Seoul, Korea's Global City
Title | Seoul, Korea's Global City PDF eBook |
Author | Kyoung-Ho Shin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2020-05-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1351347454 |
Seoul, as one of Asia’s rising global cities, has been a place where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have taken place over the last five decades. This book explores the new urbanism in Seoul from the perspective of global political economy, focusing on the contexts in which the city has witnessed the transformation of its population structure, such as the rise of the global urban middle class and the city’s increased nodal function in commodity chains. The burgeoning signs of Seoul’s status as a global city are discussed in terms of transnational tourism and the frequency of study abroad, the immigrant community, and cross-border cultural flows. Examining the labour structures within the city, economic growth policy, the role of advanced information technology, and neoliberal urban development, the authors also examine the local response in the city to its emerging status. A study of the development of the Korean capital and its deep embeddedness in the world economy, Seoul, Korea’s Global City will appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and economics with interests in political economy, urban studies and Asian studies.
Megacity Seoul
Title | Megacity Seoul PDF eBook |
Author | Yu-Min Joo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2019-01-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1315277999 |
In 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.
Globalizing Seoul
Title | Globalizing Seoul PDF eBook |
Author | Jieheerah Yun |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2017-02-17 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1351794884 |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Production of Korean Global Space -- Chapter 1 A Brief Urban History of Seoul -- Chapter 2 Rediscovered Traditions: Remodelled Hanoks in Bukchon -- Chapter 3 From Mary's Alley to a Culture Street: Contested Traditions in Insadong -- Chapter 4 Rediscoveries and Redesigns: Dongdaemun History and Culture Park -- Chapter 5 A Foreign Country in Seoul: Itaewon's Multicultural Streets -- Conclusion: Going Beyond the Cultural City -- References -- Index
On the Margins of Urban South Korea
Title | On the Margins of Urban South Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Jesook Song |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019-11-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1487517777 |
This book provides a rich and illuminating account of the peripheries of urban, regional, and transnational development in South Korea. Engaging with the ideas of "core location," a term coined by Baik Young-seo, and "Asia as method," a concept with a century-old intellectual lineage in East Asia, each chapter in the volume discusses the ways in which a place can be studied in an increasingly globalized world. Examining cases set in the Jeju English Education City, anti-poverty and community activist sites, rural areas home to large numbers of migrant women, and Korea’s Chinatowns, greenbelts, and textile factories, the collection develops a relational understanding of a place as a constellation of local and global forces and processes that interact and contradict in particular ways. Each chapter also explores multiple modes of urban marginality and discusses how understanding them shapes the methods of academic praxis for social justice causes and decolonialized scholarship. This book is the outcome of several years of interdisciplinary collaborations and dialogues among scholars based in geography, architecture, anthropology, and urban politics.
The Global Cities Reader
Title | The Global Cities Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Brenner |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780415323444 |
This book contains fifty selections from classic writings by authors such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells and Anthony King, as well as major contributions by other international scholars of global city formation.
OECD Territorial Reviews: Seoul, Korea 2005
Title | OECD Territorial Reviews: Seoul, Korea 2005 PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2005-09-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264012664 |
This OECD Territorial Review examines how Seoul – a city of 10.3 million people at the core of a capital region of 22.5 million people – is striving to upgrade its positioning from a gigantic national capital towards a 'world city' and a business hub in Northeast Asia.
The City as a National Growth Machine
Title | The City as a National Growth Machine PDF eBook |
Author | Yu Min Joo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | |
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This dissertation bridges the fields of international development and urban studies to examine South Korea's city building and urban development processes, arguing that the interaction between urban and industrial policies has both followed and produced the country's astonishing macroeconomic development successes. The study starts by raising the question of how a Third- World city, Seoul, which served as a minor metropolis in a primarily rural country as late as 1970, rapidly became a modern megalopolis and global front-runner in terms of ambitious and pioneering urban investments. Although South Korea's successful industrialization could be a short answer to this question, the capital city's predominant growth becomes rather puzzling when considering that South Korea, in contrast to the Latin American cases, initially developed its major industrialization and spatial development policies to support regional development and decentralization instead of promoting urban concentration in the capital city. To explain this puzzle, I examine South Korea's key spatial development policies and city building projects over the course of its economic development trajectories, from the 1960s to the 2000s. In the process of re-examining South Korea's modern economic development history with an emphasis on space, I found that the South Korean state worked actively to develop synergies between spatial and economic development, thus fortifying its role as both an industrial and urban developmental state. At consecutive stages since the late 1960s, the South Korean state deployed a disciplinary, forward-looking, set of policies targeted toward creating synergy between urban investments and macroeconomic priorities, even as it worked hard to accommodate citizen concerns about consumption, property rights, and democratization. With an eye to both political stability and economic growth, the South Korean state ended up crafting a set of spatial policies that ended up produced novel inter- and intra-urban development patterns that stood in contrast to those pursued in many other countries of the global South. Seoul's developmental gains, both urban and macroeconomic, are thus explained as an outcome of a strong state's commitment to connecting spatial and economic priorities, and to its capacity to guide these synergies over time and across various territorial scales.