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Building Effective Governance for Cultural District Planning: The Case of the Totatoga Project in Busan

SeHoon Park 1 주유민 2

1국토연구원
2싱가포르국립대학교 리콴유공공정책대학원

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ABSTRACT

With the rise of cultural economy in today’s post-industrial cities, cultural district planning is increasingly used as an urban regeneration tool. Korea is no exception, and many of its cities that are facing de-industrialization and population loss are following the trend, installing numerous cultural district projects for their ailing neighborhoods. These projects, however, often falter as they fail to build an effective governance structure, especially amid the conflicting interests between artists and urban bureaucrats. Against this backdrop, the study explores the Totatoga project in Busan Metropolitan City, in an attempt to clarify the factors behind effective policy governance for cultural district planning. It finds that the role of an intermediary agency, which helped to bring together different actors, including government, artists, and the local community, and the local government’s non-interventionist attitude were important success factors for the project. Hence, as a conclusion, it suggests that a local government’s mode of intervention should be reinvented, so as to provide flexible and horizontal governance structure for art-led urban regeneration policies in Korea.

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