| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 91 === During the era of worldwide dramatic changes of economies, cities and regions today, the urbanization process and the definitions of cities and regions have been changing as well. In the new century of ongoing changing economy on the globe, the process how Taiwan has been articulating in globalization as well as its social and spatial trends has been concerned and studied. This study adopts three theoretical notions: “global commodity chains” that concerns global integration, “latecomers” that concerns the introduction and extension ability of latecomers to form a mutually dependent global economy, and “cross-border production network” that concerns border crossing and the formation processes of networks. In methodology, this study reclassifies all business items, breaks the division of industrial and service sectors and integrates them into a whole industrial system in global production networks to clarify how Taiwanese information and electronics industry has connected into the network of the global economy. Finally, the notions of “metropolitan node of global networks” and “metropolitan region”, that is no more core-periphery relationship as the notions of world city system mentioned, are adopted to analyze the connection between metropolitan regions inside Taiwan and the global networks on two different spatial scales; i.e., the articulation of the globe and the local. By this token, how North Taiwan Metropolitan Region has become a metropolitan node in global networks and shaped a functionally polycentric geographic form is explored and explained.
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