Globalizing Taipei : the political economy of spatial development /
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, c2005. |
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| Description: | xiv, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Planning, history, and the environment series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5675889 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- The Contributors
- Introduction: Asian Dragons, South China Growth Triangle, Developmental Governance and Globalizing Taipei
- Part 1. Economic and Spatial Restructuring
- Chapter 1. The Evolution of Economic Base: From Industrial City, Post-industrial City to Interface City
- Chapter 2. The Development of Economic Structure: Producer Services and Growth Constraints
- Chapter 3. The Transformation of Spatial Structure: From a Monocentric to a Polycentric City
- Part 2. State and Society Realignment
- Chapter 4. Urban Politics and Spatial Development: The Emergence of Participatory Planning
- Chapter 5. Provision for Collective Consumption: Housing Production under Neoliberalism
- Chapter 6. Domestic Politics in Urban Image creation: Xinyi as the 'Manhattan of Taipei'
- Part 3. Social Differentiation
- Chapter 7. Social Polarization and Income Inequality: Migration and Urban Labour Markets
- Chapter 8. Daily Consumption in a Globalizing City: Food Markets at the Crossroads
- Part 4. Cultural Reorientation
- Chapter 9. Modernization Ideoscape: Imaginative Geography and Aesthetic Landscape in Taipei Rapid Transit System
- Chapter 10. Commentary on the Marginalized Society: The Films of Tsai Ming-Liang
- Postscript: Current Dilemma and Future Uncertainty
- Index