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An Interpretation of the Urban Folly in Gwangju, South Korea Through the Lens of Contextual Novelty

  • Lee, Min Jung;Lee, Dong-Eon
    • Architectural research
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.157-164
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    • 2016
  • Urban regeneration, which implies a certain type of change from what has previously existed, requires fundamental understandings of previous problematic ways of thinking for a meaningful change, as well as a new philosophy that is thought to support that change. This means a change in philosophy is needed to discuss 'newness' in urban regeneration. From this perspective, this paper explores the philosophies which shaped traditional cities as well as a philosophy that may be able to suggest changes to contemporary cities. This paper further proposes contextual novelty as necessary to pursue. This contextual novelty does not deny modern cities' problems but embraces them and carries them into contemporary cities. Arguing for qualitative novelty, this paper argues that contextualism, which explores the complex relationships of direct and indirect contributors of a given event, can help us to understand contemporary cities' heterogenic characteristics. In this context, this paper discusses the concept of novelty in contemporary discourse of urban regeneration by using the philosophy of contextualism. Finally a recent example of urban regeneration in the city of Gwangju, South Korea is interpreted using the concept of contextual novelty.

Differences in Factors Associated with Depressive Symptoms between Urban and Rural Female Adolescents in Korea

  • Lee, Gyuyoung;Ham, Ok Kyung;Lee, Bo Gyeong;Kim, Abuan Micah
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.48 no.4
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    • pp.475-484
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: To examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and differentiate factors associated with them in urban and rural areas by applying the Ecological Models of Health Behavior. Methods: We employed a cross-sectional design and convenience sample of 460 female adolescents. The instruments included the Adolescent Mental-Health Problem-Behavior Questionnaire (AMPQ-II) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Results: Depressive symptoms were confirmed in 15.7% of urban adolescents and 22.9% of rural adolescents (p<.05). In the urban group, perception of health and stress associated with school performance were significantly associated with depressive symptoms. In the rural group, academic/internet related problems and rule violations were significantly associated with depressive symptoms (p<.05). General life happiness, worry/anxiety, and mood/suicidal ideation were common factors in both urban and rural areas (p<.05). Conclusion: Multiple factors were associated with depressive symptoms, and those significant factors differed between urban and rural female youths. Accordingly, tailored approaches are required considering urban and rural differences. The approaches should include intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational levels of interventions.

A Nutrition Survey of Urban Elderly in Seoul with the Analysis of Deitary Attitude after Retirement (서울시내 거주 노인의 영양섭취실태 및 식생활태도 조사연구 -은퇴한 노인을 중심으로-)

  • 강남이
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.52-65
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    • 1986
  • This study deals with the conditions of nutritional intake of the urban elderly (age sixty years and older). This study analysis is based on factors that are influenced on the prevalent conditions of dietary-intake of the urban elderly either it be for better ment of health or desire. The method of this research was based on the interview-survey with questinaire in the Seoul area. In comparison to the surveys taken of the rural society and the urban slum elderly the urban elderly standard nutritional requirements was higher. Of the standard nutritional requrieemtns the twomen's nutrition intake was higher than of the men. But still the problem of malnutrition existed in the urban elderly both men and women at the probability nutritional deficienty rate higher than 30%. The food intake frequency factors which might influence the condition of nutritional intake was significant more than condition of eating. Another important factors of the conditions of nutritioal intake of the urban elderly are one's self-consciousness of health and degree of one's will change . In healthy case of the aged, their will was almost maintained and hand -grip strength was high when they had regular meal with their family . For elderl with the lower academic career and the one with more satisfactory to his meal, their wills didn't change before or after retirement. The objectiveness of this survey is to convince the elderly that the problems of nutritional deficiency can only be solved by reeducation and to improve their nutritional diet to have the enjoyments of a healtheir elderly life.

