With most land in the hands of a few landowners, no funding for infrastructure, and no control over population flow, the government had little choice but to let the city grow willy-nilly.
一九六七年，台北市正式升格為院轄市，次年將南港、內湖、木柵、景美、士林、北投六區劃入城內，人口增加到一百六十萬。