Working the urban assemblage: A transnational study of transforming practices.

This article places those working for change in urban neighbourhoods at the centre of debates on urban transformation, directing attention to the importance of human agency in the work of assembling urban transformation. Drawing on cross-national qualitative fieldwork undertaken over 30 months shadowing 40 urban practitioners in neighbourhoods across four European cities – Amsterdam, Birmingham, Copenhagen and Glasgow – our research revealed the catalytic, embodied roles of situated agents in this assembling. Through exemplar vignettes, we present practices in a diverse range of socio-material assemblages aimed to address complex problems and unmet needs in the urban environment. The practices we studied were not those of daily routines, but were instead a purposeful assembling that included nurturing and developing of heterogeneous resources such as relationships, knowledges and materials, framed through an emerging vision to inform, mobilise and channel action. This article brings together assemblage-theoretical and practice-theoretical ideas, with rich empirical insight to advance our understanding of how the city may be re-made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

本文将致力于城市社区变革的人们置于关于城市变革的辩论的中心，引导人们关注人类能动性在整合城市变革努力方面的重要性。我们的研究利用在30个月内对四个欧洲城市（阿姆斯特丹、伯明翰、哥本哈根和格拉斯哥）各街区的40名城市从业者进行的跨国定性实地调查，揭示了情境化能动性在这一整合中的催化作用和具体作用。通过范例，我们展示了各种社会-物质组合的实践，这些实践旨在解决城市环境中的复杂问题和未满足的需求。我们研究的实践不是那些每日常规，而是一种有目的的整合，包括培育和发展关系、知识和材料等异质资源，这些资源通过一个新兴的愿景组织在一起以实现教育、动员和行动引导等目的。本文汇集了整合理论和实践理论观点以及丰富的经验洞察力，以促进我们对城市重建的理解。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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