原址本真性或襲產基礎設施化？臺北市道路建設與歷史保存爭議辨析

Original-Site Authenticity or Heritage Infrastructuring? Case Studies of Road Construction and Historic Preservation Controversies in Taipei

本文從基礎設施部署的視角，檢視歷史保存與道路建設的爭議。作者將歷史保存視為體現不同都市意義及發展策略的另類基礎設施化，反思強調原址與歷史本真性之保存策略的侷限，藉此開展基礎設施政治的視野。作者討論臺北市林安泰古厝、迪化街、新北投車站及三井倉庫等，涉及道路闢建與原址保存爭議的案例，主張它們體現了都市治理從以開路為發展先鋒，到納入歷史作為空間調節機制的策略轉變。但是，歷史文化通常還是扮演配角，易地重組式的標本化保存往往是官方底線。保存陣營強調歷史記憶應錨定於原址、原建築形制及原材料之物質性，卻難以跟道路基礎設施化的僵固性抗衡。作者主張，保存政治或可跨出對於原址的執守，著眼於文化的參與式基礎設施部署，令文化成為生活支持網絡的關鍵環節，並藉此追尋替代性的都市意義。

This paper examines the controversies between historic preservation and road construction through the perspective of infrastructure deployment. Iregard historic preservation as the embodiment of variegated urban meanings and developmental strategies in terms of their alternative infrastructuralization. The preservation strategies which prioritize the original site and historic authenticity are limited in the face of road construction, and a vision of infrastructural politics is needed. Through the discussion of four cases, including Lin An Tai Historical House, Dihua Street, the New Beitou Station, and the Mitsui Bussan Warehouse, the paper shows how they epitomize the strategic shift of the urban governance of Taipei that first forwarded development through road expansion but later incorporated historicity as a mechanism of spatial regulation. Still, history and culture often only play a minor part in urban governance. As the authorities would not sacrifice road developments for preservation, they usually propose relocation and re-assemblage of the historic buildings as the preservation bottom line. Activists advocating for preservation however insist that historicity should be anchored at the original site, and be renovated in the same form as the original ones and with the same materials, a proposition that finds it weak to resist the infrastructuralized obduracy of the road. It is therefore argued that preservation politics should not insist on preserving cultural heritage on the original site, but may take the deployment of the participatory infrastructure of culture into account. This is for culture to enter the supporting network for everyday life and become the key moment, from which we might expect to seek the alternatives of urban meanings.