“拟像”视角下城市“千景一面”的深层解读

Study on the similarity of different landscapes from the perspective of simulacrum

尝试将中国当代城市的"千景一面"现象置于后现代消费社会的大背景下,解读其深层原因。借助"拟像"概念分析了中国当代城市景观制造的三种形式,认为城市空间不再与当地的社会现实相关,而是被生产为一种虚拟的图像空间,并进一步揭示了"千景一面"的形成机制:城市文化受控于资本,视觉感知受控于他人。最后提出了城市景观的建设应从"拟像"制造回归对大众日常生活的关照。

This essay puts the similarity in contemporary Chinese cityscape in the consumer society background for calculation. By analyzing the three ways of making urban landscape based on some properties of simulacrum, it argues that urban space is produced as a type of fictitious image space which is divorced from the local social reality. It reveals the formal mecha- nism of the similarity in contemporary Chinese cityscape, which can be explained by two primary factors as follows： the urban culture is controlled by capital, and the visual perception is controlled by someone else. In the end, this essay gets some related conclusions and the suggestions that the urban landscape should reflect the people＇ s daily life instead of being simulacrums.