評《公園設計的政治學：美國都市公園史》

A Review of "the Politics of Park Design: A History of Uran Parks in America"

蔡厚男(Hou-Nan Tsai)

《國立台灣大學建築與城鄉研究學報》 3期 (1987/09) Pp. 209-216

https://doi.org/10.6154/JBP.1987.3.011

摘要

哥蘭•葛蕾芝(Galen Cranz)所撰的《公園設計的政治學：美國都市公園史》對充斥烏托邦主義(Utopianism)與技術實用主義(Technical Pragmatism)氣氛的傳統專業論述，無疑地敞開了一條新出路。關於本文評述的進路，首先闡述了六○及七○年代的專業論述所面臨的種種困境；其次，對葛蕾芝的著作加以解釋與剖析，並指出其所置疑的重點乃是都市公園運動的意識形態；最後，則經血與其「意識形態」的理論觀點之對話，解開葛蕾芝的著作在認識論上的預設與方法論上的界定，並且肯定其在學術研究上的超越。同時，當吾人直接引用其理論基礎從事本土的經驗研究時，亦提出了中心與邊際國家之間可能發生的罅隙。

並列摘要

Galen Cranz's work entitled ”The Politics of park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America” provides a new approach to the traditional discourse of profession which is dominated by utopianism and technical pragmatism Concerning the progress of this critique, the article describes the dilemma encountered by the traditional discourse of profession darning the past two decades firstly Secondly, deciphering and analyzing Cranz's work and indicating that the major range of focus in her book is the ideology of urban park movement in America. Finally, by way of making a dialogue with Cranz's theoretical viewpoint on ”ideology” the article examines both the epistemological presumption and methodological framework and affirms her theoretical transcendence in this book Meanwhile, when we engage in indigeneous empirical survey and practice directively on the theoretical basis of Cranz's work it also proposes the possible gaps between the central and the peripheral countries