Landscape Transformation and The Memory of Consumption of Certain Group in Taipei Cheng-Jung Market Area
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Hsu, Mei-Ling
Abstract
his thesis uses the Taipei Cheng-Jung market area as the field place, with the attempt to understand the reason of this market’s popularity and the value of its existence. In the process of urban observation, I discovered that there is a special phenomenon in the Cheng-Jung market area: those who go there for window-shopping or shopping not only for their needs, and some certain groups go there for recollecting their memories of their past by the process of window-shopping or shopping. Based on this special phenomenon and to look into the reasons for its occurrence, this thesis is divided into two parts: first to trace the landscape of historical spatial forms; and the second part is to discover how the specific groups in this special form got their own social activities and memories during shopping.
The history of the Cheng-Jung market area can trace back to the most prosperous city streets in the Qing Dynasty city which connected the Man-ka in the west and Da-Dao-Cheng in the north. Later on the business streets supplied the daily needs for Japanese in Japanese Occupation era, and became the high class shopping streets in the early of Republic of China. In such history, the spatial form is constant and continuing, but the people here and their activities represent an instantaneous transformation: from the officials, local businessman, to the public figure in the Qing Dynasty, and from the primary Japanese consuming landscape in Japanese Occupation era to the consuming landscape formed by the Chinese immigrants in the early of Republic of China.
However, for those who constantly go window-shopping or shopping in the Cheng-Jung market area, during the interview, it was their memory that keep them coming back here, and it is a unique phenomenon of Cheng-Jung market area at the present days. Following the historical analysis, the unique phenomenon comes from the consuming landscape which emerged because the Chinese immigrants largely streamed into the Taipei walled-city area in the early of Republic of China. They return to the same place for window-shopping or shopping because they have the same memory of certain places.
The space, and human landscape formed by the Cheng-Jung market area history are the value of the obsolete block, i.e the Cheng-Jung market area. Therefore, to preserve the space and the memory and to continue the consuming activity landscape in this area should be taken into account when implementing Urban Renewal plans. Finally, I discuss the historical analysis and the interview results from the point of view of Urban Renewal, how we should preserve the historical blocks to preserve the value of the blocks, letting people recollect, go window-shopping, and buying what they need.
Subjects
Cheng-Jung market
landscape transformation
the memory
consumption
preservation
regeneration
Type
thesis
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