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Taipei

Greening UP ark

In addition, due to the occupation of the reserved parks sites in the early stage, the lack of
government levy and the budget for the development of the park, the parks lands in Taipei
City at this stage were difficult to obtain and insufficient in supply. It was no longer easy to
obtain large-scale additions except for the parks retained during the Japanese occupation
period. These difficulties pushed the authorities to gradually classify the scenic spots outside the
urban plan, expand the urban planning area into scenic spots, use reserve areas and riversides to
promote recreational activities. Setting up a children's playground in each residential area was
considered as a principle development policy too. However, because the existence of many old
developed areas in Taipei were virtually under qualified that made it impossible to achieve this
goal. Instead, a schoolchildren's walkway is established between the school and the children's
playroom, and the alleys, lanes and streets were used as greening spaces to make up the
shortage of children's playgrounds in the residential area.

Introduction of the Concept of Neighborhood Unit Parks Planning
Concept

Because the long-term planning and development of parks had not been able to cope with
local development, the living quality in the city was difficult to improve. The expansion of
the city based on no blueprint. The elevating environmental awareness had also made Taipei
citizens notice the deterioration of the urban environmental quality. In the early 1960s, Taipei
City Government tried to solve the increasingly serious urban problems. In 1966, under the
guidance of the United Nations Metropolitan Planning Commission, the government took
the British concept of “Garden City” as an example, brought in ideas of neighborhood parks
to build a new community. The planning theories, concepts and technical methods in Europe
and the United States were introduced, including the new town plan, residential district
neighborhood project and so on, to influence the development of urban parks.

The proposed operational strategy for the neighborhood unit
planning policy was to assign a playground, a small park or a large
reserved recreation land in the neighborhood of each community
(each small unit in the neighborhood), and the school was the center
of the whole neighborhood. Together with the parks and playgrounds
in the surroundings form a neighborhood center. The neighborhoods,
community centers and the houses can be connected by sidewalks
and bicycle lanes, so that students could walk to school or park of
the center of the neighborhood unit without crossing busy roads. In
Minsheng Community Neighborhood Park.
addition to building a new style community, city government also
Source: National Humanities Research
worked hard to improve old community environment and create Center, National Taiwan University. "New
National Cultural Database." 2010. http://
communities that emphasize community park setting and street doi.org/10.6681/NTURCDH.DB_NRCH/
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greening.
of the Executive Yuan.
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