Chung Hsing New Village is one of the first
urbanization project and also the greatest of its kind in Taiwan since it was
designed when Taiwan restoration in 1949. Therefore its value of preservation
is obvious. The importance of Chung Hsing New Village’s urbanization then
became the model of the other places of Taiwan. The urbanization has offered a
variety of service from education, medical, diet, recreation, and to the end of
life. What is the most special and worth preserving are its main office
buildings and the neighborhood organization. According to Yaw-Hwa Liou(2009), Chung
Hsing New Village is now applying for world heritage qualified by United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization. First, it displays the conflict
relationship between Taiwan and China. Moreover, the buildings of official
accommodation are built according English constructing concept, garden city.
Green resources are abundant, which is a featured urbanization plan.
Central
Science Park has been on planning fifth developing in Chung Hsing New Village since
2009. Although it faced a wave of opposite sounds, it still entered Chung Hsing
New Villageand has built a large complex of industrial park. However, according
to Central Science Park’s construction history, a large part of the
construction is not fully utilized. If Central Science Park wants to expand its
land across Chung Hsing New Village, the worry about the same situation might
occur. Therefore, the planning of industrial park is doubtful. What’s more, the
development might destroy the cultural heritages without carefully land
surveying.
Some of the opposition groups to Central Science
Park cited Village Preservation Act to promote importance of preservation of
local cultural heritages, social convention, daily life-style, urban landscape
and so on. Nevertheless, Chung Hsing New Village’s 50 years of history seemed insufficient
to the officials to support the concept of “preservation”, not to mention there
are quite numbers of towns and villages older than Chung Hsing New Village are
currently under urban renewal evaluation for future revival and industrial
upgrades.
Apparently,
the locals of Chung Hsing New Village and government can’t establish mutual
commitment. Now, the first priority is to gather two sides and survey the
village whatever houses, roads, sidewalks, children parks, any kinds of
historical and cultural construction. And then, the host of Public Television
Video Production (2011, November) said that the second step is to draw a
detailed blueprint including how to expand the land of industrial park without
destroying them. There is one thing that should not be forgotten: the impact of
the value of cultural heritage on the locals and Taiwan. Both sides should keep
this in mind to accomplish Chung Hsing New Village’s ideal future.
Reference
Yaw-Hwa Liou (2009). The Imagined Space
for Chung Hsing New Village to Apply for World
Heritage. Retrieved from http://subtpg.tpg.gov.tw/web-life/taiwan/9802/9802-13.html
Public Television Video Production (2011,
December). Our Island-- Chung Hsing New Village’s
Revival. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH2jNpCVMpU
Public Television Video Production
(2011, November). Is Chung Hsing New Village going to
become an advanced industrial
park? Scholars call for preservation of its cultural heritages.
Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1JeJ8W0GcA
Chu-Shu Chuan (2009, November). Chung
Hsing New Village is going to become an advanced
industrial park. Citizen
Journalism. Retrieved from http://www.peopo.org/news/42786
It is really clear to convey your concerning about Chung Hsing New Village which is situated in your hometown. You mention the large part about the importance of the culture heritage in Chung Hsing New Village. However, this village faces the challenge of developing of Central Science Park in this place.so I understand that you would like to preserve the original environment of it. Maybe you can focus on culture heritage of this village and introduce more features of this culture heritage. Besides, I would like to know more about the concrete negative results of developing Science Park to native people or environment. Or can the village combine two different styles to become modern and old cultural heritage? I am curious about it.
回覆刪除You just made a great research in Taiwanese cultural issue and the meaning behind the event. Apart from discussing the combat between government and Chung Hsin New village, it's suggested to put more focus on the value and sustainable profit of the village. Although it's worth being protected as a featured historic monument, actually speaking, we still need to verify the potential of Chung Hsing New Village and its future value for Taipei city. With further supporting ideas and proof, I believe it'll make the village more convincible to be protected and maintained.
回覆刪除Your topic is really impressing me because it's what happen right now beside you and I can see that how you care about this project and want to reach a solution. From your article, it seems that Central Science Park is the murder of culture value of Chung Hsing New Village, which is part of urbanization. I think traditional village (also called military dependent's village) go through renovation is inevitable. There's also many examples in Taiwan facing this process, yet except appealing people to have sightseeing here, how to persevere culture heritage is much important and urgent. I suggest that you can find more examples of villages that have same situation as your town. You can also make comparison. Hope it will deepen your theory. I'm looking forward a solution to it.
回覆刪除I am pretty impressed by the thorough research you did for your issues paper. It presents a clear background understanding for those who were not familiar with the history of Chung Hsing New Village and the ongoing process of the Central Science Park. But, what is the main reason for you to write about problems Chung Hsing New Village struggles with？is it the cultural heritage you wished to preserved？Or is it the importance of Chung Hsing New Village’s urbanization you want to emphasize？
回覆刪除If you want to mainly focus on the preservation of historical heritage, I think you can refer to other examples. Such as Xinyi Public Assembly Hall, which is known as Four Four South Village publicly, and It was also once a military dependent's village. To compare the differences and similarities between, and also you can take those example's result as a solution to the problem of Chung Hsing New Village.
I think you had read lots of resources to get these information. It’s very clear, complete and including a wide variety of aspects historical data. However, I consider that the annotation seems like an introduction about the whole Chung Hsing New Village. So, maybe you can try to focus on certain points that you had mentioned in your annotation and discuss on them more complete. Beside, I am interested in the term you had mentioned that: garden city. Therefore I type the term on google getting some pictures and offer the link here. Hope can help others also have interest in garden city to know more about the style of garden city.
回覆刪除garden city:
回覆刪除https://www.google.com/search?hl=zh-tw&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=799&q=garden+city&oq=garden+city&gs_l=img.3..0i19l10.4473.8264.0.8514.11.8.0.3.3.0.440.1484.0j3j1j1j1.6.0....0...1ac.1.55.img..2.9.1498.HXrSTzcixMk#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=ux8xT7uWI_YTMM%253A%3BUum0wmztP1e0kM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.letchworth.com%252Fsites%252Fdefault%252Ffiles%252Fimages%252Fthree-magnets.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.letchworth.com%252Fnode%252F685%3B756%3B815
This issue is fairly important in Taiwan since many places with cultural significance are faced with the same problem. As you provide us with the issue, perhaps you would also like to find some resolutions to the problem? There is always a question: can economic development and environment protection be balanced? I think here we can replace environment protection as cultural heritage. Can the cultural heritage in Chung Hsing New Village be valued as the amount of money? Why is it so important to protect it? Any personal emotions involved? I think you can also find out whether there are any related social groups that are devoted to protect local cultural heritage, and study how they do it.
回覆刪除Nowadays, more and more places are facing such problem in Taiwan. It is important to learn how to strike a balance between improvement and preservation not only to the government but also to any member of citizen of this island, for such problem may happen anywhere, anytime. It is always so hard to decide whether is more superior and important, not to mention when it happen in your own hometown. You have gathered great information about the issue, and what make me curious is that whether if you are going to stand into a single position in this issue, or just report them in a relatively objective viewpoint. Both can be great style of expository writing, I think.
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