Nankan New Town
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Nankan New Town (Chinese: 南崁新市鎮; pinyin: Nánkǎn xīn shìzhèn) is a large residential development located at the border of Luzhu District and Guishan District in Taoyuan, Taiwan. It was first proposed as a new town in the 1980s. The project aims to create a town using 32.4 km2 in central Luzhu and northeast Guishan to relocate people from the overcrowded Taipei metropolitan area in response to the emergence of various industries in the area west of Taipei city. The new town has convenient access to the National Freeway 1, which was completed in 1978, and Taoyuan International Airport, which opened in 1979.[1] It currently has a population of about 100,000.[2] Famous buildings in the new town includes EVA Air Headquarters and Gallery & Palace, which is the tallest building in the district.
In the 1980s, the government undertook replotting and consolidation of the land in the new town, which was mostly farmland. This comes as a result of the official change in the land's designated usage from agricultural to residential, and from the construction of public facilities. The government utilizes land thus acquired to construct basic public facilities, such as roads, water, sewer, and power lines, and telecommunications systems, as well as greenbelts and parks. In the 1990s, due to convenient transportation to and from Taipei, rapid population growth and the proliferation of buildings took place even whilst the new town plans were still under planning.[3]
