Despite the growth, prevalence and influence of private urban governance, scholarship that explores the intimate workings of these manifold and mutating forms remains limited. While these private ventures carry forward elements from the past, the landscape of urban governance has nonetheless undergone profound transformation. Over the past few decades, the global expansion and influence of private governing ventures have reshaped how cities are managed, organised and experienced. This special issue on the New Private Urban Governance examines the constantly evolving modalities of private governance (i.e. business improvement districts/areas, condominium/strata corporations, gated communities, POPS and others) in a global context. Organised around new, interrelated themes of vestiges, ventures and visibility, this issue comprises case studies, syntheses of longstanding empirical projects and novel theoretical/conceptual interventions into political and spatial practices, knowledges and technologies of these privately governed realms. Focused on the spatialisation of politics, vestiges reflects the idea that while neoliberal forms of private urban governance continue to proliferate, they rely and build upon, rather than fully replace, earlier, more public governance practices, logics and spaces. Ventures emphasises that the private and market-oriented thrust of urban governance is heavily predicated on the protection and extraction of value and the intensifying financialisation of urban landscapes and life. Visibility highlights how governing technologies render private urban governance visible and in doing so highlight the politics of space. These three themes together expose the workings of the new private urban governance while invigorating further explorations of this complex phenomenon.

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新的私人城市治理：遗迹、风险和知名度


尽管私人城市治理的增长、流行和影响，但探索这些多元和变异形式的亲密运作的学术研究仍然有限。虽然这些私营企业继承了过去的元素，但城市治理的面貌仍然发生了深刻的变化。在过去的几十年里，私人管理企业的全球扩张和影响力重塑了城市的管理、组织和体验方式。本期关于新私人城市治理的特刊研究了全球背景下不断发展的私人治理模式（即商业改善区/地区、公寓/分层公司、封闭式社区、POPS 等）。本期围绕遗迹、风险投资和可见性等相互关联的新主题组织，包括案例研究、长期实证项目的综合以及对这些私人治理领域的政治和空间实践、知识和技术的新理论/概念干预。《遗迹》专注于政治的空间化，反映了这样一种观点，即虽然新自由主义形式的私人城市治理继续激增，但它们依赖于并建立在早期、更多的公共治理实践、逻辑和空间之上，而不是完全取代。Ventures 强调，城市治理的私人和市场导向的推动力在很大程度上取决于价值的保护和榨取，以及城市景观和生活的日益金融化。可见性突出了治理技术如何使私人城市治理可见，并在此过程中突出了空间政治。 这三个主题共同揭示了新的私人城市治理的运作方式，同时激发了对这一复杂现象的进一步探索。