The Invisible City--To Discuss The Spirit of Shi-Men-Ting

• Main Authors: I-Hisn Chen, 陳懿欣
• Other Authors: 黃瑞茂
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73592862516125865050

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 建築學系 === 88 === This thesis is focused on living world in urban environment to discuss the relationship between the changing urban spaces and users.The goal is to explore how people face, construct and maintain their ways of living as well as consuming habits in urban environment when modernity and technical bureaucratic planning intrude the urban life. The space should not be merely a static reflection of a social structure in a specific era. The social structure provides only a framework, the true meanings of the spaces are driven by un-measurable dynamic human individuals. In the visible spaces, the elements not merely related to the sense of sight such as emotion, habit and memory are the true elements to define the human-spatial relationships. This thesis is aimed to discover these relations and to search for the meanings of spaces without using a formal approach. The study area is Shi-Men-Ting area in Taipei. The focuses are: 1. The role of Shi-Min-Ting in the urban life. This role was to be testified when the spatial policies undergone frequent changes and when modernity imposed its impacts. 2. To discuss the living style in Shi-Min-Ting area, how people experience the environment, and how different social groups do so to embody different meanings of the spaces. In terms of study methods, this thesis analyzed the everydayness and human geography to explore peoples’ usage of urban spaces in different historic stages, and to explore how Shi-Men-Ting became the living arena of different social groups under the mainstream dominance. As to writing method, the author tried to create a fusion between conventional thesis writing and prose to stir the imaginative power of written language. The author also utilized multiple roles in writing to achieve a richer context that closer to the real life.