The concept of 'Urban Regeneration' has appeared to prevent a rapid growth of modern metropolitan cities and to revitalize heart of cities that have a situation of losing functions. Urban regeneration has functions not only improving physical environm...
The concept of 'Urban Regeneration' has appeared to prevent a rapid growth of modern metropolitan cities and to revitalize heart of cities that have a situation of losing functions. Urban regeneration has functions not only improving physical environment but also recreating non-physical environmental factors of economical and social situations.
There are some good examples of regenerated cities, which have malfunction heritages of industrial society. These have potential energy to increase a city's competitiveness with reusing local culture and historic resources, commercializing the city's improved image and revitalizing urban faculty.
But, Korea's urban regeneration is in developmental stage by far. Korea have to escape from present level, which improvement of physical environment to the higher level of development using industrial heritages, which have memories of citier's historical and cultural fragments.
Consequently, this paper attempts to contribute to Korea's urban regeneration issues presenting and analyzing successful examples of reusing industrial factory, which has historical and cultural resources.