Spontaneous urban initiatives and collective socio-environmental assemblages: an investigation into non-dualistic conceptions of municipal governance

在城市研究和政治生态学围绕学科认识论方向的争论中，城市农业研究对替代社会环境未来有很大的贡献。我提出了一个支持性的案例研究，挑战迄今为止占主导地位的以英语为母语的城市化和市政机构叙事。在阿姆斯特丹以东30英里的阿尔梅勒市，各种城市农业项目正在迅速发展。最突出的是，在Oostvaardersplassen进行的重新野生实验，在2022年全国展览之前创建一个综合园艺社区“Floriade”，以及城市农业边缘的发展“Almere oosterworld”。阿尔梅勒的城市社会环境整合的重组呈现了超越新自由主义方法的治理概念，为自发城市性质的创造提供了机会。因此，我将提出这样的问题：Almere如何挑战非二元论的市政治理观念，这种观念吸引了集体社会环境组合的创造？该项目旨在通过借鉴政治生态学和城市研究方面的工作，为当前关于政府对生态集合的不同立场的辩论做出贡献。它分析了城市自发城市空间的创造，以实现其生态知识的和谐关系。当地已经对这些言论做出了回应，例如有关土壤沉降管理的社区倡议。欢迎这样的倡议，在2022年国家园艺展览会之前，阿尔梅勒的发展将成为认识自发和无意景观的潜在里程碑。该研究将从社区倡议和对政策制定者的采访中汲取灵感，批判性地分析市政对自发城市实验的干预。此外，我将发起一个社区项目，旨在展示居民与周围边缘生态之间不断变化的城市环境关系。该项目由社区内的展览作品组成，旨在成为最终展览的一部分，预计将与2022年Almere Floriade国家园艺展一起展出。

In the midst of debates in urban studies and political ecology around the disciplines' epistemological directions, urban agricultural studies have a great deal to contribute to alternative socio-environmental futures. I propose a supportive case study that challenges hitherto dominant Anglophone narratives of urbanisation and municipal agency. The city of Almere, 30 miles east from Amsterdam, is seeing the rapid development of various urban-agricultural projects. Most prominently, the re-wilding experiment in the Oostvaardersplassen, the creation of an integrated horticultural neighbourhood 'Floriade' before its national exhibition in 2022 and the development of an urban-agricultural fringe, 'Almere Oosterwold'. The restructuring of Almere's urban socio-environmental integration presents conceptions of governance beyond a neoliberal approach, supporting opportunities for the creation of spontaneous urban natures. Thus, I will be asking the question: How does Almere challenge non-dualistic conceptions of municipal governance that entices the creation of collective socio-environmental assemblages? The project seeks to contribute to the current debate of diverging governmental stances to ecological assemblages by drawing upon work in both political ecology and urban studies. It analyses the city's creation of spontaneous urban spaces for an alleged harmonious relation to its ecological knowledge. Local responses to such discourses have already taken place, such as neighbourhood initiatives regarding soil subsidence management. Welcoming such initiatives, Almere's development before the national horticultural exhibition in 2022 poses as a potential milestone for the recognition of spontaneous and unintentional landscapes. The research will draw from neighbourhood initiatives and interviews with policy makers to critically analyse the municipal interference in the spontaneous urban experiments. Furthermore, I will be initiating a neighbourhood project that aims to exhibit the changing urban environmental relationship of residents to surrounding marginal ecologies. Consisting of exhibition pieces within neighbourhoods the project aims become part of a final exhibition, expected to be presented alongside Almere Floriade for the national horticultural exhibition in 2022.