The main purpose of the paper is to study how to build up a new growth management system in the Capital Region. The necessity In fact of changing regional policy for the Capital Region are three fold: the ineffectiveness of the current policy, the cha...
The main purpose of the paper is to study how to build up a new growth management system in the Capital Region. The necessity In fact of changing regional policy for the Capital Region are three fold: the ineffectiveness of the current policy, the change of socio-economic environment surrounding the Capital Region and the recent international trend of regional policy toward the metropolitan area.
With this in mind a new growth management system is proposed, The system consists of four factors: a new growth management law, a new growth management plan, a new administrative body and a new financing approach. The paper suggests in detail how these factors should successfully be implemented in order to protect unplanned urban sprawl, to maintain pro-environmental urban development, and to make the Capital Region more competitive.