Pursuing Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea

Pavel P. Em, Pavel P. Em

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040109489
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Sustainable Development
• Index: Economics

This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.

With a focus on five major areas—population, economics, architecture, urban planning, and culture—the authors examine the preconditions that led to the emergence of ideas related to urban sustainability, assess and reassess the trends in sustainable development brought about by market forces, and recommend paths for their further intensification. Since this work covers a variety of topics, ranging from geomancy and social control to economic issues and green architecture (both locally and in comparison with European post-socialist cities and South Korea), it will point to lessons that other countries could learn from.

This book will be a valuable reference for scholars, researchers, students, and the general public who have a regional interest in North Korea, Korean unification, and East Asia as a whole; and/or a topical interest in urban studies, urban sustainability, and post-socialist urban transformation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Sustainable Urban Development: The North Korean Vision
• Part I Society and Culture Under Control
• Part II Toward Economic Sustainability
• Part III Environmental Issues and Environmental Politics
• Part IV Urban Planning and Urban Architecture
• Part V Imaginings of North Korean Cities in South Korea
• Index