After the sky lantern took off - reconstructing the landscape narrative of Jing-tong

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Ting Kao, 高筱婷
• Other Authors: Min-Jay Kang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/664nkb

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 105 === The stations on the Pingxi Line were built in demand of coal mining during Japanese rule, and Jingtong, where the terminal station of the Pingxi Line locates, used to be an essential coal mining town in Taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s, boasting the largest and most productive mining area at that time. Thereafter, with the decline of the mining industry in tandem with its socioeconomic recession, Jingtong has transformed into a tourist attraction to boost its economic development by utilizing the image of “sky lanterns” as the strategy of cultural governance in recent years. So incompatible is the forced heterogeneous symbol as to outshine its own historical traces, leading to the inauthenticity in the narrative records of the local literature and history; even more, the recently-built police precinct at the entrance of Jington Old Street has been renovated to look like a sky lantern as the design concept, such architectural design vocabulary further extending several conflicts from different perspectives, all resulting from the perception gaps in Jingtong’s surroundings and historical context. This study, from cultural landscapes and in a narrative way to describe Jingtong, mainly discusses the landscapes of Jingtong Pit as well as the developmental background and the cultural characteristics of Pingxi District. Born in Jingtong, I have to remind myself of always being in the stance of reflective criticism to observe how the official and mainstream planning conception negotiated different interests, utilized the design discourse of cultural heritage preservation, and generated such kitsch local characteristics and introspect how many neglected narratives has been excluded in the mainstream writing, planning and decision-making nowadays. In an attempt to reconstruct the text of Jingtong, in combination with my own life experience, and in the writing way of autoethnography, the dissertation discusses the inter-construction between the space narrative planning and the daily life experience.