This research aims at qualitatively evaluating the test-bed project about the urban regeneration in Changwonsi, which has been conducted so far. It is considered valuable in urban areas, and at preparing various plans for the support activation cont...
This research aims at qualitatively evaluating the test-bed project about the urban regeneration in Changwonsi, which has been conducted so far. It is considered valuable in urban areas, and at preparing various plans for the support activation continuously. In particular, depending on each city and each type of project characteristics, it aims at diverse alternative ways to apply to local cities.
The overall situations of urban growth and decline by using the indicators of population and industry, and it were selected the city to need urban regeneration projects.
Based on population change, manufacturing and service industry (producer, consumer and infrastructure), all cities and countries in the whole nation were classified into six types, and 76 of them, two groups. Gu district that is the center of most metropolises and the seats of provincial government or major cities in local small and medium-sized cities are included. In Guns, they are getting declined according to the decrease of population and industry, and the main cities in provinces indicate city stagnation and decay. Changwon and Jeonju, where the test bed projects are in progress, also belong to this category. Therefore, separate approaches for most Gun regions have to be taken measures.
As simply categorized the types of urban regeneration according to the characteristics of cities, local small and medium-sized cities urgently require the urban economicsbased regeneration and neighborhood regeneration. Gu districts mainly focus on neighborhood regeneration, and Gun regions need both. However, the approach methods for them are not discussed yet compared to Local cities so that the regions do not need the immediate projects.
The test bed project in Changwon and that of Jeonju show the differences in its procedures. In Changwon, the downtown keep declining due to the decrease of population, and the residential areas in Jeonju are decayed according to new housing site development. Thus, it is that they have different aspects in terms of urban regeneration. Separate approaches are necessary to regenerate the commercial district, but the projects are in progress with almost same process. Characteristics of cities are not reflected yet; thus the tasks were not progressed actively, and the procedures were rather similar. The test bed tasks are focusing on the improvement of declined areas in two cities. Therefore, it is important to differentiate the projects by differentiated approaching strategies.
The research was carried out a survey targeting experts and residents for the evaluation of urban regeneration and the support activation. it shows a score of 4.17, which is relatively higher than the average, to the general evaluation of the urban regeneration project. Among the items, street beautification indicates the highest value. It means that regenerating projects have been concentrated on the formation of street environment like maintaining the road and front surface of buildings mainly. In the question about the performance, 45.1% of respondents “It still falls short of the expectations” answered that is somewhat of a positive evaluation. on the order hand, the score of arrangement of street furniture environmental is 3.89, the score of the participation satisfaction is 4.11, and the score of supporting system is 3.55, which means that still residents are little satisfaction at the project, but in case of their participation is more higher than satisfaction.
For the supporting programs, the partnership system of resident participation is 5.49 and simplification of administrative procedure is 5.45, which indicates that residents recognize to need this project. Specifically, they think that the government subsidies are important in activation of finance support and in partnership for citizens’ participation, residents and dealers participation are important. Moreover, the arrangement of access road in local governments business has the highest value. As the necessary facilities, parking lots and road arrangement is the most necessary one, and small park and facilities for relaxation follow next.
In the analysis using Structural Equation Models between the necessity of project and supporting program, we set 10 hypotheses and analyzed them. Results are as follows. 1) Present condition diagnosis 3) necessity → finance support, 4) necessity → Partnership, 5) necessity → simplifying the administrative procedures, 6) necessity → Practice, 8) partnership → support programs, 9) practice → support programs 7 out of 10 hypotheses are selected. Thus, in structural equation, valid conclusions are induced from the structures for aiding urban regeneration projects
For the activation of aiding the tasks, the supporting system such as the Urban Regeneration Act needs to be prepared in advance. Moreover, regeneration strategies for the projects and organizations in local government are necessary, and also special grants as well as grants need to be imposed to promote the work successfully through the budget support. Furthermore, the regeneration projects have to be done as local development tasks of present Special Grant for Regional Development, and block grants need to be used actively.
Through the expansion of them, local governments enlarge the autonomous approaches and the projects per city and business are promoted to make them positioned as actual urban regeneration.
Finally, on actively using monitoring system, the urban regeneration should be settled by a new method of urban management from the propulsion stage to finish.
This study is focused on suggesting the various measures to prepare the theoretical base for finding major supporting programs and assessing the procedures to activate the aids of urban regeneration projects, and on seeking the validity. However, due to the limits like the absence of support system, it is difficult to execute the project, but arranging urban regeneration schemes are crucial so that the effects of this research may be huge.