Abstract
This study aims to clarify the features of community plans based on the “Rural Rejuvenation Act”(RRA), choosing Miaoli county of Taiwan as a case study area. We scrutinized planning documents made by national and county government and conducted interview to government officials who take charge in Rural Rejuvenation. As a result, we clarified two features: 1) the form of planning document is developed by the government but contents are different from community to community, combining various hard and soft programs to deal with varying characteristics of local communities. 2) Although most of plans combines both hard and soft programs in a comprehensive manner, they put more emphasis on the hard programs such as industry promotion, landscape, conservation of environmental and cultural properties as well as traditional buildings.
