Harmonized City Case Study
1. Why is it necessary to establish a harmonized definition of a city?
Even though there were many definitions for city, but there were not many definitions for a harmonized city. For that reason, people had to make a judgment on recognition of city with the standard from each country. It is too ambiguous to set the standard for the definition of a harmonized city. It can be confused since each country has different standard for its city. The definition of international city will be a helpful guide for planning infrastructure, traffic, housing and many other things. Also, it will make it possible to compare the competitiveness of international countries with the same standard and diagnose the problem from each country.
2. Which are the criteria …show more content…
The first place city Seoul (the capital) has population of 10,022,181(from 2008). The population of Seoul goes over more than tree times from the second place city Pusan, so Seoul can be seen as primate city. This kind of primate urbanization often happens in the country where the population is small, the land is narrow, and has high economic dependency toward other country. Since 20 percent out of all the population live in Seoul, land prices have skyrocketed and have severe environment pollution. Korea is also suffering from a shortage in house, traffic, public service and other facilities. The saturation condition has not perfectly solved ever …show more content…
To correct the side effect of over centralization in capital (Seoul and the surrounding area), for balanced national development and strengthen national competitiveness, some cities are working hard for the development. However, it does not seem that easy to solve. All the facilities in Seoul were destroyed because of the Korean War, however, Seoul has been a capital for about 600 hundred years, for that reason, the development around Seoul was
Even though there were many definitions for city, but there were not many definitions for a harmonized city. For that reason, people had to make a judgment on recognition of city with the standard from each country. It is too ambiguous to set the standard for the definition of a harmonized city. It can be confused since each country has different standard for its city. The definition of international city will be a helpful guide for planning infrastructure, traffic, housing and many other things. Also, it will make it possible to compare the competitiveness of international countries with the same standard and diagnose the problem from each country.
2. Which are the criteria …show more content…
The first place city Seoul (the capital) has population of 10,022,181(from 2008). The population of Seoul goes over more than tree times from the second place city Pusan, so Seoul can be seen as primate city. This kind of primate urbanization often happens in the country where the population is small, the land is narrow, and has high economic dependency toward other country. Since 20 percent out of all the population live in Seoul, land prices have skyrocketed and have severe environment pollution. Korea is also suffering from a shortage in house, traffic, public service and other facilities. The saturation condition has not perfectly solved ever …show more content…
To correct the side effect of over centralization in capital (Seoul and the surrounding area), for balanced national development and strengthen national competitiveness, some cities are working hard for the development. However, it does not seem that easy to solve. All the facilities in Seoul were destroyed because of the Korean War, however, Seoul has been a capital for about 600 hundred years, for that reason, the development around Seoul was