고려대학교

초록/요약

Waterfront regeneration in urban areas has been an important issue in modern city planning and development for decades. Because many cases are related to the old dockland regeneration in North America or Western Europe, this thesis explores cases in old the Asian capital cities, Seoul and Beijing, and focuses on smaller water areas in downtown rather than big rivers or seashores. By analyzing and evaluating the Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project, as well as analyzing the situation of Shichahai area urban regeneration and historical relics preservation, this thesis attempts to compare the two cases and assess lessons from the experience in Seoul that can be bench marked for Beijing. The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project is relatively successful urban waterfront regeneration in terms of government enforcement, engineering, design, conflict control and public coordination. But because of the big consumption of energy to pump the water into the stream, the name of “green project” or “sustainable project” is quite doubtable. In Shichahai Area of Beijing, government and citizens are facing a dilemma of preservation and regeneration in the waterfront area within most historic and cultural relics in downtown. Officials and city planners believe that there is a balance point between destroying all the traditional buildings and preserving the old image but let the local people live in a poor condition. The space-time difference of these two urban waterfront regenerations can be obviously seen. But some of the experience can still be shared between two cities in order to achieve urban sustainable development by utilizing proper regeneration.