「陽明山」這一作民眾普遍認知的「台北後花園」,是一處含有多種文化意涵的空間,而這些意涵的發生與每個時期的台灣發展的社會背景息息相關。坐落於陽明山的山仔后美軍宿舍群,不論在形成的原因和發展過程也與台灣的社會脈絡相互呼應著。Michel Foucault在對於空間的探討中提到「人的位所(emplacement)這一重要問題不只是釐清對這個世界上的人來說是否將有足夠的空間,而且要釐清如下問題,在人類各種要素中,何種鄰近關係,何種類型的儲存、循環、辨識和分類系統將被優先保留在某種情境之中,以便獲得其結果。」(1984)。筆者在本文中針對山仔后美軍宿舍群的分析,以探究此地區的空間意涵隨著歷史轉化下的變遷過程,並探討空間變遷與社會變遷的關連性,以及藉由針對於台銀將此地區進行標售而來的民間團體的保存運動,進一步討論此特殊空間對於一般民眾從閉鎖轉向開放的過程,也藉此展現出公民權在文化歷史空間上的伸展。
Yangmingshan, the well-known backyard in Taipei, is a space having diverse cultural connotation. The occurrences of connotation are closely related to social background of the development of Taiwan in each period. Whatever the reason built up the Shan-Zhai-Hou Communal dorm for American army in Yangmingshan, its developing process corresponds with Taiwan social context. Michel Foucault said in the space investigation, “The important question, emplacement, clarifies not only whether people have enough space to live in the world but the following questions— among the human factors, to obtain the good result, we need to put the neighborhood and the systems of storing, circulation, recognition and division into the consideration and decide which one is our first priority to remain in the space in the certain circumstance (1984) .” The author will take the Shan-Zhai-Hou Communal dorm for American army in Yangmingshan as an example to investigate the development and changes of cultural connotation in this district as time went by and its correlation between the space change and social change. Other than that, we will further take the citizen preservation movement local organization did to keep Bank of Taiwan from buying this district as an example to discuss the process this special space has bee through from close to open up for people and show the extension of citizenship in the historic heritages as well.