Urban sustainability Versus green-washing-fallacy and reality of urban regeneration in downtown seoul

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Schuetze, Thorsten ^a   Chelleri, Lorenzo ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gentrification; Industrial district conservation; Seoul; Seun district; Sustainability fallacy; Urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REGENERATION; GENTRIFICATION; GREENSPACE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PARADIGM SHIFT; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL;

SEOUL [SEOUL (ADS)]; SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84956700125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8010033     Document Type: Article

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