2003, Vol.36, No.

The Korea Spatial Planning Review 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.2

pISSN : 1229-8638
https://journal.kci.go.kr/krihs

Separation of spatial planning and environmental policy has sometimes led to so-called 　'spatial-environmental conflicts'　 that is discord between the two policies. To solve this problem, the Netherlands has tried to integrate the two through a series of pilot projects since the late 1980s. The integrated area-specific approach to spatial planning and the environment such as ROM projects and the City and Environment project is the result of those efforts. The purpose of this thesis is to get lessons from that approach through estimating the significance and limit of it with respect to applicability to the other situations like Korean reality. The integrated area-specific approach can be estimated to have important meanings such as consensus building approach, the spatial specification of environmental policies, and good applicability to the areas with strong environmental challenge. In spite of this significance, this approach also has risk of failure in consensus building and of the decline of environmental policy. This fact leads to the result that we should go toward integrating spatial planning and environmental policy in the regions just with the precaution.

The necessity for the interregional differentiation of national assistance arises from the general perception that existing regional policies are ineffective to accomplish the balanced regional development. Existing regional policies and implementation system have limited capabilities to contribute substantially to the balanced territorial development. There is a growing need to enhance balanced interregional development through the redistribution of national resources by differentiating government assistance depending on the development level. The study attempts to categorize regions using statistical data on various aspects of regional development. Fifteen social and economic indices were employed to classify all of the 232 local autonomous regions throughout the country. A cluster analysis using the SPSS identified four groups of regions according to the level of development. The first and most advanced group includes 53 regions; The second and third group include 71 and 60 regions respectively; The last and most depressed group includes 48 regions. The study suggests the spatial policy framework that reflects differential characteristics according to this grouping of regions.

The purpose of this study is to understand the location and growth pattern of high tech industries in the Austin region which comprise part of the Austin-San Marcos MSA. This study used data on firms defined as high tech industries by the GACC and reclassified them into two major categories; software and hardware. Growth of high tech industries can be divided into three periods. The main impact of high tech started in the 1980s. Hardware industries, such as computer and semiconductor, started to prosper in the 1980s. Software industries, such as E-commerce and Telecommunication, really began to flourish in the 1990s. The Austin region is moving toward a balanced growth pattern, with both software and hardware industries sharing the growth. High tech firms reveal different types of locational distribution according to established year in the Austin region, type of firms, and number of employees. Leading firms, MCC and SEMATECH, in the 1980s had direct and indirect effects in the growth of high tech industry in the Austin region.