Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore
Wang, Jamie
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-10-01
- 售價: $1,560
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,482
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 280
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262550938
- ISBN-13: 9780262550932
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An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities. As climate change accelerates and urbanization intensifies, our need for more sustainable and livable cities has never been more urgent. Yet, the imaginary of a flourishing urban ecofuture is often driven by a specific version of sustainability that is tied to both high-tech futurism and persistent economic growth. What kinds of sustainable futures are we calling forth, and at what and whose expense? In Reimagining the More-Than-Human City, Jamie Wang attempts to answer these questions by critically examining the sociocultural, political, ethical, and affective facets of human-environment dynamics in the urban nexus, with a geographic focus on Singapore. Widely considered a model for the future of urbanism and an emblematic new world city, Singapore, Wang contends, is a fascinating site to explore how modernist sustainable urbanism is imagined and put into practice. Drawing on field research, this book explores distinct and intrarelated urban imaginaries situated in various sites, from the futuristic, authoritarian Supertree Grove, positioned as a technologically sustainable solution to a velocity-charged and singular urban transportation system, to highly protected nature reserves and to the cemeteries, where graves and memories continue to be exhumed and erased to make way for development. Wang also attends to more contingent yet hopeful alternatives that aim to reconfigure current urban approaches. In the face of growing enthusiasm for building high-tech, sustainable, and "natural" cities, Wang ultimately argues that urban imaginings must create space for a more relational understanding of urban environments.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
透過超越人類的視角探索新加坡多面向的城市環境議題,呼籲重新思考和敘述城市的方式。
隨著氣候變遷加速和城市化加劇,我們對於更可持續和宜居城市的需求比以往任何時候都更為迫切。然而,繁榮的城市生態未來的想像往往受到一種特定版本的可持續性驅動,這種可持續性與高科技未來主義和持續的經濟增長息息相關。我們所呼喚的可持續未來是什麼?這些未來的代價是什麼,受益者又是誰?在《重新想像超越人類的城市》中,Jamie Wang試圖通過批判性地檢視城市交匯處人類與環境動態的社會文化、政治、倫理和情感面向來回答這些問題,並將地理焦點放在新加坡。
新加坡被廣泛視為未來城市主義的典範和象徵性的新世界城市,Wang認為這是一個探索現代可持續城市主義如何被想像和實踐的迷人場所。這本書基於實地研究,探討了位於不同地點的獨特且相互關聯的城市想像,從未來主義的專制超級樹林,這被視為一種技術可持續的解決方案,應對快速且單一的城市交通系統,到高度保護的自然保護區以及墓地,那裡的墳墓和記憶不斷被挖掘和抹去,以便為發展讓路。Wang還關注那些更具偶然性但充滿希望的替代方案,旨在重新配置當前的城市方法。面對對於建設高科技、可持續和“自然”城市的日益熱情,Wang最終主張城市的想像必須為更具關聯性的城市環境理解創造空間。
作者簡介
Jamie Wang is an urban environmental humanities researcher, writer, and poet. She is Research Assistant Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong. Jamie is also an editor of the journal Feminist Review.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Jamie Wang 是一位城市環境人文學研究者、作家和詩人。她是香港教育大學的研究助理教授。Jamie 也是期刊《Feminist Review》的編輯。