Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population living in urban areas, which make up for less than 1% of the world’s land area. However, the renaming of the current geological era——the Anthropocene, and the intensification of climatic deregulations in recent years, all seem to indicate that on the contrary human activities have reached farther than ever before with greater impacts on the planet.
当前,世界上超过一半的人口居住在只占地球土地面积的不到1%城市里。同时,“人类世”的到来,以及近年来气候危机的加剧,却似乎都表明,人类活动的范围比以往任何时候都大,对地球的影响也更深远。
This somewhat paradoxical situation has led some to discern the completion of the global urbanization process, the ultimate expansion of the urban logic to the confines of the planet,so-called "urban society". Some scholars speculate the uneven spatial development and spatial inequality created by the increasing human impacts, as "planetary urbanization".
这种自相矛盾的现象,使人们意识到全球城市化进程的不可避免,即城市逻辑将最终扩展到整个地球表面,人类恐怕将真正迎来“城市社会”。一些学者也将在持续增长的人类影响之下产生的空间发展不均衡和不公平现象称之为“星球城市化”。
Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization,edited by Neil Brenner
《内爆/外爆:星球城市化研究》
In such a world, the ineffectiveness of the traditional categories of urban, rural, and natural landscapes require us to elaborate more adequate tools to understand the ubiquitous but unexpected simultaneity of nature and the city, without being totally urban nor totally natural. This imperative requires to look anew at the territories that we collectively inhabit. The nature have become a cultural phenomenon that constructed under planetary urbanization.
在这样的世界中,城市,乡村和自然景观的传统分类已经无效,这要求我们设计新的认知工具,以理解自然与城市普遍的共时性,即不是完全城市化,也不是完全自然。我们需要重新审视这片现在及过去共同居住的领土。“自然”也已经成为星球城市化之下不同主体建构出的一种文化现象。
For instance, wetland resources have always been one of the important components of the ecosystem, as well as a hot topic in urban ecology today. Wetland, as well as nature resources, construction continues to emerge in various countries and has exceeded the traditional definition of environmental conservation.
例如湿地资源一直是地球生态系统的重要组成部分之一,也是当今城市生态的热门话题。中国及世界各地涌现了湿地建设的热潮,出现了人工湿地,生态补偿湿地和智慧湿地等。显然,我们对湿地的理解,已然超越了传统的环境保护含义。
In this seminar, we will explore these questions by focusing on the growing role of wetland construction as environmental solutions in recent years. By looking at the wetland conservation, planning and design in Hong Kong, our considerations include: What are wetlands? What are the different agendas associated with wetland projects? How are they related to that of other green city concepts such as national parks and eco-cities? How may the impacts of these schemes be compared with those elsewhere?
在研讨会中,我们将聚焦在近年来作为环境策略而备受瞩目的湿地建造上。以香港不同的湿地保护, 规划与设计为例,讨论包括:什么是湿地?湿地建设有哪些不同的议题?它们与其他绿色城市理念(比如国家公园和生态城市)有何关联?香港的湿地保护与中国大陆和全球其他地方相比又有何相似和不同之处?
NATURE AND THE CITY
自然与城市
What is a WETLAND
in the planetary urbanization?
什么是星球城市化中的湿地?
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2020年5月22日(周五),
2:00-5:00 pm
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Convener
学术召集人
Ting Wang | 王婷
Ph.D. Candidate, Division of Landscape Architecture, HKU
香港大学建筑学院园境建筑学部博士候选人,
《城市中国》海外观察员
Speakers
主讲人
Matthew Pryor
Head of Division and Associate Professor, DLA, HKU
Title:The Meaning of Wetlands: Stories from the HK Wetland Park
香港大学建筑学院园境建筑学部主任兼副教授
题目:湿地的意义:香港湿地公园的故事
Michael Leven
Director and Ecologist in Asia Ecological Consultants Ltd
Title:Beyond Impact Avoidance: How Can the EIA Process Benefit Biodiversity Conservation – A Case Study of a Hong Kong Wetland
亚洲生态顾问有限公司董事兼生态学家
题目:规避影响之外:环境影响评估如何有利于生物多样性的保护-以香港落马洲湿地缓和区为例
Werner Breitung
Professor in David Lam Institute for East West Studies, Hong kong Baptist University
Title:The Social Construction of Nature – Wetland Conservation in an Urban Borderland
香港浸会大学林思齐东西学术交流所教授
题目:自然的社会建构——城市边缘地带的湿地保育
Discussant
评议人
Cecilia Chu | 朱慰先
Associate Professor, DLA, HKU
香港大学建筑学院园境建筑学部副教授
Xiaoxuan Lu |陆小璇
Assistant Professor, DLA, HKU
香港大学建筑学院园境建筑学部助理教授
Guo Cui|崔国
Executive Editor, Urban China Magazine
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