摘要
堪萨斯城崛起于密苏里河与堪萨斯河的交汇处,是一个依赖大平原的农牧业所建立的美国中西部都市。铁路助力资本打破了自然的种种限制,令大平原转化为堪萨斯城的腹地。虽然征服自然以实现城市经济的永续增长,一直是堪萨斯城,乃至整个资本主义制度与经济文化的野心,但是成为腹地并不意味着自然完全受到资本与技术力量的操纵,更不意味着自然的消失。作为一种自发的、独立的力量,自然以其丰饶奠定城市发展的基础,也以其极限挑战着城市发展的野心和规划。在堪萨斯城的故事中,1930年代的尘暴与1951年的洪水以灾难的形式迫使这个城市去适应新的生态现实。
Kansas City,rising at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri River,is an American Mid-western Metropolis based on the agriculture and livestock of the Great Plains.The combination between the power of capital and railroads broke down the limits of nature and turned the Great Plains into the hinterlands of Kansas City.Although it was the ambition and scheme of Kansas City as well as capitalist culture to conquer nature in order to achieve the permanent growth of the city and its economy,it did not mean that the nature of the hinterlands was under the complete control of technology and capital,neither did it mean the disappearance of nature.As a spontaneous and independent force,nature provided the foundation for the development of cities with its abundance,but challenged the growth dream with its limits.In the story of Kansas City,the dust storm of the 1930s and the flood of 1951 forced the city to relearn how to adapt to its ecological reality.
作者
侯深
HOU Shen(School of History,Remin University,Beijing,100872,China)
出处
《史学集刊》
CSSCI
北大核心
2021年第2期72-85,共14页
Collected Papers of History Studies
基金
国家社会科学基金项目“1800年以来的美国城市环境史研究”(15BSS020)。
关键词
堪萨斯城
腹地
尘暴
生态适应性
Kansas City
hinterlands
dust storm and ecological adaptation
