本文的目的在檢視臺北市信義計畫區在全球化趨勢下的發展特性，這個 副都心其實在1970 年代即已開始規劃，1980 年代完成都市計畫的擬定作 業，不過卻到1990 年代下半期才快速發展成為新都市中心。文章的第一及 第二部分首先探討當今全球化與全球城市的主要論述與相關研究，進而連結 至全球化與都心發展的研究文獻，目的在凸顯探討信義計畫區的發展，不應 侷限在都市計畫的發展脈絡，而應該放在全球城市的發展脈絡下來思考，也 應進而以全球城市的市中心之發展與再發展做為參考架構來討論。第三部份 簡單介紹信義計畫的始末及信義計畫區發展的近期政策脈絡，第四部分從信 義計畫區的全球城市機能及其中心性的具體形塑，來討論臺北城這個最具全 球城市表徵的都市中心之塑造與開發過程，以說明臺北城在回應全球化過程 中，資本與國家對都心空間具體的打造經驗。

During the 1990s a new downtown emerged in the eastern part of Taipei City. Known as the Hsinyi-Planning District, it has been dubbed “Taipei’s Manhattan” and promoted as the most prestigious and internationally oriented area in Taipei. The purpose of this paper is to examine the features and developmental processes of this new downtown with reference to literatures of globalization, global cities and downtown (re)development. This paper begins with a review of the literatures on globalization and world city development and places Taipei in these two analytical contexts. It follows by briefly introducing the planning history of the Hsinyi-Planning District and its policy context. The final part focuses on how the centrality of this new downtown has been constructed in the past decade and how an internationally oriented downtown for a third-tier global city has been built and developed in response to globalization and local political economy. The main argument of this paper is that, as part of a broader strategy of developing Taipei into a global city, the visions of planning and developing Taipei’s new downtown should go beyond local city perspectives,with a view of making it a new urban center with global downtown characteristics.