Reassembling the politics of “Green” urban redevelopment in East Garfield Park: A Polanyian approach
本文以芝加哥东加菲尔德公园的“绿色建筑”项目为例，分析文化、地理和拓扑因素如何使土地商品化路径多样化，揭示结构、能动性与空间物质性之间的动态互动，对未能挑战土地市场基本假设的市政规划实践提出批评。
Spotlighting a “green building” project in Chicago (East Garfield Park), this paper explores the various cultural, geographical, and topological factors that serve to pluralize land commodification pathways. Building on the scholarship on rent capture, I re-assemble the politics of green gentrification in East Garfield Park in order to lay bare the dynamic interactions between structure (e.g. financialization of urban space), agency (e.g. expression of needs, purposes, interests), and spatial materiality (e.g. landscapes of built environment). My approach draws on Polanyian geographies, focusing in particular on plural social agencies, the impact of spatial infrastructural configurations on local politics, and the role of narrative/script-making in land development. The resulting conversation entails thicker criticism of municipal planning practices that fail to challenge the foundational assumptions of land market and property economy. Moreover, a number of implications arise from the performative political possibilities of spatial infrastructure: while broader economic structures may constrain the agency of diverse actants, spatial landscapes can nevertheless prove enabling for transformative value politics, with competing narratives on “what is the best use for the land” defying a singular ontology of land as “real-estate-land.”