Urban regions: the expanded geographies of daily life

Abstract

基础设施和景观资源将城市与周围地理环境联系在一起。都市领域是都市化的结果,其中交织着不同状态下的城市密度、人类生存和建成的环境。文章尝试通过两种日常生活中的产品(瓶装水和豆奶)来了解资源、基础设施系统与生态如何促进成都及香港两大城市的发展。这些商品的生产揭示了一个受政治、经济与生态影响的复杂网络,而这一网络将都市的地理环境扩展至全球化的规模,并使地域、权力与自然资源相互协调配合。 Landscapes of infrastructure and resources connect the city to its geography. Urban regions are the result of urbanization that exists as a continuum traversing various conditions of density, human occupation, and the built environment. This project seeks to understand the resources, systems, and ecologies that support the growth of cities such as Chengdu and Hong Kong through the lens of two everyday products-bottled water and soybean milk. The production of these items reveal an intricate web of political, economic and ecological impacts that expand the geography of cities to a global scale, necessitating negotiations for territory, power, and natural resources. The project narrates the complex networks that sustain the cities of Chengdu and Hong Kong through drawings and an interactive installation where visitors negotiate for the resources of daily life.