本論文的基本企圖是想妥建立以地域為基礎的歷史觀來檢視台灣城市城培之興築過程。首先，復原“新竹城\"的形成典與築過程;1733年之前，以“廟\"為 中心推測出移民聚落的出現與及其分布。1733年之後，則按《淡水處誌》所述畫分“新竹城"的歷史為下列四期:Q)竹城時期。@無城時期。@土城時期。@石域及二重城時期。對於石城，本論文提出台灣道孔ag皮為了處級之行政位格與經費之原因，拆毀440丈的竹城與1440丈的土域，而改建成860丈規模的石城之推論。另外本論文特別關注竹域的城堵地景形式，因為什城是台灣普遍的城牆地景形式。本文論證了@竹城與“氏變"及政治的關係，@竹城的形狀與後來的台灣城市的形狀無闕，而推翻了所謂的“什城為台灣城原型論"0(3)移民為了自衛而包 固自然成長的來落之土園、土堡才是台灣城市形式發展的原型。最後，本論文檢視了各個築城活動的目的與其經費籌組的方式。整體而言，築城是為了自衛，而地方大家族為了自衛向清皇室提出強烈請願，原先以為，築城之經費可由淡水處氏自由捐獻，但以結果而論，卻妥用強制的手段徵收不足的經費才得以完成。

The most important attempt of this paper is to establish a historical perspective from the locality on the construction of city·waH in Ching dynasty Taiwan. The study begins with historical transition and the construction stages of“Hsin·chu City". The distribution of settlers， and the period of their foundation are investigated by analyzing the “Miao"(shrine). The history of Hsin·chu is broken to four different periods based on local liter· ature. (1) Bamboo Fortification， (2) Period without Fortification， (3) Mud· waHed Fortification， and (4) Stone Fortification and win·waHed·city. Main findings were as foHows: Due to lack of funds and attempting to comply with orders from the government hierarchy， the head of local gov· ernment in 1826 built a moderate fortification of stone measuring 2752 meters， removing the 1408 meter bamboo fortification and 4608 meter mud fortification. Because the bamboo fortification is an unique feature of former cities of Taiwan， it is a focus for this paper. The building of bam· boo fortification had a close relationship with riots and was not a proto· type of city waH in Taiwan. The immigrants had built fortification enclos· ing their settlement for self·defense. Therefore， city wall took a non· geometric form. The paper then dealt with the purpose of waH and funding it's con· struction. Overall， the purpose of waH was self·defense， therefore the immigrant leaders contrgbuted part of the money needed， but the contri· but ion was insufficient. Commoners were forced to pay a larger share.