
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: An Introduction
- 2 Walking Tours and Community Heritage in Singapore: Civic Activism in the Making in Queenstown and Geylang
- 3 Resistance and Resilience: A Case Study of Rebuilding the Choi Yuen Village in Hong Kong
- 4 Urban Planning, Public Interest, and Spatial Justice: A Case Study of the Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement in Taipei
- 5 Placemaking as Social Learning: Taipei’s Open Green Programme as Pedagogical Civic Urbanism
- 6 Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Fund: A Step towards Citizen-driven Placemaking?
- 7 Re-emerging Civic Urbanism: The Evolving State–Civil Society Relations in Community Building in Seoul
- 8 A Shifting Paradigm of Urban Regeneration in Seoul?: A Case Study of Citizen Participation in Haebangchon Urban Regeneration Project
- 9 Building Communities through Neighbourhood-based: Participatory Planning in Singapore
- 10 Beyond the Sunday Spectacle: Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong
- 11 Holding Space, Making Place: Nurturing Emergent Solidarities within New Food Systems in Singapore
- 12 Conclusion: Civic Urbanisms and Urban Governance in Asia and Beyond
- Index
- Publications/Global Asia
8 - A Shifting Paradigm of Urban Regeneration inSeoul?: A Case Study of Citizen Participation inHaebangchon Urban Regeneration Project
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2022
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: An Introduction
- 2 Walking Tours and Community Heritage in Singapore: Civic Activism in the Making in Queenstown and Geylang
- 3 Resistance and Resilience: A Case Study of Rebuilding the Choi Yuen Village in Hong Kong
- 4 Urban Planning, Public Interest, and Spatial Justice: A Case Study of the Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement in Taipei
- 5 Placemaking as Social Learning: Taipei’s Open Green Programme as Pedagogical Civic Urbanism
- 6 Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Fund: A Step towards Citizen-driven Placemaking?
- 7 Re-emerging Civic Urbanism: The Evolving State–Civil Society Relations in Community Building in Seoul
- 8 A Shifting Paradigm of Urban Regeneration in Seoul?: A Case Study of Citizen Participation in Haebangchon Urban Regeneration Project
- 9 Building Communities through Neighbourhood-based: Participatory Planning in Singapore
- 10 Beyond the Sunday Spectacle: Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong
- 11 Holding Space, Making Place: Nurturing Emergent Solidarities within New Food Systems in Singapore
- 12 Conclusion: Civic Urbanisms and Urban Governance in Asia and Beyond
- Index
- Publications/Global Asia
Summary
Abstract
The Urban Regeneration Project (URP) in SouthKorea was officially introduced in 2013 with aformal statement of an urban policy paradigmshift. According to the central government, theURP differs fundamentally from the comprehensiveurban redevelopment method or governmentledplanning in that it is oriented towards aninclusive and participatory approach indecision-making. Several novel organizations suchas the Residents’ Committee were introduced as apart of this approach. Seoul in particular, haspromoted the URP most proactively at the citylevel. In this chapter, the authors investigatewhether the newly introduced inclusive andparticipatory approach was implemented as it wasdesigned. Subsequently, the authors evaluatewhether the URP could be assessed as a ‘paradigmshift’.
Keywords: Citizen participation,participatory governance, intermediaryorganization, neighbourhood, urbanregeneration
Introduction
The Urban RegenerationProject (도시재생사업, URP) in South Korea(hereafter Korea) officially begun in 2013 with theenactment of the Special Act on Urban Regenerationin 2013. The central government proclaimed that theURP demonstrates a shifting paradigm of urban policy(MOLIT, 2013; URIS, 2015). The previous ‘paradigm ofurban policy’ mainly referred to the market-ledcomprehensive redevelopment approach in improvingderelict areas, as well as the government-ledtop-down planning process prevalent in the overallpolicy process (MOLIT, 2013; Park and Kim, 2014). Inthe marketled comprehensive redevelopment projectwhich had been the mainstream method forneighbourhood improvement since the 1980s,decision-making has been highly dominated byproperty owners but excluded the tenants (Shin andKim, 2015). Despite its contribution to the dramaticimprovement of the physical environment, strongcriticisms have been presented to the exclusivenature of the approach for tenants in both processand outcome, which in the end resulted inlarge-scale displacements and destructions ofexisting communities (Ha, 2004; Byeon, 2012).Against this background, calls for a more inclusiveand incremental approach of urban regeneration haveincreased (Jeong, 1999; Ha, 2001; Byeon, 2012; Park,2015). Moreover, this change needs to be understoodwithin the context of the political change at themacro-level. The demise of an authoritarian and therise of a democratic state have caused a fundamentalchange in the relation between the state and civilsociety in the overall policy process, and theemergence of the URP was not free from this changeat the macro-level.
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- Emerging Civic Urbanisms in AsiaHong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyondDevelopmental Urbanization, pp. 195 - 220Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022