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Planning in Taiwan : spatial planning in the twenty-first century / edited by Roger Bristow.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research on Taiwan.
- Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use--Taiwan--Planning.
- Land use.
- City planning--Taiwan.
- City planning.
- Community development--Taiwan.
- Community development.
- Environmental policy--Taiwan.
- Environmental policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As a newly industrialised country with highly successful economic growth and political liberation in a short period of time, Taiwan has been viewed as a model for other aspiring countries and regions. This volume focuses on the connection between planning institution and practice and the country's future in terms of political institutions and economic and environmental sustainability. The book starts by providing a history of planning in Taiwan and situates contemporary Taiwanese planning in the wider global context. The contributors go on to cover challenges to planning, urba
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Taiwan and the global planning debate; 2 Land use planning in Taiwan: A history; 3 Land problems, planning failure, and the pending National Land Planning Law; 4 Institutional evolution and the challenge of urban planning in post-industrial Taiwan; 5 Current planning mechanisms in Taiwan; 6 Community planning; 7 Planning and development of industrial land in Taiwan; 8 Transportation planning in Taiwan; 9 City conservation and the public sphere in Taiwan
- 10 Resource conservation and ecological land use planning in Taiwan11 Planning for natural disasters; 12 Challenges for the twenty-first century; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-99053-4
- 1-136-99054-2
- 1-282-63966-8
- 9786612639661
- 0-203-85443-8
- 9780203854433
- OCLC:
- 642661347
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