Research on land usage of Shoushan area in Kaohsiung City

• Main Authors: Shih-Tsui Yeh, 葉世翠
• Other Authors: Chi-Cheng Lai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18818938649951283448

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 台灣文化研究所 === 95 === This article serves to compare and discuss how changes took place in different time frames and displayed specific characteristics of the space of the Shoushan area. The three time frames are the Japanese ruling era (1895~1945), the KMT era up to the end of enforced restriction (1945~1986), and the post-enforced restriction era until today (1987~2005). Shoushan is located on the west side of Kaohsiung city; it is 5 kilometers from north to south and 2.5 kilometers from east to west with the highest altitude of 354 meters and a surface area of 1200 hectares. It starts in north as a barrier of the Taiwanese strait at Tao-Tzu Yuen in Dsou-Ying and ends in south as a guardian of the Kaohsiung port with Chi-Ho Shan in Chi-gin at the Shi-Tzu Wan coast. The Shoushan area was used mainly as a security post, a special district of temples, and the Shoushan Park in the Japanese ruling era. At the same time, the Asano Cement Company was allowed to mine at the south side of mid-Shoushan, and it proved to have considerable influence on the local geographical environment. Later the Dsou-Ying military harbor was established on the north side of Shoushan and thus became a military-controlled area; the Tao-Tzu Yuen tribe was forced to move out. During the enforced-restriction era, the Shoushan area was one of the foci on defence. Under the “incident of February 28” and the “Decree of strongholds and forts”, Shoushan was regarded as an prohibited area with Chiang Kai-Shek’s residence within. After being renamed WanShouShan in 1968, the scenery areas and the National Sun Yat-Sen University were successively established. The university filled the ocean to make lands, replaced the space with embankment and wave consuming bricks and thus decreased the length of coastal lines. It was another blow to Mother nature and curtailed residents’ water activities. After the lift of enforced restrictions, military-controlled areas gradually diminshed, and the original sceneries and wild monkeys made Shoushan a popular site for leisure activities. With the increasing number of visitors, the government of Kaohsiung city publicly announced the “Shoushan Natural Park Management Rules” and stipulated that 10 meters above sea level in the GuShan district and the Shoushan area east of the coast are areas of the natural park. Local residents look forward to developments the natural park would bring while worry about limitations of their daily lives at the same time, and therefore it’s still undecided how to divide districts since the public announcement of the natural park. The issue that needs most urgent attention became how to make local developments of the Shoushan natural park and protect the natural resources at the same time.