ABSTRACT

This article examines what the coronavirus crisis reveals about the unexamined presumptions of existing discourses of urbanisation and globalisation. It takes a micro-oriented focus on the impact of the pandemic on the future of the high-rise buildings which are central to both the functionality and the imaginary of the modern city. Its focus is specifically on the constraints which the pandemic has imposed on current norms of vertical mobility (via lifts/elevators) within these buildings. It then considers the broader significance of the potential obsolescence of previously prestigious architectural and technological forms, including the high-rise building and the cruise ship, both of which have come to be enveloped by this pandemic within dystopian forms of symbolism.

摘要

本文探讨了关于现有城市化和全球化话语未经审查的假设的冠状病毒危机所揭示的内容。它以微观为导向，聚焦于大流行对高层建筑未来的影响，而高层建筑对于现代城市的功能和想象力至关重要。它的重点特别放在大流行对这些建筑物内当前垂直移动性规范（通过升降机/电梯）施加的限制上。然后，它考虑了以前享有盛名的建筑和技术形式（包括高层建筑和游轮）的过时潜力的更广泛意义，这两种形式都已被这种流行病笼罩在反乌托邦的象征形式中。