| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 107 === In response to the informal factory controversy, this thesis argues that Agro-land mixed usage should be regarded as a spatial rescaling problem. In Taichung Metropolitan, numerous informal factories surround the core-city. This phenomenon is an Asia style urbanization process, especially in the urban-rural frontier: the desakota region. This study aims to answer: how to position the uneven development of the mosaic urban fringe?
Through article review and fieldwork, this study found that (1) in a densely populated rural area, as the labor pool, these informal factories were once a regulatory strategy of the developmental state. However, (2) in the process of global urbanization, these factories transformed into unwanted facilities which have been propelled to the urban fringe through land pooling process (land readjustment). (3) The transition from the labor pool to land pool, as an extended dimension of urbanization, was neglected in previous urban studies. Thus, we believe that the informal factory controversy is actually the omission of rural development policy.
Meanwhile, my study shows that to expand industrial estate and urban-rural balance, the developmental state had highly participated in the production of these informal factories in the past. Therefore, I suggest that the industrial estate regulation in Taiwan provides a dual supply path for both formal industrial park and informal Agro-land factories. To support the contemporary environmental protection advocacy, we should take the recent controversial issue of “Factories Regulation Act”（工廠管理輔導法） as the institutional succession to the informal industrial estate of the previous era.
Finally, this thesis promotes a dynamic perspective on the urban development history of Taichung metropolitan, which levering a three-stage analysis framework to contemporary “Six Special Municipalities”（六都） governance. The three-stage urbanization is as follows: (1) restriction, (2) expanded, and (3) agglomerated-extended. Our study reveals that the underlying reason for the inadequacy of urban planning disciplines in Taiwan is not incompetent governance, but the lack of city planning image.
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