scholarly journals Importance of Government Roles for Market Expansion of Eco-Village Development Plan Establishment Research: Case Study in the City of Suwon, South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10293
Author(s):  
Soo-Young Moon ◽  
Daehee Jang ◽  
Hyeon Soo Kim ◽  
Ji-Young Lee ◽  
Jonghoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
Korean Government ◽  
Eco Village ◽  
Support Cost ◽  
The City

Korean governmental ministries are promoting strategic projects to support cost-saving and low-carbon technologies in residential complexes and commercial buildings in the City of Suwon, South Korea. Suwon City will build throughout the city focusing on economic feasibility by selecting performance targets and using applied technologies for locations to be continuously expanded. This case study of Suwon shows that the local Korean government has prepared a project to spread eco-friendly residential complexes and is trying to introduce and realize eco-friendly construction standards proposed by the central Korean government. The central government is working to actively establish a system to promote eco-friendly construction technologies and encourages people to use eco-friendly construction methods and products. To build the demo-complex in the city, the role of the government was re-examined considering the universalization of energy and environmental technology through the analysis of case studies where these technologies were applied to residential complexes. The objectives of this research study are: (1) to establish a land use plan for the eco-village site in the City of Suwon, (2) to establish an external space plan, which includes the environmental aspects, and (3) to have alternative designs through a multi-criteria decision-making process. This study also used a cost-benefit analysis (BCA) to evaluate and ensure that there was no waste of the Korean government budget contribution, and to observe the business feasibility based on economic performance.

scholarly journals Green infrastructure for China’s new urbanisation: A case study of greenway development in Maanshan

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangzhu Zhang ◽  
Calvin King Lam Chung ◽  
Zihan Yin
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Environmentally Benign ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
The City

China’s recent environmental turn in urban development has been marked by a rush of urban green projects. Many city governments have lately focused on green infrastructure of a specific kind – the greenway. This article provides a preliminary assessment of the contributions of greenways to a new, environmentally benign form of urbanisation advocated by the central government. Through a case study of the city of Maanshan, it reveals that Chinese greenways are not just a sustainability fix for the economy’s sake, as many urban green projects in China tend to be conceived. Although the greenways are far from being effective in stimulating tourism, they can promote urban liveability beyond the symbolic and lend material support to active travel. These findings endorse an analytical approach that gives equal emphasis to both the physical and political nature of emerging green infrastructure initiatives to more fully appreciate the logics and functions in their ongoing popularity.

scholarly journals Optimum Bridge Site Selection using Network Analysis Tool (Al Muwaffaqiyah Bridge in Iraq as A case Study)

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Abdulhaq Hadi Abed Ali
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Site Selection ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Bridge Site ◽  
Network Analyst ◽  
The City ◽  
Crossing Point

The main objective of this research is to select the best site for the establishment of  a new bridge on the Al Gharraf river within the limits of the Al Muwaffaqiyah region . Al Muwaffaqiyah region is located in Wasit province in Iraq. The study area is divided into multiple zones . Three alternatives are proposed to construct the bridge site. The best one is selected using network analyst tool of ArcGIS software depending on the largest number of routes passing between zones. The route link between both sides of Al Gharraf river in Al Muwaffaqiyah region is one of the important projects in the city. The project will provide a new crossing point on Al Gharraf river . The proposed route will contribute to reduce traffic congestion depending on the foundations of planning and traffic so that gives the desired result of this project in terms of the location and importance of economic feasibility.

Housing abandonment in shrinking cities of East Asia: Case study in Incheon, South Korea

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1749-1767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngmee Jeon ◽  
Saehoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Population Movement ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
The City ◽  
Push Factor ◽  
Housing Abandonment

Despite growing signs of urban shrinkage in countries such as Korea, Japan and China, few studies have examined the generalisable pattern of urban shrinkage and its relationship to the characteristics of housing abandonment in the East Asian context. This study explores five major paths that may explain the emergence of vacant houses in declining inner-city areas, based on empirical observations in the city of Incheon, South Korea. The paths are: (1) strong government-led new built-up area development plans (pull factor for population movement); (2) delay and cancellation of indiscriminate redevelopment projects (push factor for population movement); (3) initial poor development and concentration of substandard houses; (4) aging of the elderly population; and (5) the outflow of infrastructure and services. These paths, also found in Japan or China, are expected to be combined in a local context, leading to more serious housing abandonment. This study suggests that it is important to take appropriate countermeasures based on the identification of the paths causing vacant houses.

A Geopolitical Economy of Heavy Industrialization and Second Tier City Growth in South Korea: Evidence from the ‘Four Core Plants Plan’

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Jin Choi ◽  
Jim Glassman
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Korean Economy ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Original Plan ◽  
Second Tier ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

In this article, we examine heavy industrialization and second tier urbanization in South Korea during the 1970s from a geopolitical economic perspective. We highlight the crucial, spatially complex geopolitical process of forming transnational class alliances, embedded in Cold War geopolitics, which has been neglected within state-centric developmental state theories and approaches to urbanization. Specifically, we trace the changes in the state’s original developmental plan for promoting the machinery industry in the southeast region during the 1960s and 1970s. We show how Hyundai, one of the most dominant chaebols, grew to exercise decisive influence over the state’s developmental strategy and became a powerhouse in the Korean economy, particularly in the city of Ulsan. Based on a case study of the Four Core Plants Plan, we show that the success of Hyundai was not an outcome of the effectiveness of the state’s developmental policy but was, ironically, due to the failure of the government’s original plan. The successful substitution of Hyundai’s own strategy for the state’s plan, which contributed enormously to the growth of Ulsan, would have been impossible without Hyundai’s enrollment into the transnational geopolitical economic alliance spurred by US military projects in Asia.

