Challenges of Tourism Upon the Local Community: Behaviour Settings in an Old Street in Tamsui, Taiwan

The research is based on two field works conducted in 1989 and 2010, focusing the existence of behaviour settings and their organization in an old street. Nature of behaviour setting programs, their spatial and temporal operation patterns, degree of social communication and the use of environmental cues are compared to demonstrate changes. Variation in the organizations of behaviour setting systems observed in 21 years apart indicate disjuncture of the local community, compartmentalization of public space, and interplay of the physical environment, commercial advertisements, and tourist consumerism in the reproduction of history.