A Study on the Revitalization of T.O.D is follows;The railroad has been providing a central role and function not only for formation and development of the city but also a critical transit method all over the world. If subway adjacent area has the co...
A Study on the Revitalization of T.O.D is follows;The railroad has been providing a central role and function not only for formation and development of the city but also a critical transit method all over the world. If subway adjacent area has the complex urban functions of commerce, office and residence, ithas potential to vitalize the city by maximizing the accumulation of population. However, near subway adjacent area which has had low development density and lagged behind due to long-term sluggish development has not used its space efficiently and failed to smoothly connect with the peripheral areas due to space limit.
Generally speaking, in a limited sense of the term, TOD (Transit- Oriented Development) is a redevelopment of existing station building. In the other way, TOD can be interpreted as a broad development including developing peripheral areas altogether. It is said that most TODs in the past is close to redevelopment of existing station building and has focused on commercial development and lack of connectivity with mass transit and ridership convenience. Moreover, mismatch between station and adjacent area causes to fall off station function and get worsen peripheral area.
The division of subway adjacent central area caused by limited and unplanned development obscured the boundaries between subway adjacent area and periphery, which resulted in deterioratingresidential environment and concentrated on limited facility providing as a result, it failed to create various subway adjacent spaces.
As ““The development and Use of Act for TOD”” has been established since April 15th on 2010 and enacted on Oct. 16th, it’s possible to push ahead TOD in a comprehensive and systematic way; as a result, designation of development zone, development cost subsidies or development loan are expected TOD revitalized. However, there still are the chief obstacles such as excluding railroad service provider at early planning stage, banning investment of national property and free loan.
In this thesis, I reviewed the definition of subway adjacent area and need for development, scope and form of TOD. I also researched domestic and foreign TOD cases and then draw implications from them and deeply reviewed Yongsan IBD(International Business District) Project and analyzed the situation. Finally, I tried to deal with support policies of foreign TOD projects and suggest supporting plans for Yongsan IBD Project.
Most domestic TOD in the past has been limited to rebuild old stations as you look into other domestic and foreign TOD case studies. The current TOD has showed problems such as lack of convenient facilities and transit. On the contrary, foreign TOD focuses on publicity and convenience and gives more functions and enhances its functions by building solid transit system.
The limitations for Domestic TOD are as follows; firstly, limit of urban structure, Secondly, lack of legal system, thirdly, limit of business management.
There are several issues for Yongsan IBD project; first, lower floor area ratio compared to higher ratio of infrastructure, parkand greenbelt required. They may be addressed by relaxing restrictions on the floor area ratio by applying ‘Yongsan IBD special planned building standards’, secondly, as it is prescribed to appropriate as much as park and greenbelt area, applying the established urban development standards is another way to cut the red tape and relax the above restrictions, thirdly, the existing riverside express road which will go underground needs to turn into public facilities like parks and greenbelt areas to make lands use effective, fourthly, ‘Yongsan IBD project Support Ordinance’that is similar to Sangam DMC support ordinance should be legislated which allows tax reduction and exemption and, thus, stimulates investment, finally, relaxing on restrictions on parking lots will help ease Yongsan IBD project at the heart of the Han River Renaissance Project by Seoul.
Although I tried to reflect the atmosphere changes like new legislation enactmentand etc. in my thesis, based on theoretical contemplation on the precedent study, I know it has limitations in that I mainly researched TOD and Yongsan IBD project focusing on support methods for helping ease TOD.
As it seems that there are various forms of TODs in the coming year, more researches are required to help push ahead TOD effectively and systematically.