Evaluating of new town planning in south Korea: new urbanism perspective

Abstract

New Urbanism is to create a specific social pattern in the city and improve the quality of urban life through urban physical infrastructure planning. However, New Urbanism was criticized for being regard as a planning technique that could only be applied in new vacant land like a new town, not in the old city place. Nonetheless, New Urbanists have been creating and popularizing many now-common development patterns and strategies. South Korea is one of the countries with many large-scale new town developments, but there was a lack of reflection on the planning principles on New Urbanism. Accordingly, this study is evaluating new town planning through New Urbanism and we derived the trends and implications of new town planning in South Korea.

Keywords: New Urbanism, New Town Planning, Urban Planning