Urban scholars have long engaged with the role of culture in cities. Tracing this debate, this article outlines the evolutions of culture as an object of study in inquiries on the urban and wishes to trouble two persisting trends in this literature. The first is a geographical and theoretical Eurocentric vision of culture, often framing cities beyond the West as exceptions or needing validation through a comparison with a Western case or theoretical model; the second is an economistic vision of culture under neoliberalism, neglecting the political and ideological dimensions of culture. As a step in overcoming these limitations, this article builds around the notion of ‘re-learning’, to re-insert memory, informality and conflicting heritage into the debate on culture in cities. Drawing on an ethnography of the street ‘Avenida 26’ in Bogotá, Colombia, the article shows that informal cultural practices in the middle of segregation and urban violence can hardly be grasped through the current framing of culture in cities. Yet, they invite an opening up of such a framing to include different ways to cohabit and navigate space through everyday minor engagements. These multifaceted cultural realities urge us to ‘re-learn’ culture in cities anywhere and advance theorisation on culture that takes non-Western urban spaces seriously.

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重新学习西方以外城市的文化

城市学者长期以来一直致力于研究文化在城市中的作用。追踪这场争论，本文概述了文化的演变作为城市调查的研究对象，并希望解决该文献中两个持续存在的趋势。第一个是地理和理论上以欧洲为中心的文化视野，通常将西方以外的城市视为例外，或需要通过与西方案例或理论模型的比较来验证；第二种是新自由主义下的经济文化观，忽视了文化的政治和意识形态层面。作为克服这些局限性的一步，本文围绕“重新学习”的概念，将记忆、非正式性和相互冲突的遗产重新插入有关城市文化的辩论中。文章借鉴了哥伦比亚波哥大“Avenida 26”街道的民族志，表明隔离和城市暴力中的非正式文化习俗很难通过当前的城市文化框架来理解。然而，他们邀请开放这样一个框架，以包括通过日常琐碎的交往来共存和驾驭空间的不同方式。这些多方面的文化现实促使我们“重新学习”任何地方城市的文化，并推进认真对待非西方城市空间的文化理论。