• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.147-161
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• 2013

This paper aims to examine the background, process, and characteristics of the territorial reform of local governments in West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany) in the 1960s and 70s. During this period the territorial structure and function of municipality (Gemeinde), county (Kreis) and county-free town (Kreisfreie Stadt) as local governments were fundamentally reformed. The territorial reform of local governments paid special attention to merge the small-sized municipalities and to create the joint authorities in order to build the system of central localities. There had been criticism on the uniform boundary delimitation, confusion of regional identity, erosion of local autonomy and emphasis on the regional planning. But the territorial reform of the period has contributed to improve the performance of public administration and to strengthen the service delivery and planning capacity.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.389-410
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• 1995

Large metropolitan areas in the US are distinguished by highly fragmented fiscally independent suburban municipalities and special districts. The suburban fragmentation implies the congregation of similar socio-economic groups escaped from central cities and the disparity of geographical resources among local government jurisdictions. This study examines St.Louis County suburbs as a case study for the implictions of suburban governmental fragmentation and the fiscal disparities across local governmental boundaries by analyzing their relationship with public service provision using police and public school services as examples. The distribution of fiscal resources across political boundaries, the processes which created them, and public service inequalities reproduced from the disparity of fiscal resources reveal the causes and consequences of suburban governmental fragmentation. The central part of suburban fragmentation is the segregation of public goods consumption reproduced from the disparity of local fiscal resources, and it acts as a basic geographical segregating force in the suburban spatial organization.

• Proceedings of the KGS Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.76-76
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• 2004

우리나라나 프랑스와 같이 오랜 역사를 지닌 나라의 행정구역은 이미 지역 정체성을 가지고 있는 공간 단위를 기초로 구획되었거나, 일단 행정구역으로 구획된 후 점차 정체성을 획득하는 과정을 밟아 왔다. 또한 오늘날 행정구역, 특히 지방자치 단체의 공간 규모와 성격은 참여 민주주의에 근거한 지방 분권의 실시, 국토의 효율적인 개발을 위해서도 점점 그 중요성을 더하고 있다. (중략)

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.399-409
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• 2016

Gyeongsangbuk-do moved its provincial office in October, 2015 and has been building a new town with a goal to construct a truly self-sufficient city with the population of 100,000 people before 2027. However, a new town tends to be dualized in terms of its administrative districts, so it is raising a lot of problems regarding from city construction up to operation. In order to solve those problems, this author has selected Si Gun Gu integration that was chosen as a major task to do in 2012 among the basic plans to revise the local administration system announced by the promotional committee to reorganize administrative districts as the range of this research and analyzed how it is going on in Andong-si and Yecheon-gun where a provincial office new town is being constructed. The main contents of this study regard the theoretical model to reform the local administration system, basic plans to revise the local administration system, and necessity and directions for reorganizing administrative districts in Andong-si and Yecheon-gun. Based on that, this author suggests integration of administrative districts as a way for a provincial office new town to establish its identity and grow as a sustainable, new growth focus city in Gyeongsangbuk-do.

• Journal of Local Government Studies
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.91-116
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• 2013

The purpose of this paper is to find out the set of the factors influencing on the successful voluntary consolidation among local governments. This paper considers the voluntary consolidation as a kind of coordination mechanism and institutional collective action process between local governments, and identifies the configurations of the causal factors influencing the voluntary consolidations by applying the fuzzy-set analysis. It is found that the sets of the causal factors which include political and economic homogeneity factors in the region, and interlocal political, economic, and social homogeneity factors, and prior consolidation experience between regions have positive effects on the consolidations. Also, it turns out that interlocal homogeneity and conformity between regions should be considered significantly for institutionalization which supports the consolidation between local entities.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.615-627
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• 2014

In this study, nonhierarchical K-mean cluster analysis is used to classify the types of 230 local governments and the Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis analysis are used to analyze the characteristics of pedestrian accidents by region types. With empirical analysis of pedestrian accidents, this study suggests improvements of walking environments reflecting local characteristics. Type 1-A (relatively dominant urban commercial areas), Type 1-B (predominantly urban residence) and Type 2 (rural areas) have been classified using nonhierarchical K-mean cluster analysis. According to the results, pedestrian accident rate on community roads was more than 60% for all types and incidence rate in rural areas was higher than that in urban areas. In addition, pedestrian accidents of Type 1-B have been found to occur more frequently than Type 2 in intersections and crossings, while the number of roadside casualties for Type 2 was highest.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2002

The Cultural Revolution(wenhuadageming) is one of the most important political movement in the modem China. The studies on the movement done in recent years concentrated on the political conspiracy or the struggle over political line, so they did not pay attention to the political geographical dimension of the movement. This paper proposes that the Cultural Revolution practised in the area of minority nationalities at least is well understood through the political geographical perspective. Through the discussion on the Cultural Revolution practised in the Inner Mongolia autonomous district and the Oroqen minority nationality autonomous banner, this paper suggest that the socialist Chinese leader group considers the frontier area(bianjiang) or the minority nationality regions(xiaoshuminzudiqu) important as 'region' or 'space' not as 'the area of minority nationalities (minzu)'. Especially, in the period of the movement, the leader group of the revolution manipulated the space by using the index of nationality or manipulated the nationality by using the index of space. Therefore this paper assert that the Cultural Revolution in the area of minority nationality autonomous region was a integration process of the people and national territory through the reorganization of the nationalities into classes and of autonomous region into region in general meaning.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.573-580
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• 2011

In this study, group to set the military reserves has caused occasional friction. Therefore, for the protection of military bases and military facilities around the County win-win was to provide real estate management plan. As a result, when the first government actively involved in the planning and real estate expert, should be used to configure the advisory group. Using the second military real estate assets for future urban development should be. Third for the military Reserves shall continue to study. Finally, management and development of border areas to establish a plan to propose measures to be implemented.

• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.64
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• pp.93-118
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• 2020

This paper focuses on the phenomenon that basic municipalities in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, have established archives in the last two to three years, and examines the background and causes. The movement of establishing a continuous archive of regional historical associations that encompassed several regions beyond a specific municipality exerted great influence. The linkage and cooperation activities of The Japan Society of Archives Institutions also acted as a major factor. These examples of municipal archives in Nagano Prefecture will give prospects and implications that can facilitate the establishment of a local archive in Korea.

• Daejeon Development Forum
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• s.22
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• pp.97-103
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• 2007

민선지방자치제가 실시된 지 10년이 지난 지금 지방자치단체간 소모적인 경쟁보다는 생산적인 협력이 중요하다는 분위기가 고조되고 있으며, 행정구역 경계를 넘어선 지역개발 협력 모델이 구체적으로 논의되고 있다. 특히 도시가 점차 확장되면서 그 주변지역을 망라함에 따라 연담도시권은 생활권 경제권역을 공유하게 되어 각종 행정사무에 대한 상호 협력의 필요성이 증대되고 있으며, 교통, 공공시설, 수질, 대기 등의 문제들이 중요한 이슈로 부각되고 종종 지역간 갈등의 주원인으로 나타남에 따라 이러한 사안들을 협의할 수 있는 지역단체간 협력기구에 대한 중요성이 대두되고 있다. 금번 해외정책연수기간 중 방문한 SCAG(Southern California Association of Government) 와 ABAG(Association of Bay Area Governments) 는 미국의 광역도시계획기구 (Metropolitan Planning Organization: MPO) 중 하나로, 광역행정의 추진 및 정부간 갈등 조정, 협력 촉진의 역할을 수행하고 있어, 작금 우리의 행정현실에 대해서도 시사하는 바가 크다 하겠다.