Huashan Park - URS 27

Previously I wrote about the Huashan Park near our place several times last year.

http://mikeintaipei.blogspot.tw/2012/02/urban-renewal.html
http://mikeintaipei.blogspot.tw/2012/05/rocks.html
http://mikeintaipei.blogspot.tw/2012/05/wwii-in-taipei.html

In the map below we live at the A bubble and HuaShan Park is at the bottom of the map, the narrow gray area bounded by Shimin Boulevard and East Beiping Road.

At the end of WWII Taiwan had about 6 million people but with the defeat of the KMT forces and their retreat to Taiwan their was an influx of 2 million refugees to Taiwan. Many of these refugees were conscripted soldiers and their families, they came with little. They were temporarily housed in the existing schools and then they built illegal housing on what appeared to be vacant land.

Huashan Park was the site of one of these illegal settlements. Until the government gave up the dream of recapturing mainland China, there was little urban development in Taiwan. After the death of Chiang Kai-shek, the government started focusing on Taiwan rather than the return to the Mainland. The illegal housing, like at Huashan, were demolished and the veterans and their families were  compensated and relocated.

There is one building still standing on the HuaShan Prarie or the HuaShan Grand Green. I believe it is the old HuaShan railroad station and the out buildings I previously thought were air raid shelters are actually the entrances to the underground railroad station, no longer in use. The Building is called URS27(Urban Regeneration Station 27).

The  Huashan URS27 building has some new posters about Urban renewal, this time in color.

I still don't know what they are talking about.

It's a good use of an old building.