ABSTRACT The green city is being elevated to the status of a self-evident good in the theory and practice of urban sustainability. A large literature documents the linked environmental, economic and well-being benefits associated with vegetating urban systems to maximise the ecosystem function. Contemporary urban greening seeks to challenge attempts to expel nature from the city in a quest for order and control. However, by imagining nature as a new mode of urban purification, much effort in the name of the green city inverts and reproduces dualistic understandings of natural and built space. In response, we disrupt the normative dialectics of purity and dirt that sustain this dualism to expose the untidy but fertile ground of the green city. We draw together Ash Amin’s four registers of the Good City – relatedness, rights, repair and re-enchantment – with the artworks of the Australian visual ecologist Aviva Reed. Our work seeks to enrich the practice of more-than-human urbanism through ‘dirt thinking’ by imagining the transformative possibilities in, of and for the dirty green city.

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想象肮脏的绿色城市

摘要 在城市可持续发展的理论和实践中，绿色城市正被提升为不言而喻的好东西。大量文献记录了与植被城市系统相关的环境、经济和福祉效益，以最大限度地发挥生态系统功能。当代城市绿化试图挑战将自然驱逐出城市以寻求秩序和控制的企图。然而，通过将自然想象为一种新的城市净化模式，以绿色城市的名义进行的大量努力颠倒和再现了对自然和建筑空间的二元理解。作为回应，我们打破了维持这种二元论的纯洁和肮脏的规范辩证法，以暴露绿色城市不整洁但肥沃的土地。我们将 Ash Amin 的四个好城市登记册汇总在一起——相关性、权利、修复和重新迷人——澳大利亚视觉生态学家 Aviva Reed 的艺术作品。我们的工作旨在通过想象肮脏的绿色城市内部、内部和为之带来的变革可能性，通过“肮脏的思考”来丰富超人类城市主义的实践。