{"title":"Synergies between Physical and Electronic Developments: A Case Study of Taipei City","authors":"Wei-Ju, Huang","volume":30,"journal":"International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences","pagesStart":1153,"pagesEnd":1162,"ISSN":"1307-6892","URL":"https:\/\/publications.waset.org\/pdf\/6773","abstract":"It is claimed that a new style of urban planning and\r\npolicy intertwined with ICT is emerging and urban planning and ICT\r\npolicy are no longer considered as separate disciplines. The\r\ninteractions between electronic spaces and urban spaces are so\r\ncomplex and uncertain that confront urban planners and policy makers\r\nwith great challenges. However, the assumption about the relationship\r\nbetween ICT and urban planning is mainly based on North American\r\nand European experiences. In the light of empirical evidence from\r\nTaipei City, this paper shows that this new type of urban planning and\r\npolicy intertwined with ICT has existed in Asian city for a decade as\r\nwell. Based on these results, this paper further reviews how the Taipei\r\nCity government implements this new type of urban ICT planning and\r\nthe validity and realism of its underlying assumptions. Finally, it also\r\nexplores the extent to which urban ICT planning could promote\r\npositive synergies between physical and electronic developments.","references":"[1] M. Castells, The Rise of the Network Society, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell,\r\n2000, ch6.\r\n[2] S. Graham and S. Marvin, Telecommunications and the City. New York:\r\nRoutledge, 1996, ch8 and ch9.\r\n[3] S. Graham and S. Marvin, \"Planning Cyber-Cities? Integrating\r\nTelecommunications into Urban Planning,\" Town Planning Review, Vol.\r\n70(1), pp. 89-114, January 1999.\r\n[4] Innovation. Integration. Internationalisation. iN2015 Steering\r\nCommittee of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, pp.15,\r\n2006.\r\n[5] u-KOREA Master Plan, the Ministry of Information and Communication\r\nRepublic of Korea, pp.16, 2006.\r\n[6] 100 Questions about Wireless Taipei, Taipei City Government, 2007.\r\n[7] 2008 Taipei City Annual Statistics Report, Taipei City Government,\r\n2008.\r\n[8] R. M. Rooij, The Mobile City: The Planning and Design of the Network\r\nCity from a Mobility Point of View, Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Urbanism,\r\nFaculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, ,\r\npp.108-109, 2005.\r\n[9] S. Graham, \"The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place?\r\nConceptualizing Space, Place and Information Technology,\" Human\r\nGeography, Vol. 22(2), pp.165-185, 1999.\r\n[10] S. Graham, \"The Software-Sorted City: Rethinking the \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffDigital Divide-,\"\r\nin The Cybercities Reader. New York: Routledge, pp.324-331, 2004.\r\n[11] D. Kruger, \"Access Denied,\" in The Cybercities Reader. New York:\r\nRoutledge, pp.320-323, 2004.\r\n[12] M. Castells, \"Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of\r\nUrbanism in the Information Age,\" in The Cybercities Reader. New York:\r\nRoutledge, pp.83-95, 2004.\r\n[13] C. C. Liao, The Politic-economic Analysis of Wireless City: A Case Study\r\nof WiFly Taipei, M.Sc. dissertation, Dept. Communication & Graduate\r\nInstitute of Telecommunications, National Chung Cheng University,\r\nTaiwan, 2007.\r\n[14] K. Lynch, \"The Openness of Open Space,\" in Arts of the Environment.\r\nNew York: George Braziller, pp. 108-109, 1972.\r\n[15] The Investigation of Contemporary Wireless Broadband Use and Future\r\nDemand in Taiwan, Taiwan Network Information Center, Taipei, 2008.\r\n[16] M. Francis, Urban Open Space: Designing for User needs, Washinton:\r\nIsland Press, 2003.\r\n[17] J. Gold, \"Fishing in Muddy Waters: Communications Media,\r\nHomeworking and the Electronic Cottage,\" in Collapsing Space and\r\nTime: Geographic Aspects of Communication and Information. London:\r\nHarper-Collins Academic, pp.327-341, 1991.","publisher":"World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology","index":"Open Science Index 30, 2009"}