Saturday Onsite Presentation Session 2

Architecture and Urban Studies

Session Chair: Sofia Quiroga Fernandez

11:50-12:15

70684 | Analysis of Festival Spaces in Taipei – A Case Study of Bangka Qingshan Festival

SzuYin Liu, Tsinghua University, China

The urban space is given a different meaning from the daily life due to festivals, and the combination of the two creates a festival space that provides visitors with a special urban memory. This study conducted on-site investigation and research on the three-day pilgrimage activity of the traditional Taipei festival, the "Bangka Qingshan Festival". The study analyzed the crowd flow and festival nodes of the pilgrimage during a specific time period as the pattern of urban festival space. The study also used the perspective of urban and architectural design to analyze the plan and facade of the urban space, and explored the street scene and traffic relationship between pedestrians and vehicles at that time. Furthermore, the study conducted a comparative analysis of the daily urban space and non-daily festival space. Through the research on festival space, feedback is provided to the festival planning unit, hoping to incorporate the urban space texture and festival behavior into future urban festival planning to ensure smooth traffic flow and successful activities.

12:15-12:40

70761 | Urban Governance for Cultural Space of Ancient Capitals: The Challenges of Experience, Imagination, and Ideology in Xi’an

Xiaokang Lei, Northwest University, China

Jeffrey Guo, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

"Ancient Capitals" were once the core of governance systems, although with the passage of time and growth, still represented the development of different human civilization; in contemporary urban studies, they contain more meanings of cultural space. In this paper, with perspectives of spatial theories from French Sociologist, Henri Lefebvre, the author tries to look for continuation of the new governance model from construction of the old civilization, to figure out the ways of practice and representation in culture to describe this world ancient city in East Asia, Xi’an. Social policies, living styles and cultural beliefs derived from this ancient city help us to analyze the urban governance methods under one party dominated nation. The value and significance of this study are mainly based on the three relevant levels of structure to describe residents’ everyday life with being voluntary dominated and controlled by space. From experience, imagination, and ideology; this city represents the hegemonic model of the Chinese cultural center, affecting its citizens with the daily life of coercion and adaptation; social relations constituted by discourses with metaphorical and metonymic functions; and consumption, advertising, fashion and travelling. Social policies, living styles and cultural beliefs derived from this ancient city help us to analyze the urban governance methods under one party-dominated nation, different from other East and Southeast Asian regimes, such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. From the influence of global diversification and democratization, Xi’an in urban space also faces the challenges of cultural continuity and governance transformation.

12:40-13:05

69889 | An Ethnographic Urban Approach to Kowloon Walled City

Sofia Quiroga Fernandez, Xi'an Jiaotong-liverpool University, China

The proposal analyses the space of Kowloon's disappeared walled city through photographs and drawings. The pictures from G. Lambord and I. Girard's and the illustrations of Terasawa Kazumi have the ability to demonstrate a messy urban configuration from a social and ethnographic point of view, highlighting the idea of community as a fundamental and indispensable element in the development of this labyrinthine vertical slum narrative.Lambot and Girard, fascinated by this urban space, portray a place that, despite its deficiencies, manages to understand the city as a mega-organic structure that adapts spatially and socially to the changing requirements of users. Their photographs collect the daily life of this place during his last years, becoming an urban and social public document that facilitates the recreation and understanding of a disappeared place. Additionally, Terasawa Kazumi's drawings reflect the private and public spatial disposal. The illustrations note the living and working areas and the activities developed in the tiny spaces that made up each block, including the relationship between them. The general section and details depicted evidence for concepts related to high density and the dissolution of the limits between public and private. The depictions offer a narrative that explores new uses and forms of occupation that help the viewer understand the space's performance. Both approaches investigate social and architectural aspects that serve as the basis for Kowloon's spatial recreation, illustrating concepts and reflections on the development of the place and allowing observation and analysis to understand this disappeared city.