空间的生产是新马克思主义城市学派和马克思主义地理学的一个关键概念。城市空间的生产指资本、权力和阶级等政治经济要素和力量对城市的重新塑造,从而使城市空间成为其介质和产物的过程。通过文献分析和比较可以得出,空间的生产理论在批判传统的将空间视为容器和无价值判断的空间观的基础上产生;借助马克思主义理论并将之与空间问题相结合,西方地理学界和城市学界在空间的生产问题上已经积累了丰富的理论成果和实践经验;国内学界对它的研究较为迟滞,缺乏突出的案例研究,目前还处在引介和初步应用的起步阶段,但在近5年也兴起了一个以多学科共同研究为特征的风潮。1990年代以来,城市空间的生产问题在中国逐渐变得突出,预示着它将是一个重要而有潜力的研究方向。
Production of space is a key term in Marxist geography and the new Marxist urban school.It often means that the urban landscapes and structures have been reshaped by some political and economical elements,such as capital,power,class,so that the urban space finally has become their production and interference.The theories about production of space mainly focus on the urban.Since 1990s,there have been many phenomena and problems about production of the urban space in China.So it is very necessary for us to apply the new theories to explain and deal with the Chinese problems.The theories on the production of space stemmed from Marxism in 1970s,and at last connected Marxism with spatial problems that the geographers concerned about very much.Based on the critiques not only for the traditional concept viewed space as a kind of vessel,but also for not thinking of value judgments or "neutral" space,it produced and developed into Marxist geography.Compared the western researches to the Chinese,the former has produced fruitful theories and cases,but the latter lagged and lacked typical case studies.On the whole,most studies on the production of space in China only introduced the theories and simply applied them to analyze some problems,but it is worth thinking that it becomes fashionable and interdisciplinary in recent 5 years.It will be a potential and important direction to study production of the Chinese urban space.