Boundary Work and Crossing Between the Core and the Periphery of Mimic Global City- Case Study of Xinyi Planning District and Keelung Road Resettlement Community in Taipei City
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Wang, Chien-Ying
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
This research focuses on Taipei, a mimic global city which takes place in real world, but not in the global city paradigm of Sassen and Friedmann’s. They are the local imagination and response of the global cities. By taking a closer look at how this new city form has been imagined, perceived, conceived, and interacted with, in order to deliver the spatial and social perspectives which are over-simplified in the big scale and grand narratives of political economy. Through adopting boundary work as a tool for analysis, the research not only shows a more dynamic and delicate picture of mutual construction between spatial boundary and social boundary, but also a process of constantly sorting, drawing boundaries, communicating and negotiating.
I observed how Xinyi Planning District, also known as “Taipei Manhattan”, the symbol of mimic global Taipei, through the rhetoric of boundary making and discourse of urban renewal, renegotiate its boundary with Keelung Road Resettlement Community across the road. I divided the research findings into two parts. The first dealt with how the outer-skirt urban slum has been excluded and re-included through the rhetoric of boundary work. The second part focused on how residents from the slums responded to, crossed through, or renegotiated with the mainstream boundary and category.
First, in the process of the constructing institutional spatial boundary and symbolic boundary, the mainstream society also developed a rhetoric filled with the ideological prejudice of self-centered western modernity. This rhetoric of boundary drawing works to legitimize the concentrated distribution of resource and unfair power relation implied by the Manhattan plan. Furthermore, it also stigmatized and excluded Keelung Road Resettlement Community, in order to legitimize its renewal plan, which plans to integrate “the other” into the core of global city by assimilation of landscape, as well as gentrification of lived space. The rebuild is, in fact, an act of expanding the territory of global city by pushing back the boundary towards the old city.
Secondly, although for the residents of Keelung Road Resettlement Community, their agency is limited to unequal power and resources, they also possess the power to renegotiate the mainstream boundary and value in everyday life. In situations of interaction, the residents can still utilize some strategies to create space for renegotiation of the labeled passive images. In the domain of work, agents in different jobs or institutions are controlled by different restrictions, while each of them also holds different resource and opportunities to develop various strategies to cross the social-spatial boundary.
Subjects
擬全球城市
空間界線
信義計畫區
基隆路整建住宅
mimic global city
boundary work
Xinyi Planning District
Keelung Road Resettelemt Community
SDGs
Type
thesis
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