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A Study on Green Net-Work Construction for Urban Heat Island Mitigation in Dalseo District, Daegu Metropolitan City (도시열섬현상 저감을 위한 그린네트워크 구축 방안에 관한 연구 - 대구광역시 달서구를 대상으로 -)

  • Kim, Gi Ho;Kim, Su Bong;Jeong, Eung Ho
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.527-535
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    • 2004
  • As urbanization has been expanded in Korea, open spaces, such as urban parks and public sites, have been utilized for other uses, and then this bring out environmental changes for the worse. It is expected that these changes become more serious problems due to overpopulation, increasing individualism, and development of transportation. This research base on the consideration of connecting between decreasing urban green spaces and distributed green sites so as to build the substantial plan for the Green Network construction for urban heat island mitigation in Dalseo district, Daegu Metropolitan City. The result were as follow; 1) Connecting existing natural sites to the remained parks green zone made an Ideal form of Green-Network system. 2) Some school sites were selected for usable open spaces in order to build Green-Network system, and the plan connecting together with exist natural sites was suggested. 3) Moreover, the scheme of planting on the road spaces for connecting green spaces was proposed. 4) The devices of planting on the urban riverside for enhancing the role of urban stream to form green network was conceived.

Changes on Urban Landscape by Incoming Foreign Residents - Focused on Alien Regions in Gwangju - (외국인 유입으로 인한 도시경관의 변화 분석 - 광주광역시의 외국인 거주지를 대상으로 -)

  • Jo, Mujin;Han, Seung-Hoon
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: Residential differentiation is often considered to be one of the social problems that intensify urban inequality. The purpose of the study was to analyze the changes in the Gwangju urban landscape due to foreign inflows after reviewing the different frameworks about the causes of residential segregation and verifying compliance through case analysis. Method: This study analyzed the increase of Gwangju Foreign Population based on the data of the Statistics Korea and derived the concentrated areas of foreign population using GIS program. Then through the field research around the target areas, the changes of urban landscape by the foreign residents was analyzed. The foreign population in Korea recently surpassed 1.5 million is expected to increase further, and has already raised numerous social issues especially in urban area. Result: Therefore, basic and systematic analyses on foreign population and its impacts on urban residential landscape are necessary to resolve the issues. Since Gwangju is also in a similar situation, this research is first, to address the current situation and identify the problem, and then to suggest the directions for resolving them. It is also expected to be helpful provide a basic reference for related further researches.

A Study on the Categories and Architectural Design of the Unified Operation School in Urban Area (도시지역의 통합운영학교 유형과 건축계획 연구)

  • Lee, Hwa-Ryong;Dong, Jae-Wook;Kim, Hong-Min;Park, Min-Gun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2018
  • In recent years, schools in the urban areas are also showing their interest in the integrated school and considering adapting the actual operation method. That is why decline of the school-age population is not limited to rural areas any more, and decreasing number of students in urban schools is raised as a social issue to reconsider the continuation of schools. To solve the problems of the small-scale schools in the urban area, the integrated school is being considered as an alternative. Furthermore, the newly built schools in the urban development areas are also planned as the integrated school. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to examine the cases of integrated schools in urban area of developed countries and to analyze their architectural planning considerations in practice.

Analysis of Effect of Urban Agricultural Experience Activities to Alleviate Problem Behaviors of Adolescents (청소년 문제행동 완화를 위한 도시농업 체험활동의 효과 분석)

  • Jung, Nam-Sick;Lee, Yong-Hak;Kang, Eun-Jee;Kim, Yong-Geun
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.271-283
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of urban agricultural practice on the factors of adolescent problem behavior. The main findings of this study are as follows. First, as a result of measuring quantitative research, urban agricultural practice improves 16.7% of self-worth, reduces 28.1% of depression, and improves 19.4% of sociality, the factors of adolescent problem behavior, and statistical significance is confirmed in all lower measures. Second, as a result of measuring qualitative research, there are overwhelmingly many cases that most items change positively or are maintained in sentence completion test. Third, a positive change of mind in adolescent communication, cognitive and problem- solving abilities, and participation is confirmed through observation of program participation behavior. It is significant for this study to confirm that urban agricultural experiential activity has a positive impact on the factors of adolescent problem behavior, and to verify educational effects and social values of urban agricultural practice including the necessity of development and operation of urban agricultural program to solve youth problems.

