英文摘要 |
Cultural creativity-led regeneration has been adopted in regenerating ‘declining’ cities or neighborhoods worldwide. As is widely anticipated, the emergence of a ‘new’ cultural and creative economy can help to reshape local communities, their living spaces and cultural images, as well as effectively respond to cities’ post-industrial transformation of production and consumption. This concept and related regeneration agenda is based on the policy discourses or experiences from a few cities of ‘global north’ that appear to represent a cosmopolitan rationality or a new governing paradigm. However, exactly how this concept and related discourses influence the local regeneration policy, urban governance and governmentality has seldom been addressed in the literature. In particular, empirical studies of cases of global south (or non-western) cities are still lacking. Therefore, this study explores a ’model’ case of cultural creativity-led regeneration in the Dihua neighborhood of Taipei, Taiwan. It deconstructs the government’s ‘soft urbanism’ regeneration agenda that aims to activate creative and local community for developing a local cultural field, creative milieu, and creative neighborhoods in Taipei. Agenda-related issues of the ‘political rationality’ of governmentality, local practices, cultural and social exclusion are discussed as well. |