This paper explores Toronto’s urban PATH, a 30 km network of underground pedestrian tunnels and elevated walkways that connect shopping areas, residential towers, mass transit and downtown destinations. Both as a case and heuristic, this paper situates Toronto’s PATH as an assemblage of private urban governance forms, exploring emergent and evolving constellations of power and responsibility for governing city space that defy easy distinctions of ‘public’ or ‘private’. As an urban assemblage, the PATH comprises potential and actual entities and associations, and is an accumulation of encounters. Never a stable or static entity, the PATH and its governance, we argue, is provisional, revealing constantly evolving connections, alignments and political-economic potentialities. We contend the PATH serves as a palimpsest of mutating governing relations; a multiplicity of meanings, visions and encounters etched into the built environment. By focusing on public and private vestiges, wayfinding, and visibility, and private verticalising ventures, we highlight how practices, logics, processes, urban actors and their histories collide to form fragile, provisional urban alignments and visions.

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走过多伦多的道路：整合私人城市治理

本文探讨了多伦多的城市 PATH，这是一个由地下人行隧道和高架走道组成的 30 公里网络，连接购物区、住宅楼、公共交通和市中心目的地。作为案例和启发，本文将多伦多的 PATH 视为私人城市治理形式的集合，探讨了管理城市空间的新兴和不断演变的权力和责任组合，这些权力和责任挑战了“公共”或“私人”的简单区分。作为一个城市组合，路径由潜在的和实际的实体和关联组成，是遭遇的积累。我们认为，路径及其治理从来不是一个稳定或静态的实体，而是临时的，揭示了不断变化的联系、联盟和政治经济潜力。我们认为路径是变异治理关系的重写本；多种意义、愿景和遭遇铭刻在建筑环境中。通过关注公共和私人遗迹、寻路和可见性以及私人垂直化企业，我们强调实践、逻辑、流程、城市参与者及其历史如何相互碰撞，形成脆弱的、临时的城市布局和愿景。