淡水老街的慢活

• Main Authors: Tsai, Yi-wen, 蔡怡玟
• Other Authors: 潘朝陽
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50622797359970070952

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地理學系 === 99 === “Place”, the existential space, might make the meaning and the value for the environment that people surrounded. This study would focus on the “slow” spatial experience, which might explore the significance of the place meaning and human existence. For the phrase or the word, “slow down” or “slowness”, shown a lot on public media recently since 2005 in Taiwan, we could not hard to image that people’s needs and demanding. Otherwise, if the place personality would represent “slowness”, “calm” or “steady”, could it provide people to relax for or to take easy surrounded for? In this research, the study area would be chosen the place which around the Tamsui Old Street area. It is due to these decades, following the line of MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) opened to Tamsui in 1997 and the policy of two-day weekend was implemented in 2001, seriously affected the original environment milieu around this place. For that reason, many papers and researches, within urban planning, urban design, tourism and public policy, dedicated to its contribution to the economic benefit and tourism development around this area. But not many papers and researches focus on how these scenic attractions influence people’s bodies and minds. Here, we tried to apply literature works and Fine art works with the view of Humanistic Geography, Environmental Aesthetics, and aesthetic experience, to interpret the placeness of Tamsui Old Street area. Following, with the concept of “slow-living” and Yi-Fu Tuan’s “Escapism” to discuss how these scenic attractions affect the people, and who always do the slow living exercise, here. Further, we might illustrate the essence and spatiality of this place. Snowball Sampling, Participation Observation and In-depth interviews discussion would be involved in this paper. And with In-depth interviews discussion, we might explore and interpret why the slow-living place could possible happen to be around this area. Such a place, nestling under the mountain, along the river, bounded by the water and land, situated the hill within a broad view, might make people far-reaching and feel insignificance and distant of being themselves. Besides, the historical building here might due to its long history make people feel more calm and steady. Thus, the environment milieu, here, of “slowness”, “steady” and “calm”, make people feel the time, relatively, longer, more accumulated, and flowing all the way. For this specific kind of character of this place, in this paper, it might be the factor for the interviewees escape from living in the fast, high pressure urban life and far from the living with bad or not good situation. In advance, we separate three groups from interviewees, which are local residents, dwelling people, and the travelers, to discuss and compare with their “slow-living” experience around this area. And the followings, we would explore the possible living style that urban area needed. Finally, we might hope this paper dedicate to the very beginning discussion about the “slow-living” and contribute to a new, possible thinking for the human and environment, or the health researches.