摘要：Understanding a city or a metropolitan region in terms of built topography is increasingly inadequate when globaland digital forces are part of the urban condition. What we might call the topographic moment is a critical and alarge component of the representation of cities. But it cannot incorporate the fact of globalization and digitization aspart of the representation of the urban. Nor can it critically engage today’s dominant accounts about globalizationand digitization, accounts which evict place and materiality even though the former are deeply imbricated with thematerial and the local and hence with that topographic moment. A key analytic move that bridges between thesevery diverse dimensions is to capture the possibility that particular components of a city’s topography can bespatializations of global and digital dynamics and formations; such particular topographic components would thenbe one site in a multisited circuit or network. Such spatializations destabilize the meaning of the local or the sited,and thereby of the topographic understanding of cities. This holds probably especially for global cities.
