ABSTRACT
City architecture has the ‘janus’ character of semi-publicity and semi-privacy. The internal privacy belongs to the individual whilst the external publicity needs to comply with an accepted code of conduct, which is also the partial urban space of the city. Therefore the study of architecture and the city cannot be separated. Sometimes historical architecture owns more publicity and collective memory and can be considered as the public domain of the city. This chapter focuses therefore on conservation movements in the cities of Taiwan after the Second World War from the point of view of this assumed ‘public sphere’.
