Spatial marginalization of and Place-making in Post-WarKa-la̍h-á

• Main Authors: Hui-Chen Hsieh, 謝惠真
• Other Authors: Shu-mei Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/fk83z6

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 106 === In this study, I engage with the theorization of spatializing culture as an analytic tool to discuss not only how the production and the construction of the (Taipei) city marginalize and stigma Ka-la̍h-á, but also how emerging new-type local actions reconstruct locality. Without much concern for the continuous spatial marginalization of Ka-la̍h-á, the government and other non-state actors participate in the regeneration of Ka-la̍h-á through strategies that have intended or unintended effects on place-making, such as endangering the landscape of community business and the everyday life of working class. In this study, the everyday embodiment of three sets of marginalized community business reflects the spatial exclusion of planning system and reveals how labors under the stigma label developed identity broken. Furthermore, those daily labor landscapes provide an alternative culture perspective to reveal the constant negotiation and contradictory cultural and spatial argument, when locality is going to reconstruct narratives and networks in the future. Ka-la̍h-á had experienced rapid urbanization in Post-War, and became a habitat of the under-class immigrants in a passive planning. Because of the lack of care in municipal planning for many years, the infrastructure of Ka-la̍h-á had become relatively backward so it had turned into an urban blight. Until 1970s, from a series of coincidences and power struggles, the government implemented large-scale public infrastructure rapidly in Ka-la̍h-á without a comprehensive plan. Ka-la̍ h-á met the clean and tidy expectation of the modern city, but had gone toward a development of marginalized. The everyday embodiment of local labors magnified the inequity of planning politics. Those labors survived in nooks and evolved flexible sustaining systems, such as waste collecting system, printing industry , and fruit and vegetable processing industry. They use their body and flexible spatial strategies to make profits, also maintain the social relationship and support the operation of production throughout the city. The view of embodied space reflects that mainstream always positioning Ka-la̍h-á as an urban service role, and eliminating its local fabric through various spatial policies, making the sense of place lose its material spatial attachment and become fragmented. Also the mainstream keeps stigmalizing the industries and environments there, and make people in Ka-la̍h-á in a dilemma of the identity of place. Recently, new-type of local actions not only reconstructed the path of narratives of place, but also the networks of society. Narratives of the place have reversed the narratives of stigma, giving Ka-la̍ h-á a new identity of subjectivity and let the local youths resolve the previous contradiction with their hometown. The reconstructing social networks emphasizes that people help each other and benefit each other. Local people take care of locality, forming a new local sustaining system. It also takes care of the marginalized community business labors indirectly. That is the marginal place became a base of actors to develop a new identity and innovate new social models. In a hope of a more inclusive local society, these actors can’t have further discussion of the issue of spatial exclusion encountered by those businesses. Especially, Zhong-zheng Wan-hua Revival Project, which is initiating recently, attempts to landscapelize place and drives real estate developments. It threats those businesses and the sustaining system of those labors in urban life. Neither the planning system nowadays be carried out with bottom-up participation, nor develops an urban regeneration with social sustainability. This study, however, is not to attempt to romanticize those marginalized community businesses. Though those businesses and the sustaining systems support the place, the negative externality and impression from production processing is a fact with no doubt. Therefore, it becomes an unspeakable and ambiguous situation in the planning of local construction or culture discussion. Similarly, this study is not opposed to urban regeneration, but it reflects the limit of planning and considers how to have a more inclusive planning by the revelation of this kind of local culture and social reality.