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SongShan Vocational High School of Home and Economics (2016 CyberFair Project ID 8121)
Taiwan,
TAIPEI
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 5. Local Attractions (Natural and Man-Made)
We estimate 6 student(s) from 12 to 14 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Tianmu is a neighborhood located in Shilin, Taipei City, Taiwan. Located on the northern border of Shilin District, Tianmu borders the neighboring district of Beitou and Yangmingshan National Park.
Tianmu is best known as an enclave for Taiwan's US expatriate community. From the mid 1950s to 1979, when the US broke formal ties with Taiwan, large portions of the US Armed Forces and their families stationed in Taiwan lived in Tianmu. Middle- to lower-ranking US servicemen resided within present-day Tianmu, while higher-ranking officers resided in neighboring Yangmingshan. Other than military housing and recreation, significant portions of modern-day Tianmu were designated for housing developments created for USAID workers and foreign civilians. As of the 1980s relatively few of these Western style developments and buildings remain as they have been replaced by multi-storey apartment blocks. The road layout in Tianmu still aligns to the former Western style neighborhoods.
With the withdrawal of US serviceman in 1979, the Bank of Taiwan re-purposed the former sites occupied by US military by leasing them to Taipei American School and Taipei Japanese School. With the further creation of Taipei European School Tianmu has continued to attract foreign residents. In addition, several of the countries which retain diplomatic relationships with Taiwan have their foreign embassies and consulates located in Tianmu.
Tianmu is home to Taiwan's first branch of Mister Donut, a Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store, a Sogo department store, and a Dayeh Takashimaya department store. It also hosts a number of Western restaurants like Chili's and Cold Stone, as well as specialty stores which cater to the expat community. Moreover, Tianmu is famous for the diversity of foreign cuisines, which includes French, Italian, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.
Project Description: Our subject of the page is to share Tianmu local life. Contains Tianmu area attractions as well as local business,entertainment and special multi-cultural.