Urban Form and Conservation Lab.

길, STREETS
Streets have a significant role amongst the various elements that make up a good neighborhood and city. Streets cover roughly 30% of the urban surface in most of the cities. Despite the role of a street as a space that determines our living environment and urban form, we dichotomously defined streets as the following:

- We often over-interpret the ideal meaning.
- On the other hand, we regard them merely as mass-produced urban elements derived from regulations and codes.

This course provides a broad spectrum and different perspectives on how to perceive streets in a compromising manner between the above two conditions. The ultimate goal is to promote better and holistic understanding of the urban role of streets as social core elements that make up a great city and well-built neighborhood.

This course is a graduate seminar in which students are exploring various research methods related to the studies on architecture and urbanism. The goal of this course is to help students be familiar with research methods, so that they can utilize them for their dissertation and thesis. Through the course, students are expected to develop their own research interests; define clear research questions; find proper research methods; and build a reasonable research design.

There are two objectives for the course:
1) to write a literature review (publication quality)
2) to write a solid research proposal.

The following issues indicate some of the topics that the course is covering:

Livable Neighborhood and Green Community Planning
This course focuses on neighborhood planning and community design. Community planning is a comprehensive process of creating ideal neighborhood conditions for improved quality of life for the community. This planning responds to the needs and demands of residents, based on relevant social values/issues, then emphasizes a way to reflect them in everyday life. The definition and standards of the above-mentioned “improved quality of life” correlates to specific time and location in which it is necessary to establish goals and utilize methods accordingly.

Research and practice on environment-friendly, sustainability, and health of urban design is a topic of relevance widely expressed in recent years. This can be read as our effort to reestablish the idea of livable city and livable neighborhood in an attempt to repair the environmentally-destructive past of modernization and urbanization. Due to the raised level of awareness in recent years, planning and implementation for sustainability is a common practice which has positively-integrated into the design process.

This course focuses on the comprehensive understanding and experience livable neighborhood planning and green community planning for urban design students. It initially introduces basic information about complex planning, and then focuses more on environmentally-friendly issues and participatory, collaborative planning based on resident participation. Towards the end of the course, we will implement the principles covered with a planning exercise.

We will select several locations within Seoul with ongoing village planning, to provide a real-life setting for students to implement planning methodologies and principles.

This course is structured as an introductory urban design seminar, in which students are motivated to be familiar with broad concepts and practices of urban design. The course objective is to examine various urban design principles, processes, and products in the context of our long tradition of making places. The goal is to help students upgrade their understanding of the city and its design.

Students are expected to read all the assigned reading materials for each session, and to participate in the class discussions actively. Student initiation matters in this course. This course a 2-credit graduate seminar, and it is accompanied by the Course, Research Paper and Grant Proposal Writing (453.515, 1 credit) for those of you who would need a 3 credit course.

This course is a graduate seminar for the comprehension, interpretation, and conservation of historical sites. The ultimate goal is to implement a system and methodology of practical conservation planning for historic cultural scenery. Elements of historic relevance include object, building, site, district, urban area, and town/ city. We will conduct precedent studies of historic cultural scenery and urban preservation, and analyze these results to show how we can most-effectively implement methods of preservation in the future.

Course Outline

· International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), International Charters for Conservation and Restoration:
www.international.icomos.org
· WHC Operational Guidelines + World Heritage: Challenges for the Millennium, 2007
http://whc.unesco.org
· James Marston Fitch, Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1990 (2nd edition).
· David Lowenthal and Marcus Binney ed., Our Past Before Us: Why Do We Save It? London: Temple Smith, 1981.
· Peter Larkham, Conservation and the City. London: Routledge, 1996
· G. J. Ashworth, “Conservation as Preservation or as Heritage: Two Paradigms and Two Answers,” in A. Cuthbert ed. Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban Design. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. pp. 241-253.
· Jukka Jokilehto, A History of Architectural Conservation Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999, 2002. Chapter 6 Stylistic Restoration; Chapter 7 Conservation; Chapter 8: Theories and Concepts.
· Tim Winter, “Heritage Studies and the Privileging of Theory” International Journal of Heritage Studies May, 2013. pp. 1-17; “Beyond Eurocentrism? Heritage Conservation and the Politics of Difference” same journal, Oct. 2012. pp. 1-15.
· Tim Winter, “Heritage conservation futures in an age of shifting global power” Journal of Social Archaeology 2014 pp. 1-15.
· 서울연구원, 역사문화보전정책 서울, 북경, 동경, 2006
· 문화재청, 문화재보존관계법령집, www.cha.go.kr
· 건교부, 도시계획, 건축관련 법 www.molit.go.kr
· 한국의 역사문화환경 보존에 관련된 논문, 기사 들 + 추가 자료 리스트 개별적으로 배포예정.
· 황두진, 당신의 서울은 어디입니까? 해냄, 2005
· 김진애, 우리도시예찬, 안그라픽스, 2003
· 김찬호, 문화의 발견: KTX에서 찜질방까지, 문학과지성사, 2007

박사학위논문

· 최종덕, 건축문화재 보존체계의 관점에서 본 경복궁 복원의 특성 서울대학교. 박사논문 2011
· 강현, 일제강점기 건축문화재 보존 연구, 서울대학교 박사논문 2005

석사학위논문

· 최정윤, 역사지구 내 현대건축물 심의에 관한 연구, 서울대 석사논문, 2014
· 채혜인, 문화유산 국제보존원칙의 도시경관개념에 의거한 도시보존 방향, 서울대학교 석사학위논문 2012
· 양은정, 군산시 원도심 보존계획의 변천에 관한 연구 : 1960~2010년대의 도심부 계획안 내용분석을 중심으로, 서울대학교 석사학위논문 2012
· 최샛별, 서울 서촌의 문화지구 적용 가능성에 관한 연구, 서울대 석사논문학위, 2010