[ 摘要 ]

本研究以嘉義縣番路鄉公田村隙頂聚落為研究對象，主要目的在於從宏觀的歷史脈絡到微觀的日常生活路徑，層層相扣，具體呈現聚落生活世界與產業變遷的過去、現在與未來。

研究透過資料收集、參與觀察、深度訪談，輔以客觀的地理資訊系統作為空間判讀及研究分析的工具，繪製居民日常生活的路徑，解讀聚落當地的生活空間。並配合凱文.林區(Kevin Lynch)所提出的環境意像的五大形式，來建構當地的聚落意象。

本研究紀錄居民個人從事過的產業與年代，以量化的方式繪製產業變遷長條圖，描述聚落的興衰、居民土地的關聯和產業的變遷。其結果顯示外界環境的市場需求是隙頂的產業變遷的原動力，但在變遷的過程中農林產業的進入造成了自然資源的消失。在近年來茶業的過渡發展導致茶園土壤老化現象，隙頂聚落在未來將可能面臨第一次因內部資源而促成的產業演變。

研究成果發現：(1)聚落領域的認知主要來自於日常生活路徑的舊經驗與地形地勢，與行政劃分的界線有極大落差;(2)聚落生活節點多屬於短暫停留性質，宜營造公共交流空間以凝聚社區意識;(3)環境資源調查中發現小刺山柑的蹤跡，印證了靜宜大學陳玉峰教授提出的台灣生態分界線北移50∼70公里之觀察，證實氣候暖化可能造成植物北移的現象;(4)聚落長期耕作茶園，導致土壤礦物質的耗竭，以致老茶園土壤有不易重新耕作之特性;(5)善用當地優越地理位置、文化特色及豐富景觀資源，可成功轉形成觀光休閒遊憩之茶園。

英文摘要 ]

The main purpose of this research is to present the transitions of the past, present, and future lifestyles and economics of the Siding Settlement in Gongtian Village of Fan-lu Township in Chia-yi County. Using this settlement as the research target, this paper looks back at their history with a macro view and traces back their daily life with a micro view.



Through data collection, face-to-face observation, in-depth interviews and the use of information technology in Geography as the means of studying and analyzing the physical shape of the village, the daily route used by the villagers is drawn, and the living environment of the region is studied. Accompanied with Kelvin Lynch’s five elements in Environmental Image, finally, the images of the village is established and created.



For this study, we interviewed and recorded down the residents’ occupations and the time in which they have been involved with. Then we took the quantitative approach and created a histogram about the Industrial transitions in Siding to demonstrate the rise and decline of the settlement, the correlation between land and the local people and the economic changes there. The result indicates that the market demand is the main drive for the economic changes in Siding; however, during the transition period, Agriculture and Forestry Industries moved in and caused the loss of natural resources. In recent years, the aging of the soil in the tea farmland was the result of the over development of the Tea Industry. Siding is facing with the first Industrial change as the result of the changes in its internal resources.



The main results are described as follows.(1)The cognition of village territory is shaped by the former experience from daily live and the terrain of the natural environment, so it is different from administrative dividing.(2)Most of the living node of the villages is for a short stay, therefore some public interaction space is need to gather the perception of community.(3)The finding of Capparis micracantha DC in the investigated area demonstrates that the phenomenon of northward movement of the plant caused by global warming, which is also suggested by other study that the ecological borderline in Taiwan had been moved north for fifty to seventy kilometers.(4)The intensive cultivation of tea plantation causes the shortage of soil mineral substances, and results in difficulties of re-cultivation of old tea gardens.(5)It is possible to transfer the tea plantation into recreation agri-tourism that we take advantage of location, culture feature and landscape resources of this area.