This thesis is focused on living world in urban environment to discuss the relationship between the changing urban spaces and users.The goal is to explore how people face, construct and maintain their ways of living as well as consuming habits in urban environment when modernity and technical bureaucratic planning intrude the urban life. This thesis is aimed to discover these relations and to search for the meanings of spaces without using a formal approach. The study area is Shi-Men-Ting area in Taipei. The focuses are: 1. The role of Shi-Min-Ting in the urban life. This role was to be testified when the spatial policies undergone frequent changes and when modernity imposed its impacts. 2. To discuss the living style in Shi-Min-Ting area, how people experience the environment, and how different social groups do so to embody different meanings of the spaces.
