Negotiating Urban Greening Through Housing Development: Stakeholders and Sociospatial Strategies in a Municipality-Led Eco-Building Programme

Abstract

ABSTRACT Existing studies neglect the state-society relations in urban greening, particularly as mediated by residential greening practices. This article fills this gap by investigating the Taichung City Liveable Building (TCLB) programme as a case study of municipality-led eco-housing development, detailing how a municipal government and the real estate sector may collaborate to develop specific housing complexes that incorporate abundant vertical greenery into their built forms. Drawing upon the territory, place, scale, and network (TPSN) framework, this study explores how stakeholders negotiate the politics of greening interventions able to balance competing interests, and it parses out housing-facilitated greening strategies informed by the planning and development of TCLBs. This article reveals the polymorphic power relations deployed around the regime and practices of eco-housing production, suggesting how heterogeneous stakeholders with seemingly disparate aspirations can indeed collaborate to negotiate urban greening through housing development. The conclusions reiterate the significance of this case study and summarize policy takeaways.