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Exporting New City Developments? From New Towns to Smart Cities
No full text1. Introduction: Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience for International Cooperation (Se Hoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin, and Hyun Soo Kang)
Part I: Outlining the Urban Transformation of Korea
2. Transformations in the Governance of Urban and Regional Planning in Korea: From (Neo-)Developmentalism to Civic Democracy, 1965–2020 (Mike Douglass)
3. Korea’s Regional Development Policy: Understanding Its Context and Drawing Implications for International Development Cooperation (Won Bae Kim)
4. Urban Transformation with ‘Korean Style’: Lessons from Property-based Urban Development (Hyun Bang Shin)
5. From Commodities to Community Engagement: Localities and Urban Development in Seoul, Korea (Blaž Križnik and Su Kim)
Part II: Modeling the Korean Urban Development Experience
6. Export Urbanism: Asian Emerging Donors and the Politics of Urban Development Knowledge Sharing (Jamie Doucette and Farwa Sial)
7. A Multitude of Models: Transferring Knowledge of the Korean Development Experience (Cuz Potter and Jinhee Park)
8. International Urban Development Leadership: Singapore, China and South Korea Compared (Hyung Min Kim, Julie Miao, and Nicholas Phelps)
Part III: Policies and Institutions of the Korean Urban Development
9. Exporting New City Developments? From New Towns to Smart Cities (Yu Min Joo)
10. Housing Policy and Urban Redevelopment in Contemporary Korea (Seong Kyu Ha)
11. Land Development Schemes in South Korea: Background, Structure and Outcome (Seowhan Lim)
12. Knowledge-Policy Nexus: Policy Research Institutes and the Urban Development Regime in Korea (Se Hoon Park)
13. Engines for Development: Public Development Corporations and Their Role in Urban Development in Korea (Jieun Kim)TRU
Progressive solutions to urban woes? Arts and culture as tools for progressive urban regeneration in Busan, South Korea
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Developmentalist smart cities? the cases of Singapore and Seoul
No full textGovernments and companies across the globe are promoting smart cities, and their developments usually reflect both globally shared ideas and locally specific agendas and implementations. This paper examines the smart cities of Singapore and Seoul – two key global cities in Asia with legacies of state-led developmentalism. It discusses the two cities’ latest smart city endeavors, trajectories, and policy motivations. In particular, it explores the role of smart city policy in governments’ local and global agendas for development and argues that the two acclaimed cases can be interpreted as globally-oriented neo-developmentalist smart cities. In doing so, this paper also explains that the typically assumed developmentalist feature becomes much more complicated as it intermixes with the global cities’ international outlooks and aspirations as well as the changing demands from citizens in the post-developmental era.1
Megacity Seoul: Urbanization and the Development of Modern South Korea
No full textIn Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of speculative and extravagant megaprojects. Amid the fast-paced urban and development challenges, many Asian governments have been searching for replicable and inspirational cases in Asia. South Korea and its capital city, Seoul, are among frequently referenced models. However, South Korea’s "economic miracle" in the late twentieth century has been mostly studied through an economic policy lens. This book revisits the development of South Korea by looking at its urban dimension and exploring the city of Seoul as a developmental megaproject.
Offering an alternative to the focus on economic policies when it comes to explaining South Korea’s development successes, Joo looks at the urbanization that took place under the guidance of the strong developmental state. She provides empirical evidence of the "property state" at work, both complementing and supporting the developmental state. She also analyzes why and how Seoul was able to emerge as an important Asian global city and a global front-runner in terms of ambitious and pioneering urban investments, despite its relatively recent history marked by massive slums and urban poverty. This book provides an analytical framework for studying South Korea’s modern development under capitalism as a precursor to East Asian urbanism and development. It paints a comprehensive story of how cities have been politically and economically important to Korea’s development experience and are increasingly becoming a new mode of development.List of Abbreviations
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Chapter 1: Introduction: urbanization, development, and globalization
Chapter 2: The developmental state’s export-oriented industrialization and selective urbanization
Chapter 3: Developmental and speculative urbanization led by the state in Seoul
Chapter 4: The democratized state’s new town developments and Seoul’s growth into a metropolitan area
Chapter 5: Globalization and the making of “global cities”
Chapter 6: The rise of new global Seoul and city exports in an urbanizing globe
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Megacity Seoul and the property state
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The Smart Nation: unpacking Singapore’s latest mega-digitalisation push
No full textAt a time when Asia is rapidly growing in global influence, this much-needed and insightful book bridges two major current policy topics in order to offer a unique study of the latest smart city archetypes emerging throughout Asia. Highlighting the smart city aspirations of Asian countries and their role in Asian governments’ new development strategies, this book draws out timely narratives and insights from a uniquely Asian context and policymaking space.
Each carefully curated chapter studies a national or local government-led smart city project and how it specifically relates to local institutions, political dynamics and development challenges in a region that is rapidly urbanising and growing economically. Collectively, these pressing contributions offer a comparative look at the policies and practices of smart cities, seen through the lens of local scholars and experts.
