Urban Characteristics of Seattle: Dynamics and Diversity (시애틀의 도시 공간 특성: 역동성과 다양성)

Jungyeop Shin (신정엽)

Urban Characteristics of Seattle: Dynamics and Diversity

Journal of the Association of Korean Geographers
Abbr : JAKG
2015, 4(1), pp.119-137
Publisher : Association of Korean Geographers
Research Area : Social Science > Geography

Jungyeop Shin ¹

¹서울대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Seattle as a coastal city, located in the US Northwest region, has developed with long history. Being popular with the image of Coffee and sightseeing, Seattle has a variety of characteristics in social, demographic, cultural, and economic perspectives. At the same time, Seattle’s urban space has diverse neighborhoods and multinucleated urban structures with economic clusters. Further, Seattle has dynamics and diversities summarized as follows: vibrant and creative urban landscape, home of coffee, environment-friendly urban landscape, and progressive and liberal ambience.

KEYWORDS

Seattle, Dynamics, Diversity, Urban space, American city

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