Study on Evaluation of Healthy City ─ Empirical Study on the Metropolitan Cities in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Jo-Nan Huang, 黃若男
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09702778024725914973

碩士 === 立德管理學院 === 地區發展管理研究所 === 92 === The Toronto 2000 Conference had been held in Canada in 1984; after that, professionals advanced the concept of “Healthy City”. Moreover, The WHO proposed the “Health Promotion Project” and the “Healthy City Project” in the following year. These projects appealed for “empowerment” for healthy cities and aimed at community conscious and participation for better environment. It is believed that a healthy city benefits the citizens’ identification, attracts the elites’ residence, and decides a healthy country. Lanlonde (1974) suggested the factors determining health is “environment”, ”lifestyles”, “human biology” and “health care systems”. Since the “Healthy City Project” had been proposed by the WHO in 1986, most previous studies have focused on the public health and healthcare rather than on “environment”. Hence, this study explains the concept of “healthy city” from the environmental viewpoint and structures the evaluative rudiment of healthy city in Taiwan by referencing the “Healthy City Project” and related cases. Then, the study applies AHP (analytical hierarchy process) method for congruous calculation and consults related scholars and experts in architecture, landscape, urban planning, public health, and environmental planning for extensional evaluation. Finally, based on both objective data and subjective cognition, the study sifts the metropolitan cities in Taiwan (Taipei, Keelung, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan and Kaohsiung) as examples to work out suggestions for the evaluation system According to the assessment on the metropolitan cities, Chiayi is the healthiest city, and Keelung is the worst one. Besides, Kaohsiung is the one with greatest development; however, Taipei is the one with least progress. The purpose of this system is to diagnose all the Taiwan cities under sustainable development, by this means, to suggest applicable development strategies for health cities.