The main objective of urban renewal is to improve neighborhood environment by reconstructing obsolescent buildings. There are three approaches for implementing urban renewal projects in Taiwan but developers prefer reconstruction to renovation and maintenance of buildings. Local government...

One significant criterion for approving urban renewal business is more than half old buildings in a renewal unit, which refers to any division within the renewal area implemented as an individual urban renewal business. However, the physical building life of reinforced concrete buildings is...

Urban renewal is usually hard to be arranged because of the high costs of integrating landowners. Local governments were often approved additional building bulk (ABB) as a key incentive for encouraging implementers to arrange urban renewal projects. It is thought that the more ABB are given, the...