Self-organization of Homebuilding Industry in Kaohsiung City

• Main Authors: Ya-Hui Chang, 張雅惠
• Other Authors: Horng-Chang Hsieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97259474450637900702

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 都市計劃學系碩博士班 === 96 === Due to flee of industries out of Kaohsiung in recent years, the land used to be enclosed as industrial parks had been transformed into other uses. Except for public constructions, the released land is used by developer into various kinds of buildings / uses. In this paper, the author tried to explore the adaptation of homebuilding industry in Kaohsiung to the external changes and observe how the industry has changed its operation for survival in the point of view of Self Organization. Urban development is subject to the influence of planning specialists, government and developers. Also, residence is a shelter of citizens of the city and new buildings are mostly of residential building and they take many different roles to involve and to play. They include building contractors, developer, advertising agent and promoters and many other professional services. They may be regarded as one category of industry. Homebuilding industry is a local industry and is always encountering changes in external environment and the changes also affect the roles played by certain partakers in the industrial chain. The change may cause changes to operations of the entire production chain, so is the network. In this research, it is found that between 1979 and 2006, the homebuilding industry has undergone two self-organizations, i.e. between 1987 and early part of 1991 and between 2000 and 2002. Due to the economic downturn and changes in legislations and policy, industry has to self-organized to meet with external impacts.