面對全球化的去領土化挑戰,回應並治理日益激化的城際競爭成為當前都市發展必須面對的重要任務。都市為了強化其在城際競爭過程中的在地優勢,以獲取流動的資本於地方發展上進行空間定著,一方面透過都市企業主義來鬆綁計畫發展管制的制約以爭取回應時空壓縮的量能,另一方面則是強調地方形象的重新塑造來突顯地方特質。就後者而言,重點要項之一就是透過重整地方永續性來建構地方特性;同時,並以開創可居環境品質作為地區行銷的提法來結合前者的空間治理策略,形成「永續性定著」的治理。然而,儘管強調環境與經濟的結合,由於概念上源自於新自由主義地理學的空間競爭特性,透過城際競爭與都市企業主義的交互操弄,促使都市治理過程中追求永續性定著在本質上隱含了空間與社會極化的潛在危機。當這種治理過程被擴大到都市區域的層級來檢視的時候,城市應當更謹慎地去解讀其中反被低估的危機。本文以南臺灣高高屏都市區域作為分析的個案,以該都市區域的治理背景及其提出的地方永續發展行動計畫進行制度檢視,並反思其缺失。
Facing the deterritoralizing challenge of globalization, it is the critical task for urban development that cities have to respond to and govern the increasingly intensive intercity competition. In order to improve the local advantage in the process of intercity competition and embed the mobile capital flows into a given area for development, on the one hand, municipality tries to deregulate the planning and regulation restriction to intensify the capacity for replying time-space compression; on the other, to emphasize the remaking of place image to be an attractive locality. For the latter, one of its main issues is to reconstruct locality through remaking the local sustainability; to create livable environment quality as the symbolic narrative of place marketing to combine the former strategies of spatial governance, which will form the governance of 'sustainability fix'. Despite highlighting the linkage between economy and environment, however, owing to the concept originated from the spatial competition under the geography of neoliberalism, it renders that, through the inter-manipulation between urban entreprenurialism and intercity competition, the process of urban governance pursuing sustainability fixity inevitably faces the implicit crisis of spatial and social polarization. When examining the crisis in a larger urban-region scale, cities should more deliberately perceive the misunderestimated crisis. In the paper, I try to take the KKP urban-region in southern Taiwan as a case study, to examine its governance context and LA 21 action project and to explore its defects.