순천시 도시공간구조의 특성 = The Urban Spatial Structure of the Suncheon City : From the Morphogenesis Perspective

국문 초록 (Abstract)

영문초록 :The distinctive attributes of urban spatial structure are determined by repetitive processes of growth and decline. In the 1960's the Korean cities experienced selective urbanization along with industrialization. In this process, small-midium sized cities evolved through a different mechanism from that of metropolises and satellite cities. Therefore, the studies about small-midium sized cities should be carried out on a differentiated dimension. The study of urban spatial structure of Suncheon city is needed for establishing the identity of the city and it can contribute to the research for the course of development of similar cities. On the other hand, this study can be comprehended as an approach to the grasping of the universality of th formation of urban spatial structure, which can be applied to Suncheon city. Urban forms and the distribution of internal attributes are shaped by certain rules which can determine the forms of cities. At the same time theses rules are affected and regulated by relationships of the city to other regions and by its development per se. This study was conducted with an assumption that institutional factors mainly determine the characteristics of urban spatial structure. For that purpose, physical factors which are formed by institutional rules were described from the morphogenetic perspective for the elabaration of the characteristics of urban forms. These forms, in turn, control the scope of distribution of internal attributes, which is the reason why the distribution of socioeconomic attributes were analysed as well. And, an analysis of the urban hierarchy of Suncheon City was included in this study because of the estimation that the properties of urban spatial structure can influence Suncheon's relationship with other cities. As a result, the properties of the urban spatial structure of Suncheon City were produced through the enforcement of policies whose purpose was the growth of Suncheon City as a center of region. Therefore, the rules determining the forms of cities turned out to be the policies made by Suncheon city. Below are three properties of the urban spatial structure of Uncheon city when viewed from the perspective of policies. First, Suncheon City has grown up from a small sized city which depended on metropolis to a center-city of the region, and its urban morphology has changed to a profitable U-type shape for carrying out a role as a center-city of the region. Second, the external expansion of urban spatial structure has been directed toward the new sector due to the modification of urban planning zone and the new sector has experienced the more systematic development of internal structure. At the same time the traits of spatial distribution of socioeconomic attributes reflected the growth of the new sector. Third, the growth of the new sector of Suncheon city was for the sake of the city's aim to grow into a center-city of the region. The primary and foremost characteristic of the development of the new sector of Suncheon city is that the close relationship between physical factors and socioeconomic factors has made it possible with appropriate policies