SEOUL WALKS, Model Transfer of Socio-Urban Ecology

This study provides a brief account of the fieldwork of the Seoul Walks, an initiative organised by international experts and civil society to analyse the potentials and downsides of the Seoul Urban Regeneration Policy. By addressing the problems of five case studies, the article aims to show why it is important to create places that are in harmony with the needs and wants of their inhabitants and the environment.

Seoul Walks is a 2015 initiative organised by international experts of the built environment and Korean civil society to examine the recent Seoul Urban Regeneration Policy. In this article we will endeavour to understand the urgency of this governance by recalling some hidden steps of the Korean urban policy, and then deal with particular cases noticed during the Workshop Series Seoul Walks, Urban Inquiry of Seoul Daily Life.