Author: Sheng-huei Ueng
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-87-03
Year: 1987
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1996
Examination Committee: R. W. Archer (Chairperson); Hans Detlef Kammeier, A.T.M. Nurul Amin (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Taiwan has been confronted with many urbanization problems for its rapidly increasing urban populations such as insufficient public facilities, traffic congestion and housing shortage. To achieve progressive orderly urban development for a planned pattern of urban land use and an adequate supply of urban land, the government can use the Land Readjustment (LR) and Zone Expropriation (ZE) techniques as possible approaches. The LR technique is already widely used to improve urban development and land supply, whereas the ZE technique is a new technique. ZE being implemented in Taiwan as a combined compulsory land acquisition and land development measure by government. ZE can help government to acquire more land (60 % of a ZE project area) for government purposes as compared to the LR technique that allows government to acquire 45 % of a LR project area. ZE can provide both public facility land and additional building land for government project purposes such as ‘ low-middle income’ housing, etc. In 1993, based on the national land policy, local governments began the ‘Five Year Plan for Implementing ZE Projects in Taiwan Province’ (1993/1997). This program aimed to develop 25 projects (total area 3,330 ha) for ‘low-middle income’ housing by using ZE for the acquisition of additional land for government housing development so as to decrease the housing shortage and to implement its housing policy. Based on the layout plans, the Program (of 25 ZE projects) in Taiwan is financially and technically viable for local government and economically viable for the landowners. The present study focuses on another project, the Hsinchu County ZE project as a case study because it is the first case of applying the ‘equivalent-value land’ concept for ZE and because it was completed in 1989, it provides experience of the building development after the project land was returned to the landowners. As it was completed seven years ago, many of the existing landowners are different from the original landowners tlu
Scholarship Donor(s): Taiwan Provincial Government, R.O.C.
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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