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Japan occupied Taiwan as its first imperial colony in 1895.For transiting numerous Japanese and stuff to Taiwan, Keelung was chosen to be the first port to build because of its location and land form to be a good port. The port construction also promoted the urbanization of Keelung which was a small fishing village for Junk in Ching Dynasty. The process of modernization made Keelung the biggest port city in Taiwan. The operation of port had changed rapidly, and so did the city pattern and city life. This research aimed at analyzing the urban process of the port city Keelung, and was divided into four main development stages, each stage and development factors as described below:
1.The early developing stage: under governance of Spain、 Holland、 the Ming Dynasty and Ching Dynasty, Keelung was a small fishing village. After Japan seized Taiwan, Japanese government tried to improve the environment of Keelung by constructing sanitation. Totally speaking, Keelung still remained its traditional style of city structure.
2.In the second period, both city and port had great scale of development, including second stage of port construction and the first city planning. After this period of construction, the dock、 canal、 port facility of inner port had been established, and 132,000㎡ of land had been created by filling. The city pattern changed into grid system that was parallel to the dock. This was the fundamental period of Keelung’s urban process.
3.The expansion period included third stage of port construction and city area improvement planning. To meet the increasing need, the construction of port begun to expand to outer port, on the other hand, the city plan expanded the area up stream the canal. Relatively speaking, more social facilities, like public houses、parks had been built in this period than last one. This made Keelung a better place to live and also improved Keelung’s city image as an international port.
4.The forth period including the forth stage of port construction and the urban planning. Due to the Taiwan Urban Plan Act(1936),the urban plan of Keelung had great progress on both the scale of urban area and the method to carry out the plan. But both the port construction and urban plan did not go smoothly because of the war, still great part of the plans left to be practiced in the end of Japanese Governance.
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