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Taipei

Greening UP ark

The 8th park had changed the most up to date. It covered a total area of 59.9 hectares, now the
Guting Riverside Park, Hakka Culture Theme Park, Water Source House, Yinchiao Middle
School, the Old Tri-Service General Hospital (alternative service center), the surroundings of
the Jiahe New Village and the National Taiwan University Water Source Campus (formerly
the National Defense Medical College). It was a famous children's sports park in Taipei,
called Kawabata Park, during the Japanese ruling period. Although few people have heard
of this park, at the time of the establishment of the park, various parties in Taipei City were
required to set up different kinds of amusement facilities voluntarily. They are an official sumo
wrestling ring, a fishing pond, boat rowing water, baseball field and horse racecourses (Kawabata
racecourse), but they disappeared after the war.

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1. 1932 Taipei City Planning Street and Park Map.
(before the construction of the No. 8 Park )
2. Aerial view of the US Army Chuanrui Park in 1945.
(plan of the Kawabata Park before the war in 1938)
3. Taipei City Street in 1977 After the war, the
Kawabata Park disappeared and the land use turned.
Source: GIS Special Center of the Academia Sinica
Center (2018). [online] Taiwan's 100-year history map.
Available at: http://gissrv4.sinica.edu.tw/gis/twhgis/
[Accessed Date].

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Review on Anti-Air-Raid Field for Retaining Certain Proportions for Parks
and Green Spaces at the Beginning of the Republic

In the early days after the R.O.C. Government came to Taiwan, the government began to
review the usage of Anti-Air-Raid sites that set up during the Japanese occupation period. The
government had to deal with the influx of large population in Taipei. Also, it had to work on
the constructions recovering from the war, the cityscape, and promotion for tourism industry
for Taipei. In 1947, with the city beautification project, the Beimen Square was converted into
Beimen Park. In 1947, the Wanhua Park was built out of an Anti-Air-Raid site.

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