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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.38,Issue9,P.1329-1351

语言

英文

关键字

Scale; gentrification; livability; mobilities; bicycling; urban agriculture; NEW-YORK-CITY; FRANCISCO BAY AREA; SOUTH CENTRAL FARM; COMMUNITY GARDENS; LOS-ANGELES; SAN-FRANCISCO; SUSTAINABLE CITY; FOOD SYSTEMS; GENTRIFICATION; AGRICULTURE

作者单位

[Stehlin, John G.] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Geog, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. [Tarr, Alexander R.] Worcester State Univ, Dept Earth Environm & Phys, Worcester, MA USA. Stehlin, JG (reprint author), Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Geog, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. E-Mail: johnstehlin@berkeley.edu

摘要

In the contemporary American urban renaissance, formerly fringe efforts to produce place, conducted by longtime residents and "urban pioneers" alike, now shape mainstream urbanism. Gardening and bicycling are constitutive of contemporary excitement about the city, representing the reinvigoration of the urban neighborhood following the depredations of suburbanization. This paper draws on research in California cities to offer a sympathetic critique of these leading edges of progressive urbanism, arguing that advocates' overwhelming focus on the local creates a scalar mismatch between the horizon of political action and the problems they hope to address. Even as supporters of gardening and cycling understand themselves as implicitly allied with struggles for the right to the city, their work to produce local space is often blind to, and even complicit in, racialized dynamics of accumulation and exclusion that organize metropolises. The result is a progressive urbanism largely disconnected from broader left struggles for spatial justice.