The workshop addresses the strategies of environmental relocation on the edge of Taipei Metropolitan. The capital city of Taiwan, Taipei City, is surrounded by New Taipei City, which has the highest population in Taiwan, and faces the huge challenge of sprawl. Since Taipei City is situated in a basin and surrounded by mountains, it is not surprising that natural disasters have increased in the recent years. In 2015, there were dramatic floods and mud slide that destroyed most of Wulai district, one of the famous hot-spring areas in Taiwan. The city government is reviewing and replanning the Wulai urban plan in 2017, and the workshop will feature a discussion of the possible scenarios and strategies for the district. This workshop will help New Taipei City to reduce the conflict between human settlement and environment.
Harvard University’s GSD launched the “Risk & Resilience” program. Within the professional specialties of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning, this program focuses on the increasing number of natural disasters, ecological uncertainty, public-health crises, extreme social inequity, and other challenges in the growing, uncertain world.
Department of Marine Environment and Engineering in NSYSU focuses on the areas of environmental engineering, pollution prevention, environmental management and planning, and applied in open ocean and coastal area. Students are trained with integrated knowledge of engineering and environmental planning.
The Department of Urban Development focuses on the development of a national plan for six major industries, to foster expertise for cross-border governance and urban planning, and to develop integrated courses for urban governance, urban design, urban planning and
The department aims to train talents in planning field for urban development by efficiently allocating human activities over the urban and rural areas. It has complete degree programs in related fields such as urban planning, construction, land administration, civil engineering, environmental, and social sciences, etc.
