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Micro Urbanism
As strange as it may seem, the changes that excite Taipei's architects the most are the subtle, “micro-urban” changes as defined by long-time resident and Yale-educated architect Chi Ti-nan. He defines these changes as the process of conceiving and designing solutions to alleviate Taipei's traffic conditions by creating specially designated bus lanes—some that even flow in the opposite direction of traffic—as well as creating bus stops in the middle of boulevards on busy roads and the city's new awareness of “open space” issues.
Chi is quick to state that there is a difference between resolving the day-to-day issues of city planning or what he calls “micro-urbanism,” and the older, somewhat outdated concept of “urban furnishings.” This was a theory advanced some twenty years ago, and inspired city planners to decorate the city with small furnishings such as park benches, attractive street lamps, shrubbery and assorted flowers. To be truthful, this idea is considered sort of kitschy nowadays, as modern architects are more concerned with alleviating problems and posing solutions rather than offering a pedestrian a brief respite from a hot day. “What the city could do is create new open spaces on the tops of buildings. This could be done by planting trees and installing a lawn such as in Japan where they have a driving school located on the roof of a building,” Chi suggests.
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