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Summary
This book examines the evolution and development pattern of Taipei against a background of increasing globalization, each contributor considering from a different perspective the historical and current trends at work in this key Asian Dragon city.
Table of Contents
Contents | |
Acknowledgements | |
Glossary | |
Illustration Credits and Sources | |
The Contributors | |
Introduction: Asian Dragons, South China Growth Triangle, Developmental Governance and Globalizing Taipei | |
Economic and Spatial Restructuring | |
The Evolution of Economic Base: From Industrial City, Post-industrial City to Interface City | |
The Development of Economic Structure: Producer Services and Growth Constraints | |
The Transformation of Spatial Structure: From a Monocentric to a Polycentric City | |
State and Society Realignment | |
Urban Politics and Spatial Development: The Energence of a Participatory Planning | |
Provision for Collective Consumption: Housing Production under Neoliberalism | |
Domestic Politics in Urban Image Creation: Xinyi as the "Manhattan of Taipei" | |
Social Differentiation | |
Social Polarization and Income Inequality: Migration and Urban Labor Market | |
Daily Consumption in a Globalizing City: Food Markets at the Crossroads Peter | |
Cultural Reorientation | |
Modernization Ideoscope: Imaginative Geography and Aesthetic Landscape in Taipei Rapid Transit System | |
Commentary on the Marginalized Society: Tsai Ming-Liang's Films | |
Postscript: Current Dilemma and Future Uncertainty Reginald | |
Index | |
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