本研究提出了一個辯證的框架，用來重新審視日治時期的市中心城市規劃，並重新思考該框架作為反思高雄城市轉型的反提案。由於日本殖民期間和之後的治理狀態造成高雄市都市空間處於分散且支離破碎的狀態，而當時的都市計劃引發了後殖民時期如此蒼白的城市化「海洋」。特別是，這是由於市街（市場街）鄰里單元造成的，該單元將鄰里作為小學周圍的單元，毗鄰衛生基礎設施，用於市區改正和空間治理。然而，這種模式很容易被殖民者操縱，導致這些分散的「群島」遍佈整個市中心的分散治理。然而，分散的群島隨後透過一系列公民行動轉變為其內部街區內小學周圍的公共空間。這些行動涉及以間隔的方式沿著市街一塊一塊地增加屋頂覆蓋物和手推車小店等，並自主地蔓延到下一個社區。如此改變用來治理的群島逐漸生成日常生活的培育框架，並定義了一種具有教育感的學區生活，重新定義並且組構整個社區的生活領域。辯證框架源於市街鄰里單位被視為城市的群島，由分散的治理和空距的自主彼此間的拉扯形成。該框架不僅挑戰了「單一」城市中心的傳統觀念，而且還扭轉了殖民者的空間治理狀況。因此，它表明作為日常教育和培育的一部分，既有的框架已經融入了現有的城市空間結構，值得並等待新的闡述、重新審視和重新思考。面對COVID-19大流行後城市碎片化的挑戰，本研究用辯證的問題透過仔細研究的反提案（位於城市中正在鐵路地下化區域）：我們還需要一個緊湊的城市嗎？此外，在面對高雄轉型的同時，如何將這些具有教育成分的群島重新構思為新的節點模式和教育基礎設施節點，以逐個滋養這轉型中的城市？

This study proposed a dialectical framework to revisit the colonial downtown planning and rethink the framework as a counterproposal for the city transformation in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The planning triggered the postcolonial pale urbanisation 'sea' due to the fragmented governance conditions during and after the Japanese colonisation. In particular, this resulted from the shi-jie (market street) neighbourhood unit, which frames neighbourhoods as cells around primary schools adjacent to sanitation infrastructures for urban regularisation and spatial governance. However, this model was easily manipulated by the colonisers, resulting in fragmented governance with these dispersed 'archipelagos' dotted throughout the city centre. Nevertheless, the dispersed archipelagos were then transformed by a series of citizen actions into common spaces around the primary school within its internal block. These actions involve adding-up roof covers and trolley occupations piece-by-piece along the shi-jie in an interspaced way, sprawling to the next autonomously. Transforming the governmental archipelagos indicate a nurturing framework of day-to-day life and define a sense of educational district for assembling the neighbourhoods' territory at large. The dialectical framework is derived from the shi-jie neighbourhood unit, perceived as the city's archipelagos, formed by the fragmented governance and interspacing autonomy. This framework not only challenges the traditional idea of 'A' city centre but also reverses the situation of spatial governance from the colonisers. Thus, it informs that the as-found framework is already blended into the existing urban spatial structure as part of daily education and nurturing, worthy of and awaiting new interpretations, revisiting, and rethinking. With the post-COVID-19 pandemic urban challenge of fragmentation, this study scrutinises a counterproposal (on the sunken railway line area) with the dialectical question: do we still need a compact city? Furthermore, while facing Kaohsiung's transformation, how can these archipelagos with educational components be re-conceptualised as a new nodal model and education-infrastructure node to nurture the city piece-by-piece?