This paper is to explore how the practical order of the city be managed by the mediate-stratum (the gentries instead of the heads), and to inspire the disjunctive but also conjunctive relation between the state and the society.

• 本文重新检视各个发展时期的台北市街秩序形成，认为清末台北存在著串连国家和社会的中介阶层，而以绅商（而非头人）作为承载者，在联庄庄约、行郊郊规、筑城合作等过程上，都可见到国家力量与社会力量的互动运作。