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Planetary Silicon Valley: Deconstructing New York’s innovation complex
Sharon Zukin(美国布鲁克林学院和城市大学研究生中心)
Ancient and current resilience in the Chengdu Plain: Agropolitan development re-‘revisited’
成都平原在古时和现时的复原能力:农业都会开发的再讨论
Daniel B Abramson(美国华盛顿大学)
首次出版时间:2019/6/20|研究论文
Abstract: The Dujiangyan irrigation system, China’s largest, is one of the world’s most important examples of sustainable agropolitan development, maintained by a relatively decentralised system of governance that minimises bureaucratic oversight and depends on significant local autonomy at many scales down to the household. At its historic core in the Chengdu Plain, the system has supported over 2000 years of near-continuously stable urban culture, as well as some of the world’s highest sustained long-term per-hectare productivity and diversity of grain and other crops, especially considering its high population density, forest cover, general biodiversity and flood management success. During the past decade, rapid urban expansion has turned the Chengdu Plain from a net grain exporter into a grain importer, and has radically transformed its productive functioning and distinctive scattered settlement pattern, reorganising much of the landscape into larger, corporately-managed farms, and more concentrated and infrastructure-intensive settlements of non-farming as well as farming households. Community-scale case studies of spatial-morphological and household socio-economic variants on the regional trend help to articulate what is at stake. Neither market-driven ‘laissez-faire’ rural development nor local state-driven spatial settlement consolidation and corporatisation of production seem to correlate well with important factors of resilience: landscape heterogeneity; crop diversity and food production; permaculture; and flexibility in household independence and choice of livelihood. Management of the irrigation system should be linked to community-based agricultural landscape preservation and productive dwelling, as sources of adaptive capacity crucial to the social-ecological resilience of the city-region, the nation and perhaps all humanity.
摘要:都江堰灌溉系统是中国最大的灌溉系统,也是世界上最重要的可持续农业都会开发的例子之一。其由一个相对分散的治理体系维持,最大限度地减少了官僚监督,并依赖下至家庭的、多个层面的重要地方自治。该系统位于成都平原的历史核心地带,已经支持了2000多年近乎持续稳定的城市文化,以及全球最高的长期持续每公顷生产力和粮食及其他作物的多样性。其中尤为突出的是其高人口密度、高森林覆盖率、总体生物多样性和成功的洪水管理。在过去十年中,快速的城市扩张使成都平原从粮食净出口地区转变为粮食进口地区,并从根本上改变了其生产功能和独特的分散定居模式,将大部分土地重组为更大的企业管理农场、以及密集度更高、基础设施更密集的非农业和农业家庭定居点。关于区域趋势的空间形态和家庭社会经济变体的社区层面案例研究有助于阐明利害攸关的问题。无论是市场驱动的“自由放任”式农村发展、还是地方政府驱动的空间定居点整合和生产公司化,似乎都不与以下重要的复原性因素良好关联:景观异质性;作物多样性和粮食生产;永续农业;家庭独立和生计选择方面的灵活性。灌溉系统的管理应与以社区为基础的农业景观保护和生产性居住联系起来,这些是对城市地区、国家乃至全人类的社会生态复原力至关重要的适应能力来源。
Keywords: agglomeration/urbanisation, agroecosystems, China, environment/sustainability, history/heritage/memory, land use, redevelopment/regeneration
关键词:集聚/城市化, 农业生态系统, 中国, 环境/可持续性, 历史/遗产/记忆, 土地利用, 再开发/再生
原文地址:https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019843020
Transformative urbanism and reproblematising land scarcity in Hong Kong
变革性的城市化与香港土地稀缺问题的再认识
Mee Kam Ng(香港中文大学)
Abstract: An ecological and humane urbanism is required to combat resource degradation and socio-economic polarisation. UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda calls for a paradigm shift to ‘leave no one, no place and no ecology behind’ through sustainable development. However, this article argues that a ‘sustainability fix’, while necessary, is insufficient to counter the hegemonic growth-orientated culture and it is important to re-embed economic activities in ethical socio-ecological relationships for people and place well-being. These require critical scholarship to reproblematise issues and present prescriptive approaches for resolving them. Reproblematisation of Hong Kong’s alleged land scarcity problem reveals a property-dominant urban-biased political economy that sustains a high land price policy through suppressing development of massive rural land resources, resulting in ecological and socio-spatial disparities. Reimagining the development of rural Hong Kong based on the principles of nature conservation and place-making for conviviality and human flourishing could be a potential pathway towards a transformative urbanism.
摘要:我们需要一种生态和人道的城市化来对抗资源退化和社会经济两极分化。联合国人居署的“新城市议程”要求通过可持续发展将范式转变为“不抛弃任何人、任何地方、任何生态”。然而,本文认为,“可持续性解决方案”虽然是必要的,但却不足以对抗以霸权增长为导向的文化,重要的是将经济活动重新嵌入符合道德的社会生态关系中,为人们和地方带来福祉。这需要批判性的学术研究来重设问题并提出解决问题的规范性方法。当我们重设香港所谓的土地稀缺问题,我们揭示出一个以房产为主导的城市偏见的政治经济体,它通过抑制大规模农村土地资源的开发来维持高地价政策,从而导致生态和社会空间的不平等。基于自然保护和地方营造的原则再思香港农村地区的发展以促进人类的共生和繁荣,这可能是实现变革性城市化的潜在途径。
Keywords: Hong Kong, land scarcity, reproblematisation, socio-environmental justice, transformative urbanism
关键词:香港, 土地稀缺, 问题重设, 社会环境正义, 变革性城市化
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