The city of Seoul was reconstructed hastily in terms of “the priority to any other thing”in a short time after Korean War without any process of collecting various opinions or concrete and detailed long term project for that. I am sorry that Seoul missed the proper opportunity to be reborn as historical city at that period. I remember Commitment of Unesco had a round exhibition in 1981 in Korea in celebrating of the registration of Angkorwat in World Heritage with the education and information of Unesco World heritage. The development of the southern area of Han River(漢江) in Seoul came to be the zenith at that time but the inner area of Four Gates in Seoul was left out of any concern of historical site. While traditional Korean style house area was displaced for multiplex house and the surrounding area of Four Gates was destroyed carelessly for the development of the super-high apartment complex, large-scale office areas and commercial buildings encroached on the other sites of the historical city. After all, old structure of the city has been broken rashly by the development of grand-scale apartment complex and multiplex houses with high-developed underground area. For the period of the first and second Mayors of Seoul elected by the people, we should have remove and clean away various adverse effects of development project accomplished by the former government to recover the historical sites in priority. But the city projects of restoration of Cheong-Gye Cheon(淸溪川), Economy Herb, Seoul Renaissance and Design City has been planed to be fulfilled in discord with the recovery and preservation of historical sites in Seoul or with indifference to it. I am not sure that these projects have certain meanings in the long-term prospect of the city. Seoul has the best condition of location to provide citizen with the circumstances for the high-level quality of life. We should think over what urbanity should be given to the city and what we do to search for the unique and special property of Seoul.
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I. 머릿글 II. 역사문화유산과 유네스코(UNESCO) III. 도시와 역사 IV. 도시의 구성요소 V. 서울의 도시구조 VI. 역사도시를 위한 길목에서 참고문헌 ABSTRACT
서울학연구소는 ‘서울학’을 육성, 확산하기 위해 서울 600년을 계기로 하여 1993년 서울특별시의 지원 아래 서울시립대학교 부설로 설립되었습니다.
서울학의 연구대상은 도시 서울입니다.
서울학은 서울의 장소, 사람, 일, 문화를 만들어내고 변화시키는 과정과 힘을 탐구하여 서울이 지닌 도시적 보편성과 특수성을 밝히는 것을 목적으로 합니다. 서울학여느 종합적 관점을 견지하면서 학제적 연구를 지향합니다.
서울에 대한 여러 기성학문 분야(역사학, 지리학, 사회학, 인류학, 경제학, 건축 및 도시계획학등)의 연구관심과 성과가 상호조명되고 교차되는 데에 서울학에 영역이 있습니다.
서울학의 학문적 관심은 오늘의 서울을 만들어낸 역사적 과정을 이해하는 데에 있지만, 그 실천적 관심은 현재의 서울에 대한 심화된 성찰을 통해 보다 나은 서울의 미래를 그리는데에 있습니다.