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題 名 | Reflections on the Field Called Urban Affairs and Public Policy |
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作 者 | Hsu,Shih-jung; | 書刊名 | 土地經濟年刊 |
卷 期 | 10 1999.06[民88.06] |
頁 次 | 頁1-23 |
分類號 | 575.1 |
關鍵詞 | Urban affairs and public policy; Urban problem; Inquiry; Policy retrenchment; Interdiscipline; Social choice; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | The field of urban affairs in the U.S. has been left open to criticism both With in academic and in national policy debates as a 'lost' inquiry in search of a role. This criticism became strongest during the period of retrenchment in U.S. national urban policy. Serious doubts about the need for national urban policy since the 1970s have led to the conclusion by some that urban affairs has no role. The lack of clear definition of an academic inquiry of urban affairs makes the next step relatively easy to argue---dismiss urban affairs. This paper will argue that this link between policy and inquiry needs to be reconceived in terms of an interdisciplinary philosophy where 'urban' is taken as a defining characteristic of contemporary social development and conflict. The interdisciplinary orientation is intended to allow us to build the necessary theories and concepts, which can bridge the gap between cities as they are and as they should be. The examination of the inquiry of urban affairs could be used to consider the same problem that the field of land economics meets nowadays in Taiwan. The orientation of interdisciplinary research probably could shed some light on our imagination of the future development of the field of land economics. |
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