Lecturer Zeng Weihao’s classes are among the most popular at Wanhua University. He is good at bringing in many important examples while chatting and laughing, and conveys professional knowledge such as urban planning and land management to students briskly and lively. Therefore, he is often warmly welcomed by students. This lecture aims to introduce a very important topic in urban sociology: urban renewal. from urban rights From the perspective of power and social production, the informal governance alliance composed of political and economic elites has long controlled urban To determine the direction of plans, wealthy and powerful real estate developers often seek rents from the government, or through market competition and capitalists. It controls the reproduction of urban space and guides society to accept or obey a certain mode of production and reproduction. Logic; the ending is that the real estate developers make a lot of money, while the citizens inadvertently help the evildoers. Teacher Zeng’s speech started from the urban renewal policies and concepts of Taiwan, and quickly focused on the context of Taipei City. He shared that Taipei, like the very few local governments with urban renewal agencies, was developed early and had a large population. , old buildings, and a prosperous housing economic market, there is a need for urban renewal and the necessity of setting up relevant agencies. . In other words, urban renewal and dilapidated old buildings in these cities have been banned by the government for reasons such as disaster prevention and aesthetics. The opening of a commercialized market allows capitalists to take advantage of the situation and cause more problems of social injustice. For example, build The Chamber of Commerce lures homeowners to sign joint construction contracts for dilapidated old buildings, thereby using them to build jointly at the lowest price but sell them at the highest price, making a profit Take the price difference. Similarly, powerful builders can also use the land holding game to buy land with complex property rights. Ping, capital accumulation is carried out in the name of urban renewal. Teacher Zeng believes that eliminating the information asymmetry caused by The solution to social injustice should lie in citizen participation, and citizens should be responsible for everything from familiarity with the provisions to influencing the agenda.

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Date: 2024/05/08