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Institutional explanations of shaping a particular housing culture in South Korea : A case study of the gangnam district in Seoul
- Institutional explanations of shaping a particular housing culture in South Korea
- Park, Jinhee
- The University of Sheffield
| Title |
Institutional explanations of shaping a particular housing culture in South Korea
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| Sub Title | A case study of the gangnam district in Seoul |
| Material Type | Article |
| Author(English) |
Park, Jinhee |
| Publisher |
[Sheffield] : The University of Sheffield |
| Date | 2013-10 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Subject Country | South Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
| Language | English |
| File Type | Link |
| Subject | Territorial Development < General |
| Holding | White Rose institutions |
| License |  |
Abstract
High-rise urban housing has been one of the most contentious themes in academic and policy discourses regarding urban built environments, connoted in many western countries as ‘slums’ with social delinquency and dysfunctional family lives. This has often been contrasted with the ideal of the suburban house. Together these have framed a ‘deterministic dualism’ of built environments according to the physical and spatial features. Such extreme comparison has helped to reinforce social and spatial segregation, resulting in the deep stigmatisation of high-rise built environments. This has left little room for other possibilities, in particular in the context of recent issues of sustainable development, such as new urbanism, struggling to transform images and perspectives of high-rise city living. (The rest omitted)
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