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Establishing Foundation for Seoul's 100-Year Urban Planning

Foundation for Seoul's 100-Year Urban Planning

Creating Seoul's differentiated future urban plan that will remain unchanged through changing times

The "Foundation for Seoul's 100-Year Urban Planning," announced in April 2013, was initiated to prepare the groundwork for differentiated future urban planning that would remain unchanged for
the next 100 years, marking the centennial of modern urban planning.

Seoul's Next 100 Years: Fundamental Change in Urban Management Paradigm
  • City of
    construction
  • City of
    growth
  • City prioritizing
    production value
  • City of
    business logic
  • Vehicle-centered
    city
  • City of
    maintenance
  • City of
    regeneration
  • City balancing growth and
    distribution values
  • City of
    community logic
  • Pedestrian-respected
    city

The core of "Foundation for Seoul's 100-Year Urban Planning" is establishing an agreed philosophy and principles for Seoul's urban planning while creating a "framework for planning" by reinforcing the urban planning system. It also aims to build a "forum for discussion" where various Seoul stakeholders, including citizens and experts, can actively participate.

Based on these goals and values, the highest-level statutory urban plan "2030 Seoul Plan," "Living Zone Plan," and separate management master plans for important areas such as the Han River will be established. Seoul's urban management paradigm will also shift from "development and maintenance" to people-centered "urban regeneration" in line with planning and environmental changes.

Seoul's Next 100 Years: Urban Planning Conceptual Diagram
  • Building an urban planning platform that remains unchanged through time

    Framework
    Agreed principles and standards
    Forum
    Space created together by citizens-experts-public sector
  • Core Elements of Seoul's 100-Year Urban Planning Platform

    Planning Framework
    1. Principles and standards
    2. Detailed planning
    3. Urban regeneration and
    land resource management
    Discussion Forum
    4. Rational governance