Abstract
Ports symbolize the beginning of modern times. Ports and port area are interdependent functionally and spatially. Port cities, teeming with people’s consciousness and memories, form distinctive townscape as time passing by. However, the advancement of shipping technology indirectly causes the link of space and function between port and city to be severed, flourishing port cities beginning to wane. The historical characteristics of port cities are ignored. Townscape is the result of long-time accumulation and is very significant and irreplaceable cultural assets; it will be unrecoverable once destroyed because of inappropriate urban planning. Therefore, in this study, historical stratification is employed as a strategy to analyze the townscape of port cities in order to establish urban morphology-related arguments.Unlike other studies adopting macro perspectives, this study intends to analyze the townscape of Taiwan port cities through historical stratification from micro-morphological aspect. The old port area in Kaohsiung is used as empirical area in this study, and Town-Plan Analysis is employed as the major process. Plus, three assessment criteria are established according to “Morpho”, a methodology for assessing urban form. Spaces are clustered based on the results of the assessment, and the correlation between historical stratification and the development of ports can be verified through the context of old port area. The result shows that there are 4 layers of historical stratification if only solid spaces is focused, but 10 layers if both solid and void spaces are analyzed, which can be the reference to identify the range of conservation or redevelopment.
| Date of Award | 2017 |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Supervisor | Chih-Hung Chen (Supervisor) |