Abstract To direct analysing, monitoring, planning, and administrating the city, a new ‘lifeworld’ system has divided Berlin into spatial units, while an overarching strategy of ‘social space’ has become a new paradigm for the city. The paper critically examines these two concepts, with a reference to two urban programmes: ‘Neighbourhood Management’ and ‘District Centres’, as different institutional arrangements which aim at socio-spatial improvements within designated areas. It asks if the application of these philosophical and sociological concepts in Berlin indicate an alternative, more democratic approach, going beyond the common hierarchical, functionalist and bureaucratic methods of spatial subdivision. It shows a realignment of the spatial, social and institutional dimensions of the city, as a new basis for a more integrated system of urban information and governance, in a move from engineering approaches towards a heightened sensitivity to the social context. However, it argues, there are theoretical tensions between the phenomenological roots of these concepts and the delimitation of space into managed units. It asks whether the administrative and technocratic logics remain, recalibrating the map of governance around a new spatial framework, while increasing pressures on deprived neighbourhoods for self-reliance.

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生活世界和社交空间

摘要 为了直接分析、监测、规划和管理城市，新的“生活世界”系统将柏林划分为空间单元，而“社会空间”的总体战略已成为城市的新范式。这篇论文批判性地考察了这两个概念，并参考了两个城市项目：“社区管理”和“地区中心”，它们是不同的制度安排，旨在改善指定区域内的社会空间。它询问这些哲学和社会学概念在柏林的应用是否表明了一种替代的、更民主的方法，超越了空间细分的常见等级、功能主义和官僚方法。它显示了城市空间、社会和制度维度的重新调整，作为更综合的城市信息和治理系统的新基础，从工程方法转向对社会背景的高度敏感性。然而，它认为，这些概念的现象学根源与将空间划分为管理单元之间存在理论张力。它询问行政和技术官僚逻辑是否仍然存在，围绕新的空间框架重新调整治理地图，同时增加贫困社区自力更生的压力。