Street life and street culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the present

如今，街头成了焦虑、担忧和反社会行为的代名词：这些都不是什么新鲜事。然而，反过来也是正确的，因为城市更新，主要基础设施和纪念性建筑项目都是由规划者和政策制定者投资的，他们期望他们能够挽救萧条地区，更新社区和社区的社会和物理结构：同样，这也适用于过去。虽然牢牢地建立在早期现代欧洲的背景和经验基础上，但该项目试图通过当代实践和经验提供的比较视角来观察沿街目睹的城市变化过程。关于街道的公共空间，我们将考虑以下主要主题：短暂的表演与永久的城市变化之间的关系；暴力、惩罚和抗议的表演性表现；监督、管理和控制；八卦和新闻的传播；街道的声音。该网络旨在从历史的角度理解与街头文化有关的当代问题，解决的问题也有助于重新构建当前的问题，从而纳入公共政策。这一目标也将通过网络的不同选区和我们的项目合作伙伴CABE（建筑与建筑环境委员会）的参与来推进。该网络由Fabrizio Nevola领导，他之前在早期现代锡耶纳的工作（锡耶纳：建设文艺复兴时期的城市，2007年纽黑文和伦敦）以及国家美术馆最近的文艺复兴时期锡耶纳：城市艺术的展览目录的合著者)的特点是对城市环境的跨学科方法。他目前正在从事一项新的比较研究项目，该项目考虑了近代早期意大利商业、城市化和宫殿建筑之间的相互作用，其中街道是一个关键因素。该网络计划创建一个充满活力的研究社区，通过将历史学家、艺术史学家、建筑史学家、文化人类学家、社会地理学家、建筑师、城市规划师、表演者和艺术家聚集在一起，以跨学科的方式和广泛的时间顺序来讨论街道的社会和物理环境，从而研究新的方法。街头生活和街头文化网络将在两年内举行八次会议。会议的地点和形式会有所不同。第一次将在牛津举行，该团队将邀请来自文化人类学、建筑和规划专业以及当地社区服务的一些演讲者和受访者。它将包括在考利路附近的现场参观/研讨会。目的是探索共同的兴趣和议程，为我们的历史研究提供关于“街头文化”的当代辩论。随后将有三个讲习班/专题讨论会，同样由外部发言人，讨论项目的具体主题/城市空间的临时和短暂使用，暴力/冲突/控制，以及八卦/信息/声音。网络团队将在锡耶纳举行海外会议，该会议计划与Palio同时举行，Palio是一个城市的物理和社会结构以传统和现代的方式相互作用的活动。这将包括与文化人类学家和地方行政人员的研讨会。我们还计划在美国建筑历史学会的年度会议上举办一个赞助会议。在伦敦举行的最后一次会议将向广泛的演讲者和受访者展示我们的研究结果

Today the street is synonymous with anxiety, worry, anti-social behaviour: nothing of this is new. The opposite is also true however, as urban renewal, major infrastructure and monumental architectural projects are all invested by planners and policy-makers with the expectation that they will redeem depressed areas and renew the social and physical fabric of neighbourhoods and communities: again, this also applies to the past. Though firmly based in the context and experience of Early Modern Europe, this project seeks to view the process of urban change as witnessed along streets, with a comparative perspective offered by contemporary practice and experience. In relation to the public space of streets, we will consider these major themes: the relation between ephemeral performances and permanent urban change; the performative siting of violence, punishment and protest; surveillance, policing and control; gossip and the circulation of news; street sounds. The network aims at an historical understanding of contemporary problems concerning street culture, by addressing issues that could also help reframe current issues, thus feeding into public policy. This objective will also be advanced by the network's varied constituencies and the involvement of our project partners, CABE (Commission for Architecture and Built Environment). The network is led by Fabrizio Nevola, whose previous work on Early Modern Siena (Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City, New Haven and London 2007 and co-author of the exhibition catalogue of the National Gallery's recent Renaissance Siena: Art for a City) is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach to the urban environment. He is currently engaged in a new comparative research project that considers the interaction between commerce, urbanism and palace architecture in Early Modern Italy, in which streets are a key factor. It is planned that the network will create a vibrant research community that will look at new methodologies by bringing together historians, art historians, architectural historians, cultural anthropologists, social geographers, architects, urban planners, performers and artists, to discuss the social and physical environment of the street in a cross-disciplinary manner and across a broad chronological sweep.The Street life and street culture network will meet eight times over a two year period. The place and form of the meetings will vary. The first will be in Oxford, where the team will invite a number of speakers and respondents from cultural anthropology, the professions of architecture and planning, and local community services. It will include an on-site visit/seminar based around the Cowley Road. The objective will be to explore shared interests and agendas that inform our historical study with contemporary debates on 'street culture'. Subsequently there will be three workshops/symposia, again with outside speakers, that address specific themes of the project / the temporary and ephemeral use of urban space, violence/conflict/control, and gossip/information/sound. The network team will hold an overseas meeting in Siena which is scheduled to coincide with the Palio, an event where the city's physical and social fabric interact in a way that is both traditional and contemporary. This will include a seminar with cultural anthropologists and local administrators. We also plan to hold a sponsored session at the annual conference of the American Society of Architectural Historians. The final conference in London will present our findings with a broad range of speakers and respondents