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This research attempts to explore and analyze the urban space and townhouses of the 17th-century Zeelandia City in Formosa according to the recently found ‘House Lot Registrations of Zeelandia City in 1643’. This cadastral document, found by a Dutch archival researcher named M. Leenstra, records the details of most house lots in the 15 blocks of Zeelandia City in 1643, including the names of the streets where house lots are located, the names of land owners, the orientations of lands, and the widths, lengths and areas of lands. Such important information, never having been mentioned in any existing historical document referring to the VOC-ruled Formosa, provides a possibility for us to deal with many new research topics that cannot be well dealt with before. On the basis of the information of the house lot registrations in 1643, by referring to a number of other existing historical maps and bird’s-eye view paintings of Zeelandia City, this research is going to visualize and spatialize these house lots to produce a ‘recovered’ cadastral map of this city. After that, this cadastral map will be over laid with other historical city maps and cadastral maps of the same area in later times in order for further analysis. On the basis of this analysis, the urban space of the 17th-century Zeelandia City is going to be reconstructed in a more concrete way, and the possible forms and shapes of the townhouses in the city will be discussed and explored. The results of the reconstruction of Zeeland City together with the townhouses will also be shown by 3D computer models. In the final step of this research, the urban space of Zeelandia City will be analyzed in a structural way, and its spatial meanings from the political, military, economic and social aspects will be analyzed and interpreted.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 17-08-01 → 18-07-31 |
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