Pretty self-explanatory, I am curious about areas outside Taipei that have a high rate of decent-looking buildings.
I guess this is relative.
Do you mean outside Taipei as in the rest of Taiwan or outside Taipei proper?
Tamsui is alright if that counts. I thought Yingge is nice in the tourist area, too.
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What do you consider outside Taipei? And are you going street by street or districts?
This for example?
There are a number in xindien by the mrt/riverside
? Isnât that in Taipei ?? Isnât the city/new city boundary somewhere up past beitou ?
Thatâs the question. Some people may reply when asked if they live in Taipei that âno I live in Neihu.â
And other situations people use the exact boundaries.
It is not common for places to gentrify on the outside here. Being that gentrify means to renovate while keeping the âold lookâ. Most old places are just redone on the inside or torn down for new development.
I guess Sanxia old street has been gentrifiedâŚbut that is just the tourist area and store fronts. Not really residential. All of the residential buildings around there are your typical 20 to 50 year old buildings.
Sorry. I meant outside as in other parts of Taiwan. Not barely outside municipal Taipei.
District but if any particular street stands out sure why not?
You mean municipal Taipei city, or New Taipei City and Taipei city
How about Keelung and taoyuan parts bordering New Taipei City ?
Perhaps you can draw a picture so itâs clear ?
I stand corrected. My understanding of gentrification was wrong. It is not about keeping an old look, but rather rich people moving in and cleaning up the place. A process of renovating deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.
Yeah Keelung and Taoyuan are ok. Itâs not that serious a question I was just curious if anywhere else has obvious signs of change in urban outlook. A few that particularly stand out is fine.
Jhubei - north of Hsinchu - is full of new and stylized buildings, with a nice skyline. But itâs not a selection of old buildings that are refurbished or gentrified. Instead, itâs a lot of new shiny high rises and the community to serve them that have sprouted up around the Hsinchu HSR station.
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Same thing around the Taoyuan HSR staion. The âAerotropolisâ area with the outlet mall.
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And itâs pretty much a new district built on green land so is not gentrified. Neither are any of the new developments.
Iâm racking whatâs left of my brains here.
This is a tough question in Taiwan :).
There are âlao jieâ that have been done up all over Taiwan but I donât think that counts too much if just one street.
Best example I can think of is Anping district in Tainan.
Zhunan too. Lota of the old gongyu have been redeveloped for airbnbs.
Taichung central district is on itâs way to being gentrified again I would say. It was extremely run down.
Taichung is probably the main area where you get massive redevelopment at the edges of city but those areas were mostly illegal factories and houses built on farmland. Thatâs not gentrification though.
Taoyuan and Zhongli have some good examples.
They did a great job with a Riverside redevelopment in Zhongli .
In Taipei you mostly see the old army camps getting knocked and built on with massive developments.
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There are literally dozens of such âurban renewalâ areas all around Taiwan, you can search for éĺĺ for a list. Zhubei in Hsinchu, Qingpu in Taoyuan, Anping in Tainan, a few in TaichungâŚ
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Zhubei isnât gentrified itâs basically an entire new district, where they razed to the ground what was already there (and most of it was probably fields anyway ) and built massive apartment blocks everywhere.
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/gentrification
the process by which an area of a city where poorpeople live becomes an area where middle-classpeople live, as they buy the houses and repair them
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I think it depends exactly what OP is asking for. Are you only counting renovations of existing buildings? Thatâs one definition of gentrification but not the only one. AFAIK it usually has to do with increase in income/wealth or âsocial classâ, and Zhubei definitely meets this definition as the now 2nd highest median income area in Taiwan (after Hsinchu, and ahead of Taipei).
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what areas even in taipei would actually fit the description though? minsheng community? thats about all i can think of because the area is still more or less old buildings, but they are in pretty good condition compared to the shite you see on 99% of taiwans streets.
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imo i donât think OP cares about âgentrificationâ per se but rather where in taiwan looks pretty nice with nice buildings and not the shit housing stock that is 95% of taiwan. xinyi is probably #1 in taiwan on that count. outside taipei, banqiao near the station is good. the area around riyueguang in tucheng will probably become a good area too once they start building it up.
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