| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 96 === In recent years, as citizens’ environmental awareness and the degree of participating in public affairs are gradually increasing, it’s not only to raise the publicity of riverside as a public space, but also to pour new possibilities into citizen-participatory planning and management of riverside.This research is a case study of Yonghe Community University’s Ecological Education Center nearby Xindian River. In-depth interview and participant observation are adopted to organize and analyze the idea and process, operation and management, predicament and challenge, activities to expand public participation, and to discover long-term participants’ motives, changing, feelings, and reflections about their experiences and about the management team.
Yonghe Community University devotes its efforts to three aspects, including the conservation of nature and bio-diversity, student self-realization and taking part in public affairs, and creation of an ecological community. These three aspects mutually support each other and form a dynamic circle. In this circle, the staff, teachers and students accumulate experience-knowledge, ruminate and revise again and again by doing, learning and discussing. These three aspects proceed to develop the ecological and public value of urban riverside. For users, because they have participated for a long time and interacted with nature and land more intimately, they developed a deep attachment and a willingness to proclaim for environmental values.
This research concludes that by means of organization-management and the construction of intellectual capital, social capital and political capital, Yonghe Community University not only overcame many predicaments to establish and manage this site but also re-established the public value of urban riverside. This case is different from the mechanism of simply maintaining the riverside clean or the government entrusting NGOs to manage wet land. It provides a self-initiated mechanism which brought together the public and the private resources to apply for land-use permission. This research regards that the collaborating local NGO, the professionals and the public in establishing a partnership may help expand and promote citizen-participation in the governance of riverside environment.
|
|---|
