Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

From the Editor

From the Editor Journal of Urban Technology, 2013 Vol. 20, No. 4, 1 – 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2013.872327 As cities in previously undeveloped parts of the world continue their sometimes meteoric rises, this journal will increasingly become the venue for discussions about the ways in which these cities are developing. The Republic of Korea’s capital city of Seoul is one such city, and this issue contains two articles about that city. The first of the two articles examines the effects of a major central city restoration project on Seoul’s quality of life, and the other focuses on a technology that can be useful in effecting transit-oriented development around Seoul’s railway stations. In their paper about Cheonggyecheon, a stream that was restored in 2005, Jong Youl Lee and Chad David Anderson explain that enough time has passed since the redevelopment that now the effects of the project can begin to be measured. Their paper studies the waterway’s effect on the image of the city, where the redevelopment has led to the creation of a central-city cultural precinct with a concomitant burnishing of the city’s international image. They also study the development’s effect on the city’s environment, its traffic, the rise of gentrifi- cation in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

From the Editor

Hanley, Richard E.
Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 20 (4): 2 – Oct 1, 2013
Download PDF
2 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/from-the-editor-F52xku0J1p

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2013 The Society of Urban Technology
ISSN
1466-1853
eISSN
1063-0732
DOI
10.1080/10630732.2013.872327
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Journal of Urban Technology, 2013 Vol. 20, No. 4, 1 – 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2013.872327 As cities in previously undeveloped parts of the world continue their sometimes meteoric rises, this journal will increasingly become the venue for discussions about the ways in which these cities are developing. The Republic of Korea’s capital city of Seoul is one such city, and this issue contains two articles about that city. The first of the two articles examines the effects of a major central city restoration project on Seoul’s quality of life, and the other focuses on a technology that can be useful in effecting transit-oriented development around Seoul’s railway stations. In their paper about Cheonggyecheon, a stream that was restored in 2005, Jong Youl Lee and Chad David Anderson explain that enough time has passed since the redevelopment that now the effects of the project can begin to be measured. Their paper studies the waterway’s effect on the image of the city, where the redevelopment has led to the creation of a central-city cultural precinct with a concomitant burnishing of the city’s international image. They also study the development’s effect on the city’s environment, its traffic, the rise of gentrifi- cation in the

Journal

Journal of Urban Technology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Oct 1, 2013

There are no references for this article.