A Preliminary Study of the Impact of Urban Energy Consumption with Urban Form in Taiwan

摘要

In recent years, because of the energy demanding increment, it will perhaps make energy dried up in the future. To view the status of the Taiwan's energy development, dependence on imported energy has reached up to 99.3% in 2007.It is limited in self-produced energy in Taiwan. Therefore, the energy subject became one of quite important topics. Many experts are beginning to look for renewable or alternative energy to solve the energy shortage. In the urban planning field, planners try to achieve the minimum energy consumption from the urban planning and management. In each kind of urban planning strategy, many scholars said that the compact city may save the energy under the high density centralism. But recently there is the research to point out that if excessively crowded, it will create more congestion costs, parking costs and energy consumption. There are the different characteristics between the different cities. There might be the different variables about energy consumption. The purpose of this study is attempt by the different urban form variables to find the affecting factors of the urban energy consumption. Final result is expected to provide preliminary conclusion to make a plan use urban energy more efficiently and achieve sustainable development.