35031482http://goo.gl/umd9mohttps://english.uro.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=44CAA2187123464E&s=DA9D842997EFF069Taipei: A city of ambition (external links)[][][][]Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office35031452http://issuu.com/uro-taipei/docs/talented_taipei-enghttps://english.uro.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=44CAA2187123464E&s=29BDB8C79F5BFCA6Talented Taipei & The Creative Imperative (external links )[][][][]Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office35031472http://issuu.com/urops/docs/____________________________________179848e774202ahttps://english.uro.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=44CAA2187123464E&s=1A890AFE3D30C421A Creativity Platform: Harnessing the collective imagination of Taipei[][][][]Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office35031420https://english.uro.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=44CAA2187123464E&s=A3D67422D686660EUrban Regeneration Stations（URSs）The Urban Regeneration Station is established to create a new urban forum and opportunities for public participation, which consists with the sustainable strategy for the future. Urban renewal in the past emphasized strategies, such as reconstructing buildings, and enhancing and revitalizing the environment of old communities. However, a new blue sea strategy is required for existing built up areas, and urban economy states. Urban regeneration seeds need to be planted in the deadlocked urban development framework, and we collectively call them "the Urban Regeneration Stations", which is abbreviated as URSs. URS is a platform, a network and a campaign. It is a quiet urban revolution initiated by the Urban Redevelopment Office of Taipei City Government. Each URS is named by its house number. The space can be used as an area for workshops, a common place for neighborhood activities, a hot spot for information gathering, a public space for social interaction, a venue for exhibitions, a location for experimental actions, and a resting area for tourists of the city. Being the base of space and action, and present and future, URSs will extend into a new network system with creative atmosphere for development with good will. Furthermore, it would transform into Soft Urbanism, with infinite possibilities.Current URS include: 1. URS 13 – Revived Vanguard(Urban Regeneration Station) 2. URS 21, Zhongshan Distribution Site – Creative Incubator 3. URS 27 – The Grand Green 4. URS 44, No. 44, Sec. 1, Dihua St. - History House 5. URS 127, No. 127, Sec. 1, Dihua St. - Design Gallery 6. URS 155, No. 155, Sec. 1, Dihua St. - Academic Urbaine 7. URS 89-6 – Regeneration PlantLinks: URS 127 Blog <a href="http://tku127.blogspot.com/" title="URS 127">http://tku127.blogspot.com/</a>[][][][]Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office35031440https://english.uro.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=44CAA2187123464E&s=284452035867AF4C International Co-operative Workshop University Grant Program（ICU Grant Program）Origin Cities such as Dubai, Beijing, Seoul and Shanghai have been the focus of media in recent years thanks to their outstanding urban planning and design capabilities. For this reason, the Taipei City Government began promoting the International Co-operative Workshop University Grant Program, hoping to lay the foundation for Taiwan’s urban planning and design capabilities through interactive communication between scholars and students of internationally renowned schools, and to strengthen international collaboration in an attempt to propose space planning for Taipei from a more advanced and internationalized perspective.Approach The design team is composed of domestic elite universities and top international universities in the field of space planning. Focused on the developmental goals of Taipei’s Riverside, Culture and Technology, sites were selected to propose new concepts and planning designs for creative urban space renewal.2010 x Site Confucius Temple Historical Area + Surrounding Area of Nangang StationExhibiting Teams Nangang Site Graduate Institute of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University; Architectural Association School of Architecture; Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, National Taipei University; Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium; King's College London; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy; Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University; Graduate Institute of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University; Department of Urban Design and Urban Planning, University of Washington; Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington; University of California, Berkeley; Georgia Institute of Technology; Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo; Department of Architecture, National Taipei University of Technology; cSUR Research Lab, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo.Confucius Temple Site College of Environmental Design, Chinese Culture University; Waseda University, Japan; University of Sydney, Australia; Korea University; Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University; Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore; Department of Geography, National University of Singapore; Center for Higher Education, National University of Singapore.[][][][]Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office35031430https://english.uro.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=44CAA2187123464E&s=EF532D8746B0F106The Face of Taipei CityIn order to promote urban renewal, the Taipei City Government encourages citizens to voluntarily perform reconstruction and maintenance tasks in the external environment of old buildings.The Urban Redevelopment Office Taipei City hosts the annual Face of Taipei City event, where forums on the three aspects of Landscape, History and Culture are merged with the theme of The Face of Taipei City, so that citizens have an opportunity to appreciate outstanding works from the past years through a demonstration of images and explanations by experts.This project has already developed numerous construction cases which have successfully merged with ecological landscapes and cultural art, while reconstructed old buildings gradually appear around street corners.In addition, space enhancement for old communities fully demonstrates that urban renewal methods are not limited to demolition and reconstruction; rather, refurbishment and maintenance are also viable alternatives.It not merely endows the space with more possibilities, but also reinterprets the meaning between space and living, and further transforms the multiple and meaningful layers of the city into urban values that celebrate the aesthetics of living.The works submitted for the contest demonstrated outstanding standards; there are four categories: 【building re-utilization】, 【enhancement of building facets】, 【public open space】, and 【small alteration of creative space】.Each work not only exhibited a beautiful and pleasant urban image, enhancing visual sensations, but also demonstrated the culture, memory and life concealed within the space to merge with the urban landscapes.We will continue to promote The Face of Taipei City event in order to discover outstanding maintenance works hidden within the city, and to promote space reconstruction based on the mission of urban renewal, so as to endeavor towards the enhancement of the city and to allow citizens of Taipei to enjoy the beautiful experiences of urban living and the sustainable development of happiness and beauty in our city.[][][][]Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office