Taipei is also a place where construction is crude and lacks any aesthetic sense, where the first ones to tear down historic buildings come out ahead, and where residential and commercial space is mixed together chaotically. Hsia Chu-joe, a professor in the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University, describes Taipei as "sticky cake": Neither officials nor urban planners can do anything with it.
對工程粗糙、不顧及景觀，古蹟先拆為贏，住、商混合嚴重的台北，台大建築與城鄉研究所教授夏鑄九形容台北是個黏手的大麻糬，官員、都市計畫學者都拿它沒辦法。看看台北市，不禁想讓人問問：中國人真的這麼沒有規劃、管理城市的能力嗎？