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Apr 4, 2024 · Building codes represent an integral part of the strategy to improve Taiwan’s preparedness. Two years ago, new codes were implemented, requiring owners of vulnerable buildings to implement ...
Not all, but most of it. Did not implement any urban planning or building codes because Taiwan was a temporary refuge, not home so they spent as little as possible on any building or infrastructure project, and did zero planning for urban development or sustainability. Because there were too many "refugees" in Taiwan. So they were like, fuck it.
Apr 4, 2024 · Photo by Shufu Liu/Office of the President/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0 DEED) The 7.4 magnitude that struck eastern Taiwan yesterday has provided evidence as to how the country’s reputedly strong building codes and regulations prevented significant losses of life and property 25 years after another tragic seismic event led to widespread change.
Image 1 of 4 from gallery of Earthquake Hits Taiwan: How Strict Building Codes Averted a Larger Disaster. Rescue workers near the semi-collapsed ten-story Uranus building on Xuanyuan Road on April ...
Feb 15, 2017 · The Taipei Dome, a 40,000-seat sports stadium encased in a liner of shopping and apartments designed by Populous, has stood like that for two years after authorities decided the building did not meet code requirements. It has become part of a major political spat involving the city’s mayor, Ko Wen-je, and local developers but, whatever the truth of the matter, it just sits there, a dark gash ...
Jun 1, 2018 · The urban disaster prevention aspect of urban-renewal implement ation and promotion in Taiwan is principally based on the Urban Renewal Act, which has been grad ually amended and expanded to
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Jun 20, 2023 · She graduated with a PhD in Urban and Rural Planning from Tsinghua. Then she did research at Taiwan University in 2015, the University of Nottingham (UK) in 2016 as a visiting scholar, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) in 2019–2020 as a SPURS Fellow.
