City Seasons: On the Transatlantic Nature of Change in Urban Spaces around 1900 and 2000

城市季节：论 1900 年和 2000 年左右城市空间变化的跨大西洋性质

• 批准号: 409051717
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Dorothee Brantz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/409051717?language=en
• 关键词: City; Seasons; Transatlantic; Nature; Change

Do cities have seasons? Yes and no. All of us living in temperate climate zones in European and North American cities know that urban life changes throughout the year. Curiously, if one looks for scholarship on urban seasons, one finds almost no literature on this topic. So from the perspective of urban scholarship, cities do not appear to have seasons. Why is there such a discrepancy between our urban experience and urban research? This proposed project seeks to overcome this discrepancy by examining the empirical and conceptual impact of seasons on the planning of and daily practices in cities in the temperate zones of the Western hemisphere from two distinct vintage points – the turn of the 20th and the turn of the 21st century – in order to trace the continuities and changes in urban engagements with seasonal variation. In three separate projects (two dissertations, one PI monograph), we will analyze the effects of seasons on (1) work and leisure; (2) the built environment, primarily housing; and (3) urban ecologies. Each project will be comparative from a geographical and chronological perspective, and it will juxtapose official planning practices and the everyday life of urban inhabitants. Geographically we focus on metropolitan areas in the transatlantic realm, most notably Berlin, New York, and Montréal. To broaden the geographical scope of the project, we plan to organize an international conference on "Urban Seasons in a Global Context." Our projects seek to provide a new empirically and conceptual foundations to offer a more sustained study of seasons within urban studies. We hope to make our research relevant for a broad range of academic disciplines within urban studies (history, geography, ecology, ethnology, sociology, STS, and cultural studies), but also potentially for those practioners (architects, planners, landscape architects, policy makers) interested in the historical background of current attitudes towards urban seasonalities and their application in the areas of recreation, housing, and ecology in metropolitan settings. Moreover, we hope to reach outside the academy by also presenting our work to a more general audience whose urban living experience is shaped by seasonal changes. To that end, we intend to organize a photography exhibition on the representations of the seasons in cities (possibly as a joint effort with the Museum of Photography or the C/O Berlin Photography Gallery, which are both located in the immediate vicinity of the CMS).

城市有季节吗？生活在欧洲和北美城市温带气候区的我们都知道，城市生活一年四季都在变化。奇怪的是，如果一个人寻找关于城市季节的学术研究，他几乎找不到关于这个主题的文献。所以从城市学术的角度来看，城市似乎没有季节。 为什么我们的城市经验和城市研究之间存在如此大的差异？这个拟议的项目旨在克服这一差异，通过研究经验和概念的影响，在西半球温带地区的城市规划和日常做法从两个不同的复古点-20世纪之交和21世纪之交-为了跟踪的连续性和变化，在城市的参与与季节变化。在三个独立的项目（两篇论文，一本PI专著）中，我们将分析季节对（1）工作和休闲的影响;（2）建筑环境，主要是住房;（3）城市生态。 每个项目都将从地理和时间的角度进行比较，并将官方规划实践和城市居民的日常生活并列。在地理上，我们专注于跨大西洋地区的大都市地区，最著名的是柏林，纽约和蒙特利尔。为了扩大该项目的地理范围，我们计划组织一次关于“全球范围内的城市季节”的国际会议。“我们的项目旨在提供一个新的经验和概念基础，以提供一个更持久的研究季节在城市研究。 我们希望使我们的研究与城市研究中广泛的学科相关（历史，地理，生态，民族学，社会学，STS和文化研究），但也可能为那些实践者（建筑师，规划师，景观设计师，政策制定者）对当前对城市季节性的态度及其在娱乐，住房，和生态学的影响。 此外，我们希望通过将我们的作品展示给更普通的观众，他们的城市生活经历受到季节变化的影响，从而达到学院之外的目的。 为此，我们打算组织一次关于城市季节表现的摄影展（可能与摄影博物馆或C/O柏林摄影画廊合作，这两个博物馆都位于CMS附近）。