Abstract: The planning and construction process of spatial elements in historical cities is an important issue in urban and planning history studies. This paper identififies the four element categories of government offiffiffices, city walls, offiffifficial schools, and official altars and temples, and examimes a total of 86 representative buildings and structures located in sixteen prefecture- and county-level cities in Taiwan province from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century to explore the regularity and specifificity in their planning and construcion process. After investigating each element’s role in the whole city planning and construction process, as well as analyzing the sequential preference of the combination of elements, the paper identififies the origin of and meaning behind the planning and construction of each element category.