Research Express@NCKU - Articles Digest
Research Express@NCKU Volume 15 Issue 9 - October 29, 2010
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The Research on an Evaluation Framework of
Indicator System for a Liveable Urban District :
Regeneration of Taiwanese Old Urban Centres
Hsien-Hsin Cheng
*, Chao-Chih Lin
Dept. of Urban Planning, NCKU [email protected]NCKU Landmark Project《C0174》
T
aiwanese old urban centres have experienced deterioration under theimpact of urban sprawl and suburbanization since 1980’s. Some serious urban core development problems are obvious, such as the inappropriate conventional mixed use, the traffic burden of historical blocks, the chaos of urban landscape, and the poor old living standards. These factors
undermine the liveability of old urban districts. Based on this analysis, the researchers then develops an evaulation framework of indicator system, which is composed of four main constructs for a liveable urban districts. The four constructs are land use sustainability, TOD pattern, district composition, and architectural typology and estate; the further development of these four constructs are 16 indicators as the second level of this
framework. These indicators mainly derived from the Urban Village
concept from the western countries and the principles of historical district conservation and regeneration from Taiwanese scholars.
From AHP questionnaire (Saaty, 1990; Ramanathan, 2001), this research will survey experts’ evaluation of imporatnce for each indicator and make pair-wise comparisons, and the evaluation will result in the regeneration criteria of a Livable Urban District. In year 2010, Yanchengpu district (Kaohsiung City) is selected as the old urban district site for liveability study. The Partial AHP framework of performance evaluation system for a liveable urban district is demonstrated in figure 1, in which the priority vector could be calculated based on experts’ questionnaire.
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Figure 1. Partial AHP framework of performance evaluation system for a liveable urban district
