Taipei: urban form,1877-1935.The historical development of Taipei's urban form involves a process of continual reorganization, moving first from a binuclear system to a centralized form with the creation of the walled city. Between 1895 and 1907, the grid of the walled city was developed along a rotated, rectangular grid. As the spce between the three poles of Taipei was further developed, this rectangular grid was extended into the older areas of the city, until 1936 when the Japanese colonial government developed a gridded framework of superblocks for the extension of the city which has served to guide development in Central Taipei to the present.
Taipei: Mass Rapid Transit expansion.Taipei's development in the future will be strongly affected by the planned extension of the rapid transit system. The current system, completed in 2000, is projected to triple in size over the next 6 years from 74.4 km to 221.7.
Taipei: urban form,1877-1935.Taipei: reach of mrt systems to a five minute walking distance.
Taipei: voronoi analysis evaluating collection area of mrt station, in sq.m.The expansion also provides a shift from a fairly centralized, branching-cruciform system to a radically dehierarchical scheme which can be seen in the diagram of walking distance to stations. The voronoi analysis shows the flatness and equality of access across the entirety of central Taipei. Additionally, the system will be decentralized by increasing the number of transfer stations sixfold from 7 to 42.
Taipei: transfer stations in present system (black) compared to future expansion (green).
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great maps..yours? also; did you use the rutten voranoi rhino plug-in? and how did you get an output more than a screen shot?
is this your site for thesis? it would be interesting to compare to another city...??
Except for the white maps in the first image which came from National Taiwan University Library, they are all mine. I'm going to do a post on why I think this is significant for design when I have time, but for now, I just wanted to get some things posted.
The voronoi was a david rutten>thomas wingate>marc fornes script I found and edited to work from an boundary line rather than a bounding box (its here if you want it) and a second script (which I can't find right now, might be on my home computer) that calculated each cell area, labeled, and sorted into layers.
Hi Trevor-
Are you working on a thesis project on Taipei's MRT system? Do you have any other text or background information for your post? Thank you - Peter Liao
Peter, my thesis is located in Taipei and the MRT system expansion is factoring heavily into my site selection and my representation of the city's organization (or a nascent organization) I'll have some text of my own to accompany the images soon-hopefully-I have another set of diagrams I want to put out yet.
Globalizing Taipei is a good English source. The essays by Jinn-Yuh Hsu, Tsu-Lun Chou, and Chih-Hung Wang are especially relevant to these maps.
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