Differential Involvements and Professional Habtius in the Formation of Urban Regeneration Policy: on the Perspedtives of the Key Urban Development Actors

From this vantage point, we assume that a project site is a contested place that invites different discourses of how it should be developed, which usually get the public officials, developers, financiers, property owners, rentiers, residents, and the general public in debates.

In order to decipher the different visions of a good urban regeneration policy imagined by the public and private developers, we used questionnaire and in-depth interviews to survey the middle-ranked city official, the developers, and the planners in Kaohsiung. Using variables such as attitudinal scale of pro-growth development, critical masses of public assets, financial subsidies, provisions of public goods, and the expected time of revenue, rates of internal return, and the willingness to invest reported by both the public and the private, we get three sets of profiles in terms of professional practices by the public, the private, and the academic planners.