Living Room in the Six MetersWide Lane

This paper startsfrom rethinking the daily life of kids to the urbanismauthority. In recent ten years, the school-walkway projects in Taipei have re-valued the exchanging price of the old apartments built in the 1960s. The turn-key is the spatial quality of the lane along the campus. People wonder how parking, dining, and walkway for kids in the lane shape the middle-class community in Taipei. There is a critical issue of making urban ‘habitable’ by capitalizing the rule of time and space. The matter of the living spacereflects the critique of everyday life, especially the playtime to childhood. In the main part of the argument: how the walkway project starts the political intervention of neighborhood life. It is releasing the edge of the school to the urban function, remodelling the one way street to the community, and re-building the order of the lane space. I would like to re-test the planning of the school walkway to redevelop modern community by the corporation within Construction and Planning Agency and Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Education, elementary schools and the neighbor communities in Taipei since 2003. In the other vision, the capitalism of kids’ ground designs the geographicidentity and social difference to the habitability of urbanism.By the side of the argument, I would like toresponse how thespatial relationship of production betweenthe childhood and the neighborhoods. Representing the middle-class family living in Taipei through the transformation in-between two moviesdirected by Edward Yang:‘A Brighter Summer Day’(1991)and ‘AOne and A Two’ (2000). In the movies, the broken urban experience grounds the social group of kidsin the lane and to representthe class-struggle under the urbanism.