An ungovernable city? : order/disorder

The "Understanding Cities" series is a series of books planned by the famous British higher education institution "Open University" that examines cities under the concept of contemporary globalization from a new perspective. The series of books planned by the "Open University" are famous for their rigorous planning and lively writing. They consider the needs of readers and outline important concepts and research topics in specific fields with sufficient and diverse empirical examples, charts, activities and important article selections, and can be related to daily life. Life experience connection.

"Understanding the City" attempts to view the city from a new perspective. In order to fully understand contemporary cities, the authors advocate the use of geographical imagination to understand how cities are created. On the one hand, they must be placed in the context of social relations that extend beyond the city; on the other hand, they must be placed within the society within the city. In the intertwining of relationships. The development of these arguments will show that cities cannot be thought of in terms of a single geography and a single historical perspective, and therefore cannot have only one future. On the contrary, cities are characterized by openness: open to new opportunities, but also to new human interactions. This series of books will gradually reveal the difficulties and paradoxes of the inevitable openness of cities, where various histories and geographies overlap. Clearly, then, we must understand these issues if we are to learn to live in an increasingly urban world.

"The Ungovernable City?" "Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder" is the third volume in the "Understanding Cities" series, extending the first volume "City Worlds" and the second volume "Unruly Cities". Discussion of "Unsettling Cities: Movement/Settlement". This book aims to explore how differentiated spaces arise in cities. The differentiation of urban spaces not only involves the forms of differences, but also how these differences are produced, maintained, weakened, challenged and transformed. This book revisits the classic works of theorists who have tried to dismantle and explain urban order and disorder.

Calls for order, and claims of the importance of disorder, arise from the differentiation of urban space - whether this involves the safety of people on the streets, the vitality and creativity of urban life, or the malicious targeting of certain groups of people. People are isolated from other people. Attempts to intervene in urban space to produce specific effects are ambiguous, good or bad, and have no social consequences that can be easily or accurately predicted, but this does not mean that we have no room to comment on these social consequences. This book invites readers to think about new possibilities for regulating urban order and to think about the uncontrollability of cities.

Features of this book

Taipei is an interesting city. In the so-called modern metropolis, there are traditional small markets hidden in the corners; under the scattered surface of tall reinforced concrete buildings, red brick bungalows sometimes appear, which makes people feel abrupt and full of conflicts. features.

Taipei seems chaotic, but it is full of order; although the traditional market appears in an awkward location, it does not cross the line. The market has its proper scope, and the high-rise commercial district is also well located in its place. The conflict of order/disorder is constantly playing out in this small but beautiful city. Taipei fits the discussion of this book very well. Through this book, we can better understand where we are and when we grew up.