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With the growth of income, residents are much more interested in the quality of life and residential amenity. In line with this situation, the housing policy programs have drawn attention in terms of the green growth strategies in Korea. The purpose of this study is to make a theoretical argument on the transformation of housing policy paradigm with respect to the green growth concept and strategies. The green growth oriented housing policy program would need to pursue a comprehensive approach regarding the regional socio-economic situation and environment. In order to achieve the housing policy paradigm shift based on the green growth strategies, the following measures should be adopted in Korea. First, the legal framework for green growth oriented housing policy should be established. Second, the incentive system for green growth on housing policy programs should be applied. Third, the green growth indicators should be developed and applied to the evaluation of housing policy programs.

Ralph Emerson once wrote that "the city lives by remembering." Following this idea, Lewis Mumford regarded the city as a container or museum, which accumulates and disseminates culture and knowledge for human development and civilization. It is usually urban villages or "dongne" which contain the very essence of a city's historical culture of its own. While "dongnes" are sharply declining in Korea nowadays, such IT-oriented urban discourse as "U-city" or visuality-centered urban discourse as "Design city" are becoming quite popular in urban policy-making as well as in urban planning studies. From this, the author reads, however, an omen of 'carceral city' suggested by Michel Foucault in his Discipline and Punishment regarding the city planning in the 18th and 19th century Europe.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problems and the desirable proposals of county(local government) development planning process in terms of the characteristics of strategic planning. This study shows the following suggestions for the county development process. First, top leader of county should have active interest on development planning process and become the strategic leader. Second, top leader or key decision maker should expand the participation of task force team, stakeholder and committee. Third, more objective environmental scanning is needed. Planning team should assess the changes of external and internal conditions with SWOT. It also need to make the task force team or special team identify the problems and solutions of county region. Fourth, top leader should propose the successful vision to induce the support of residents. Fifth, selecting of agreeable strategic issues is required. Planning team especially needs to have a leading role in selecting issues which is clear, critical and consentient. Sixth, a critical, few and suitable strategies should be formulated by planning team. Last, effective implementation is needed. Action plans are needed to be established in detail. Project and budget should be connected. Local governance or partnership are also required for the implementation of plans. Particularly, top leader or planning team should be careful the plan or projects not to be the paper plan.

The Korean government announces that a farmland reverse mortgage system(FRMS) will be established in 2011 in the world for the first time. It liquidates the farmland assets of the rural elderly land owners, like the housing reverse mortgage which liquidates the housing assets of elderly homeowners in order to resolve the lack of living costs for the elderly farmers. The purpose of this study suggests the long-term forecasting method farmland price which is a key factor in establishing the model of farmland reverse mortgage. It uses an ARIMA and Monte Carlo Simulation method (Integrated model) to reflect the stochastic aspect which is included in the long-term land value forecasting. The farmland value forecasted with Integrated model shows the probability distribution considering the volatility of farmland price rate. The future higher value in the FRMS actuarial model results in the less default risk in the aspect of a FRMS lender. Its results show that the price of Jun(the land use of field for cultivating farm products) is higher than that of Dab(the land use of paddy field) in the deterministic estimation method. It concludes that the Integrated model which reflects the uncertainty and volatility in the long-term forecasting method is better than ARIMA, VAR, or deterministic method for the building the value forecasting model for the establishment of the long-term FRMS.

Although there is no unified solution for sustainable development, a compact urban spatial structure associated with persuading environmentally friendly urban form and blocking imprudent urban sprawl through inequal and compact inner city development is suggested as one of the important solution. For that, it is necessary for efficient land use. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between land use and urban compactness. For the analysis, this study creates the integrated urban compactness index based on the levels of urban inequality and decentralization for 75 major cities in Korea, and compares it with various land use patterns. The results show that land use patterns are the most important to determine the strength of urban compactness. Specifically, mixed land use has strong relationship with the high compactness. Other land use patterns, such as residential use and industrial use are as well. In the case of spatial structure characteristics, high density with large urban area tends to bring on higher urban compactness. In turn, this can lead low energy consumption due to transportation energy use reduction. This study suggests some policy implications: (1) mixed-use land use with higher residential zoning is necessary, (2) transit-oriented development(TOD) should be suggested, not only to decrease energy consumption, but also to increase urban compactness.

