Urban Stitch: A new urban design approach to transportation infrastructure renewal projects

The history of Taiwan is closely attached to the establishment of transportation infrastructure. The thriving scene of urban Taiwan emerged in the 70s after the establishment of several national level infrastructure projects. They have become the backbone of both Taiwan's past economic glory as well the daily necessity of present society. As the...

City Government’s Pursuit of Circular Economy from an Industrial Park: Taiwan’s Largest Feasible Scope of Industrial Symbiosis in Reality

Circular economy is an economic model aiming at decoupling economic growth from the consumption of finite resources. It attracts attention to system changes at all levels, and Taoyuan City Government devotes itself to the circular economy development as well. Nevertheless, the Taoyuan environmental protection park, with the early ambition of...

Turbidity Currents in Reservoirs

Turbidity currents are major transport agents in reservoirs in which high concentrations of fine sediments flow in. Reservoir sedimentation due to turbidity currents is often severe in these cases. Turbidity currents are not well understood due to their complex turbulent flow structure, the interaction between the flow with the particles and the...

Rediscovery of city potentiality, Hsinchu City, Taiwan

Masterplan en golfbrekerontwerp voor een nieuwe diepzeehaven bij Keelung, Taiwan

De bestaande havens van Taiwan worden gekenmerkt door de beperkte bereikbaarheid voor grote schepen, schepen van het Panamax type (60.000 dwt) kunnen slechts in bepaalde omstandigheden binnenlopen. Bovendien ontstaan er, bij de huidige snelle ontwikkeling van goederenstromen, in de naaste toekomst congestieverschijnselen in de havens. Samen met...