Residential environment is critical to elderly social network, active aging, and aging in place. Therefore, it is necessary to compare elderly residential environment across districts. However, it seems that few efforts are made in this area. This study took West Central District, Yong Kang District, and Sin Hua District as cases, and 150 questionnaires were completed by using Systematic Sampling Method and household investigation. Comparison of elderly living arrangement and residential environment across districts were implemented by Cross Analysis and One-Way ANOVA. Community Senior Housing was also set as an option of living arrangement, and elderly were asked to reply their viewpoints. The empirical results show that (1) 80% elderly prefer aging in place and live with adult children and 15.3% elderly response that not live with adult children but live in the same community. It indicates the importance of tight connection between elderly and their original family and there is no difference across districts. (2) Residential environment to most elderly are not pedestrian friendly, and items related to mobility are valued with low scores especially in Yong Kang District which is refer to a crowed and unplanned district. (3) 72% elderly are not interested in Community Senior Housing, however, 28% of all are still willing to live in Community Senior Housing while connecting with supportive measures and original social network.

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Taiwan lantern festival represents one of main Taiwanese activities, and because it attracts thousands upon thousands people to visit every year, many counties strive for holding it in order to promote regional scenery and characteristics of the city. 2013 Taiwan lantern festival in HsinChu was taken as the subject of this research, and how compositional elements impact on visitors’ value, loyalty and city image would be discussed by tourists’ view and the consumption value theory. The lantern exhibition was distinguished into four aspects by EFA, which includes exhibiting place, information and transportation, performing and food, and other services. Visitors’ value scale was confirmed by CFA, and base on the scale to construct the structural equation modeling which passed the reliability and validity analysis and the test of goodness of fit. The result showed that behavioral intentions and city image could be affected by both compositional elements and visitors’ value, and the value possesses mediate-effect. So as to interpret the local citizens’ and nonlocal tourists’ feeling are different or not, the result of t- test showed citizen’s emotional, epistemic, and conditional value are higher than nonlocal tourists. The result of correlation analysis revealed that the epistemic value correlated with the loyalty the most, emotional value correlated with city image the most to citizens, and functional value correlated with city image the most to nonlocals. Strengthening to provide digital information and service persons’ figure and attitude could increase the functional value; main lantern display and parade could increase the emotional value, and main lantern show correlated with the epistemic value the most.

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In recent years, it is obvious that the rural redevelopment is driven to strategies of rural tourism, new urban settlers, and fine farming development. Meinong, located in Kaohsiung city, owns Hakka’s cultural resources, beautiful pastoral scenery, and convenient transportation and has become a destination of rural tourism and urban population emigrated in Kaohsiung metropolitan. However, the new immigration is gradually reforming a new landscape constructed by farmland villas and causes a significant social change. This study aims to discuss views of local residents on impacts of farmland villa in Meinong through field interviews and questionnaire survey. The result points out that local resident aware increasing trend of farmland villas and new immigrants, which apparently presented impacts on rural landscape, agricultural economy and social interaction. Although the residents still give a positive and friendly response for such changes, issues of farmland building integrated to the environment and new relationships between old and new residents should be highlighted in Meinong’s new development.

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The famous theory of voting by feet in urban economics indicates household would choose the most optimal city to live under the consideration of tax expenditure and service level of this city.  Migration for the reasons of living environmental quality improvements, working trip time decreases, locational accessibility increases, facilities uses satisfaction, family life cycle adjustments, in addition, this research believes that housing duality is another important factor to affect household’s decision to migrate.  For the significance test of household movement from the exogenous variables, this research uses the household movement decision as endogenous variable.  Apartment building is selected to be the population of this research since it shares the large proportion of housing types in Hsin Chu city. A questionnaire survey on households is designedobtain the data used in this research.  Firstly, canonical correlation analysis is applied to define housing duality indicator by the calculation with the absolute value of difference between the first canonical factor standardized score of household attributes and the first canonical factor standardized score of dwelling characteristics and significance test is used to identify the statistical implication.  Secondly, the binary Logit model is applied to construct causal relationship between household movement decision and exogenous variables.  Finally, the result shows the importance of housing duality and the significant influence on household movement decision from factors of living environment, commuting time, transport demand, comfortable life, family life cycle, and housing duality.

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Driven by globalization and international competition, the development of clusters of knowledge-based corporations has become an important factor in increasing the competitiveness of cities. Whereas previous studies have tended to focus on the characteristics of local clusters and the causes of their success, empirical studies of the long-term development of local knowledge-based industries are few. Accordingly, this investigation takes the Hsinchu region as its subject, and quantitatively analyzes the correlation between the spatial dynamics of knowledge in major industries and innovation based on empirical data. First, the annual Taiwan Industry, Commerce and Service Census is utilized to identify major industries in the Hsinchu region.  Significant differences in the major industries in the Hsinchu are identified from variations in their location quotients. Second, the dynamic evolution of major industries in the Hsinchu district is analyzed by curvilinear regression analysis. The results reveal that the clustering of chemical materials and chemical products manufacturing, non-metallic mineral product manufacturing, and support service industries, has been falling over the last 15 years, while industries with close ties to HSIP, including electronic components manufacturing, computer and electronic product manufacturing, and the manufacturing of other optical products, have remained stable. Finally, simple logistic regression is used to elucidate the correlation between the local industries and innovation. Two variables, product innovation and percentage of turnover invested in product innovation, have both increased significantly in electronic component manufacturing, computer and electronic product manufacturing, and optical product manufacturing industries. This finding shows that steadily developing industries in the Hsinchu region have continued to strengthen their new knowledge of product development and innovation. An overview of innovative activities of firms also revealed that their knowledge patterns have been changing from patterns of internal dependency to a locality-based, broader networking and agglomeration pattern.

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