Author: Tae-ho Kwon
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-83-04
Year: 1983
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1990
Examination Committee: Ira. M. Robinson (Chairperson); Hans Detlef Kammeier, A.T.M. Nurul Amin (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The government’s spatial policy within the Seoul Metropolitan Region (SMR) aims to disperse overconcentrated population and industries from the mega-city, Seoul, toward the fringe areas of the region. This policy stems from on the awareness that the serious population a nd functional concentrations in Seoul have exposed a large number of side effects including the issue of regional disparity and diseconomy of Seoul itself. According to the present high – level plan (Growth Control and Management Plan for Seoul r egion), the southern fringe counties of the SMR are, in particular, expected to experience a hlgh growth of population and industries as newly organized and relocated industries would be accommodated within this region. This is to say, the southern fringe areas of the SMR are expected to experience rapid changes in their land-use patterns primarily through the considerable reduction of forest land and/oc agricultural land. With this back ground, this research, through a case- study on the southern four fringe counties of the SMR, attempted to identify those critical macro-level determinants of population, accessibility, land and public facilities which have affected the changes in the amount of land used for urban uses. For t his purpose , Stepwise Multiple Regression was employed and it showed that population density, percent of forest land and access to the nearest highway interchange were major determinants while percent of nonfarm households, supply rate of piped-water and number of factory employees were minor determinants in terms of their contribution ratios. An application of Principal Component Analysis and Factor Score identified four factors as the underlying dimensions of the determinants and delivered each factor’s spatial distributions within the study area. In relation to the results, the study reviewed the high-level SMR policies and plans and discussed some preliminary conditions/problems which should be solved in order to achieve planned fringe development. Th
Scholarship Donor(s): The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany,DAAD
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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