| Summary: | 碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 都市計畫與空間資訊學系 === 101 === Competitiveness has been an important tool for urban efficiency assessment; the competitiveness of a city becomes focus of public awareness in recent years, where in many findings have been suggested; however, with rapid economic developments and informationreform, a question that how do these cities and counties throughout in Taiwan enhance the competitiveness also become a hot issue in local developments. Viewing crowds of studies made on the competitiveness, indicators were screened and weights were extracted by experts’ questionnaires mostly which the objectivity is influenced by experts and scholars’ selected subjects and subjective consciousness; urban competitiveness indicators involve widely, the indicator leveland secondary fields are not all the same, which likely causeoperationaldifficulties. This study reviewed literatures as to urban competitiveness, selected statistics in the official governmental publications, developed cities &;counties competitiveness index system initially, then, screened index, explored positive and negative relationship between hidden dimensions and indexfactors for the provisions of main component factor feature vectorsas an objective weights of index factor and calculated the overall competitiveness of 19 cities &;counties throughout Taiwan with a specific measurement mode of constructing aggregated scales, then, make a understanding of the pros and cons, along with constrictions in the developments of all cities and counties against the performance of competitiveness.
Indicated from the empirical findings, among the competitiveness indicators of forty-six cities and counties, a total of twenty-eight indicators were screened and fixed dimensions were extracted, wherein that of economic vitality is with the highest weights, while the indicatorfactors such as the proportions the passenger car accounts for, number of medical practitioner per ten thousands and road mileage density had the highest weights, which shows urban Infrastructure and medical services constitute the competitiveness of the cities and counties with significance. In addition, the average area of the floor in total each person lives reflects the properties of city’s high cost of land, which is in reverse relationship to other positive indicators. The results of clustered analysis pool show that Cluster 1 - Taipei city - is an urban area with the most competitive inTaiwan, while member cities in Cluster 2 are all municipalities and quasi-municipalities, wherein Kaohsiung City and New Taipei City are in the second and third place. Indicated from the observations in the Study, cities and counties in Cluster 3 were under absolutely vulnerable status on the point of highest weights generally; except Hsinchu Cityand Hsinchu County, the overall competitiveness was with more advantages, the rest of them were the rural areas more vulnerable ranked behind the middle to the end. At last, integral gap of each cluster were put into comparison where the result indicated that among all resources, that of Taipei City accounts for the most which uneven distribution of resources occurs in other cities and counties, even urban areas; allocation of resources shall be considered more in the future to avoid aggravated gap between urban and rural areas.
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