A Study on the Effects of Regional Fragmentation on Urban Performance

• Main Authors: Chih-Wei Hsu, 許值瑋
• Other Authors: Tsai-Chu Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9qazwt

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 土地管理與開發學系碩士班 === 98 === In the trend of globalization, formation and growth of metropolis presents itself as an important characteristic in urbanization process of modern society, it is also the prominent trend of the world’s urbanization in the 21st century. Relevant literatures indicates that a metropolis can have visible or invisible border, that is, urban in a same region with common living space have larger economic environment in stead of each single urban itself. These urban cooperate or compete with each other to continuously promote development of the whole region. Therefore, formation of regional metropolises is not only a trend of this era, but has the ability to enhance performance of each urban. In recent years, our government is heading towards the policy of regional consolidation. There are total 5 regional metropolises, central-governed municipalities, when the Executive Yuan passed the consolidations of Taipei County, Taichung City and County, Tainan City and County, and Kaohsiung City and County. In recent years, “hollow-like” phenomenon emerges in the centers of some cities. Especially when local governments were becoming more powerful and their development were not inclining towards scale-clustering but towards homogeneity. Scatter inclination is more apparent and a phenomenon of “fragmentation” is thus present. “Fragmentation” is an indicator for measuring dispersion of a metropolis through economic or political power, which is used to determine whether a region is developing in centralized or multi-cored manner. In the past, competitiveness used to be rated by analyses of principal component or A.H.P., by calculating various indicators, to figure out explanatory factors among urban. In stead, this study aims to explore performance of urban and so can’t perform calculation with the above method. This study analyzes performances of the three biggest metropolises in Taiwan and cities within them based on statistical data between 1988 and 2007 by adopting 20 indicators within two aspects, economy and politics, and analysis of arithmetic mean, which are both easy and simple for understanding integral variation of these indicators. Empirical results shows that the three metropolises displays a trend of low fragmentation and develop towards centralized mode by the indicator measured with political power, while they display a trend of high fragmentation and develop towards multi-cored mode by the indicator measured with economic power. In addition, regardless of measurement by economic or political aspects, when the fragmentation measured by economic power is higher it is less beneficial for the growth of competitiveness, which displays negative relationship, while the fragmentation measured by political power is higher it is more beneficial for the growth of competiveness, which displays positive relationship.