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

这项后续资助提案是为了继续ahrc资助的“超越文本”网络的工作，街头生活和街头文化：在早期现代欧洲和现在之间（AH/G000417/1）。该项目的目的是将我们的讨论扩展到与当代街道公共领域相关的公共政策的建议和制定。如今，街头往往是焦虑、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，随着城市更新，主要的基础设施和纪念性建筑项目由规划者和政策制定者投资，他们期望这些项目能够挽救萧条地区，更新社区和社区的社会和物理结构：同样，这也适用于过去。在15至17世纪欧洲城市、建筑和社会生活方面的历史学家的带领下，街头生活和街头文化网络在其存在的两年中汇集了那些从事历史和当代城市和街道生活工作和参与其中的人。迄今为止，街头生活和街头文化网络已涉及建筑和艺术史学家和理论家，历史学家，规划师，政府官员，艺术家和评论家，电影制片人，声音艺术家和演员，创造了一个跨学科的国际社区，来自英国，美国和欧洲。其目的是与多种声音进行富有成效的对话，使我们所有人都能从比较的角度看待沿街目睹的城市生活。街头生活和街头文化网络试图通过比较不同学科的观点和方法，并将早期现代经验与我们的当代世界进行比较，以了解有关街道作为文化调解和身份建构的地方的更广泛的问题，以此作为对问题提出新的见解的手段。街道是城市进程的结果，是私人和公共领域之间不断加强的动态，是公共、社会和私人身份之间的协商。街道的建筑结构——不仅仅是人们行驶的道路，而是前方建筑创造的物理和社交空间——形成了日常社交互动的重要场所，也是举办壮观活动的可能场所。在街道空间中发生的社会关系和事件赋予了个别街道以及整个城市特定的意义和共鸣——暂时的、地方的、国家的或历史的。该网络通过解决可能有助于重构当前问题的问题，从而为公共政策提供帮助，寻求对有关街头文化的当代问题的历史理解。这一目标是由网络的不同选区和我们最初的项目合作伙伴CABE（建筑与建筑环境委员会）的参与推进的。这次竞标的主要目的是使网络更进一步，直接与政策/实践参与者接触，从而将我们发起的讨论提升到一个不同的水平。在这样做的过程中，我们试图再次展示早期现代时期的历史先例的价值和意义，这些先例涉及与街道公共城市空间的形式和使用有关的当代问题。

This proposal for follow-on-funding is to continue the work of the 'Beyond Text' AHRC-funded network Street life and street culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the present (AH/G000417/1). The aim of the project is to extend our discussion to include those involved with advising on and making public policy in relation to the public realm of the contemporary street. Today the street is often synonymous with anxiety, worry, and anti-social behaviour: nothing of this is new. The opposite is also true, however, as urban renewal, major infrastructure and monumental architectural projects are 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. Led by historians who are specialists on the cities, architecture, and social life of Europe in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, the Street Life and Street Culture network over the two years of its existence has brought together those who work on and are involved in the life of historic and contemporary cities and streets. To date, the Street Life and Street Culture network has involved architectural and art historians and theoreticians, historians, planners, public officials, artists and critics, film-makers, a sound artist and an actor, to create an interdisciplinary, international community drawn from the UK, USA and Europe. The aim has been to create a fruitful dialogue with multiple voices that will allow all of us to view the lives of cities, as witnessed along streets, through comparative perspectives. The Street Life and Street Culture network seeks to understand the broader issues concerning the street as a place of cultural mediation and the construction of identities by comparing perspectives and methodologies from different disciplines, and confronting and comparing Early Modern experiences with our contemporary world as a means of throwing new light on issues. The street is a result of the urban process, a continuously reinforced dynamic between private and public spheres and the negotiation of public, social, and private identities. The built fabric of the street - not just a road along which people speed but a physical and social space created by the buildings that front onto it - forms an essential place for everyday social interaction, as well as a possible setting for spectacular events. The social relationships and the events that take place in the space of the street give particular meanings and resonances - temporary, local, national, or historical - to an individual street as well as to a city as a whole.The network has sought an historical understanding of contemporary problems concerning street culture by addressing issues that may also help reframe current issues, thus feeding into public policy. This objective has been advanced by the network's varied constituencies and the involvement of our original project partners, CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment). The primary aim of this bid is to take the network one step further, to engage directly with policy/practice participants and thus to take the discussion we have initiated to a different level. In so doing, we seek again to show the value and significance of historical precedents from the Early Modern period for the debates that deal with contemporary concerns pertaining to the form and use of the public urban space of streets.