김준(Kim, Jun) ; 임성훈(Lim, Sung-Hun)
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK.2026.42.4.65
This study conducts a diachronic analysis of 4,733 housing complexes with 20 or more households in Busan to examine changes in housing
types, including apartments and non-apartments, as well as locational patterns from 1962 to 2024. The analysis reveals that apartments and
non-apartments contain a similar number of households, ranging from approximately 460,000 to 470,000. Despite this similarity, non-apartment
complexes are about three times more numerous, reflecting housing policies implemented around the 2010s. Differences also emerge by
location. Apartment complexes tend to be smaller in central areas and more than twice as large in suburban areas, while non-apartment
complexes are mainly concentrated in central locations. Over time, apartment supply areas have shifted significantly, whereas non-apartment
housing has consistently concentrated in the urban core. Looking at changes over time, using 2000 as a reference, roughly 41.2 percent of all
areas experienced a shift in the dominant housing type. While apartments generally became the dominant type, the opposite trend appeared in
some urban areas. In apartment-dominated areas, apartment households increased while non-apartment households declined. In
non-apartment-dominated areas, both types of housing decreased. These spatial changes suggest a close link to housing policies addressing
inner-city decline and population aging since the 2010s. The findings also highlight the need for institutional review of non-apartment
housing, which largely falls outside major urban policy frameworks.