A Study on Urban Regeneration of Central District of Taichung City

[[abstract]]Since Taiwan has been quite rapid in the nearly half century metropolis development, however ,new-town develops unceasingly and progresses, or old-town itself has not made the complete plan to cause the population offset and being on the decline. In Taiwan, every city needs to be urban renewal. The further explanation, old-town not only to be changed to the new appearance, should also be urban regeneration which is connected to the new trail of economy, society, transportation and politics. From this viewpoint, Central District of Taichung is the area that needs to be urban regeneration. Central District is the core area of Taichung, not only the transportation hub, also the commercial business place and the prosperous picture would not fade. But recent years, the changed commercial type, the narrow alley, the new/old buildings scattered development and not complete public works make the development of the district to be stationary state. In addition, the development of land consideration district of Taichung in recent year makes the suburb, the new business store and transfer the district of culture and education to cause Central District decline and population drain gradually. The city and county of Taichung have already merged to be a Special Municipality. After this merge, Taichung will be the core city and Central District also becomes the core area in position of this city. Central District has the long-developed economy, humanities, transportation and so on should be taken seriously and maintained and to make a complete set of measures. This research mainly discusses urban regeneration of Taichung Central District and, and how can design a set of good development mechanism carefully for the historic urban development. The idea of Urban Regeneration changes not only the appearance of this urban, but also has the consummation mechanism for the economy, the society, the transportation and so on.