Kinmen National Park is well known by its world's best preserved villages of Southern Fujian architecture andbattlefield heritages. The National Park Servicecommissioned the reused traditional houses for Bed & Breakfast or restaurant and outsourcing to individuals. Therefore, tourists could be experienced traditional village life and cultural norms​​.

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the adaptive reuse of traditional houses by in-depth interviews with B & B operators, National Park Service officials, the Kinmen county government officials, NGO leaders and other policy stakeholders.

Research findings are listed as below: the outsourcing policy enables the conservation of traditional houses and settlement landscape to be more effective; the renovation case which is similar with ROT (Refurnish-Operate-Transfer) reveals the potential of institutional innovation; extended contract period is helpful to reinforce the investment incentives for the private sector; the innovation activity of the private sector is confirmed to be pretty successful by field research. The success of adaptive reuse policy of traditional houses also expands to the feedback and concern of community participation. The outsourcing policy also provides a sound foundation for the conservation of traditional settlement and the ambitious goal of application for the world heritage site.

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The concept of creative city combining urban economic development and the cultural and creative industries. In order to understand the creative urban governance performance of Taiwan’s cities and counties, this study evaluated the development of cultural and creative industries of 19 cities and counties in 2010 using Context-dependent DEA. The research objectives are as following. (1)To get the relative efficiency of the cultural and creative industries of Taiwan’s cities and counties. (2)To explore the competitive strength and weakness of each city by relative attractiveness and progress, and develop the governance tactics. In this paper, theinput variables are government spending of every 10,000 people, number of employments of every 10,000 people, artistic and cultural activities of every 10,000 people and manufacturers of every 10,000 people, the output variables are cultural and creative industry efficiency creative output value, number of participants.

The conclusions of this paper are as following: (1)The large scale of the cities have better efficiency, and smaller cities have difficulties in attracting excellent human resources and cultural and creative industries.(2)Taoyuan County, Tainan , Hsinchu and Miaoli counties are the most attractive stratification counties , cities and counties on behalf of those in the efficiency of the best performing hierarchical.(3)Kaohsiung, Tainan, Hsinchu, Miaoli County, Hualien County progressive force for all stratification minimum value of counties, cities and counties with the leading layer on behalf of these counties efficiency gap is small.(4)In the allocation of resources, the gap between the layers of Level4 and Level2 are small, the development of cultural and creative industries presents polarization .

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In recent years, many research emphasized on pupils go to school. Children characteristics, road environment and private occupancy have caused many traffic accidents. So that the proportion of parents transport them to school has increased, but it will affect children behavior. The Multi-Criteria Decision Making model (MCDM) was used as the main method for this study. The empirical study selected three routes, three dimensions and thirteen evaluation factors and used Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to obtain the relative weight of evaluation indicators and the adaptable or suitable route. The results showed that the highest weight is the space of pedestrians (sidewalk and arcades) (0.537), continuity of pedestrian space systems (0.250) and alternative ONE (0.414). Thus, planners should consider the characteristics of the children and the surrounding pedestrian space and environment.

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Life satisfaction of the elderly is an important factor of aging successfully in an aging society. Given that the elderly depend on family more than the young people do, they receive support from children and spouse through living arrangement.Based on the unbalanced development of the four regions in Taiwan, this study argues the gaps in social resources and local economy performance between the regions will have different effects on the living arrangements and life satisfaction of the elderly in those areas. The study uses the data from the Elderly Situation Survey in 2005and hierarchical regression model to explore the elderly’s living arrangements, financial status, health condition, and social support on their life satisfaction. The important finding of the study is that the elderly living in ideal living arrangement and with their children tend to have a greater impact on their life satisfaction than that the elderly living alone. There are differences in the four regions because the outward migration for employment and the high-priced real estate have significantly affected the elderly’s life satisfaction. The results imply that children should respect the living arrangement chosen by the elderly and government may consider to subsidy the elderly with weak economic status for raising their life satisfaction. 

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