The Transformation of the City in Castells's theory : For the Analysis to the Urban-Society

カステル ニオケル トシ クウカン ノ ヘンヨウ トシ ト シャカイ ノ ブンセキ ニムケテ

セキ, ヨシヒロ

Seki, Yoshihiro

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

カステル

都市の意味

情報発展様式

都市社会運動

the urban space

Castells

the urban meaning

the informational mode of development

the urban social movement

Today, we are interested in the urban society, because of the ongoing urbanization. Like the Chicago School, the variety that the urban society shows has prevented the traditional urban sociology from making the theoretical framework of it. But the more various the city is, the more necessary it is to make its theory. It is important that we regard the relation between "the society and the urban" as an interrelationship between them, not the relationship between "the whole and a part". From this viewpoint the New Urban Sociology, such as Castells, study the urban. In this paper I focus on understanding the transformation of the city in Castells's theory, and try to explain its possibilities and limits and to define the interrelationship between society and urban. According to his theory, the city is changed by a dominant principle of economic and political system, and forces against it. The former emerges as the urban planning, and the latter as the urban social movements. Castells thinks of the modern capitalist society as "the informational mode of development". In this mode, informational technologies have transformed the urban space . This means that the space of flow is superior to that of place. Moreover, it is not until three goals has been attained that the urban social movement can change the city. This three goals are the collective consumption, cultural identity and political selfmanagement. Castells's works are very significant, but his theory embraces the following problems; how can the space of production influence our living space, and what is shown by the definitions of the urban social movement?

英語