제인 제이콥스의 ‘도시적 상상력’에 대한 사회학적 독해 — 모더니즘적 도시계획과의 대결을 중심으로 = A Sociological Reading of Jane Jacobs’s ‘Urban Imagination’: Jacobs’s Confrontation with Modernist Urban Planning

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Jane Jacobs, an American urban researcher and civic activist, is a familiar name in this era of urban regeneration. However, interpretations of her urban perspective remain diverse. Unlike previous studies, this study aims to extract sociological issues related to the city and, focusing on these issues, to provide a multi-faceted analysis of her ‘urban imagination’.
Jacobs developed her own urban perspective, one strikingly different to her theoretical rival, modernist urban planning. She adopted a pro-urbanistic perspective, attempting a bio-organismic approach that views the city as an “organized complexity”. Furthermore, she took a socio-spatial approach, positing that urbanization unfolds through the simultaneous interaction of social and spatial factors. She favored a bottom-up approach to urbanization, arguing that city-building should begin with resident-led neighborhood-building. She believed that urban society operates centered on the dynamics between state power and residents.
This approach can be considered a fundamental shift in the urban paradigm, as it overturns the urban perspective of modernist urban planners. Through this urban imagination, Jacobs provides a theoretical and practical foundation for a comprehensive restructuring of existing urban regeneration based on modernist urban planning.