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超大城市的治理是一个世界性难题。大卫·哈维的《巴黎城记:现代性之都的诞生》对于在理论上认识超大城市的本质特征和在实践中开展超大城市的治理均具有重要的借鉴意义。哈维在书中展现了19世纪后期资本和权力对巴黎的空间改造,从而呈现了现代性和城市性的空间面向。现代巴黎作为超大城市的代表,是城市性的集中体现,更是高度现代性的典型表征。这个空间不仅是现代性与城市性存在的场所,更是现代性及城市性本身。哈维重现了现代巴黎的形成过程,揭示了资本和现代性如何在特定的时间与地点结合在一起,以及社会关系与政治想象如何因这种结合而被启动。通过对巴黎的分析,哈维强调了超大城市作为一种空间形态所具有的意义和影响。这提醒我们不能只看到超大城市的现状和其内部存在的具体问题,还要关注超大城市这种空间形态本身的诞生及其形成过程中的动力机制。另外,对超大城市的认识与治理,也需要一个关于现代性和反思现代性的理论视角。
Governance in mega-cities is a worldwide problem. David Harvey’s “The City of Paris: The Birth of the Capital of Modernity” is of great significance to the theoretical understanding of the essential features of mega-cities and the management of mega-cities in practice. Harvey shows in the book the transformation of Paris’s space from capital and power in the late 19th century, thus presenting the spatial orientation of modernity and urbanity. As a representative of a mega-city, modern Paris is a concentrated embodiment of the city and a typical representation of a high degree of modernity. This space is not only a place where modernity and urbanity exist, but also modernity and urbanism itself. Harvey reproduces the formation of modern Paris, reveals how capital and modernity are brought together at specific times and places, and how social relations and political imagination are initiated by this combination. Through the analysis of Paris, Harvey emphasized the significance and influence of mega-cities as a form of space. This reminds us that we can not only see the current situation of megacities and the specific problems that exist within them, but also pay attention to the birth and formation of the megacity itself. In addition, the understanding and management of mega-cities also need a theoretical perspective on modernity and reflection on modernity.