摘要
超大城市空间发展对身处其中的个体提出生活加速要求,人与城市空间系统之间需要中间要素关联才能形成合力,实现城市美好生活体验。文章将便利店定位为身处城市生活系统的插件空间,以此切入探究超大城市空间发展与都市人民生活建构的关联。基于空间生产理论与地方理论,围绕空间的物质性、社会性、情感性3个维度,以上海全家便利店为例,运用半结构式访谈、参与式观察等质性方法,探究便利店空间形塑过程,回答便利店之于超大城市的社会价值。结果发现:1)便利店以插件空间形式优化都市生活系统,供给物质性便利,并以标准化服务将物质空间活化为社会性空间给予都市人连接支撑,反映独属于都市的小尺度消费空间社会价值;2)便利店表现出标准化非地方特质与地方性情感的辩证结合,而便利店的地方生成过程恰是都市人建构个体生活主体性的过程。不同于项目制的介入式空间生产与社区营造,人们与便利店的互动反映基于物质需求的能动性基础资源,这有助于促成人与城市系统的有机联结。
The development of megacities corresponds to the macro-structure of social operations,while the lives of urban residents correspond to micro-level social practices.The interaction between these two dimensions requires the support of multi-scalar spaces to ensure the effective functioning of urban society and fulfill people's aspirations for a better life.Convenience stores have emerged as pivotal infrastructural nodes that meet daily consumption needs.The current research defines them as standardized non-place spaces.However,we found that convenience stores are often perceived as warm and therapeutic spaces,prompting us to explore how convenience stores serve as social intermediaries that connect the spatial structure of megacities with daily life.This study focuses on two core questions:How do people develop a sense of place in megacities through their interactions with convenience stores?What does the emergence of placeness in standardized non-place spaces reveal about the dynamics between people and the city?Grounded in Lefebvrian social space theory and humanistic geographical place theory,this article first establishes the conceptual relationship between spatiality and placeness through the lens of the"Proximity"concept,and then constructs an analytical framework based on material,social,and affective dimensions for qualitative research.The findings reveal that:1)Convenience stores function as"plug-in spaces"that optimize the metropolitan ecosystem.By providing material convenience and standardized services,they transform physical spaces into social spaces,thereby offering crucial social support to urban residents.This demonstrates the distinctive social value inherent in small-scale commercial spaces in urban contexts.Building on their unique standardized service protocols and spatial power dynamics,convenience stores provide consumers with customer-centric spatial experiences.2)While deeply embedded in the daily lives of megacity residents,convenience store spaces exhibit a dialectical combination of placeness and non-place characteristics.These stores extend across metropolitan areas through an extensive network of chain outlets.This process of placemaking serves as a means through which urban residents construct their individual life subjectivity.The emergence of convenience store placeness reflects people's proactive efforts to construct emotional anchors amid the hypermobile pace of metropolitan life.The emotional attachment to standardized spaces reflects a contemporary urban reality:the hypermobile nature of life in megacities weakens,or even eliminates,organic interpersonal connections,creating a pressing need for everyday consumption spaces that meet practical needs while also providing a sense of belonging.Based on this analysis,the study posits that understanding and enhancing the functions of such plug-in spaces in two key areas can contribute to the organic optimization of urban life:1)Beginning with the self-practice of urban individuals,it is essential to preserve human agency in daily routines and encourage the establishment of stable interpersonal connections in public life.2)From the perspective of urban spatial planning,commercial community spaces should be embedded in daily life,closely aligned with people's needs,and serve as nodes for constructing social bonds.Urban planning should be fundamentally oriented toward shared social development,forming a multidimensional,multi-scalar,and human-centered spatial system.
作者
汪熹成
Xicheng Wang(School of Social and Public Administration,East China University of Science and Technology,Shanghai 200237,China)
出处
《热带地理》
北大核心
2025年第11期1939-1949,共11页
Tropical Geography
基金
国家社会科学基金项目“共同富裕进程中县域乡村振兴研究”(22VRC177)
上海市人文社科重大项目“乡村振兴视野下的新型城乡关系研究”(2025GDSKZD01)。
关键词
超大城市
便利店
插件空间
空间形塑
地方生成
人本位
上海
megacity behemoth
convenience store
plug-in space
spatial shaping
place-making
human-centered
Shanghai
