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This article examines a text by a lesser-known figure of fin-de-siècle Vienna, Camillo Sitte's Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen (1889), tracing the relationship between urban form and social structure in Sitte's treatise. It identifies the key points of this relationship in terms of causality: the form of public spaces can determine the form of social life; surrogacy: the throngs of the places’ inanimate inhabitants, the statues and monuments, are placeholders for the missing human gatherings; and finally displacement: the thick sociality of community life is transferred onto a heightened relationality with urban forms. Sitte's text sublimates the social; it diffuses abstract social structures—density, relationality, connection—onto the spatial morphologies of the city. Ultimately, this diffusion results in a capacious yet weakened model of sociality.
本文考察了一位不太为人所知的维也纳晚期人物卡米洛·西特（Camillo Sitte）的《Der Städtebau nach seinen k nstlerischen Grundsätzen》（1889）的一篇文章，在西特的论文中追溯了城市形式与社会结构之间的关系。它从因果关系的角度确定了这种关系的关键点：公共空间的形式可以决定社会生活的形式；替代物：成群的无生命的居民，雕像和纪念碑，是缺失的人类集会的占位者；最后是置换：社区生活的浓厚社会性被转移到与城市形式的高度关系上。网站的文本升华了社会；它将抽象的社会结构——密度、关系、联系——扩散到城市的空间形态上。最终，这种扩散导致了一个宽敞但被削弱的社会模式。
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