Urban Redevelopment under Neoliberalization: A Case Study of Taipei Main Station Special District
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Chiang, Shang-Shu
Abstract
Taipei’s urban redevelopment has become as an important agenda for Taipei Municipality under the context of neoliberalization and of the developmental state’s restructuring. It has operated in the mode of property-led redevelopment and public-private partnership. ‘Taipei Main Station Special District’, characterized by its former centrality and transportation function of the Taipei Metropolitan Area, is the major field for this kind of urban governance. Therefore, this study discusses how the state machine and private capital take urban regeneration as a re-regulation strategy for capital accumulation through the experience of urban renewal policy and the developmental process of Taipei Main Station. Furthermore, the study analyzes the contradictory and negotiative relationship between multi-scalar actors and how they exercise the redevelopment of Taipei’s western center. This thesis concludes that the developmental process has to deal with electoral politics and the role of the state-owned enterprise due to the democratization process. In the end, the local government becomes the mediator of public-private partnership for the fulfillment of its own developmental logics leading to a relative exclusive property game. This exclusive nature as the characteristic of Taipei’s urban redevelopment since 1990s has contributed to the absence of large property capitals and democratic governance.
Subjects
urban redevelopment
urban governance
neoliberalizatoin
developmental state
post-industrial city
Taipei Main Station
Type
thesis
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