從淡水老街一帶的「慢活」看都會區生活型態需求

From the Slow Living Side to Look at the Urban Lifestyle Needed: A Case Study around the Tamsui Old Street Area

「慢活」是一種藉由正確速度來達到促進身心平衡的一種正向生活型態。而台灣自2005年後出現大量和「慢活」有關的活動、字眼和現象，於此我們不難想見一般社會大眾對於「慢」的想見、需求和渴望。近年，自1997年台北捷運淡水線通車後，再輔以2001年後全面開放週休二日，直接也間接衝擊到淡水老街一帶的觀光品質。不過，一直以來在諸多都市計畫、觀光及公共政策等領域的文章中，對於淡水老街周遭一帶的探討大多著墨於遊客的滿意度、舒適度及觀光發展等面向探討，卻較少深入分析探討，為何淡水如此地吸引人，本文在研究中試著以「慢活」的角度，來探究說明淡水老街周遭一帶，為何會吸引一些想要放慢腳步的人來此休憩、澄靜甚而定居或棲居下來，同時在研究中也試著以參與觀察並藉由滾雪球的方式及與符合研究者定義中的「慢活」受訪者進行深度訪談，並藉由段義孚的逃避主義來說明「淡水，真的讓我慢下來了！」的可能。同時藉由訪談分析內容來著墨都會區生活型態需求的可能。而本文也希冀藉由如此探討來展開對於「慢活」討論的可能起點，並也希冀可以為人、地及城市或健康等社群領域，提供另一個可能的思考面向。

“Slow-living” is a kind of positive living style for living with the “normal” speed to get the balance between bodies and minds. In Taiwan, since 2005, the word, “slow-living”, related to a lot of recreation activities and commercial advertisements. Thus, we could not hard to image that people’s needs and demanding. This decade, following the line of MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) opened to Tamsui in 1997 and the policy of “two-day weekend” was implemented in 2001, a serious tourism impact brought into the Tamsui Old Street area. Therefore, a lot of papers and the researches, within urban planning, tourism and public policy field, dedicated to the contribution to the Tamsui tourism development and the satisfaction or the comfortable degree about the Tamsui recreation facilities. But not many papers and researches dedicated the contribution to how these scenic attractions influence people’s bodies and minds. Here, we tried to apply the “slow-living” and Yi-Fu Tuan’s “Escapism” to discuss how these attractions affect the people, who always do the slowing living exercise, here. Also, we would explain how these people slow their pace down in this area. Further, we would contribute this discussion to the urban lifestyle needed. Snowball Sampling, Participation Observation and In-depth interviews discussion would be involved in this paper. Hopefully, this paper could dedicate to the very beginning discussion about the “slow-living” and could be a new, possible thinking for the city, health, and human and environment researches.