Globalization and Downtown Development Hsinyi-Planning District in the Image of "Manhattan of Taipei"
Resource
地理學報, 34, 041-060
Journal
地理學報
Journal Issue
34
Pages
041-060
Date Issued
2003-12
Date
2003-12
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Abstract
During the 1990s a new downtown emerged in the eastern part of Taipei City. Known as the Hsinyi-Planning District, it has been dubbed “Taipei’s Manhattan” and promoted as the most prestigious and internationally oriented area in Taipei. The purpose of this paper is to examine the features and developmental processes of this new downtown with reference to literatures of globalization. Global cities and downtown (re)development. This paper begins with a review of the literatures on globalization and world city development and places Taipei in these two analytical contexts. It follows by briefly introducing the planning history of the Hsinyi-Planning District and its Policy context. The final part focuses on how the centrality of this new downtown has been constructed in the past decade and how an internationally oriented downtown for a third-tier global city has been built and developed in response to globalization and local political economy. The main argument of this paper is that, as part of a broader strategy of developing Taipei into a global city. The visions of planning and developing Taipei’s new downtown should go beyond local city perspectives, with a view of making it a new urban center with global downtown characteristics.
Subjects
全球城市
都心發展
信義計畫區
臺北曼哈頓
Global city
Downtown development
Hsinyi-planning district
Manhattan of Taipei
Type
journal article
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