The purpose of this study is to identify landscape problems for Gohan and Sabook, casino towns in Jeongseon, and to conceptualize improvement strategies to create desirable village imageability. The study selected viewpoints with great visual quantity...
The purpose of this study is to identify landscape problems for Gohan and Sabook, casino towns in Jeongseon, and to conceptualize improvement strategies to create desirable village imageability. The study selected viewpoints with great visual quantity or high visibility, took photographs, and mapped spatially landscape problems and solutions. Main landscape problems of the study villages were bared tailings and cut slopes, inharmonious afforestation, old and poor buildings, confused skylines, and messed signboards and utility lines. Poor tree plantings on streets and around buildings, and stream pollution were also deteriorating visual quality of landscapes.
Landscape planning of the study villages needs to put an emphasis on creating the imageability based on rurality and mining history. Priority of landscape improvement should be given to remodeling of building appearance, streetscape, and greenspace. Especially, within street viewshed having high visibility, required are building improvement, signboard regulation, native street-tree plantings, and screening plantings of old buildings. The results from this study are expected to be applied as practical information to regional policy formulation to improve the image of the study villages' built landscapes and to attract casino visitors and other tourists.