Urban-Rural Revitalization Space for Sustainable Social Value: An Evaluation in Redesigning Built Environment in Taiwan

YuLing Tsai (), Bart Julien Dewancker and Athina Ardhyanto
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YuLing Tsai: Graduate School of Environmental Engineering, The University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu 808-0135, Fukuoka, Japan
Bart Julien Dewancker: Department of Architecture, The University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu 808-0135, Fukuoka, Japan
Athina Ardhyanto: Graduate School of Environmental Engineering, The University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu 808-0135, Fukuoka, Japan

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-24

Abstract: With the rapid development of globalization, industrialization, urbanization, and informatization, numerous economic activities are aggregated in cities, resulting in uneven resources distribution between urban and rural areas. Additionally, the falling fertility rate has led to the existence of many abandoned education-related architectures in both areas. When an architectural space is non-operational, it delivers neither the fundamental spatial value nor contributes any interaction to its neighbors. This research conducts two educational architecture analyses with respect to their redesign programs in order to evaluate the relation between space and local community. Also, the spatial hierarchy, scale, and characteristics of locality are further investigated in the hope of gaining a deeper understanding of how different revitalization approaches might lead to diverse interaction patterns in the areas. This study shows that different spatial characteristics can affect how people perceive the public space and the way they interact with it. In addition, an effective redesign progress should enhance both space utilization and human-environmental interactions since it can not only promote regional development but also the overall environment sustainability. Thus, an abandoned architecture can be a potential element to invigorate the local community either economically or emotionally.

Keywords: abandoned architecture; regional design; spatial analysis; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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