Green Urbanism、Waterfront Regeneration and Urban Governance: A Case study of Jhong-Gang Drainage Channel Improvement Project
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Huang, Yu-Chieh
Abstract
Waterfront regeneration has gradually been standing at the forefront of urban policies and even dominated the rhetoric of regeneration policy for port cities or for riverbank development in cities since the 1980s. Simultaneously, there has been a growing trend of green urbanism since 21st century. Among various practices of waterfront regeneration, Cheonggyecheon restoration project has been promoted worldwide as a successful model of green urbanism to regenerate an urban slum area into a high-end financial and commercial strip with scenic and accessible riverscape in central Seoul by removing the elevated highway and restoring the stream. This paper focuses on examining the case of Taipei’s Cheonggyecheon, the Jhong-Gang Drainage Channel Improvement Project in New Taipei City, to reveal the generality and specificity of this new urbanism under the political economic contexts of post-industrial transformation.
The research begins with identifying the role and various forms of green urbanism proposed in New Taipei City’s urban policies； then, trying to figure out the characteristics of urban governance by analyzing governing context in urban redevelopment. Secondly, by investigating the urban governance involved in the implementation of this project and shows that property-led development, especially in the new Sinjhuang Subcenter, is the key to the project, so as to the related urban regeneration projects under the blueprint of “The City of Great River”. Besides, the urban waterfront regeneration plan has become an integrated concept of green urbanism to transfer the marginal lands into new urban centrality. Finally, it concludes that the waterfront regeneration cases connecting the shaping of city centers, especially the Cheonggyecheon or Jhong-Gang Drainage model, apply green urbanism to redevelop New Taipei City. Such green urbanism is a new version of space accumulation in capitalist city’s regeneration by dispossessing the remade nature.
Subjects
waterfront regeneration
green urbanism
post-industrial city
urban governance
the Cheonggyecheon model
New Taipei City
SDGs
Type
thesis
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