In community building projects, the residents themselves identify precious values or treasures they are supposed to promote in the community and build a unique community that can contribute to the activation of resident community. Candidate communitie...
In community building projects, the residents themselves identify precious values or treasures they are supposed to promote in the community and build a unique community that can contribute to the activation of resident community. Candidate communities are chosen in a project plan contest, and residents build a livable community through voluntary participation.
Researches have been conducted on the community features to be highlighted in the local areas, "what should be discarded and kept," and the forms of resident community beyond the old conventional approaches to such projects. Growing out of the old growth-centric policy based on urban development with no consideration into the features of cities in public-based urban development projects, today's urban development projects allow local residents to take a central role, consider the many different historical and local features of the communities according to the formation of community, and establish life zones based on them. There is a need for researches on the activation of community building projects that consider even the influences of vitalized living cooperative associations on local economy and reflect the features of community.
In South Korea recently, the rapid industrial development has demanded changes based on also rapid urban development, in which situation cities form and develop by settlers from other cities, witness the occurrence of many different issues, and ask for changes to the old ones. Today citizens that are born and raised in cities demand for the formation of communities fit for their cities.
Community building projects provide those citizens with security and comfort. With their ongoing implementation, community building projects needed by citizens need to embrace changes to the residential environment due to the deterioration of buildings based on the local government's active supports for community formation. The residents, local government, and coordinator groups need to collaborate and work together to build a community with its stories. The entire society should work on the formation of community to arrange the environment including the buildings, parks, roads, and human relationships so that it will be difficult for crimes to occur there. The true development of community building projects will involve the improvement of living environment and quality of life and the performance of roles originally assumed by the communities or families in a more professional manner fit for the times.