Abstract:

Using the perspective of cultural and critical geography, this paper discusses the fabric of Songdo, South Korea, a mega-urban project declared the paragon of a "smart city" and intended to house about 250,000 inhabitants by 2020. After demonstrating how Songdo fits David Harvey's (1975, 2001b) concept of a "mega-project," we deconstruct the development of Songdo to show how the city is a "spatial fix" (Harvey 1981, 2001a). Then, according to Henri Lefebvre's (1974) theory of space (conceived, perceived, and experienced), we analyze Songdo's smart city marketing. This method allows us to interrogate the logics of actors in the fabric of Songdo and the articulation between the fabric, the meaning, and the living, focusing on residential scale. What does it mean to live in such a "smart city" in the making? Are the housing, planning, and public facilities appropriate for the pioneering residents' actual practices in the new city? Has digital intelligence had any effects on building and managing a city? If so, what are they? By analyzing data collected through ethnographic methods, we present a better vision of the complex temporalities of such a mega-project under construction. A city in the making leads to functional and morphological discrepancies: from the presence of idle lands nearby brand new towers to vegetable gardens in front of glamorous urban facilities. Our approach to Songdo is remote from the usual boasting discourse on the "smart city." Songdo is hardly smarter than any contemporary city; rather, it is a smart city only because digital life enhanced by the use of smartphones has become a "total social fact" (Mauss 1973) in South Korea and in urbanism.

摘要：

本文使用文化和地缘地理学的角度，讨论了韩国松岛的结构，这是一个大型城市项目，被宣布为“智慧城市”的典范，并计划在2020年之前容纳约25万居民。在论证松岛如何适应戴维之后Harvey（1975，2001b）的“大型项目”概念，我们对松岛的发展进行了解构，以展示这座城市如何成为“空间定位”（Harvey 1981，2001a）。然后，根据Henri Lefebvre（1974）的空间理论（概念，感知和经验），我们分析了松岛的智慧城市营销。这种方法使我们可以在松岛的结构中询问演员的逻辑，并在结构，意义和生活之间进行交汇，重点是居住规模。住在这样一个“智能城市”意味着什么 在制作中？住房，规划和公共设施是否适合新城市居民的先驱实践？数字智能对城市的建设和管理有影响吗？如果是这样，它们是什么？通过分析通过人种志方法收集的数据，我们可以更好地了解正在建设的此类大型项目的复杂性。不断发展的城市导致功能和形态上的差异：从附近的闲置土地，崭新的塔楼到迷人的城市设施前的菜园。我们对松岛的态度与通常所说的“智慧城市”的说法背道而驰。松岛几乎没有哪个现代城市更聪明。相反，它是一座智慧城市，只是因为通过使用智能手机来增强数字生活已成为“