ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explains two projects where students have played a major role, and where the projects have contributed significantly to the students’ understanding of how punctual manipulation of the urban energy flows can create an ecologically sustainable urban development towards what he call the Third Generation City. In 2003 the Taipei City Government asked the author to come over for a period of three weeks in order to make plans for urban ecological restoration. Treasure Hill is an urban compost, which was considered a smelly corner of the city, but after some turning is providing the most fertile topsoil for future development. After Treasure Hill we continued to develop the research, teaching and design methodology of Urban Acupuncture in the architecture department of Tamkang University, at the time the leading architecture school in Taiwan. Urban Acupuncture is a biourban theory, which combines sociology and urban design with the traditional Chinese medical theory of acupuncture.
