Waste and Urban Regeneration: An Urban Ecology of Seoul's Nanjido Post-landfill Park

Waste and Urban Regeneration explores the transformation of the Nanjido region of Seoul from a landfill to the World Cup Park, examining the urban ecological implications and its relationship to the city's development. It combines Lefebvrian urban theory and relational ecological theories to analyze the ecological meanings of the sites and the environmental transformations linked to South Korea's political and economic changes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Waste and Urban Regeneration delves into the transformation of the Nanjido region of Seoul, from the Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park. It explores the relationship between this transformation and the urban ecology within the context of the city's urban development during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The study employs a comprehensive approach, combining the Lefebvrian urban theory and relational ecological theories, to analyze the urban ecological significance of the two distinct forms of the sites.

This book examines environmental transformations and their connection to South Korea's political and economic changes. It sheds light on Seoul City's management of waste populations, the boundary-blurring characteristics of the inhabited landfill and its community, the transformation of the landfill into the post-landfill park, and site-specific artworks that address the conflict between the invisible presence of landfill garbage and its history.

As one of the pioneering accounts of a landfill and landfill-turned-park in South Korea, this study holds immense value for academics and researchers interested in waste management, ecology, landscape theory, and history. It provides valuable insights into the complex dynamics between urban development, environmental concerns, and social dynamics.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367641375