其次，由比较研究，一方面可将近年英、等殖民地建筑与城市之研究，与日本殖民台湾之建筑与城市相互比较，不但可以认识到殖民建筑与城市之共同性，而且可以认识日本殖民的特殊性。

• First, I review colonial Taiwan's architecture and urbanism from the perspective of the third word history vis-a?_- vis that of the world history, with emphasis on the genealogy of the colonial architecture and urbanism in the late18 th and the19 th centuries.