Deteriorated residential areas are rampant in Busan because new settlements were built indiscriminately by many refuses since the Korean War. Also, a great influx of people from rural areas caused by the Industrialization Era in the 1960's added to this problem.
Busan began a housing renewal project for more urban planning. At this time policy settlements were created to force settlers to move into the outskirts of the city in order to solve the problems of reconstructing the city's inferior housing. However, there were shortages of infrastructure, limited dwelling space, and a high density population. Eventually, the problem worsened as deteriorating residential areas began to be too much of a burden for the residents and residential environment improvement project to solve this problem were urgently needed.
This study performed a comparative analysis of the difference between two regions through resident surveys for effective residental environment improvement. The evaluation items are composed of general conditions about their dwelling and housing environments, residential satisfaction