ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the research motives and research questions, establishing the conceptual framework to direct the author's discussion and reasoning. It describes the data and methods used in his/her study, and present a short history of Taipei City. The chapter summarizes the author's research findings, focusing on the socioeconomic status of the city's residents, the housing prices, and the residential distribution patterns in Taipei City. It also describes the city's status in the industrial policy of the central government, the developmental strategy of the city government under the mayors since the early 1990s, the intergovernmental relations of the city, all of which shape and condition the residential distribution patterns in Taipei City. The chapter examines the descriptive and explanatory power of theoretical propositions based on the investigations of American and European urban development, in view of the author's research findings, on the one hand, and the developmental state theory and the nested city approach, on the other.
