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South Korea's Saemaul (New Village) movement

South Korea's Saemaul (New Village) movement

04 April 2013

Jung Won Sonn & Dong-Wan Gimm (2013): South Korea's Saemaul (New Village) movement: an organisational technology for the production of developmentalist subjects, Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 34:1

CASA
CASA Working Paper 190

CASA Working Paper 190


Visualising Spatial and Social Media

In this chapter, we begin by surveying the development of computer graphics as it has influenced the development of the spatial representation of social and economic data, charting ...

CASA
CASA Working Paper 189

CASA Working Paper 189

The growth of London's street network in its dual representation

We study the growth of London’s street-network in its dual representation, as the city has evolved over the last 224 years ...

Planning
Design Coding, Diffusion of Practice in England

Design Coding, Diffusion of Practice in England

Design Coding, Diffusion of Practice in England is a new report published by the Urban Design Group  that revisits the use of design codes in England six years after the completion of a ...

Architecture
We shall deal here with humble things

We shall deal here with humble things

Essay by Dr Barbara Penner, published online at Places.

Architecture
Postcolonial History of Architecture and Urbanism

Postcolonial History of Architecture and Urbanism

An innovative new book has just been written by Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan, based on his PhD thesis at the Bartlett School of Architecture. 

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Ridwan's Postcolonial ...

Architecture
Concrete and Culture

Concrete and Culture

Professor Adrian Forty’s new book Concrete and Culture: a Material History has been published by Reaktion Books. 

Planning
Fiscal arrangements and planning decisions in Italy, the UK and the Netherlands

Fiscal arrangements and planning decisions in Italy, the UK and the Netherlands

Several European countries are implementing fiscal and welfare reforms in the form of increased devolution of taxing and spending powers and responsibilities to sub-national government. In the last three years these trends have ...

CASA
CASA Working Paper 188

CASA Working Paper 188

Smart Cities of the Future

In this paper we sketch the rudiments of what constitutes a smart city which we define as a city in which ICT is merged with traditional infrastructures, coordinated ...

Planning
Urban energy initiatives: the implications of new urban energy pathways for the UK

Urban energy initiatives: the implications of new urban energy pathways for the UK

This article arises out of the CLUES research project which aimed to have an impact beyond the academic sphere into the worlds of stakeholders and decision-makers that are developing urban energy initiatives through ...

Planning
Planning for Change in Urban Energy Systems

Planning for Change in Urban Energy Systems


This article arises out of the CLUES research project which aimed to have an impact beyond the academic sphere into the worlds of stakeholders and decision-makers that are developing urban energy initiatives through ...

Planning
Local Experiences of urban sustainability: Researching Housing Market Renewal interventions in three English neighbourhoods

Local Experiences of urban sustainability: Researching Housing Market Renewal interventions in three English neighbourhoods

Ideas and thinking about sustainability and sustainable development have permeated over the last decades into most disciplines and sectors. The area of urban studies is no exception and has generated an impressive body ...

Planning
Business Improvement Districts and the recession: Implications for public realm governance and management in England

Business Improvement Districts and the recession: Implications for public realm governance and management in England

BIDs were introduced in the UK in 2003/2004 and their widespread adoption is linked to their ability to raise funds to invest in the locality, through a mandatory supplementary levy on business ...

Planning
Transport Futures: Thinking the Unthinkable

Transport Futures: Thinking the Unthinkable

It is becoming increasingly important to think about longer term possibilities and directions that are trend breaking and can help anticipate the unexpected. The future is perhaps becoming less certain, or at least ...

Planning
Thinking Strategically: Pathways Towards Low Carbon Transport

Thinking Strategically: Pathways Towards Low Carbon Transport

This chapter examines the CO2 baseline within Oxfordshire and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, assessing the high and low emitters in terms of relative transport CO2 emissions. A target for the county is ...

Planning
Planning in an Age of Consumers: British
local authority practitioners, identity and reactions to public sector reform

Planning in an Age of Consumers: British local authority practitioners, identity and reactions to public sector reform

The rise of the ‘customer’ concept within public services has been a hallmark of ‘New Public Management’ style reforms seen widely since the 1990s.  As local authority employees, planners in Great Britain have ...

Planning
The Growth Machine Stops? Urban Politics and the Making and Re-making of an Edge City

The Growth Machine Stops? Urban Politics and the Making and Re-making of an Edge City

Critical reflections on growth machine and urban regime theory have pointed to the value of integrating these theories of urban politics with the likes of regulation theory. This article attempts such a synthesis ...

Planning
Planning for Growth? The Implications of Localism for 'Science Vale' Oxfordshire

Planning for Growth? The Implications of Localism for 'Science Vale' Oxfordshire

This article provides a preliminary examination of the emerging implications of UK Coalition Government planning policy as a key part of its growth agenda. Attention is directed in particular to the adoption of ...

Planning
Capital Spaces: The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City

Capital Spaces: The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City

In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the ...