Controlled environments: An urban research agenda on microclimatic enclosure

Controlled environments create specialist forms of microclimatic enclosure that are explicitly designed to transcend the emerging limitations and increasing turbulence in existing modes of urban climatic conditions. Across different urban contexts, anthropogenic change is creating urban conditions that are too hot, cold, humid, wet, windy, etc. to support the continued and reliable environments that are suitable for the reproduction of food, ecologies and human life. In response, there are emerging forms of experimentation with new logics of microclimatic governance that seek to enclose environments within membranes and develop artificially created internal ecologies that are precisely customised to meet the needs of the plant, animal or human occupants of these new forms of enclosure. While recognising that enclosure has a long history in urbanism, design and architecture, we ask if a new logic of microclimatic governance is emerging in specific response to the ecological changes of the Anthropocene. The paper sets out a research agenda to investigate whether the ability of cities, states and corporates to design and construct internalised environments is now a strategic capacity that is critical to developing the knowledge, practices and technologies to reconfigure new forms of urban climatic governance that address the problems of climate change and ensure urban reproduction under conditions of turbulence. 受控环境创造了专业形式的微气候环境，明确地旨在超越现有城市气候条件下出现的局限性和不断增加的动荡。在不同的城市环境中，人为变化正在造成太热、太冷、太潮、太湿、多风等城市条件，以支持适合食物、生态和人类生活繁衍的持续可靠环境。作为回应，如今涌现出一些隐含微气候治理新逻辑的实验形式，试图将环境围合在膜内部，并开发人工创造的内部生态系统，这些内部生态系统经过精确定制以满足这些新型围合环境中动植物或人类居住者的需求。我们在认识到围合在城市规划、设计和建筑方面具有悠久历史的同时，询问在对人类世代的生态变化作出具体反应方面是否涌现出了一种新的微气候治理逻辑。本文提出了一项研究议程，以调查城市、州和企业设计和构建内部化环境的能力如今是否是一种至关重要的战略能力，对于开发知识、实践和技术来重新配置新形式的城市气候治理、从而应对气候变化问题并确保动荡条件下的城市繁衍至关重要。