| Title |
The Changing Spatial Patterns of New Urban Development Areas in Gangneung City in Korea |
| Authors |
강상준(Kang, Sang Jun) ; 권태정(Kwon, Tae Jung) |
| Keywords |
스프롤 ; 도시확산 ; 도시형태학 ; 도시저밀개발 ; 공간자기상관성분석 Urban Sprawl ; Urban Morphology ; Low Density Urban Development ; Local Indicator of Spatial Association |
| Abstract |
Gangneung City is a medium-sized Korean city on the east coast of the Korean peninsula. Majority of the city's residential-oriented urban developments have been allowed since the early 1980s. This study is to identify the almost forty years changing spatial pattern of the urban development areas in Gangneung City with about 200,000 population. LISA (Local Indicator of Spatial Association) and GIS mapping analysis, based on the data of individual building records, proves that (1) the city's low density urban developments during the era have been built randomly rather than expanded away from the old downtown and (2) none of the low density areas has grown to a high density central district. No significant land-use difference between low and high density development areas are also found, indicating low levels of differentiation between high density downtown areas and low density suburbs. As a case study it has a significant limitation in generalizing the findings above. This study is, however, believed to contribute to introducing a new urban morphology research method, which is based on individual building records, and also to empirically verifying the limitation of suburban low density developments within the context of a medium-sized Korean city. |