Community-Based Urban Development

Highlights the approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul a shift from the past Compares the different approaches to urban development in both cities Also highlights policies and practices related to urban development in Singapore and Seoul Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Dr Cho Im Sik is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, at the National University of Singapore where she serves as the leader for urban studies research and teaching and as principal investigator for many research projects funded by the key government agencies in Singapore, related to urban space design and participatory planning for sustainable high-density environment. She has served as a reviewer for the National Research Foundation of Singapore (2014-2017) and South Korea (2015). Her recent publications as lead author include Towards an Integrated Urban Space Framework for Emerging Urban Conditions in a High-density Context in the Journal of Urban Design (2015); Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions (Routledge, 2016); and Changing approaches to community participation for social sustainability: Neighbourhood planning in Singapore and Seoul in Caprotti and Yu (eds.), Sustainable Cities in Asia (Routledge, forthcoming).

Dr Bla Krinik is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Urban Studies at the Hanyang University in Seoul. He has graduated from architecture and holds PhD in sociology of everyday life from the University of Ljubljana. He has worked previously as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona and Seoul Development Institute and was a visiting professor at the University of Seoul and Kwangwoon University. He is a co-founder and senior researcher at the Institute for Spatial Policies in Ljubljana. His research work is focused on comparative urban studies, sociology of urban social movements and Korean studies. His last book Local responses to global challenges: Cultural context of urban change in Barcelona and Seoul explores the importance of local culture in urban development.

Contenu
Introduction.- City and the developmental state.- Neoliberalization and neo-developmental city.- Emerging community-based urban development.- Conclusion: Towards community-driven urban development (what we learned).