Introduction

1. Starting from 2000, the Department of Urban Development for Taipei City Government began the program URS-Urban Regeneration Station which introduces Taipei to domestic and overseas urban planners, as well as adds new energy to this vibrant and amazing city.

2. The Urban Regeneration Station [URS] views the city as a living organism and urban renewal as a life cycle. It seeks to encourage short-term reuse of publicly-owned buildings/properties that are vacant or abandoned in the city’s spaces, to build an integrated system of related discussions and activities with local participation, to establish goal-oriented active urban regeneration sites, to turn old districts into renewed catalyst centers, to provide a holistic platform for urban renewal, to organize local networks through innovative activities and works, to encourage creativity, and to help upgrade local industry and promote local development according to the atmosphere and issue of different districts.

3. Our planning team has presented “Bo! Opening the Bottle Cap to Discover Nangang- A Strategic Spatial Planning Exercise with Local Participation”. Using the regeneration of the old bottle cap factory and the local Nangang industrial district as the point of departure, we have set future goals for its regeneration:

a. From bottom-up, to encourage the creative power of the Nangang bottle cap factory and increase the international allure of Taipei city through “activities with local participation and international experience”.

b. To combine vision and activity for Nangang bottle cap factory‘s future development in proposing tangible management strategies for sustainable development.