Waste and Urban Regeneration: An Urban Ecology of Seoul’s Nanjido Post-landfill Park (Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design)

By: Jeong Hye Kim

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Synopsis: Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park, and its relation to the urban ecology within the context of the city’s urban development during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The study analyses the urban ecological meanings of the site’s two distinct forms by consolidating them with the Lefebvrian urban theory and relational ecological theories. This book looks at environmental transformations and their link to South Korea’s political and economic changes; how Seoul City controlled waste populations, the borderline characterisations of the inhabited landfill and its community, the regeneration of the landfill into the post-landfill park and site-specific artworks which explored the conflict between the invisible presence of the landfill’s garbage and its history. As one of the first accounts of a landfill and landfill-turned-park of South Korea, this study is a must-read for academics and researchers interested in waste management, ecology, landscape theory and history.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 214 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000264081
Related ISBNs:: 9780367356408, 9780367641375, 9780429340871
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 12/11/20
Copyrighted By:: Jeong Hye Kim
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.