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作者

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.38,Issue9,P.1441-1450

语言

英文

关键字

Urban Experiments; urban futures; sustainable cities; future cities; EXPERIMENTAL CITY; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SOCIOTECHNICAL TRANSITIONS; SYSTEMIC CHANGE; SUSTAINABILITY; RETHINKING; POLITICS; ECOLOGY; CITIES

作者单位

[Caprotti, Federico; Cowley, Robert] Univ Exeter, Dept Geog, Amory Bldg,Rennes Dr, Exeter, Devon, England. Caprotti, F (reprint author), Univ Exeter, Dept Geog, Amory Bldg,Rennes Dr, Exeter, Devon, England. E-Mail: f.caprotti@exeter.ac.uk

摘要

The notion of the "urban experiment" has become increasingly prevalent and popular as a guiding concept and trope used by both scholars and policymakers, as well as by corporate actors with a stake in the future of the city. In this paper, we critically engage with this emerging focus on "urban experiments", and with its articulation through the associated concepts of "living labs", "future labs", "urban labs" and the like. A critical engagement with the notion of urban experimentation is now not only useful, but a necessity: we introduce seven specific areas that need critical attention when considering urban experiments: these are focused on normativity, crisis discourses, the definition of "experimental subjects", boundaries and boundedness, historical precedents, "dark" experiments and non-human experimental agency.