Drawing on insights from contemporary urban theory, this contribution questions where medieval urbanization took place. It is proposed that urbanization is a process which extends beyond towns and cities, which are merely a representation of a more expansive and transformative process. Through discussion of building stone, grain production, salt extraction, woodland management and mineral exploitation, it is argued that medieval urbanization was generative of political ecological relations which challenge prevailing understandings of the rural/urban divide and re-frame urbanization as a metabolic process. The discussion utilizes contemporary concepts of ‘extended urbanization’, ‘urban metabolism’ and ‘political ecology’ to re-frame perceptions of medieval–urban relations and the notion of urban hinterland.

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超越城市腹地。中世纪英格兰的政治生态学、城市新陈代谢和扩展城市化


借鉴当代城市理论的见解，本文对中世纪城市化发生的地方提出了质疑。有人提出，城市化是一个超越城镇的过程，城镇和城市只是一个更广泛和变革过程的代表。通过对建筑石材、粮食生产、盐分开采、林地管理和矿产开采的讨论，人们认为中世纪的城市化是政治生态关系的产物，它挑战了对城乡鸿沟的普遍理解，并将城市化重新构建为一个新陈代谢过程。该讨论利用“扩展城市化”、“城市新陈代谢”和“政治生态学”的当代概念来重新构建对中世纪-城市关系和城市腹地概念的认知。