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The Birth of Park 1

The Establishment of the Local Authority of the "Park”in Taipei

After the "Taipei Outline Program" was proposed in 1968 after the restructuring of Taipei
City government, the population of Taipei City grew rapidly and the demand for recreational
area increased in the same time. In order to accelerate the development of parks, green spaces
and streetlights works, the administrative level of the park was upgraded in 1971. The formal
establishment of the "Taipei City Government Public Works Department Parks and Street
Lights Office" was responsible for the construction and maintenance of parks and green
spaces. This office enabled the parks establishments more systematic. From 1972 to 1980, 106
community neighborhood parks and children's playgrounds were completed. They located
mainly in Songshan, Zhongshan and Da'an districts. There are more than 20 neighborhood
parks in the Minsheng community, and the largest among those is the "Central Park" (now the
Minsheng Park) built in 1973.

Promotion of National Sports and Social Education in Park Activities

In 1953, instructed by the President Chiang Kai-Shek, the National Tourism and Recreation
activities were listed as important national policy to advocate social psychological health of the
people, promote sports, strengthen social ethics, develop tourism industry and shape positive
momentum in the society through national recreational activities, and pay more attention to
the development of mental and physical of the youth. Considering the lack of a venue for
youth activities in Taipei city, the government decided to take back the land planned for golf
course parks in front of Sueiyuen Road. In 1975, it was built as a youth park with themes of
youth activities., it is about 23 hectares and about 9.8 hectares for Riverside Park. Before the
Daan Forest Park was opened, it was the largest park in downtown Taipei.

Youth Park holds a fun contest.
Source: National Humanities
Research Center, National
Taiwan University. "New National
Cultural Database." 2010. http://
doi.org/10.6681/NTURCDH.
DB_NRCH/Collection
/ Collection by the Press Council
of the Executive Yuan.
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