Today, 100 years after the Japanese first arrived, Taipei's population of 2.7 million is more than five times the peak population of the occupation era (500,000). Yet Taipei's urban plan is pretty much the same.
一百年後，一九九五年的今天，人口由日據時代最多時五十萬人，增加五倍到二百七十萬人，台北的都市計畫卻幾乎仍是一百年前的舊系統。