复杂理论视角下城市健康地理学探析.pdfVIP

人文地理 2018年第6期总第164期 文章编号:1003-2398(2018)06-0001-08 DOI:10.13959/j.issn. 1003-2398.2018.06.001 复杂理论视角下城市健康地理学探析 胡 宏，徐建刚 （南京大学建筑与城市规划学院，南京210093 ） PROGRESSPROGRESS ININ URBANURBAN HEALTHHEALTH GEOGRAPHYGEOGRAPHY USINGUSING COMPLEXITYCOMPLEXITY THEORYTHEORY HU Hong, XU Jian-gang （SchoolofArchitectureandUrbanPlanning,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210093,China） Abstract:Abstract: Medical geography shifted its focus from the geographical distribution of diseases to a wider con- cept of health in 1990s. Health geography then has gradually developed as a new branch of medical geogra- phy. The urban public health problems are complex and rooted in the complicated geographical spaces. How- ever, the academic community has been mainly analyzing such complex multi-factor relationship for decades by using models and hypothesis from the perspective of reductionism. Since the effects of proximity to dis- ease sources on health are nonlinear and the existence of triads of urban space results in health inequality, the reductionism has certain limitations to capture these complex nonlinear and nested relationships between multiple health indicators. Employing the complexity theory, this paper aims to understand the urban health system as a complex system with fundamental attributes such as openness, components with limited ‘knowl- edge of each other, self-organization, path dependence, emergence, positive feedback, and lock-in. It analyz- es the mechanisms in urban health geography from the perspective of complexity theory and the production of space. Under the interaction of the built environment, urban administration policy, and social space, the dynamics