Thoughtful and engaging, this book will prove valuable reading for students and scholars of public policy and Asian studies, as well as those with a specific interest in urban studies and planning, and science and technology policy. Policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from the rich information and up-to-date analysis on offer.1 Smart cities in Asia: an introduction
SMART CITIES OF THE FOUR ASIAN TIGERS AND JAPAN
2 The Smart Nation: unpacking Singapore’s latest mega-digitalisation push
3 Smart-city vision and strategy in Hong Kong
4 Smart Taipei City: understanding policy motivations, approaches and implementation
5 The evolution of smart city in South Korea: the smart city winter and the city-as-a-platform
6 Facilitating innovation for smart cities: the role of public policies in the case of Japan
SMART CITY INITIATIVES OF TWO ASIAN GIANTS
7 The smart city policy of India and its governance implications
8 Smart cities in China: development background, policy measures and implementations
SECOND-TIER CITIES AND SMART CITY DEVELOPMENT
9 Bureaucratic readiness for smart city initiatives: a mini study in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia
10 The smart city as a complex adaptive system: the ebbs and flows of humans and materials
11 ‘Green’ and ‘smart’ in South Korea: conceptions from the state to the citizenTRU
Smart City Seoul
No full textSeoul has systematically pushed different stages of digitalisation and smart city agenda over the years. Its latest plan—Global Digital Seoul 2020—highlights social values and developmental goals, and envisions co-creation of urban solutions with citizens, promotion of local small and medium-sized enterprises and global collaboration. There are global and local strategies as well as distinctly separate positioning of the smart city. Challenges also exist for smart city Seoul.1
Developmentalist smart cities? the cases of Singapore and Seoul
No full textGovernments and companies across the globe are promoting smart cities, and their developments usually reflect both globally shared ideas and locally specific agendas and implementations. This paper examines the smart cities of Singapore and Seoul - two key global cities in Asia with legacies of state-led developmentalism. It discusses the two cities' latest smart city endeavors, trajectories, and policy motivations. In particular, it explores the role of smart city policy in governments' local and global agendas for development and argues that the two acclaimed cases can be interpreted as globally-oriented neo-developmentalist smart cities. In doing so, this paper also explains that the typically assumed developmentalist feature becomes much more complicated as it intermixes with the global cities' international outlooks and aspirations as well as the changing demands from citizens in the post-developmental era.1
Pathways to meet critical success factors for local PPPs: The cases of urban transport infrastructure in Korean cities
Get PDFPublic-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been utilized extensively in both developed and developing countries to provide various public services and infrastructure. The literature points to many common critical success factors, including a mature financial market, transparent regulatory framework, advanced technology, and people's acceptance of new forms, but those can vary from country to country. South Korea's mature market capitalist system and strong regulatory framework have led to somewhat successful infrastructure provision through PPPs at the national level, but as our two cases of urban transportation in the Seoul Metropolitan Area indicate, local-level PPPs have demonstrated mixed results. By elaborating on the factors that affect the outcomes of PPPs at the local level, we argue that under a relatively new local democracy, Korean cities are likely to be susceptible to producing unfair contracts mainly due to limited local fiscal authority and resources, opportunistic behavior of local politicians, an underdeveloped urban institutional framework for PPPs, and the rise of new conditions such as economic nationalism intermixed with speculative foreign investment. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.1
The Making of Gangnam: Social Construction and Identity of Urban Place in South Korea
No full textAmid a globally increasing trend of urban segregation, this article asks why a particular urban place, the Gangnam area in the city of Seoul, has come to symbolize the rich and the powerful, consolidating both socioeconomic segregation and political conservatism in a short span of time. While different approaches exist that partially explain Gangnam’s luxurious lifestyles, fervent real estate speculation, obsession with education, and political conservatism, this article seeks to provide a holistic explanation for the rise of Gangnam and draws particular attention to the social construction of place identity. Based on the analysis of historically and contextually grounded evidence, imaginations, and cognitive scaling of different stakeholders, it suggests bidirectional formations of self–other and present–future identities, highlighting the sociopsychological aspects of place identity formation. Specifically, it explains political conservatism as the attempts of Gangnam residents to sustain the area’s entrance barrier and pass on their exclusivity to future selves and children.1
Transformative city branding for policy change: The case of Seoul's participatory branding
No full textCity branding has been widely adopted by entrepreneurial local governments to strengthen city identities and to attract global attention amid intensified intercity competition. Asian global cities, in particular, have competitively branded themselves to signal that they belong to the group of advanced global cities. This paper illustrates the transformative role of city branding in the making of a global city's local identity, which has been hitherto underexplored in the literature. Specifically, it examines Seoul's branding exercises, focusing on its unconventional projects that reflect the city's recent efforts to become a human-centered, progressive city. We suggest adding a transformative-enhancing dimension to the existing external-internal city-branding framework, and argue that Seoul's transformative city branding is, in fact, communicating the mayor's new signature policies with citizens. When combined with a strong mayor's efforts to cater to changing societal pressures, city branding is no longer solely a neoliberal marketing exercise, but a political project of policy change.1
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