Jeonju is a provincial capital and the center of public administration, culture, and education in Jeollabuk-do. However there had been horizontal diffusion since 2000 and it brought a multi-core spatial structure making the central market lose engagin...
Jeonju is a provincial capital and the center of public administration, culture, and education in Jeollabuk-do. However there had been horizontal diffusion since 2000 and it brought a multi-core spatial structure making the central market lose engaging population, in turn, resulting in decline and stagnation therefore its function and position are currently deteriorated with creating various urban problems.
Thus the purpose of this study is to seek a plan in the medium to longer term for creating a successful central city revitalization model to suppress decline spreaded throughout the central area and activate it as a subsequent challenge.
The scope of this study was as following. First, it reviewed the theories on decline of central city and its revitalization and defined the concept and function of market so as to search the approaches to market revitalization and then investigated the related cases in foreign countries to deduce suggestions. Second, it grasped the current status and awareness through actual condition research, AHP survey and their analysis. Third, it deduced a basic strategy and a plan for central city revitalization and offered suggestions.
As the subjects it selected a declining market district of urban regeneration test-bed in central city of Jeonju. The area is in deterioration of central commercial function along with the population outflow, the structural change of urban space and the current trends such as new western city, innovative city, and land development of Hyoja 4·5 districts. Therefore there needs a plan for market revitalization with the consideration of future balanced development and growth of Jeonju.
As a method of this study it employed the theoretical review and the empirical analysis. In empirical analysis, it processed the subject area through the data obtained from the precedent research and the actual field survey and also identified the awareness of experts and hands-on workers through AHP survey, which investigated the influencing elements on revitalization of central city market and whose elements were classified into two groups such as major division (classification 1) and minor division (classification 2).
As results this study suggested alternatives for revitalization of central city market such as arrangement of physical environment to increase coziness, the marketing reinforce to manage customers efficiently, the merchants capacity reinforce to cope flexibly with customers, whose tastes are changing variously, and culture·event specialized business utilizing the regional characteristics.
Finally to revitalize central city, there needs to establish each role accordant to its function. And also for this activity to be established systematically, the various subjects in Jeonju have to participate in this task with the reciprocal partnership to prepare a promoting body with full consideration on the current situation.