Neoliberal Governance and the Reusage of Urban Space: Case Study of Urban Regeneration Station in Taipei City
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Huang, Yuan-Hung
Abstract
Since the 1980s, the development of the Post Welfare State arose a lot of political predicaments and ruling crisis, in order to deal such problems, neoliberal ruling model rose, emphasized on many governed measures, such as privatization, liberalization, deregulation, and reduce the intervene from state. Under such background, some old democratic countries, for example, UK and the United State, increasingly offered public services which based on the concept of “ governance”, emphasize on the coordination between government, enterprises, and civil society, rather than all dealt by state or government. At the same time, accompanied by the crisis of Keynesianism in the 1980s is the wave of globalization, which brought the rapid progress of information techniques and the great transformation on the relation of economical production. Such transformations affect on the interaction between state and civil society, shape a new scale of global politics, and express an altered geography of social relations. Moreover, this new social and geographical appearances highlight the feature of porosity in traditional nation states, relieve the productive system from the whole country, downscale the system toward local and regional level, practice the territorialization of production. As a result, the meaning of city has been reshaped, and structures the discourses of New Urbanism.
As a progress or technique of governing and ruling, governance intends to reach the status of good governance. However, observing the interactions between state and civil society, although the state never lack of delicate policies and services, there still exist the failure of governance, such as the phenomena of lack of participation, resources wasting, spaces idling, over marketization, and the collapse of public‐private partnerships. Furthermore, we can also discover the problems of poverty gap, gentrification, geographical uneven, and the dominance of market rational, through the developments of New Urbanism and the flourishing rising of global cities all over the world.
Based on the theoretical discussions mentioned above, this thesis will focus on the practical process of neoliberal governance in Taipei City, and observe a case study: the “Urban Regeneration Station” program, which is proposed by Taipei City Government for the purpose of urban regeneration. Through the analysis of case study, this thesis tries to argue that the neoliberalization and urban entrepreneurialism of Taipei City demonstrates the clientelist and coalition structure which dominate the local society in Taiwan.
Subjects
Taipei City
urban governance
Neoliberalism
urban entrepreneurialism
urban regeneration
space reusage
Type
thesis
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