對一個城市形式與城市設計理論的認識論上之批判：開文•林區及其知識上之同道

An Epistemological Critique of a Theory of City Form and City Design: Kevin Lynch and His Intellectual Associates

夏鑄九(Chu-Joe Hsia)

《國立台灣大學建築與城鄉研究學報》 3期 (1987/09) Pp. 119-131

https://doi.org/10.6154/JBP.1987.3.004

摘要

本文將開文•林區及其知識上的同道對城市形式與城市設計的取同看作當前城市規劃論述的重要代表之一來提出一認識論上的批判。本文檢視其論述之疑旨、認識論上的預設，其所表白的與其沈默無言之處等等作爲一吾人理論建構工作的基礎。首先，將林區方法之發展與形成放回其歷史與社會的脈絡組織之中作一回顧：然後，就其論述實體本身，就營造形式、形式與脈絡組織之關係、應用等三方面加以闡述。第一部分包括了主體與客體的關係、形式與價值的關係兩節；第二部分包括了文化的脈絡組織與形式、社會關係與形式兩節；第三部分則以城市設計、城市模型與原型來說明其在規劃與設計方面的應用。最後，提出一認識論的批判作爲總結，由檢視林區之方法論預設、處於一定境地中的環境意象、人道主義的價值等三方面，分析林區之論述作爲一社會福利國家中支配意識形態的相對體之實際運作情況與理論上的弱點。

並列摘要

This essay is an epistemological critique of Kevin Lynch and his intellectual associates approach to city form and city design as one of the theoretical models in the current discourse of city planning The critique examines the problematic of Lynchian discursive practice its epistemological presupposition its absence and presence as the base s of our theoretical context Then we elaborate upon the substance of its theoretical discourse in three different aspects to see how Lynch dealt with these issues the built form, form context relationship, and application Finally, to conclude this epistemological review, a social critique of Lynch s perspective of city form concentrates on three methodological problems of his intellectual origins of humanism and empiricism (1) methodological presupposition (2) situated environmental image and (3) value of humanism Functioning as a counterpart to the dominant ideology in the social weflare state, the operation of Lynch's perspective in reality and its theoretical weakness need to be exposed