碩士 / 臺灣大學 / 建築與城鄉研究所 / 98 / For recent years, owing to the fact that many industrial harbors and cities in western countries are on the decline, many efforts are made to redevelop those harbors and cities by “culture-led regeneration.” Therefore, “place marketing” has become the focus of urban studies, addressing the result of this kind of redevelopment and the effect it has on the local place. In this article, I took Kaohsiung harbor as a case to present the rise, process, and influences of a city/harbor’s redevelopment.
For the past 10 years, due to the main manufacturing industries’ shifting from Taiwan to other developing countries and the improvement of harbor infrastructures in East Asia, especially in China, Kaohsiung harbor has been losing its advantages. Since then, a group mainly consisting of ship operating companies and Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau tried to promote the status of Kaohsiung harbor through privatization, liberalization of harbor facilities, and building more deep-watered ports, from which it gain its profits as well. Meanwhile, another new coalition has risen. The Kaohsiung city government, travel agencies, and real estate companies attempted to build the Kaohsiung harbor into a tourist attraction. Trying to take part in Kaohsiung harbor’s redevelopment, this group came up with a new title: “The Maritime Capital,” through which a sense of local identification can be built and the regimes of the government can be tightened.
Therefore, the agendas brought up by these two parties about how to construct the Kaohsiung harbor conflicted. They contained different agents to compete for resources, and thus performing different outlooks. This article, arranging the events happening in Kaohsiung harbor for the past 10 years, presented how these two coalitions competed for resources and for the right of using the land.
In the end, however, I drew a conclusion: neither of the two agendas has good influence on local residents. First of all, privatization, liberalization of harbor facilities and building deeper seaports did not help Kaohsiung harbor raise its ranking in the world. Instead, these policies made many harbor workers lose their jobs and left local residents’ rights damaged. Secondly, the strategies of tourism-led regeneration did not work as expected. Many civilians noticed the harbor’s landscape has improved, but not the economic performance of Kaohsiung. If Taiwanese government cannot assist traditional manufacturing and heavy industries in Kaohsiung to transform into higher-leveled industries, upgrade Kaohsiung harbor into a value-added harbor, or develop new industries, the declination of Kaohsiung may still be continued.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/098NTU05225011 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Wan-Chun Lin, 林琬純 |
| Contributors | 劉可強 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 132 |
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