Contested Placemaking in South Korea: Power, Knowledge, and Strategy in Hierarchical Governance

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HaeRan Shin

Contested Placemaking in South Korea

Power, Knowledge, and Strategy in Hierarchical Governance

HaeRan Shin

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Palgrave Macmillan
31 May 2025

Regional government; Urban economics

This book explores how a place becomes a place in the Korean context, with a particular focus on power, knowledge, and strategy. Discussion of government-involved placemaking initiatives, including place-marketing, urban regeneration, new city development, and land reclamation, demonstrate how actors from the public, private, and voluntary sectors contribute to governance structures. The research examines how key actors from national and local governments, civic organisations, ordinary citizens, and businesses communicate and interact with actors in other sectors within the realm of placemaking governance, and will interest scholars of Asian urbanism, architects, urban politics, geography, and town planners.

By: HaeRan Shin
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Singapore
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9789819640119
ISBN 10: 9819640113
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 31 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Contested Placemaking - Power, Knowledge, and Strategy in Governance.- Part I: Communication in National Government-Dominant Placemaking.- Chapter 2: Is All Communication Equal? – Communication Breakdowns in Saemangeum Water Project.- Chapter 3: Whose Creation is Songdo? – Branded multi-scalar urbanism.- Chapter 4: Knowledge Meets Power – The Politicians, Academics and Nondecisions in Placemaking.- Part II: Knowledge Meets Power – The Politicians, Academics and Nondecisions in Placemaking.- Chapter 5: The Emergence of Artists and Their Resistance – Creative City Governance in Gwangju and Incheon.- Chapter 6: Non-Participation in the furtherance of Participatory Governance? - Compromises in Seoul Transport.- Chapter 7: The Politics of Memory and Placemaking – The Territoriality of Sewol’s Memory.- Chapter 8: Moving Towards Thick and Reflexive Communications for Placemaking.

HaeRan Shin is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Seoul National University. Her research focuses on political geography and migrant studies. She has explored the politics of urban development through cases such as places of memory, culture-led urban regeneration, new towns, smart cities, and risk perception.