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Article: Postcard from Taipei.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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Taipei is poised between futures, not only in the political sense, but urbanisticly: either it can gather strength from its past, or it will fall into the slough of non-place.
Those who have visited Beijing approach Taipei with deepest foreboding. Is it going to be a smaller, offshore version of the dreadful city on the mainland? Initial impressions are not propitious. The highway from the international airport is lined with an uneasy mish-mash of disjointed buildings punctuating what can be imagined once to have been an innocent agricultural landscape -- the sort of non-place corridor that connects almost every airport to its city, though in tropical Taiwan, ...