Community Development in Taiwan:A Case Study of Xinzhu County’s Newman Area

• Main Authors: Szu-Chieh Chen, 陳思潔
• Other Authors: 邱榮舉
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78992720643914233492

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 99 === This study is focus on “Community development” and it uses the area,‘Nei-Wan’as the case study. T hrough many in-depth interviews and the result of the study, they analyze the interactive pattern between government departments, organizations of community departments and the area residents. The study also analyzes the influence brought by the policies of community development. Moreover, the study surveys if the community development of Nei-Wan is provided with the four principles; ‘From bottom to top’, ‘Support itself independently’, ‘Residents’paticipation’and ‘Sustainable development’. The purpose of this study is to understand the process of the community development of Nei-Wan and the issues, difficulties it faces. Furthermore, this study gives the specific proposal for the future development. The study found; there are positive and negative influences of community development in Nei-Wan. They include the aspects of economy and culture. The principal positive influence is the economy aspect. It includes: 1. Bring in more income by commercialization: such as, income of rent, work income and the increase value of land and houses. 2. Young people returning home bring more manpower and energy to the community. 3. Raising the popularity of Nei-Wan and helping developing the industry of tourism. The culture aspect: 1. The operation of the local culture exhibitions: such as, Nei-Wan Theater, Liu-Xing-Qin Comics creation exhibition and forestry exhibition. 2. To popularize biological resources: for instance, lightning bugs, cherry blossoms season and Tung blossom festival. 3. To manifest Hakka culture: such as, Hakkanese creative gourmet, Hakka floral cotton print and Hakka creative industries …etc. 4. The conservation and enhancement of railroad culture and history. The negative influence: 1. Business is the number one concern. People become selfish and it is not good for pushing public affairs. 2. Environment impact: like the issues of trash, noise pollution, air pollution, traffic congestion, illegal construction and venders clutter. 3. Entanglement of benefit and disagreement of sociality. 4. Local consciousness is weakened by over commercialization. The residents develop differences and have difficulty to build up the common view. Through the in-depth interviews, the study concludes six points of the difficulties that Nei-Wan are facing now. 1. Lack of Community main body consciousness and the local characteristics are destroyed by external culture. 2. The streets lose their order and the villages face the construction difficulty. 3. The nature faces the impact caused by commercial developments. 4. Lack of planning manpower. 5. The shopping district is lack of the idea of sustainable management. 6. The urgent integration between local organizations and cultural governance. Therefore, here are concrete procedures for Nei-Wan in the future, include: 1. Establishing the development position firmly 2. Integrating the near neighbor life circle and extend the scale. 3. Government departments should: (1) Bring governing authority and integrate local cultural governance. (2) Build up the platform of communication. (3) Use creation, and find the ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’. 4. The local construction organizations should: (1) Disregard prejudice and open the conversation about cooperation. (2) Maintain the cleanness of the streets and enhance the beauty of shopping environment. (3) Focus on the themes of specialties and manifest the character of Nei-Wan. (4) Train the planning manpower. Through the in-depth interviews and surveys, the study found that although Nei-Wan does not fit in with the four principals, ‘From bottom to top’, ‘Support itself independently’, ‘Residents’paticipation’and ‘Sustainable development’; yet not a failure case. In other words, it is working on this process. Nei-Wan relies on its rich nature, humanities resources and its development in the future is still expectable. On the other hand, local organizations and government departments have started to consider looking for breaking through the situation now. The community development of Nei-Wan is moving forward based on the four principles, ‘From bottom to top’, ‘Support itself independently’, ‘Residents’paticipation’and ‘Sustainable development’.