| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 地理學系 === 96 === Since the Japanese governance, Ping-tung City went through various urban planning, designed to provide good development for the city. Under the influence of formalism, the citizens’ privilege of using the park land reserved for public facility has been restricted for seventy years. More than forty reserved park areas in the urban planning are left undeveloped. Behind the phenomenon are problems from the previous regime’s plans, revision of law for city planning, the planner’s idealism, the local government’s popularism, the pressure of city expansion, and the inadequacy of the central and local finance.
In 1907, sugar factories attracted migrant population, and the growing populace activated the downtown correction plan for the first time during the Japanese era. The sugar factories had pushed the economic growth till the 1950’s. However, with degrading economic competition, Taiwan Sugar Corporation began transforming. It then established pulp factories at the same area, but the establishment contradicted the national planning, in which Ping-Tung County was considered important agricultural area. With the expansion of the city, the sugar finery plants became obstacles of city development. Conflicts of interests prohibited a finalized plan for the land development.
In Japanese colonial era, police aviation to intimidate the aboriginals and later for colonial government’s security and southward policy, two airports were constructed in Ping-tung city. The aviation control zone of airports regulated and limited civilian buildings development. This led to the underdevelopment of the central Ping-tung city, including its CBD. Problems such as poverty, crime, and public security existed in such marginalized area.
In conclusion, throughtout urbanization process, the city space did not develop relatively homogenously due to three major forces: urban planning, sugar finery establishment and aviation infrastructure. The study tries to lay out the structural power forming Ping-tung city’s marginalized space through the trialectics of historicality, sociality, and spatiality.
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