“城市公共空间”概念辨析与理念再思考

Distinction and Rethinking of the Concept of“Urban Public Space”

城市广场、街道或公园一直作为典型城市公共空间受到城市管理及城市设计的关注,然而由于缺乏对“城市公共空间”术语的深入理解,城市公共空间管理和设计思路容易受到局限和误导,使公共空间建设流于形式。本研究基于文献梳理,介绍了“城市公共空间”术语产生、发展、挪用的过程,以及与城市空间建设理论和现象相关的话语争论,并通过引入当下社会学关于“公共”的思考维度,和社会学“公共领域”理论中的新观念,探讨了城市公共空间开放化、复数化、弹性化的理念内涵,以促进城市公共空间管理和设计的相关思考。

As typical urban public spaces,urban plazas,streets,and parks have drawn sufficient attention from urban management and urban design.However,a lack of understanding of the term of“urban public space”may limit or even mislead the ideas of urban public space management and design,making the construction of public space a formality.Based on literature review,this paper introduces the terminology“urban public space”,including its occurrence,development,and appropriation,as well as some arguments about public space con-struction and phenomenon in the related theories.Additionally,by introducing the current sociological thinking about“public”and new concepts in the sociological“public domain”theory,the concept of openness,plu-ralization,and flexibility of urban public space is explored to promote the thinking related to the man-agement and design of urban public space.