A Study on Small Scale Self- Housing Renewal: Is Urban Renewal Necessary ?
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Lin, Ko-Jui
Abstract
The purpose of the research is to analyze the production of private non-commoditized housing in Taiwan, and to review the recent urban renewal system through case study and comparison. So the specific content of the researce contains a brief review of housing production evolution in Taiwan after WWII to build a structure for analyzing social relations, cost, and financial tools in housing production. After the review, the author uses the structure to analyze three tpyes of private non-commoditized housing production to induce their characteristics and financial modes.Then we compare the financial modes with two proceeding real cases of self-urban renewal to discover the commoditization and other problems of urban renewal system now in Taiwan, especially in Taipei City.
By the research we can divide private non-commoditized housing production into two financial modes: the way of paying money for materials and service, and the way of using floor area value for exchange.The latter way makes house owners free from loan and the burden of collecting money, but it turns non-commoditized production into a commoditized way and only the land owners are qualified for this mode. Urban renewal, the most popular way for housing regeneration in modern Taipei, uses this financial mode, and the government takes every effort to encourage communities to push forward self-urban renewal. The urban renewal system prefers large area plan than small scale housing production, while the government keeps widening the limitation and releasing the bonus floor area which encourages the motivation but makes the process more complicated. The house users have difficulties in being organized and making consensous, and lose control of the production which falls into the hand of professional agency or estate developers.
Through the comparison of cases and the simulation of financing, the self-urban renewal makes land owners getting new housing units without paying money for it, which makes the whole society and environment to defray much more than the direct cost of housing production, and to produce more housing for sale than those for use, so self-urban renewal is not an ideal private non-commoditized housing production type.
To summarize the study, we consider that current urban renewal system is not fit for general scale housing regeneration in Taiwan, and because of the complexity of housing production, professional agents play a major role than the community do, which means the community needs more help in strengthening their organization, ability, and consensous.
Subjects
Housing
Taipei City
Self-Urban Renewal
SDGs
Type
thesis
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