Spatial inequality is a fairly topical issue these days. The concentration of economic activities is manifest in urbanization, and economic growth displays a similar unevenness. In Taiwan, for example, Taipei metropolitan accounted for more than 59 percent of the country's CDP. Issues on the scale of the nation-state are bound up with the fundamental geographical response to ”the capital accumulation at expanded scale.” This paper discusses the issues at different scales related to the new special municipalities in Taiwan.