Research On Urban Regeneration In Taiwan Based On Cultural And Creative Industry

It is common that the urban development is aligned with a pattern of generating,progressing,decaying and regenerating.Thus,urban regeneration is a necessary process during the urban development.However,in the past 30 years when our society experienced incredible economic boost which forced urbanization in the country,rough destruction and reconstruction resulted in a series of loss in cities' history and cultural characteristics.Due to numerous public denunciation,a new urban development standard came into place.The city and urban areas increasingly put emphasis on the philosophy of inner beauty and high quality.With more doubts in the formal urban renewing approaches,it becomes necessary to come up with new ways.Urban regeneration,an upgraded form of urban revival that focuses on a history-present-future continuity in urban development and on the pursuit of historical and cultural values in urbanization,is gradually becoming a critical goal and approach in the new phase of urban development.As urban regeneration becomes popular,culture creativity industry has received widespread attention.With traditional culture as the carrier and philosophy,culture creativity industry is stepping into urbanization as an important vehicle to continue the memory of the history as well as to pass down the cultural traits in a city.Therefore,the combination between culture creativity industry and urban regeneration contains dependency in goals.Also,the interactions between the two becomes a hotspot in the research field in urban regeneration.The practices in urban regeneration inserted with culture creativity ideas have been fashionable and popular these years.Facilitated by business investment,a good number of projects appeared with culture creativity ideas.Most of these projects resulted from independent business behavior without city government's planning,leading and following,which is hard to combine with urban regeneration.And the effects of such projects are not obvious.Therefore,it is worth pondering and studying how to effectively combine culture creativity industries with urban revival from a high-level governmental perspective.The thesis adopts case study as the main methodology.Through studying Taipei development of urban regeneration and culture creativity industry as well as Urban Regeneration station(URS),the thesis abstracts its strategies,approaches as well as action mechanism,in attempt to provide related strategic thinking and recommendations to the urban areas in Mainland China.First,through a review of the urban renewal and the culture creativity industry in Taipei,the thesis summaries the development pattern of the urban regeneration with culture creativity industry in Taipei and its direction,structure as well as approach,led by four dimensions,Property,City,People and Culture.In addition,through Urban Regeneration Station(shortened as URS),a comprehensive plan enforced by the Taipei Urban Regeneration Department(TURD)in 2010,the thesis provides deep analysis and systematic summary of the features,structure,operation and challenges of the plan.Finally,in conjunction with the features,challenges and their origins of urban regeneration in Mainland China,the thesis offers insights in terms of how Mainland China can learn from Taipei URS model.