TITLE:
New Forms of Place-Making and Public Space in Contemporary Urban Development in Seoul, South Korea
AUTHORS:
Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi
KEYWORDS:
Place-Making, Urban Transformation, Place Identity, Sustainability, Sustainable Social and Cultural Identity
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.5 No.3,
September
1,
2017
ABSTRACT: Place-making and its evolving role in urban design has become a major issue
in setting the 21st century urban development agenda. A key aspect of this
within South East and East Asia in particular is an apparent tension between
global aspirations and local tradition in emerging states such as China, South
Korea and Malaysia. The intention of this paper is to provide a better understanding
of how new place making can be incorporated in contemporary urban
development, particularly within this South East/East Asian context, so
that the needs of local cultures can be sustained and developed, whilst acknowledging
the desire of emerging states to gain international respect and
recognition. The focus of this research is on exploring how these two views of
design—the globally aspirational, and the locally situated and informed—
might be reconciled, using the particular context of South Korea and the city
of Seoul as a case study.