| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 建築學系 === 92 === Rising from the remote area of an ancient empire to become a multi-content region with edges of international competition, Taiwan has experienced three periods of sovereignty, the political cross-sections that influenced Taiwan most. Under such historical evolution, this thesis tries to retrospect the nucleus origin of metropolitan phenomenon emerging gradually from Taipei, Hsinchu and I-lan. These three cities become the modern models of postwar period, transforming from non-prime areas with later city building. Their drastic changes represent the space reflection through center transition, and the city ambition under various dominating forces through the process of modernity implementation to be studied. The heterogeneous problems between the blueprint of idealism and the operation of realism are also discussed for phenomenal reinterpretation, as introspection for the next reconstruction of these postcolonial cities.
Since three hundred years ago, Taiwan has developed the community formation in the order of city centers, initially from self-motivated reclamation, a trading system of firms and religious believes. The entering of Japanese colonial movement ushered in the era of global modern system for Taiwan. During this period, by imitating the urban planning in Western Europe, the renovating operation of urban areas broke up city boundaries, and the construction of new governing institutions and public infrastructure became the origin of city center turnover for the first time. Meanwhile, in the process of space production under modern system, a progressive living style is provided for the living place of ethnic groups under segregated education. Such an urban structure, forced to depart from the traditional community and controlled under equilibrium, seemingly became the fundamental basis for continuous postwar development.
In the beginning of takeover by Nationalist Government, the city development was almost stopped because the planning technique was not followed up and the population growth was not efficiently controlled. After American aids were introduced, however, the development resumed integration. The international situation at that time indicated clearly that, the Taiwan issue was to be solved with the industrial economy as the prime push for the operation of national mechanism. Therefore, the economical domination wrapped behind the national regime of colonial period began to play an important role. Under this background, the movement of city center turnover for the second time was implemented in the three cities with different environmental conditions, through Hsin-I Project Area, Science Park and the county government relocation of total project. At the same time, the movement served as a typical foundation for the nourishment of modern elements. In the whole process of advancement, however, new issues of society, space and economy were added to the inside of cities. To repair these broken city segments, new vessel nodes were spread out in wider areas to be enhanced by stimulation. Also, projects of city renovation penetrated the old sections for revival transformation, hoping to inject new functions and interlocked actions as a measure to rejuvenate cities. In this wave of reconstruction process, Taipei, Hsinchu and I-lan learned from one another for complement, and were linked under a substantial system through TOD (Traffic Oriented Development) to set up a metropolitan relationship of two corridors with Taipei as the hub. The central value that was originally based on cities as units, are now transformed to the status dominated by regional strong points. The ever-clear functionally diversified mode of metropolitan region remains tightly connected with the system of global capital, and will become another space presentation to realize modernity.
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