A Study on the Governance of City-region

• Main Authors: WEI.SSU-CHUAN, 魏思全
• Other Authors: 陳博雅
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96837470076368295704

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 建築及都市計畫研究所 === 96 === Under the pressure of competition among global cities, city-region has become the primary concern of regional planning in the future. For the past few years in China, cities such as Shanghai and Beijing have been vigorously opened up and several provinces and cities have been amalgamated into big administrative jurisdiction. In Japan, a wide-area administration is under practice, while SMR project is adopted in South Korea. These new concepts and approaches have introduced new possibility to the development of city-region. As for Taiwan, with the building of High Speed Rail, the west corridor is expected to become a belt of Megalopolis. The function and orientation of Regional Planning Act is challenged for its adaptability to the fast change. Taiwan’s city-regional governance, therefore, has become a priority in policy-making. In retrospect, city-regional governance has showed its broadness and diversity in research on governance. Instead of planning of a single city, regional governance within the network of megalopolis is more integrated in the policy of development distribution. The process of integration and absorption requires participation, corporation and coordination from many aspects, and it is expected to connect the development of megalopolis with global system. Because national land planning lacks legal status in Taiwan, integration of planning between different departments has been less effective, and the development of megalopolis is deferred due to laggard action and realization of financial and administrative institutions. Under the competition among global cities, however, the spatial governance and cooperation in megalopolis regions is gradually de-localized, and there has been more trans-city cooperation. Despite of lack of related legal resources, current Regional Planning Act is available for governance of megalopolis regions. Besides, National Planning Act, which conducts appropriate cooperative system between central and local government, should be quickly enacted to effectively enforce construction in megalopolis regions. As we can learn from the experiences of the three main megalopolises in East Asia, local governments in China are entitled a great deal of planning right and financial autonomy, which boost Shanghai and other cities in Yangtze River Delta areas to compete, instead of cooperation, to form the biggest megalopolis in China. In Tokyo, wide-area administration, such as wide-area agreement committee, is designed to solve the administrative need generated from trans-regional governance. In South Korea, Seoul is entitled as a special city, which enjoys the redistribution of limits of authority and finance between central and local government to raise local financial revenue. Besides, a joint fund is established to effectively execute resolutions passed by administrative committee of the capital, and a dispute mediation committee is institutionalized to solve conflicts concerning development in the region. This research adopts the concept of institutional thickness to emphasize the strategic partnership relationship in co-governance of megalopolis. Through the conduct from the central government, local participation, and creation of common vision, co-governance of megalopolis may develop common vision of future, and form an important space in the competitive international arena. This research will advance advices as follow: first, megalopolis planning should have a definite status in terms of conduct and coordination in the National Land Planning Act in the future. Second, spatial planning in the city-region should be integrative, conductive and functional. Last but not the least, industrial space planning in the city-region should be guided by central government and jointly led by local government, combining public and private sectors to create win-win of co-governance in city-region.