A Local Other/Place: Taipa Old Village, Macao SAR as a Place

• Main Authors: I-Iao Kok, 郭懿柔
• Other Authors: 康旻杰
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2ckduc

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 105 === This thesis claims that the lack of research about Taipa and analysis of the radical landscape transition is a flaw in Macao studies for long. Thus, this thesis attempts to be a pioneer in this research area with the concept “other/place”, analyzing the becoming process of Taipa Old Village as a place and the dialectic tensions within the two typical place models, the place and the nonplace. Besides, this research lays the groundwork for the future discussion about the preservation of the non-listed cultural heritages which represent the local history and culture within the district. Firstly, the paper gives an overview of the political and economic context in which the ancient Taipa Village developing into the present Taipa Old Village, explaining how a place is constructed, as well as the relationship between people and the place. In addition, the important but obscure district planning regulation, and the current circumstances the non-World Heritage sites and the street fabric are to be discussed. Secondly, focusing on the process how the nonplace has been penetrating through the porous boundary of the place via the top-down governance, the author analyzes the companies’ investment projects and the sprawl of the Cotai tourism, which terminally gentrifying and influencing the people’s space of everyday life. Finally, by discussing the other/place as a third type of place taking place while the local/place and the nonplace are juxtaposed, coexisting or overlapping, the author points out that there is a driving force derived by the fallen, which induces the becoming of place due to nostalgia, and, by the way, the local characteristics of the place is preserved by the routing. In such a case, the place will not be replaced but has been re-placing when confronting the penetration of the nonplace. Furthermore, local nutrition is being accumulated for the Taipa Old Village future planning and the cultural preservation, and hence, opportunities knock.