A Study on the Landscape Adjectives for Urban Landscape Analysis (도시경관분석을 위한 경관형용사 목록 작성)

  • 주신하;임승빈
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2003
  • The purpose of this study is to categorize a landscape adjective list for urban landscape analysis. For this purpose, four methods are used. The first method is to survey the foreign landscape adjective lists such as Feimer's EACL & LACL, VRM suggested vocabulary, and IEA and LI's aesthetic factors, which are commonly used in domestic research. The second method is to analyze vocabulary in Korean linguistic textbook the third is to investigate Korean adjective lists from 36 domestic research. The last is to survey adjectives used to express the urban landscapes. 24 landscapes from BunDdang, GwaCheon, YakSoo and ApGuJeong were presented to 40 subjects, whose responses were collected and categorized. The frequency analysis of the adjectives and landscape factors were processed by SJTOOL, which was programmed for Korean vocabulary analysis. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: Foreign adjective lists were mainly focused on the physical features of landscapes and they also had linguistic problems caused by the translations. Therefore, it is undesirable to use the foreign adjective list directly to analyze Korean urban landscapes. The vocabulary from the linguistic textbook has more variety, but it includes many adjectives irrelevant to the urban landscape. More types of adjectives were used in the researches(890 adjectives/295 types), compared with the result of response survey(1,406 adjectives/270 types). Because some adjectives were partly confusing, it is desirable to categorize the adjectives. The categorized adjectives could therefore be more useful and practical for urban landscape analysis.

Urban Design Case Review for Mitigation of Sediment Disaster and its Application in Korea (토사재해 저감 도시설계 사례검토 및 국내 적용방안 연구)

  • Lee, Yoon-Sang;Kim, Hyo-Jin;Jin, Kyu-Nam
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 2017
  • Recently, as a part of measures against large-scale natural disasters in Korea, disaster prevention matters are strengthened in urban planning. With the introduction of the disaster vulnerability analysis system, plans for disaster prevention are being reinforced in urban planning. However, there are many problems to be solved at the stage of operation and practical application of the law. When disasters occur, we are focusing on response and recovery plans. Therefore, it is not enough to construct a comprehensive disaster prevention system to prevent disasters in advance. The established disaster prevention plan is difficult to plan management centered on disaster prevention due to factors such as economic efficiency, convenience, and comfort. This study is a basic study for supporting disaster prevention mitigation plan. For this purpose, the analysis of the actual situation of disaster prevention plan at home and abroad and improvement plan were derived. ased on these improvement plans, we have developed a method to apply the element technology of urban design to the test bed to reduce sediment disaster. The test bed was investigated and examined in the disaster hazard area of Busan and Seongnam city. And the defense technology is applied to the selected site, and the basis of the disaster prevention plan and design is proposed. If the proven techniques are reflected from the urban planning stage, it will be possible to contribute to the mitigation of sediment disaster caused by the city.

A Study on Developing Model of Urban Planning Information System (도시계획정보체계 개발모델 연구)

  • 염형민;이승일;전유신
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.77-92
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    • 2002
  • In order to prevent indiscreet urban growth and harmonize urban development with environmental preservation, it is strongly required in Korea that urban planning should be reasonable and transparent. From this societal demand, the urban planning system was changed to be strengthened for the establishment of harmonious land-use order in urban space. However, implementation of the urban planning system demands a lot of information to analyze and estimate the present condition and problems of urban area. For this purpose, the information should quickly be collected, managed and analyzed. The urgent demand of information in urban planning field is able to be fulfilled with recent GIS and its relevant information technique, which can quickly, accurately and conveniently collect various spatial and statistical information, systematically analyze and manage them, and visually present the result of spatial analysis. This study suggested a urban planning information system and its basic implementing scheme to support the urban planning system with GIS and presented a development model of the urban planning information system using the recent GIS and its relevant information technique.

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