| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 96 === The industrial estate, especially that of large-scale industrial parks, has shaped the landscape of Urban Industrial Zones in these twenty years. The power for redeveloping industrial lands, however, was far from natural processes of transition and progression in industry. Rather, it was real estate activities planed and produced new spaces that contributed to the geographical restructuring of industry in northern Taiwan.
Taipei County has for last fifty years been the major industrial areas. However, compact uses of factory spaces become necessary under the raging land prices. Been the urban plan without fiscal sources and development devices, the zoning system has long been out of control. The responsibility of the State’s support of infrastructure and spaces for industrial use has partly transferred to real estate companies to make profits. The State’s powers were reduced to making regulations more flexible and open to attract investments. In this research, the redevelopment of industrial spaces is the process of ‘spatial fix’: crisis of urban industrial space being relaxed by way of the production of new space. To resolve the problem of industrial space, the answer is further urbanization of it. 1987 were the year that raging prices real estate induced the first urban and spatial crisis; 1993 is another crisis that endows Warehousing and Logistics industries the legitimacy to locate in Urban Industrial Zones. Development companies went an extra mile arguing that Urban Industrial Zones open to the industrial estate.
Chung-Ho City became the battlefront of this second wave of spatial fix. But this time the demand for industrial estate has dropped so that ‘industrial housing’ – the illegal housing in industrial zones – prevailed soon after. No doubt, local interest groups have played an important part in this game. In this respect, the conflicts of power and geographical uneven development shaped the face of industrial space. The responsibility and power of state was taken by development companies and local interest groups followed ties to make profits. Urban industrial zones were gradually dominated by real estate activities, therefore eliminating sharpened urban crisis and then foreshadowing another.
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