A Case Study on the Welfare Functions of Citizen in the Temples in Taiwan and Singapore

台湾与新加坡的寺庙常被邻里利用作为城市公共空间进行聊天或其他活动，在城市现代化弱化家庭与社会关系的同时，扮演着聚集邻里游客的重要角色。特别是从福利的角度，我们想讨论台湾和新加坡的邻里如何在日常生活中合作，互相帮助。经过对5个地区的调查，我们得出以下结论：许多现代城市正在失去圣地寺庙的标志。这个宗教设施发挥了重要作用，聚集人们崇拜参与合作，并帮助对方解决任何问题，但福利功能的寺庙在新加坡，马来西亚仅限于唯一的成员。在中国厦门，由于政府的政策，管理活动薄弱。

The temples in Taiwan and Singapore are often used by the neighborhoods as urban public spaces for chatting or some other activities.They play an important role to gather neighborhoods visitors while the city modernization has weakened family and society relationsThis study is aimed to clarify the characteristic the temples in urban area today. Especial from point of welfare, we want to discuss the way of how neighborhoods cooperate in daily life and help each other against the problems in Taiwan and Singapore. After the research we added to more 3 regions (Xiamen in China, Malaysia) So, this report consists of 5 regionsAfter 5 regions investigation, the following conclusions were obtained Many of the modern cities are losing sigh of holy place, Temples. This religious facility plays an important role in gathering people by worshiped participation in cooperation and helping each other to solve any problemsHowever, welfare functions of the Temples in Singapore, Malaysia are limited to the only members. In Xiamen in China, management activities are weak, because of Government policy.