英文摘要 |
Taipei’s North and South Wartime Airfields were abandoned after World War II and transformed into two types of housing clusters signifying modernist planning. Since the 1960s, the major part of the South Airfield (or South Airport, Nan-Ji-Chang) was made over into a big urban park while a greater expansion of the adjacent landscape was built up into a series of high-density resettlement and public housing. Comparatively, the third runway of the North Airfield was gradually filled in with military-dependents villages of various scales, and its vast adjoining land at the north became the first master-planned Min-Sheng Community with modern public facilities and green infrastructure connecting neighborhood parks and green alleyways amongst walkup flats. These two post-airport planning paradigms shaped different urban forms and the urban life therein. Though disarticulated from the physical contexts of the airfields, the vestige of military culture is traceable from the modern-day urban fabrics. This research explores the processes and structural causes of the landscape transformation of the two airfields and their contiguous environments after their closures. By comparing with the regeneration mechanisms of other shutdown airports all over the world, it also delves into the contention of urban meanings and the political wrestling for the release of substantial open spaces, and further reflects on the practical experiences of different urban design theories implemented in Taipei’s post-airport spaces. |