High-rise social failures

This article focuses on the “social failure” of the relocation of the residents from informal historical settlements—military dependents’ villages ( juancun )—to high-rise blocks in Taiwan. How does the relocation impact the community and restructure social relationships? I argue social failure is the product of new regulative regimes deriving from the new governance of the high-rise, rather than of the built form of the complexes in itself. New...