| Title |
Urban Spatial Structure of Modern City and the Changing Characteristics under the Japanese Rule |
| Keywords |
도시공간구조 ; 예산 ; 일제강점기 ; 식민도시 ; 근대도시 Urban Spatial Structure ; Yesan ; Japanese Rule ; Colonial City ; Modern City |
| Abstract |
Yesan, South Chungcheung province in Korea, was developed as one of modern cities throughout Japanese colonial era, accommodating the demands of the times requiring a modern civil society and political-economic aims by the Japanese governors. After 1920s as a railroad nearby Yesan was constructed, and an old town of Yesan was connected with the railroad's station and a newly developed newtown through a main road, Yesan became more advanced as an organic urban structure, especially after a police station, a regiment of military police, a county office, a bank, and Japanese schools, making a political space, were re-arranged along the main street to link between the new and old town of Yesan. Likewise, capital accumulated and population increased as a logistics hub over time, and as a autonomous space of consumption and production for all the citizens permanent stores and markets gradually expanded from the main crossroad of Yesan along the Yesan stream, dividing between Japanese and Korean residential areas. Consequently, Yesan was organized as a modern city, overcoming social conflicts which occurred between autonomous spaces reflecting the needs of a society and heteronomous spaces radically re-shaped by Japanese colonial ideas. |