本研究依循空間與社會的觀點，分析闡述淡水捷運站公共空間為街舞青少年族群所挪用時，所產生的社會排除與協商議題。分別由「淡水捷運站的公共性」、「淡水青少年街舞空間的建構」和「淡水街舞空間的排除與協商」面向，審視公共空間使用型態的多元樣貌，並了解在面對社會族群之一的街舞青少年時，是否享有同於其他成人使用者的權利待遇。以及，了解青少年藉由街舞活動之日常實踐行為，從中建立青少年族群對自我的認同。最後，藉由梳理青少年再造的街舞空間型態，剖析「成人化的」街舞空間如何被使用者改造，達到喚醒社會重視青少年空間的目的。本研究使用之研究方法為觀察法、問卷調查法與深入訪談法，並且以淡水捷運站使用公共空間的行人、街舞青少年、捷運站管理者等為研究參與對象。希望了解公共空間中因為身分、年齡、性別等社會差異，所產生自我與他人的認同與排斥機制。若能賦予青少年表達使用需求的管道，並規劃不同群體間相互尊重的協調機制，公共空間的公共性才得以提升。最後，藉由中西文獻與本研究實質經驗之對話，進而提出符合多元使用的公共空間願景，並冀期對於推動國內青少年地理學的研究發展作出初步的貢獻。
This study adopts the perspective of the mutual construction of space and society. It explores the issues of social exclusion and negotiation in the public space at Tamsui MRT station. More specifically, this research aims to understand the ways in which young people produce and transform the public space into street dance place. The discussion in this research is divided into three main sections, which are ‘the publicity of Tamsui MRT station’, ‘construction of young people’s street dance place in Tamsui’, and ‘exclusion and negotiation of Tamsui street dance place’. Firstly, to survey multiple usages of public space and understand whether young street dancers as one of the social groups could have the same right to use the public space as adult users do. Secondly, to understand the ways in which young people construct their identities through the daily practices of street dance. Finally, to explore how the ‘adultized’ public space is reproduced by young street dancers. By doing this, this research emphasizes that the society needs to pay more attention to young people’s need of space. The methods adopted in the study are observation, questionnaire survey and in-depth interview. The participants include pedestrians, street dance young people and MRT managers of the Tamsui MRT station. These methods are used to investigate the ways in which the social differences of social roles, age, and gender create the mechanism of inclusion and exclusion between the self and the other. The research findings suggest that the publicity of public space can be improved if young people have opportunities to express their needs. A mechanism to negotiate opinions among different social groups as users of the public space is also needed. By reviewing English and Chinese literature on public space, and carrying out the empirical research, this study explores the meanings and the process of (re)producing public spaces in Taiwanese context. Also, this research contributes to promoting the development of young people’s geographies in Taiwan.
