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As amalgams of the different spatial logics of other places, reassembled by globalization and the fantasies of real estate development, cities today are becoming what Michel Foucault has termed heterotopias. Assemblies of ruins, theme parks, entirely copied towns, simulacra, business districts on a globalized template, reconstructed historic districts, settlements, and ghost towns are finding a new expression in the contemporary world. Nowhere has this been more visible recently than in China, and areas are coming under China’s developmental influence. Copied cities, ghost cities, and large-scale Chinese investments in Africa are heterotopias because they contain the idea of accumulating different times, cultures, and countries within one place, just as a theme park has all these different place experiences in a bounded zone outside of its own time and culture. Ella Raidel has explored these phenomena through film and cinematic virtual reality, and this artist’s book reviews and reflects on the last two decades of her award-winning work. In Ella Raidel’s films, urbanism and architecture, theory, politics, social change, and image production are intertextually presented, opening a discursive space for investigation and commentary. This book will be interesting for art and film practitioners and architecture, film, urbanization, and infrastructure students, especially those who see cinema as a way of exploring these subjects.作为由全球化与房地产开发愿景重塑而成的、融合各地多元空间逻辑的集合体，当今城市正逐渐演变为米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）所称的异托邦（heterotopia）。 废墟群落、主题乐园、复刻城镇、拟像（simulacra）、全球化模板下的商业区、重建历史街区、定居点与鬼城，正于当代世界中呈现出新的存在形态。 近年来，这种趋势在中国及其受中国发展影响力辐射的地区表现得最为显著。 复刻城市、鬼城以及中国在非洲的大规模投资项目均属于异托邦，因其核心特质是在单一空间内汇聚不同时代、文化与国家的元素——正如主题乐园在脱离自身固有时空与文化边界的有限区域内，集齐了各类异地体验。 埃拉·赖德尔（Ella Raidel）以电影与电影虚拟现实（cinematic virtual reality）为媒介对上述现象展开探究，而这本艺术家专著正是对其近二十年来屡获殊荣的创作实践的回顾与反思。 在埃拉·赖德尔的影像作品中，城市主义、建筑学、理论研究、政治议题、社会变革与影像生产以互文性的方式交织呈现，为相关议题的探讨与评论开辟了话语空间。 本书适合艺术与影视从业者，以及建筑学、电影学、城市化研究与基础设施方向的学生阅读，尤其适合那些将电影作为探索上述议题的路径的读者。