The Urban Dialectics in Globalizing Taipei: The Construction of the Spectacle and The Production of An Alternative Project
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Chiu, Yung-Teen
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The dissertation revisits Metromarxists such as Lefebvre, Production of Space; Benjamin’s dialectical seeing and Debord’s theorization of Spectacle- in speculating the emerging globalizing consumption space of Taipei. Through urban readings of the four malls newly constructed after the millennium, the research attempts to theorize Taipei as emerging postmodern capitalist city in the construction of the ‘appearance’ , by creating one spectacular global mega-project based mainly on the spatial imagination of the Modernity, bourgeois lifestyles, and Globalization, yet only to disguise the disappearance of civil society. Unmasked by city’s urban design process which become an arena of the contested site for cultural meanings in the old paper mills factory –turned shopping mall redevelopment project: questioning who has the right to design public space of the city and who has right to interpret urban memory. Through cultural representation of space between the old paper mills workers and architect/capitalist in which the worker’s alternative project of representational spaces comprising of collective memories and identities rise above the capitalistic symbolic capital and redefine Taipei as work of art.
By critical reading of malls, the malling of Taipei has manifested the globalization in spatial transformation which made the social polarization ever so apparent. This appearance is based on the hidden relaxation of local urban planning policy, professional’s regressive attitude as well as the passé imagination toward spatial form of architectural spectacles. The outside-in experience has allowed such tabular rasa the unique rhythm of Taipei rather than exception. The inside-out reading has allow one to see the forces of global luxury brand boutique became Taipei bourgeois’s imaginable ‘home’—a phantasmorphia which is under subjugating and homogenizing power . The Urban dialectics between the tradition/modern, culture/capital, private/public, preservation/development and finally the subjectivity/dulcification which can be read vividly in the ‘malling of Taipei’ is ultimately an issue of class struggle over space in consumer society.
The research, based on the myrid methodologies such as textual analysis, and participatory observation find the Taipei Globalization Project , through the spatial transformation has brought Taipei not in the direction of the progress where global/Pacific Rim economic competitiveness is ever so illusive, but rather in malling the city –increasingly commodified, in which public space has become privatized and gentrified. Through the shopping mall redevelopment where people’s stories could be heard in the private project and the participatory design process not only present worker’s memories but also represent the collective work of art: ‘Taipei’ can be created, by transforming the capitalist mode of production and pointing the new design alternative project for Taipei as the emerging socially just global-city.
Subjects
全球化
奇觀
購物中心
空間生產
建築設計
布爾喬亞
集體記憶
Globalization
Spectacle
Malling
Production of Space
Cultural Representation of Space
Bourgeois
Collective Memories
Type
thesis
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