In the past several decades, many cities in Korea have enlarged in their sizes to meet the land demands in urban areas. The facts, however, have also resulted in the unbalanced distribution of urban function and distortion of spatial structure causing critical urban problems; the decline of urban center. To solve these problems, the regeneration plans of the old city center have been most recently established in Korea, as in western countries and Japan.
For this study, we explore how to improve deteriorated economic and physical environment in city center by examining current conditions such as land use, land price, height of buildings, and the extent of deterioration based on the characteristics of a local medium-and-small city, Jinju. Based on strategic planning, in particular, we need to explore existing and changed conditions of economy, physics, society, and environment to solve such various problems in the city center.
The aims of this study is both to land me, building uses and the degree of urban blight in the city center and to investigate the applicable regeneration techniques to the city, which already experienced in the developed countries for revitalization of declined economies and improvement of physical environment to establish strategic plans of in a local city.