Taiwan's first American-style model community, every street lined with trees
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Fujin Street is often called the most beautiful street in Taipei, lined on both sides with rows of mature street trees, with small shops and cafés on the ground floors in their shade. The greenery was planned from the start: Minsheng Community was Taiwan's first American-style model community, laid out in a grid, with trees along every road and even on the central reservations. Most of the housing is four- and five-storey walk-ups from the early years, and the streets are wider than in the city centre, so your pace slows down naturally as you walk. Now and then a plane passes low overhead, because Songshan Airport is next door.
Green space is the area's strongest point: there are 25 parks in the community, and it ranks 5th out of Taipei's 73 neighborhoods for greenery. The largest is Minsheng Park, planned at the centre of the community, a good starting point if you have children or a dog. Seeing a doctor is easy too, with medical care ranking 12th.
The MRT is the weak point. The nearest stations, Songshan Airport and Nanjing Sanmin, are both outside the community's boundary, so from the far side of the community the walk to a station takes a while, which is why public transport ranks only 57th. Factor in aircraft noise from take-offs and landings as well. It has been a long-standing complaint locally, so when viewing a home, stay a while during the day and listen.
In 1964 Taipei set up the Minsheng East Road New Community Construction Committee to build an American-style model community on a large undeveloped area in the north-east of the city. The plan followed the American "neighborhood unit" theory of urban planning, which is why a large park sits right in the middle of the community. Power lines were buried from the beginning, and green space makes up about a tenth of the whole area.
Compared with the 73 Taipei neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the 2026 school-year village/neighborhood catchment table, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size; "Shared catchment" means families there can choose between two or more schools), high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores.
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