ABSTRACT

The paper’s main concern are the intersections of the urban fabric and process with their political ecologies and political pathologies. Density is the substrate of core debates we are having in geography, urban studies and urban practice. These debates have oscillated between the states of hope and panic about the role of density in our urban futures and they have been sharpened by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The paper argues for a contextual and relational notion of density and points to a core dilemma of the concept of density: there is always either too much or too little of it.

中文翻译：

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密度困境：总有太多或更少

摘要

本文主要关注的是城市结构和过程与其政治生态和政治病理的交汇处。密度是我们在地理，城市研究和城市实践中正在进行的核心辩论的基础。关于密度在城市未来中的作用，这些辩论在希望与恐慌状态之间摇摆不定，而2020年COVID-19大流行则加剧了这些辩论。本文主张密度的上下文和关系概念，并指出了密度概念的核心难题：总有太多或太少。