Abstract

Chung Hsing New Village was built up to ease administrative issues and air defense relocate scheme by the government in 1956. It covers up to 252 hectares by national land and aims to in charge of the essential works of counties, cities and towns of the province. Furthermore, it was the pioneer of urban planning concerned with the development, design of land use and the built environment in Taiwan. Chung Hsing New Village took the case study from Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, included connecting the suburbanization development with compact layouts, low-density development with good public spaces and emphasis on neighborhood unit in the thoughts, to create a functional working environment and public facility as a model of town planning in Taiwan. However, due to the downsizing of the Taiwan provincial government in 1998, most administrative workers were laid off, and yet, the Jiji earthquake damaged lots of buildings in 1999. Despite this, the remarkable value of culture and advanced concept of town planning made Chung Hsing New Village had been listed as cultural landscapes preservation since 12th April 2011, but compare to the other countries’ regulation of cultural landscapes and sustainable environmental preservation framework, the authorities failed to act and lack of big picture caused severe problems like abandoned and ruined, etc. To sum up, this research aims to explore the core value of Chung Hsing New Village environmentally sustainable, follow up with literature review, field investigate and in-depth interview with experts to construct Chung Hsing New Village cultural landscapes. The sustainable development indicators and the weight analysis of analytic hierarchy Process (AHP). Comparing the two results, it demonstrates the value of sustainable development indicators and contributes to the following cohort study of Chung Hsing New Village.

Highlights

  • As was pointed out in the introduction to this paper, during 50 years after Taiwanese government relocated to Chung Hsing New Village, the government consistent the spirit of Chung Hsing to manage the essential works from nationwide, such as press ahead modernisation toward the affluent society

  • The development of pursuing economic growth for a long time leads to the destruction of environmentally sustainable development, for instance, various environmental issues long swept under the carpet came to the fore

  • The public realizes that economic development by the environmental capacity constraints and the issue of sustainable development of the environment gradually

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Introduction

As was pointed out in the introduction to this paper, during 50 years after Taiwanese government relocated to Chung Hsing New Village, the government consistent the spirit of Chung Hsing to manage the essential works from nationwide, such as press ahead modernisation toward the affluent society. In the era of poor livelihoods, the scale of development of Chung Hsing New Village is extraordinary, in a perspective view of the urban plan, took a lesson from the first generation of new town plan in England, Chung Hsing New Village contains a vision to impact and long term plan. The governor of Taiwan Province Mr Tung-Min Hsieh's authorised to took Garden City (England) as an example to improve the rundown rural area a new vision, and Chung Hsing New Village was born; Chung Hsing New Village is where everything began, planning meticulously with blueprints, build up from blueprints, for this urban planning division, the office building and sewage disposal was all designed from the progressive theories. Owing to downsizing the Taiwan provincial government in 1998 and Jiji earthquake damaged lots of buildings in 1999, the year comes after with typhoon brought bullet rains which gradually destroyed houses and environmental resources, lack of environmentally sustainable development and inaccurate mended system from the competent authority, resulting in the characteristic landscape context disappeared, this research aims to propose an environmental sustainable development indicators for competent authority and cohort study

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