不仅仅为了游客:论历史城市景观在当代宜居城市中扮演的“基础设施”角色

Not Only for Tourists: The Historic Urban Landscape as Infrastructure for Livable Contemporary Cities

本文认为,历史中心在当代城市中正逐渐成为以追求城市旅游经济为目标的"主题公园",这一做法值得商榷——其继承了过去陈旧的功能主义观念,自上个世纪60年代以来,被许多批评家广为诟病——其局限性在于太过概念化和实施不当,比如滥用城市规划的分区理论与技术,以及对居住空间的忽视。将当代城市视为并当作主题公园和高度专门化的城市区域的拼接物构筑起来,这将在一定程度上破坏城市真正的宜居条件。与之相反,历史中心可以作为一种"城市基础设施",在当今城市中扮演一个富有意义的、多重的、综合性的角色。

This paper aims to contrast the idea that the future of historic centers in today contemporary cities is to become ‘thematic parks＇ oriented to a tourist urban economy. This idea is the epigonic legacy of a banal functionalism, the limits of which were highlighted since the Sixties of the last century by the criticisms against the schematic and poor application-i.e., the abuse-of the zoning town-planning techniques and a reductive notion of living space. To conceive and set up the contemporary city as a patchwork of thematic parks and highly specialized urban parts will produce the effects of a relevant loss of its real habitability conditions. On the contrary, historic centers can play a meaningful, plural and complex role as ‘urbanity infrastructure＇ in the cities of today.