Korean government removed unnecessary regulations such as the price control on new apartments in order to prevent distorting real estate market as well as worsening corporate earnings in 1999. However, the price control on new apartments has been re-introduced since 2007 due to the on-going concerns on asset reflation risk. On the other hands, a number of scholars and constructions experts have insisted that price ceiling should lead to a decrease in supply of new apartment as price is set by the government, based on building cost, rather than supply and demand. Few empirical studies have been made to support these controversies. This study aims at analyzing the impact of price control on new apartment market by applying ANCOVA(analysis of covariance). The results show that there were similarities of apartment supplies during the period 2004-2009 excluding the supplies in 2007, indicating no impact of price control on new property market. Therefore, unsold apartment problem does not seemed to be related to the price regulation but rather it does to oversupply of new apartments, especially in the non-metropolitan area.

The purpose of this study is to examine the causal relationships among the perception of the urban decline, the perception of the collective efficacy, and the urban regeneration attitude and to find policy implications on successful local development and place marketing's strategies. To achieve this purpose, this study reviews the existing literatures about the urban decline and the efficacy, and then formulates some study hypotheses, and finally verifies them using a structural equation model. The main results of this study are as follows. 1) The perception of resident's urban decline affects the regeneration attitude positively. However, The perception of resident's urban decline affects the Collective Efficacy negatively. Finally the collective efficacy affects the regeneration attitude positively weakly. 2) Naju Citizens recognize the economic decline perception and the population decline perception more strongly than physical urban decline perception. And the social decline perception is proved statistically. The policy implications of theses finding is as follow. In order to make successfully the urban regeneration policy of local small-median city. The Local Government should make the best efforts to measure about the overall urban decline index exactly and to reflect the resident's needs by the urban regeneration programs. Also, The local authorities should enhance the resident's participation at the urban redevelopment policy. That is to say, When the local authorities and the local residents work together, the urban regeneration policy would be settled more successfully in the local society.

Non-motorized forms of transportation modes include bicycling and walking, low-carbon green modes, have advantages over both reducing environmental damage and improving public health. The characteristics of bicycle use are very different from the characteristics of car and public transport use, with the former being influenced by factors such as the weather and the physical effort needed. Therefore the conventional knowledge on mode choice models is not sufficient for developing bicycle policies. This paper investigate the determinants for influencing bicycle in order to underpin policies that encourage bicycling using Tobit regression model. The paper subdivides the determinants into four categories. First, we examine the relationship between the environment and the travel behavior: built environment. Second, we focus on the natural environment, including weather conditions and climate. Third, we consider determinants of composed of socioeconomic variables such as gender, income, vehicle ownership and household structure. Forth, we discuss a few of aspects related to institutional and cultural factors. The main development of the model is described in detail. The results show that the type of bicycle infrastructure matters and potential bicycle users prefer separate bicycle lanes. Also, in contrast to motorized transport, cyclists consider rain to be most negative weather aspect. Lastly, the results show that not only the institutional will of local government to act but also perceived social norms are key factors affecting bicycle mode share.

This paper addresses policy actors' roles and actions that impede policy coherence in national programs for local collaboration between industry and university. With respect to the actions of central ministries, the main problems causing policy incoherence are the duplication of policy contents, the lack of fulfillment of target groups' needs in a top-down operating system, and the dispersion of ministries responsible for the programs. Also, since local governments do not have legitimate roles to deal with the programs and interests in the programs driven by central government, they do not seem to try to enhance policy coherence. In addition, the capacity of local government to manage and coordinate the programs is weak due to the long-term centralism. The role of university in policy coherence is also limited due to following problems: academics' strong ownership of their programs; their few collaborating activities stemming from different operating systems of individual programs; and the low involvement of the IACF(Industry-Academia Collaboration Foundation) in the programs. These problems seem to be influenced by policy environments and operating systems in relation to the dispersion of ministries, independent operation of the individual programs, and a top-down implementation system to a large degree.