鐵道和港口交通建設在日治時期促進了高雄市哈瑪星一帶的聚落發展，也成了近年高雄市都市藍圖裡的要素。碼頭邊的水岸休閒空間、舊車站改裝的鐵道故事館與公園等，皆透過實體建築強調交通流動與現代都會，藉此建立高雄在臺灣經濟發展的地位，和成為未來商業與文化連結點的可能性。然而，這些發展也產生了交通混亂及鐵道和老街廓的保存抗爭，保存團體同樣援引交通建設與全球連結的歷史元素，重塑街區生活樣貌，並企圖藉由街道市集、步行導覽、戶外電影放映等緩慢的移動方式，吸引不同的人進入街區。本文企圖拆解殖民建設下的交通設施與街道空間如何形塑哈瑪星的歷史，又如何被援引、詮釋、使用，在種種敘事與行動中被（再）賦與意義

The seaside neighborhood of Hámásing materialized from the construction of Kaohsiung Harbor in the 1900s and declined as the city’s transportation center moved eastward and inland. With the inauguration of a rapid transit system in 2009 and the redevelopment of the coastal region for commerce and tourism in recent years, it reemerged and metamorphosed into a tourist destination. As the city government moves ahead with the new transport network and developing tourism, local organizations center their arguments for a more inclusive city on the preservation of railway facilities and reclaiming neighborhood streets via a number of new activities. By considering on one hand the redevelopment of the waterfront by a city government trying to rebrand Kaohsiung as a global capital and secure popular support, and on the other, local efforts to preserve a train station from the Japanese colonial period and other actions taken to (re)claim city streets, this article examines how a cityscape designed for capital flow and political control is reinvented and reinterpreted by its residents as the Hámásing neighborhood is squeezed in the city’s post-industrial transformation.