The Characteristics of a Planned City: Our Ways of Approaching New Towns, Nature and Everyday Life
The Development Background and the Current Situation
The Characteristics of a Planned City
Vitalizing the Local Community by Promoting Food Culture
The Old Downtown and its Neighbouring Areas
Roundtable: Understanding Sejong Today
New Town:
Differences between Ideas and Implementation, Architects and Planners
How can we justify planning strategies or design solutions that are used to implement an city idea in a physical environment?
The concepts promoted by Sejong, by inviting a renowned progressive geographer David Harvey as a jury to select design competition entries, were democracy and equity. How could we explain the urban development process in Sejong, in which cities ideas proposed by architects at design competitions were brought down to earth and institutionalised after having gone through the phases of a master plan, a development plan and a construction plan? There is always dissonance between the two sectors of architecture and urban planning in discussing new town developments in Korea. Architects complain that planners have ruined the city with their lack of design sense, but planners argue that the city may not be operable solely through design ideas by masterpiece-mind architects. On the basis of documented city ideas and design competition proposals as well as the contents of official development plans for the Multifunctional Administrative City (MAC), this report explores how we approached new town projects, which include conflicts between those two parties. Developed with the aim of ‘constructing
2 million housing units’ to ease a housing shortage in Seoul, Bundang functions as a bed town of the capital area. However, Sejong is a new town developed by relocating
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