| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 建築研究所 === 93 === Taiwan was a later development in Chinese history, compared to the other cities on the
mainland. Due to its geographical location, immigration, and political concerns, Taiwan’s
landscape is significantly different from cities’ on the mainland, whether on the subject of the establishment of counties or the formation and arrangement of town buildings later on. In recent years, the preservation of cultural heritage focuses more on individual architecture and puts little attention on the preservation from the perspective of historical culture on cities’ overall space or
urban context. In the cultural assets preservation regulations published and proclaimed in 1982, the heritage in its cultural assets definition refers to three categories: remains, historical architectures and other cultural relics, which explicitly emphasizes more on the preservation of individual
architecture. In response to changes of thoughts on preservation and conservation of cultural heritage, traditional settlement and historical streets and roads are included in the heritage definition, on the 2002 newly revised cultural assets preservation regulations. In the revised regulations, heritage, historical architecture, and settlement are combined into one category as a part of cultural assets, in which the conception of preservation has changed from individual building to linear or even to a wide range of areas. This thesis is expected to understand the process and development of traditional walled cities to serve as a reference for future preservation and conservation pursuit.
This thesis is to study the transition of taiwanese cities’ urban context from the perspectives of morphology and typology to analyze the overall cities’ spatial structure. It starts with utilizing cities’ map in different periods to overlap and compare to analyze cities’ major urban contexts in
different periods during the time from Ching Dynasty to Japanese colonization period. This would allow us to interpret and understand cities changes and development. However, it is found that there were no town rearrangements published for Old Town (Zuo-Ying) in Feng-Shan County and Heng-Chun county Town, so these two cities are excluded in this study.
This study comprises three discussions in three aspects. In the first section, it studies on the
building and development backgrounds of aiwanese cities and towns. By cross-time analyses, this
section discusses the background transitions under different strategies made from the traditional town building policy in Ching Dynasty and modernization strategies in Japanese colonization period. The second part is to analyze cities’ urban context by their landscapes and surroundings to discuss the location selection and environments and further to interpret main roads and important public architectures. The last discussion is to understand the changes and development of cities by analyzing the characteristics of city urban contexts with emphases on the city transition from traditional Chinese cities to total city reconstruction in Japanese colonization period.
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