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This thesis researches Taiwanese residential patterns and development after 2nd World War, and the problems and development emerged from the particular context within socio-economic background, and promoted residential policies that matches particular conditions set by public department. Consequently, only put residential problems and residential policies under scrutiny of socio-economic background can we realize how they actually reflect the special background and mechanism that cause them. So as the relationship between the development of residential polices in and political economy in I-Lan County in the period of 1990s-2001. With the growth of population from 1945, Taiwan government has faced the problems of balancing residential demand and supply. The residential investment has been shifted from a few public housing to properties of rich people. Regional planning which aims not at intervening economy in developed countries is that the incompetent urban and regional policies construct a downcast living environment. Not until the 80s did the institutional system of regional planning try to solve the problem completely. Geographical features of I-Lan County are correspondent with a low developed economy and slow population growth; however, it has also stopped I-Lan county from over-urbanizing, by which I-Lan has become a better place for living than the rest places in Taiwan. In the early 1980s, with the political transferring, between the choices of regional and economic development, DPP had slowed down the extension of living problems, and had also awaken people’s consciousness of environment, and thereby set a special mold of “I-Lan experience”. In the age of post-industrialization and globalization, and also faced politic-economy changes in the 90s, the residential problems that I-Lan county now confronts are different from the ones in the past. Rich public facilities are the capital for the development of I-Lan housing policies, but which also arise new problems such as over-extension of residence. With the integrity of urban systems, local government hatches new policies by the assistance of cultural consciousness and decrees and policies. From the subsidies to housing type to the limit of building height, and the intervention and discussion of high building, local government has shown a nuclear consciousness. In the period of 1994-2001, local government seemed to shape and practices the consumption of “cultural identification” by the planning of “I-Lan general plan” and specific practice of ”County Government Center Plan” plus environment consciousness summoned by culture. Cases of “I-Lan regional house” actually lead to culture representation. The series from big scale to small spot actions have displayed local government as an actor of region economy to shape an imagination for “peculiar people” from general Taipei region. Residential policy solves the living problems under political and economic change by the concrete plan and culture identification. It reaches the goal of controlling the living environment and residential landscape, but still compares with cultural symbolic attempt to tourism industry promotion. The urban planning has fallen to “material” distribution fantasy, and failed to have a dialogue with “life”.
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