ABSTRACT
Worldwide, city-regions have been considered as locomotors to promote regional and national competitiveness. This normative view has continuously highlighted the significant role of a city within and beyond a region, as it tends to overlook the nature of that city-region, which has been shaped by both its urban and rural settings. To reposition the rural in city-regionalism, this research uses the city-regional policy of Taiwan and its cultural capital, Tainan City, as a case study to reveal the significance that a rural industry can have within and beyond a city-region through adopting a locally based, multiplex city-regional functional approach.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author thanks Dr De-Jung Chen for her insightful discussion, Yi-Chen Pan and Sheng-Lun Lin for their assistance in fieldwork and geographical information system (GIS) data processing, and the four anonymous reviewers for their insightful suggestions and careful reading of the manuscript. Those errors that inevitably remain are entirely the author’s own responsibility.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.