戰後臺灣的城市建築保存與公共領域

Conservation of City Architecture and Public Sphere in the Postwar Taiwan

城市建築的本質擁有“janus” 雙面性格，一半的公共性與一半的私密性。對內的私密性屬於個人，對外的公共性需要接受集體規範，它是屬於都市空間的一部份，因此建築與都市無法切割討論，古蹟保存與城市保存是一體的兩面。因為歷史建築是一種公眾的文化遺產，它代表著社會的集體記憶，不論公有或私有古蹟都擁有其社會意義，無法不面對建構公共領域的問題。本文企圖從「公共領域」（public sphere）的角度探討戰後台灣城市建築的保存運動。

City architecture has the ‘janus’ character of semi-publicity and semi-privacy. The internal privacy belongs to the individual whilst the external publicity needs to comply with an accepted code of conduct, which is also the partial urban space of the city. In this sense the study of architecture and the city cannot be separated. Sometimes historical building owns more publicity and collective memory and can be considered as the public domain of the city, monument can help forming public sphere. This essay focuses therefore on conservation movements in the cities of postwar Taiwan from the point of view of this assumed ‘public sphere’.