“…In particular, the self‐reliance of urban regeneration organizations in the form of local cooperatives is considered critical to enhancing local governance 19 . However, the problem is that this shift can be considered as ‘the neoliberal rescaling of the state’ (Doucette and Hae, 2022: 138), transferring administrative responsibilities to local communities and cooperatives. In other words, the idealization of community empowerment demonstrates that instead of serving an emancipatory purpose, the SUR forms a key element in the neoliberal political project.…”
Section: An Alternative Urban Development Model? Analysis Of the Hybr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is linked with another important issue, in that communities only focus on their own agenda or interest, disregarding wider social issues such as labor and housing. This is exemplified by the following sharp criticism of Maulmandeulgi (MM), a well‐known community‐empowerment movement in Korea:MM has not effectively engaged with the question of whether unstable housing tenure has made it difficult for tenants to become active in MM campaigns, especially in Seoul where housing affordability has been low and where rising rental and property prices that result from beautification projects can bring negative impacts (Doucette and Hae, 2022: 147).…”
Section: An Alternative Urban Development Model? Analysis Of the Hybr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…MM has not effectively engaged with the question of whether unstable housing tenure has made it difficult for tenants to become active in MM campaigns, especially in Seoul where housing affordability has been low and where rising rental and property prices that result from beautification projects can bring negative impacts (Doucette and Hae, 2022: 147).…”
Section: An Alternative Urban Development Model? Analysis Of the Hybr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mayor Park's urban policies are deemed progressive in comparison with the two previous conservative mayors, who ‘aggressively pursued megaprojects and post‐industrial urban policies with an eye to rebrand Seoul as a global city in Asia’ (Joo, 2018: 85). However, as Doucette and Hae (2022: 145) claim, ‘[w]hile Mayor Park's campaign was met with hope, some feared that MM might be co‐opted by its alignment with his political ambitions’. We can see that this argument also holds true for the SUR.…”
Section: An Alternative Urban Development Model? Analysis Of the Hybr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Park (2011: 187‐8) defines neo‐developmentalism as ‘the phenomenon of our society's “development inertia” working in a new way within a society that still prefers an expanding economy’. On the other hand, post‐developmentalism indicates a community‐based development model (Cho and Križnik, 2017; Kim et al ., 2021) that accentuates ‘increased deliberation and participation to realize a more emancipatory vision of the urban in a context where anti‐communist, authoritarian, and growth‐first agendas have been dominant’ (Doucette and Hae, 2022: 135, original emphasis).…”
Park Won‐soon, the former mayor of Seoul, put forward a new vision of Seoul as a progressive city, and one of his signatures was the promotion of a new urban regeneration policy called the Seoul‐type Urban Regeneration Model (SUR). It was first presented as a solution to compressed and profit‐oriented urban redevelopment but evolved into an alternative model which conveyed the worlding desire of the Seoul Metropolitan Government to redefine Asian urbanism beyond developmentalism or neoliberalism. In this article, we argue that the SUR demonstrates a mixture of post‐developmentalist features and the lingering impact of neoliberal rationalities. Specifically, we problematize SUR's hybrid aspirations for urban competitiveness, improved quality of life and participatory governance by articulating how the pursuit of a globally competitive city conflicts with and overrides other values and how citizen‐centered governance was exploited as an efficient mechanism of neoliberal urbanism.
“…In particular, the self‐reliance of urban regeneration organizations in the form of local cooperatives is considered critical to enhancing local governance 19 . However, the problem is that this shift can be considered as ‘the neoliberal rescaling of the state’ (Doucette and Hae, 2022: 138), transferring administrative responsibilities to local communities and cooperatives. In other words, the idealization of community empowerment demonstrates that instead of serving an emancipatory purpose, the SUR forms a key element in the neoliberal political project.…”
Section: An Alternative Urban Development Model? Analysis Of the Hybr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is linked with another important issue, in that communities only focus on their own agenda or interest, disregarding wider social issues such as labor and housing. This is exemplified by the following sharp criticism of Maulmandeulgi (MM), a well‐known community‐empowerment movement in Korea:MM has not effectively engaged with the question of whether unstable housing tenure has made it difficult for tenants to become active in MM campaigns, especially in Seoul where housing affordability has been low and where rising rental and property prices that result from beautification projects can bring negative impacts (Doucette and Hae, 2022: 147).…”
Section: An Alternative Urban Development Model? Analysis Of the Hybr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…MM has not effectively engaged with the question of whether unstable housing tenure has made it difficult for tenants to become active in MM campaigns, especially in Seoul where housing affordability has been low and where rising rental and property prices that result from beautification projects can bring negative impacts (Doucette and Hae, 2022: 147).…”
Section: An Alternative Urban Development Model? Analysis Of the Hybr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mayor Park's urban policies are deemed progressive in comparison with the two previous conservative mayors, who ‘aggressively pursued megaprojects and post‐industrial urban policies with an eye to rebrand Seoul as a global city in Asia’ (Joo, 2018: 85). However, as Doucette and Hae (2022: 145) claim, ‘[w]hile Mayor Park's campaign was met with hope, some feared that MM might be co‐opted by its alignment with his political ambitions’. We can see that this argument also holds true for the SUR.…”
Section: An Alternative Urban Development Model? Analysis Of the Hybr...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Park (2011: 187‐8) defines neo‐developmentalism as ‘the phenomenon of our society's “development inertia” working in a new way within a society that still prefers an expanding economy’. On the other hand, post‐developmentalism indicates a community‐based development model (Cho and Križnik, 2017; Kim et al ., 2021) that accentuates ‘increased deliberation and participation to realize a more emancipatory vision of the urban in a context where anti‐communist, authoritarian, and growth‐first agendas have been dominant’ (Doucette and Hae, 2022: 135, original emphasis).…”
Park Won‐soon, the former mayor of Seoul, put forward a new vision of Seoul as a progressive city, and one of his signatures was the promotion of a new urban regeneration policy called the Seoul‐type Urban Regeneration Model (SUR). It was first presented as a solution to compressed and profit‐oriented urban redevelopment but evolved into an alternative model which conveyed the worlding desire of the Seoul Metropolitan Government to redefine Asian urbanism beyond developmentalism or neoliberalism. In this article, we argue that the SUR demonstrates a mixture of post‐developmentalist features and the lingering impact of neoliberal rationalities. Specifically, we problematize SUR's hybrid aspirations for urban competitiveness, improved quality of life and participatory governance by articulating how the pursuit of a globally competitive city conflicts with and overrides other values and how citizen‐centered governance was exploited as an efficient mechanism of neoliberal urbanism.
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