The Landscape of Pingxi Old Street: From Daily Life and Landscape Memory of Native Residents
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Chen, Yu-Jie
Abstract
Pingxi Old Street in Pingxi district, different from some other scenic old streets in Taiwan that are visitor-oriented and even without any native residents, is a place where both visitor activities and resident daily lives can be found. This thesis, based on the concept of “landscape”, is to investigate: 1.) the landscape features of Pingxi Old Street as a scenic spot, 2.) how the tourism and lives of native residents are presented in Pingxi Old Street, and 3.) how native residents view the fact that Pingxi Old Street has become a sightseeing spot. Landscape, including materials, crowds, activities, and events, has various appearances as the context of time and space varies. Landscape is also a media that inspires life and sensual experiences and memory and imagination in crowds, and connects to people closely. In this thesis, the elements that compose the landscape of Pingxi Old Street are first presented. This thesis then studies the scene that native residents live and run tourism business. For the residents, facing Pingxi Old Street full of visitors, on the one hand recalls their memories of life in the past, while on the other hand makes them to place imagination in the future. In conclusion, there are different levels of meanings in Pingxi Old Street that are hidden behind its appearances. Native residents record their lives into Pingxi Old Street deeply through daily life and sensual experiences. Pingxi Old Street is a continuously changing landscape that is a mixture of old and new, tourism and life, and is tied closely to the residents.
Subjects
Landscape
Pingxi
Old Street
Daily Life
Landscape Memory
Type
thesis
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