全球經濟中的新空間形式－－北台都會區域的歷史性浮現

The New Spatial Form in the Globalizing Economy: A Historical Emergence of the Polycentric Northern Taiwan Metropolitan Region

本文嘗試以後進者全球生產網絡的觀點，探討北台都會區域之生產者服務業在製造業再結構過程中所鑲嵌的位置，及其空間意涵。研究顯示，北台都會區域在電子業的全球生產網絡中居於中介節點位置，成為具備生產總部／發號司令、運籌管理、以及上游生產研發／製造功能的節點，並隨電子業外移的時空壓縮策略的要求，同時從核心城市－－台北都－－越界及外溢其運籌管理功能的生產者服務業以支撐網絡節點功能，而在空間形態上以台北都與其他次都市及新工業地域，共同形成一組特定功能節點分工的空間尺度單元－－北台都會區域，以功能性多核心都市－區域形態所形成之網絡節點連結上全球網絡之中。研究結論嘗試跨越世界城市體系概念下核心－（半）邊陲的空間組織方式，來認識台北市或台北都會區核心功能之生產者服務業的適當性，並強調以製造業連結上全球區域分工模式來檢視生產者服務業時，必須以其再結構的動態過程作為分析對象，並關照一種網絡化空間分工形態的可能。

This article attempts to explore the role of producer services in Northern Taipei Metropolitan Region (NTMR) and its spatial implication in the restructuring process of manufacturing industry from the viewpoint of global production networks of latecomers. NTMR has played an intermediated node in the global production network of information and electronic industry, performing activities such as command, logistics, R&D, pre-manufacturing and mass-production. Along with the outward investment of the information and electronic industry, the requirement of time-space compression strategies has derived the producer services originally located in the core city, Taipei metropolitan, to invest outward as well to manage cross-border logistics supporting the network node of NTMR. As to the spatial morphology, Taipei metropolitan, some other sub-cores as well as new industrial districts have differentially and jointly formed a functional set of spatial unit, nodal NTMR in terms of polycentric city-region, to connect to global networks. Our research has tried to go beyond the spatial recognition of core-periphery/semi-periphery formation under the concept of world city system. We point out that examination of the core activities, producer services, of Taipei metropolitan should include study of the dynamic restructuring and globalizing process of manufacturing industries, and a network formation of spatial division of labor as well.