The Best Practice of Urban Regeneration for Declined Neighborhood in Korea - Kyoo Hong Hwang - Third Expert Meeting of the Regional Slum Upgrading Working Group (RSUWG) - 29th. of November to the 1st. of December 2015 in Laleh International Hotel, Tehran, I.R. of Iran

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The Best Practice of
Kyoo Hong Hwang
Urban Regeneration for
Declined Neighborhood in Korea

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CONTENTS
1st : Declined Neighborhood
2nd : Urban Housing Policy
3rd : Case Study
- Urban Decline as Slum District
- Urban Renewal & Urban Regeneration
- Jeonju case

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Urban Decline
A Mega City
Inner Decline
Urban Sprawl Urban Sprawl

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Urban Decline of Local Cities
Residential Area

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Urban Decline of Local Cities
Commercial Area

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1970 Improvement of Shanty town
1980 Improvement of general single house
1990 Reconstruction & Redevelopment Housing
2000 Big-scaled Urban Renewal
2010 Urban Regeneration
Flow of Urban Renewal

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1971
Housing Construction Promotion Act(revised, 2002)
Housing Site Development Promotion
Act
Urban Redevelopment Act
Urban Development Act
Urban Rearrangement Acceleration Act
Urban Regeneration Act
1976 1981
Flow of Legal Act
2002
Urban & ResidentialEnvironment ArrangementAct
Urban Planning Act
1987 2000 2005 2013
Period of forming urban basic frame
Period of urban extension
Period of urban renewal
and regeneration
(Wecallit UrbanRenewalAct

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Types of Urban Renewal
Housing Reconstruction
Housing Redevelopment
Mixed-use Development
Residential Environment Improvement
Block Housing Renewal
Residential Environment Management
2012
Some improvement
By Urban & Residential Environment ArrangementAct,2002

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Low-rise Apt+old+profit ▶ Rebuilding
(Sungnam, 1990’)
The Rebuilding
projects were
implemented
under three
conditions as
follows ;
1. Low-rise apartment building
2. More 20-year-old apartment building
3. Developer and land-owner’s profit

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Single houses+decrepit+profit ▶ Redevelopment
(Nangok, Seoul, 2006)
The Redevelopment projects were implemented
under three conditions as follows ;
1. Gathering Single Houses
2. Decrepit Houses
3. Developer and land-owner’s profit

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BusinessArea+Profit ▶ Mixed-use Development
(Mokpo)
(Busan)
The Mixed-use Development projects were
implemented under two conditions as follows ;
1. Land uses is for Business zone
2. Developer and land-owner’s profit

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Single house + low-income + decrepit ▶
Residential Environment Improvement
(Yangrim,
Gwangju)
The Residential Environment Improvement projects were
implemented under three conditions as follows ;
1. Gathering Single Houses
2. The residents is low-income people
3. The houses is decrepit

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Decrepit+Block area+small-scale▶ Renewal Block Housing

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Decrepit + Conservation ▶
Residential Environment Management
Origin of REM : Seoul’s Human Town, 2010
Low-rise residential district integrated with both
the apartment’s merit (such as security system,
comfort facilities)
and low-rise housing’s merit (such as human-
friendly alley and alive community)
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Paradigm Shifts in Urban Improvement
owners
profitability
the capital region
physical improvement projects
existing inhabitants
and communities
local big and medium-sized cities
comprehensive improvement
and revitalization
subject
site
method

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- Fosterage of Urban central function
- Extension of employment
- Conservation of Historic and Cultural Environment
- Air quality
- Traffic environment
- Environment-friendly
- Energy-saving Development
- Supply of the low-income housing
- Improvement of existing residential environment
- Maintaining established Communities
- Stabilization of Housing Price
Consolidation of
Urban Competitive power
Improvement of
The Urban
environment quality
Residential
Settlement Stability
Sustainable
Urban Development
- A Comprehensive management
- To continuously improve economical, social, and physically declined areas
- With partnership between public and private sector
- On Strategy plan frame
- For the progress of the whole city
Notion of Urban Regeneration
Source : Pinfield(1997), “Sustainability Indicators”

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Jeonju Case
Urban Regeneration in Declined Neighborhood

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[Location in South Korea] [Location in Jeonju]

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Nosongcheon Stream Area in the Jungang-dong Commercial
Zone in Jeonju
Deteriorated Condition of the Residential Zone of Jeonju

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Another example of an urban regenerative testbed in order to secure community
resilience is the Nosong-dong and Jungang-dong regions of Jeonju.
Improvement of the Deteriorated

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Around this area, community business were established to resolve various
local problems.
Education
Practice
Cooperati
ve
Community
Business

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The Jeonju testbed tried various approaches in order to provide the
necessary space for the local meetings, training, and practicing.
Securing the Base Facility in

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Social
Economy
Cultural
Physical