This study focuses on the provincial city of Yeosu. To effectively study a provincial urban landscape, the approaches have to be positive in order to ensure objectivity. This study on Yeosu was carried on the
basis that it shall be conducted relative...
This study focuses on the provincial city of Yeosu. To effectively study a provincial urban landscape, the approaches have to be positive in order to ensure objectivity. This study on Yeosu was carried on the
basis that it shall be conducted relatively in-depth and experimental.
With a total shoreline of 236 km, Yeosu City is an X-type city that is shaped like a butterfly. This study on the city of Yeosu identifies the following factors that affect the landscape: population, land, costs, and facilities. The study analyzed these factors from the Japanese colonial
period to modern times as translated by subject, as well as the transitional process of the urban landscape focusing on land and costs.
At the same time, the changing scenery of the city affects the lives of its residents. Yeosu’s scenery formed as the lives of its people rule the place as an object and the city and its people interplay.
As a result of this study, it became possible to translate the factors that changed by period and the transitions and features of the Yeosu x scenery. Due to Japanese ovement and inflow, there was a time when one out of three citizens was Japanese, and the central sea area of Yeosu was reclaimed to adopt this increasing Japanese population. The reclaimed land was managed by the Japanese. As a result, Yeosu’s main business zones and factories that produced new products were established; industrial acilities such as railroads and harbors were alsoconstructed.
These industrial facilities played a significant role as a window for the outflow of resources in the southern coastal zone. The main materials used in this study were divided according to era. Basic national maps from 1917 to 2004 were used. Two scenic photos of the same natural scenic spot but were taken at different time periods were analyzed and compared. Upon studying and comparing the transitional processes that Yeosu underwent, the following conclusion was made.
The main causes that changed the scenery of Yeosu were its longer shorelines than other coastal cities and a variety of curves that formed afterwards. These curves induced Yeosu’s scenery to change, and its land scenery was also basically transformed through the landfill of its coasts as.
Yeosu’s scenery may be characterized this way: First, the transitional characteristics in Yeosu’s population were
brought about by the highly increased Japanese population during the Japanese colonial period, the development of its fishing industry, development of transportation upon the procurement of war supplies, and the development of railroads and harbors constructed in 1930.
Secondly, as an administrative city, Yeosu transitional characteristics into a camp as a Cholla Province’s Left Billeting Place Three cities were successfully integrated as one in 1998 and which lasts until today.
Third, in the city’s scenery transitional characteristics largely due to the landfills that gave rise to the Yeosu Harbor and Yeosu New Harbor. xi These landfills were constructed in accordance with Japan’s plans during Japanese colonial period. The Yeosu landfill was to be used as public industrial lands for the development of commercial zones, harbors, and stations. Modern landfills were carried out to develop industrial complexes which focused on Kwangyang Bay, north coast. Fourth, Yeosu Harbor was located at the center of Yeosu as a base
for the Cholla Province’s Left Billeting Place until the New Yeosu Harbor was developed in 1930. It however experienced a changing process as it now only serves a limited purpose as a harbor for passengers due to the newly opened railways and harbor. However, Yeosu had to play a partial role in functioning as a harbor around the
new harbor area, which is now constructed as the world’s fair center and is faced with the task of accommodating the rest and living of its citizens as well as for a pure harbor of passengers and logistics.
Fifth, the transitional characteristics in the land features of Yeosu first began with the landfill region in front of Jinnamkwan in 1916 and the settlement space around Yeosu Harbor until 1920. The use of land until liberalization in 1945 was extended to the Dongjung and Seojung regions, which were used as residence areas for the Japanese based on the development of the New Yeosu Harbor in 1930 and the utilization of its neighboring areas. After 1945 and 1980s, the use of land was extended to Kwangmoo and Shinwol-dong, and after 1980, into the
current zone around Yeosu City Hall, and Yeoseo and Moonsu housing site development in 1990s.
Sixth, Yeosu’s streets changed beginning from the first use of roads such as the narrow paths in front of Jinnamkwan connected to National Road No.17. From 1945 afterwards, the streets centering on the plaza that were used after the plans during the Japanese colonial period were utilized including the existing street networks. The 12m-to-25m-wide roads from Yeosu Station (New Harbor) to the Yeosu Police Station to the area of Jinnamkwan and the area of the current Seokyo-dong Plaza xii might have been used as main streets. It seems that these street networks affected the changes in the use of land through the 1980 land developments, which connected with the main streets to a large housing site.
This study analyzed the changes in Yeosu into a new city since Japanese colonization, its diverse topographic factors, and its industrial and productive activities within an urban scenery. This study made it possible to understand the processes and features in scenery based on Yeosu’s plane and space.
Thus, this study will serve as foundation for translating the deepened changes in the scenery transition of a local city and a basic study for establishing the identity of landscape in Yeosu as a costal city.