Urban-Rural Revitalization Space for Sustainable Social Value: An Evaluation in Redesigning Built Environment in Taiwan

With the rapid development of globalization, industrialization, urbanization, and informatization, numerous economic activities are aggregated in cities, resulting in uneven resources distribution between urban and rural areas. Additionally, the falling fertility rate has led to the existence of many abandoned education-related architectures in both areas. When an architectural space is non-operational, it delivers neither the fundamental spatial value nor contributes any interaction to its neighbors. This research conducts two educational architecture analyses with respect to their redesign programs in order to evaluate the relation between space and local community. Also, the spatial hierarchy, scale, and characteristics of locality are further investigated in the hope of gaining a deeper understanding of how different revitalization approaches might lead to diverse interaction patterns in the areas. This study shows that different spatial characteristics can affect how people perceive the public space and the way they interact with it. In addition, an effective redesign progress should enhance both space utilization and human-environmental interactions since it can not only promote regional development but also the overall environment sustainability. Thus, an abandoned architecture can be a potential element to invigorate the local community either economically or emotionally.

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With the rapid development of globalization, industrialization, urbanization, and informatization, economic activities are concentrated in cities, leading to imbalanced resource distribution between urban and rural areas. The declining fertility rate has also resulted in the abandonment of education-related architectures in both areas. This research analyzes two educational architectures and their redesign programs to evaluate the relationship between space and local community, as well as the impact of different revitalization approaches on interaction patterns. The study shows that spatial characteristics influence people's perception of public space and their interaction with it, and effective redesign can promote both regional development and environmental sustainability by utilizing space and enhancing human-environmental interactions.