The Creative Sustainable Development Strategy of Old Downtown Areas - A Case Study on the Regeneration of the Old Industrial District beside Xietang River in Shanghai

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 1674-1678
Author(s):  
Chang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Industrial District ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Downtown Area ◽  
The City

Old downtown areas are faced with numerous threats such as removal and rebuilding. The purpose of this research is to reinvigorate the old downtown by low-carbon method rather than the elimination. The article elaborates the understanding of design in the respect of old downtown area renewal with case study of the renewal design of the old industrial district beside Xietang River. And it is pointed out that architectural design and landscape plan should revitalize the site in the city with a combination of retaining site’s history and context with modern language and new technology, which meets the needs of the citizens and realizes the site’s sustainable development.

scholarly journals Learning within local government to promote the scaling-up of low-carbon initiatives: A case study in the City of Copenhagen

Energy Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 111030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didi van Doren ◽  
Peter P.J. Driessen ◽  
Hens A.C. Runhaar ◽  
Mendel Giezen
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The City

scholarly journals 2014. Settlement and Rule in the Eighth-Ninth Centuries: the Arava as a Case Study (Hebrew).

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagit Nol
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
The City ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Material Evidence

The archaeological data from the Arava (Southern Israel/Jordan) suggests massive settlement during the eighth and ninth centuries (the Early Islamic Period), which the literary sources do not mention. The material evidence includes copper industry, a developed agriculture with qanats, and specific architecture. In this study, data from the excavations and surveys in both Jordan and Israel was gathered, and settlement patterns were identified. The Arava patterns of settlement suggest the possibility of the intervention of ruling authorities. First, Early Islamic settlement in the Arava is a one-time phenomenon; Second, advanced technologies were used to exploit the area’s natural resources, and third, the city of Ayla and the courtyard houses are expressions of an administrative architecture. However, this study cannot determine whether the involvement was that of the central government or of local authorities only.

scholarly journals Korea’s Early COVID-19 Response: Findings and Implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8316
Author(s):  
Shin-Kue Ryu ◽  
Soon-Gwan Chung
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Central Government ◽  
South Korean Government ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Government

South Korea was a hotspot of the COVID-19 pandemic with confirmed infections quickly surpassing 10,000 people. However, the country quickly responded and contained additional infections with minimal costs of lives. Hence, the question, “what did they do differently?” Building on empirical fingerprints from over 1507 pages of South Korean government press briefings on their public sector response between 31 January 2020 and 1 July 2020, we capture the sufficiency-based mechanism in operation with two key findings. First, mechanisms matter in pandemic containment, i.e., sequence, complementary activities, and systematic settings are consequential to the witnessed outcome. Second, central government-led efforts were effective and in parts necessary to deal with invisible and rapidly spreading infections beyond a single jurisdictional boundary. These findings lead to a timely discussion on whether pandemics should be treated in the same scholarly limelight as other natural disasters.

scholarly journals Exploring Solutions to Improve the Evaluation of Development of Rural Villages: A Case Study of the Application of the Evaluation for the Construction of Beautiful Villages (ECBV) in a Village in South China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 685
Author(s):  
Chenxi Liu ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Xihong Gao ◽  
Harry Smith
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Eco Village

Eco-village development has been considered by the Chinese central government as part of its rural revitalisation campaign and it is seen as a crucial/main solution to the increasingly serious rural issues caused by urban–rural inequality. A significant number of eco-villages are being or will be developed with government leadership and support under the guidance of a corresponding assessment. However, the latest Chinese eco-village assessment, the Evaluation for the Construction of Beautiful Villages (ECBV), has been found to have limitations related to the assessment process, method, and indicators, meaning that it cannot be used to perform a balanced evaluation of the social, economic, and environmental aspects of an eco-village. As assessing an eco-village is as essential as building it, it has become necessary to balance the criteria and improve the ECBV assessment so that it can review existing achievements, guide further development, and ensure better outcomes. Thus, this paper aims to: (1) identify the limitations of ECBV through a case study of a carefully selected Chinese eco-village, Zhenghu Village, by repeating the assessment process and analysing the assessment results, and (2) propose three possible solutions to improve the assessment by applying a revised ECBV assessment, the components of which are adopted and revised from an internationally recognised sustainability assessment, the Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs). The results of the case study confirm the limitations of the ECBV assessment. Besides, the research outcomes of these three possible solutions can improve ECBV assessment and also provide ideas for the improvement of other existing assessment methods. Moreover, other developing countries may apply the research process and method introduced in this paper to formulate or improve their own eco-village assessments.

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