Media Industry and Urban Development--The Taipei case

• Main Authors: Sung-Sheng Chen, 陳頌聖
• Other Authors: Tsu-Lung Chou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23400469872751080059

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 都市計劃研究所 === 88 === With the democratic improvement and the diversification of the political and economic environment in Taiwan, the chance for Taiwan to get touch with the world is increasing. Taiwan is also accepted to the global competitive system. “The media industry”, belonging to the field of the Modern Culture Industry, plays an important role of spreading information. Not only does it control the development of the management function of urban politics, economy, and social culture, but also helps improve urban advantage. From the view of the present status of Taiwan’s media, it is found that most media is concentrated in Taipei, and tells us that there is some connections between the urban development and media. Besides, the Taiwan media in the world-wide Chinese market have a lot of competitive advantages. However, there is little research that is related to urban media development, space planning, the spatial development strategy and the industrial policy. Therefore, this research is based on the importance of the media industry improving the urban management function. From the angle of industry and spatial development, it discusses the interaction between the media and urban development. By focusing on the present status of spatial development of media industry in Taipei, it analyzes the reason and attribute of the industrial concentration. According to the advantage of Taiwan’s media, it also suggests the spatial strategy for the industrial development to improve the global competitive advantages of Taiwan or Taipei. This research is analyzed by the related statistic material and in-depth interview. First, it compares the managemental function of Taiwan’s major cities. It is found that the managemental level of Taipei is the highest. This provides a good circumstance for media. As a result, industrial “centralization” concentrates in Taipei. However, because of the differences in urban hierarchy and information attibutes, different media is characterized as “hierarchicalization.” The spatial centralization of the media industry in Taipei is not only caused by the conglomeration economies, but also by the non-economic factors, including the networked interaction, the relationship between the social group, the spatial concentration of the media, and embeddedness phenomena are formed. According to Taiwan’s competitive advantages of media in world-wide Chinese market, the results discussed to policy implications of the spatial planning to for the media industry and suggest the role of government .