Abstract

Introduction: Asian Dragons, South China Growth Triangle, Developmental Governance and Globalizing Part 1: Economic and Spatial Restructuring 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 Constraints 3. The Transformation of Spatial Structure: From a Monocentric to a Polycentric City Part 2: State and Society Realignment 4. Urban Politics and Spatial Development: The Energence of a Participatory Planning 5. Provision for Collective Consumption: Housing Production under Neoliberalism 6. Domestic Politics in Urban Image Creation: Xinyi as the Manhattan of Taipei Part 3: Social Differentiation 7. Social Polarization and Income Inequality: Migration and Urban Labor Market 8. Daily Consumption in a Globalizing City: Food Markets at the Crossroads Part 4: Cultural Reorientation 9. Modernization Ideoscope: Imaginative Geography and Aesthetic Landscape in Rapid Transit System 10. Commentary on the Marginalized Society: Tsai Ming-Liang's Films 11. Postscript: Current Dilemma and Future Uncertainty

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