urban rehabilitation based on culture and the arts
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A city that is repeating the growth and decline depending on the current trends is the space which needs for living as a member of a group within a certain area, and it conducts economic, social and cultural functions. The characteristics of city may be made depending on the way to be composed of the physical frame and economic, social and cultural factors and the lifestyle that the citizens who are main agents in urban activity respond to.
The needs to a city have been changed variously with reference to the function of a city and the quality of human life depending on the changes of the times. The traditional urban planning appeared as the socio-technological method for cyclizing environmental problems of a city in the early 20th century. It had been developed bounding up with industry react, but after 1980’, the cities of the West developed industrial country had been needed the change for the urban function during the progress of post-industrialization. There are different approaches in various aspects for making the competitive city so as to meet the changed needs of the times by improving the image of the area through cleaning up an area contaminated by industrializing, and by developing the residence of a new concept and the space for produce and leisure. Thus, the policy of urban rehabilitation that aims to improve the collapsed physical environment of a city and to consider economic, social and cultural vitality and to develop the competitive cities is becoming the conversation topic in the World Cities of 21st century.
The various countries in the World have done the different attempts based on these policies for urban rehabilitation; the representative case is Sheffield, Glasgow, England, Bilbao, Spain, Frankfurt, Germany, San Antonio, USA, Rennes, France and Yokohama, Japan.
Also Korea, as they understand the importance of these, has selected the work for urban rehabilitation as one of ‘7 R&D industries of Construction and Transportation’ and being constituted the works.
The different cities in every countries is attempting to vitalize a city based on culture and the arts by adopting ‘culture’ as a strategy in the process of establishing the strategy for urban rehabilitation, and they are conducting the plan that meets the urban planning focused on culture which uses local culture, nature and creativity.
‘A Cultural Hub City Bureau of Asia’ in the Ministry of Korea Culture and Tourism is the same context as these; this is the strategy that meets the cultural needs of citizens and causes economic impacts at the same moment by using the tangibility and intangibility cultural resources which a city has for urban rehabilitation. The various cities of the World make the sense of a place or an identity of an area maximize depending on this trends, additionally, with this, they have been making an effort to vitalize the declined cities. The method for realizing the intangible culture is to vitalize a culture infrastructure existed by using culture and the art complex and to form the city image and to develop.