The Research on Environment Change of the Dockers Community and Community Support: A Case Study on Keelung Chien Ming Community

• Main Authors: Yao Cheng Wang, 王瑤琤
• Other Authors: 蔡淑瑩
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ws2dv4

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 建築與都市設計研究所 === 97 === This research is aimed to explore the living environment change for dockers who have lived in Keelung Chien Ming Community. Keelung Harbor has long been modernized. With the advancement of harbor facilities and infrastructure fostered by booming shipping industry, the space transformation of Keelung streets has been gradually launched, together with an urban image on the growth from an old fishing village. Accordingly, a large commercial harbor has taken shape over times. During the transition, however, the dockers who have lived with the ups and downs of harbor had been forgotten. In this research, the author has discovered a fact that the lives of dockers and the development of harbor are closely tied together. The working area has led to a change in the living space and behavioral pattern of dockers. With the change in overall economy dimension, the life and residents of Chien Ming Community have also changed. The methodological approaches in this research include in-depth interview and direct observation, sampling chiefs of division/section level and relevant personnel in Keelung Harbor Bureau, and head and residents of Chien Ming Community. Through the interview and observation, the author has tried to realize the linkage among the past environment change of Chien Ming Community, the community and the pier in a way as to explore the life style change of residents shaped by the pier, to explore the daily life activities of and the community support behavior for dockers from psychological and sociological perspectives, and to observe the community network and the relationship of subjective entities vs. objective entities among residents. The findings may serve to discover how a different harbor or port humanity history evolves and better understand the concerns of dockers over their living environment and space. . In author’s analysis, it summarizes that the current community support is an informal support in nature. It comes from a community support network comprising community residents and friends which creates a support network within the community. In Chien Ming Community, the community support takes several forms, including emotional support, health support, activity support and environmental protection support. Different types of residents have developed different types of personally interactive relations. Based on the difference on personality and background, the research has summarized certain types as follows: the social type, the closed off type, the dedicated type and the dependent type. According to the extent of usage by residents, the special community space under development also can be defined as meaningful space, symbolic space, physical space and social space. In short, this research concludes that the community support network within the community can be established through resident behavior and space alternate behavior. Then, the analysis result can help identify solutions to future community support, including facilitation of using time currency, and fostering of cross-region cooperation, together with mobilization of formal and informal community supports. As part of concerted efforts, an inclusion of community construction concept, support system constitution within the community, better improvement of community communication roads, and better improvement of community environments is also a must. All these efforts serve to further satisfy the needs of residents, and ensure a more comfortable living environment under which the residents are long familiar with.