DOI: 10.5176/2251-1679_CGAT18.114
Authors: Te-Fu Chou
Abstract:
Motorcycle is one of options for each individual when we choose a form of transportation in a big city. However, globally speaking, most metropolitan cities all over the world have very few motorcycles. Not only do excessive motorcycles produce air emission, but they also make the road and pedestrian pathway compacted, thereby affecting the cleanliness of the city and its development. Compared to our neighbors, we have 419.3 motorcycles per mile square in Taiwan, whereas in Singapore there are 210 motorcycles per mile square and 32.5 motorcycles per mile square in Japan. The percentage of motorcycle is several times higher than in Singapore and in Japan. Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics indicates that there are 1,3660,000 motorcycles in Taiwan based on the statistic from the Ministry of Transportation at the end of February 2016. Among all cities and counties, the highest ratio of motorcycle ownership is in Pingtung County, which has 73.4 motorcycles per 100 people. The second is Kaohsiung, which has 71.9 motorcycles per 100 people (usage of the public transportation is less than 15%). The lowest one is Taipei, which has 35.5 motorcycles per 100 people. This article tries to discuss “the development and the amount of motorcycles in Kaohsiung city” based on Jacques Derrida’s deconstructionism. J. Derrida tried to break the binary opposition between the subject and object. It is a kind of the centralism of de-logos which focuses on the subject, along with the existence of metaphors and edges. From the perspective of deconstructionism, one of the major objects for a prosperous city development is cleanliness, neatness and convenience. Unfortunately, excessive motorcycles hinder city development.
Keywords: youth literacy, narrative fiction, interactive fiction, reading behavior
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