英文摘要 |
The seaside neighborhood of Hámásing materialized from the construction of Kaohsiung Harbor in the 1900s and declined as the city's transportation center moved eastward and inland. With the inauguration of a rapid transit system in 2009 and the redevelopment of the coastal region for commerce and tourism in recent years, it reemerged and metamorphosed into a tourist destination. As the city government moves ahead with the new transport network and developing tourism, local organizations center their arguments for a more inclusive city on the preservation of railway facilities and reclaiming neighborhood streets via a number of new activities. By considering on one hand the redevelopment of the waterfront by a city government trying to rebrand Kaohsiung as a global capital and secure popular support, and on the other, local efforts to preserve a train station from the Japanese colonial period and other actions taken to (re)claim city streets, this article examines how a cityscape designed for capital flow and political control is reinvented and reinterpreted by its residents as the Hámásing neighborhood is squeezed in the city's post-industrial transformation. |