| Title |
A Study on Development of Culture Village around Keijyo(Seoul) from the 1920s to the 1930s |
| Authors |
Lee Kyung-Ah ; Jeon Bong-Hee |
| Abstract |
Culture Villages were developed by large development companies including a government-run company around Keijyo(Seoul) from the 1920s to the 1930s. Subdivisions were planned into residential area, providing piped water, gas, and roads and went up for sale. They were common to be located on the foot of a hill, reclaim a small land, and have large lots and a quasi-grid road system. Culture Villages having brand-names like such-and-such 'garden', 'villa', 'height', 'hill' or 'village', demarked the site from other places of Keijyo and were restricted to the middle and upper classes because of their novelty and high price. Culture houses were built by architects handling new structure and material like brick and reinforced concrete, and it changed urban view and had a disproportionately large impact on public consciousness. They, however, showed a dark turn of a colony as well because they came to appear after clearing away the poor quarters. |