英文摘要 |
The article explores establishment, functions and meanings of the constructed wetlands along the Dahan River, which were built as infrastructure of waste water treatment in the New Taipei City. The authors depict the historical changes of sewage system building in Taipei metropolitan area, attempting to point out the structural forces leading to the ‘infrastructuring’ of constructed wetland: (1) The long-term lack of a well-equipped wastewater treatment system in the Dahan river region. (2) The environmental groups’ advocacy for wetland’s ecological service of purifying and revaluing river to support environmentalism. (3) The agenda of urban waterfront redevelopment has stimulated waterfront landscaping, as well as real estate booms. As a result, the ‘infrastructuring’ of constructed wetlands along the Dahan River just demonstrated an ‘unfinished’ modernity of sanitation, which has been articulated with environmentalism and the trend of waterfront redevelopment since the 1990s. During such process, the constructed wetlands, as a ‘reparative’ waste water treatment, were converted into ‘appropriate’ green infrastructure. However, the deployment of the constructed wetlands embodies uneven development of infrastructure, veiling the basic problems of urban development with ecological images. |