The crater phenomenon in urban center has declined the quality of urban residents’ life as it led to the slumism. The decline in urban center occurred due to a transfer of urban functions in commerce, administration, and residence; regardless of dom...
The crater phenomenon in urban center has declined the quality of urban residents’ life as it led to the slumism. The decline in urban center occurred due to a transfer of urban functions in commerce, administration, and residence; regardless of domestic or foreign, many cities went through the industrialization and the population of the neighboring cities has swollen. This phenomenon caused city’s decline in residential function, and went on to the slumism by stultified commercial supremacy. There were several attempts to resolve such matter, and a typical example is the revival of urban functions by utilizing the public spaces. Up to recently, roads and plazas have been used merely for vehicle traffic and parking, and this built the traffic oriented cities which worsened the urban environments. Many cities have tried hard to revive the urban environments by expanding vehicle free spaces, and conducting numerous events at those places to create new culture and invigorate the economy.
The Hwaseong castle which is located in Suwon city, was constructed in 18th century and served as acentrality in Suwon area for long time, but many facilities had been damaged since it went through the harsh Korean War and Japanese Colonialera. Moreover, developments in Dongsuwon, Buksuwon, and Yeongtong-gu after 1980s kicked off the crate phenomenon at urban center and the Hwaseong castle is currently losing its vitality. After being registered as a UNESCO heritage property in 1997, many tourists visited in every year. However, because of boundaries drawn by castle fortress, interior appearances of the Hwaseong castle contrasts with exterior appearances, and it is struggling to gain the vitality.
The objectives of this research is to promote urban vitalization and re-store Hwaseong’s identity as a historical city by turning exemplary public spaces such as paldalro and a plaza front of Hwaseong castle into the cultural spaces.
In the first chapter of the progress, background and objectives of the research were mentioned as well as the scope and methods of the research.
In the 2nd chapter, notion and scope of the public spaces were defined, and requirements to be great public space fulfilling its role in the change of city paradigm were analyzed through the studies of domestic and foreign data.
In the 3rd chapter, public space vitalizing cases at home and overseas were analyzed by looking into relevant websites and preceding research data, to clearly understand flows and methods of the vitalization policy, and put that knowledge to practical use for this research. The information on domestic cases was earned through actual visitation to the cities.
In the 4th chapter, background of the Hwaseong Castle’s construction with its facility outlines was reviewed. Also, Hwaseong castle’s identity along with its historicity and internal geographical/environmental status were verified, and then numbers of population, buildings, cultural assets, tourists, and cultural events in addition to district unit and city planning were analyzed with Suwon city’s statistical data to suggest supportive grounds for this study’s reasonableness.
In the 5th chapter, specific suggestion of vitalizing the public spaces contained construction planning of rebuilding paldalro and a plaza front of the castle into the cultural spaces in order to create cultural contents within the castle and firmly imprint a Suwon Hwaseong’s image as Historical place to the domestic and foreign tourists.