和对更高互联性和“共同管理”的呼吁如何常常阻碍更多政治知情的讨论，并淡化潜在风险和制度限制。基于城市政治和社会技术方法，本期特刊的介绍围绕四个主要研究空白：1）基础设施重新捆绑的呼声与20世纪90年代以来基础设施重组驱动的城市趋势和现实之间的紧张关系； 2) 城市现有的边界工作以及城市利益相关者将分散的城市基础设施整合在一起的做法； 3）涉及基础设施和城市变革以及协调城市基础设施的政治，这些政治常常违背资源效率、智能性和弹性的管理言论； 4）基础设施重组中发挥作用的空间性，有选择地促进代谢自主、系统运行（和故障）、网络互连和系统调节的特定空间和规模。最后，我们概述了未来研究的方向。
Over the last few years, nexus-thinking has become a buzzword in urban research and practice. This also applies to recent claims of greater integration or coordination of urban infrastructures that have traditionally been managed separately and have been unbundled. The idea is to better address their growing sociotechnical complexity, their externalities and their operation within an urban system of systems. This article introduces a collection of case studies aimed at critically appraising how concepts of nexus and infrastructure integration have become guiding visions for the development of green, resilient or smart cities. It assesses how concepts of nexus and calls for higher interconnectivity and ‘co-management’ within and across infrastructure domains often forestall more politically informed discussions and downplay potential risks and institutional restrictions. Based on an urban political and sociotechnical approach, the introduction to this special issue centres around four major research gaps: 1) the tensions between calls for infrastructure re-bundling and the urban trends and realities driven by infrastructure restructuring since the 1990s; 2) the existing boundary work in cities and urban stakeholders’ practices in bringing fragmented urban infrastructures together; 3) the politics involved in infrastructural and urban change and in aligning urban infrastructures that often defy managerial rhetoric of resource efficiency, smartness and resilience; and 4) the spatialities at play in infrastructural reconfigurations that selectively promote specific spaces and scales of metabolic autonomy, system operation (and failure), networked interconnectivities and system regulation. We conclude by outlining directions for future research.
影响因子：
9
作者：
Monstadt
通讯作者：
Monstadt
分叉的城市一体化：基础设施的选择性拆卸和重组
影响因子：
4.7
作者：
Macrorie R
通讯作者：
Macrorie R