TY - JOUR
T1 - CITY-COUNTY CONSOLIDATION AND THE (RE)CONCEPTUALISATION OF URBAN-RURAL PLANNING
T2 - A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TAICHUNG CITY AND TAINAN CITY, TAIWAN
AU - Huang, Wei Ju
N1 - Funding Information:
The research is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, R.O.C. under Grant no. MOST105-2410-H-006-001 and no. MOST 106-2410-H-006-091.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - The Taiwanese central government views city-county consolidations as an effective method to strengthen national competitiveness and to balance regional development. But for local governments, consolidation presents a series of planning challenges, especially in relation to the reconstruction of planning concepts and discourses in their new territories. Aiming to understand the process, this study first proposes a typology of regional planning concepts as a conceptual tool to explore whether and how the consolidated governments (re)construct their urban-rural planning concepts, and then it examines the factors that may influence (re)conceptualisation through a comparative study of Taichung City and Tainan City. The research results show that overemphasis on using the concept of competitive city regionalism to balance regional development at the national level may lead to a widening of rural-urban disparities at regional and local levels.
AB - The Taiwanese central government views city-county consolidations as an effective method to strengthen national competitiveness and to balance regional development. But for local governments, consolidation presents a series of planning challenges, especially in relation to the reconstruction of planning concepts and discourses in their new territories. Aiming to understand the process, this study first proposes a typology of regional planning concepts as a conceptual tool to explore whether and how the consolidated governments (re)construct their urban-rural planning concepts, and then it examines the factors that may influence (re)conceptualisation through a comparative study of Taichung City and Tainan City. The research results show that overemphasis on using the concept of competitive city regionalism to balance regional development at the national level may lead to a widening of rural-urban disparities at regional and local levels.
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U2 - 10.24306/TrAESOP.2021.01.003
DO - 10.24306/TrAESOP.2021.01.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85168817273
SN - 2566-2147
VL - 5
SP - 23
EP - 39
JO - Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning
JF - Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning
IS - 1
ER -