Globalizing Taipei : the Political Economy of Spatial Development.
Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. "Globalizing Taipei" looks at this "Asian Dragon", a major city in the South China Growth Triangle and a centre for transnational production, revealing how the development of this capital has receive...
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Taylor & Francis
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover
- Half Title
- Series Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Introduction: Asian Dragons, South China Growth Triangle, Developmental Governance and Globalizing Taipei
- 1. The Evolution of Economic Base: From Industrial City, Post-Industrial City to Interface City
- 2. The Development of Economic Structure: Producer Services and Growth Restraints
- 3. The Transformation of Spatial Structure: From a Monocentric to a Polycentric City
- 4. Urban Politics and Spatial Development: The Emergence of Participatory Planning
- 5. Provision for Collective Consumption: Housing Production Under Neoliberalism
- 6. Domestic Politics in Urban Image Creation: Xinyi as the 'Manhattan of Taipei'
- 7. Social Polarization and Income Inequality: Migration and Urban Labour Markets
- 8. Daily Consumption in a Globalizing City: Food Markets at the Crossroads
- 9. Modernization Ideoscape: Imaginative Geography and Aesthetic Landscape in Taipei Rapid Transit System
- 10. Commentary on the Marginalized Society: The Films of Tsai Ming-Liang
- Postscript: Current Dilemma and Future Uncertainty
- Index.