ABSTRACT
A detailed examination of the “Korean development model” from its urban dimension, evaluating its sociopolitical contexts and implications for international development cooperation.
There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea’s condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the expansion of new cities and industrial complexes across the country, have become one such model, even if the fruits of such development may not have been equitably shared across geographies and generations. The chapters in this book critically reassess the Korean urban development experience from regional policy to new town development, demonstrating how these policy experiences were deeply rooted in Korea’s socioeconomic environment and discussing what can be learned from them when applying them in other developmental contexts.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the field of urban studies and developmental studies in general, and in Korea’s (urban) development experience in particular.
Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|12 pages
Introduction
part I|87 pages
Outlining the urban transformation of Korea
chapter 2|20 pages
Transformations in the governance of urban and regional planning in Korea
chapter 3|23 pages
Korea’s regional development policy
chapter 5|19 pages
From commodities to community engagement
part II|45 pages
Modeling the Korean urban development experience
chapter 6|16 pages
Export urbanism
chapter 8|15 pages
International urban development leadership
part III|85 pages
Policies and institutions of Korean urban development