서울, 자카르타, 마닐라, 방콕 대도시권의 도시확산 비교 분석

Abstract

This study starts from the issue that the urbanization in developing countries has accelerated urban sprawl through Western-style low-density residential development represented by single-family detached housing. It therefore aims to empirically verify that Korean-style high-density residential development characterized by multi-family housing (‘apartment’), by contrast, has contributed to compact urban development, restricting urban sprawl. International comparison among Seoul, Jakarta, Manila, and Bangkok metropolitan regions shows that the Seoul metropolitan region has the highest proportion of the population living in the central region, compared with the peripheral region. By estimating population density functions, it further demonstrates that the Seoul metropolitan region has the largest gradient, which means the steepest decrease in population density as the distance from the metropolitan center increases. These results confirm that the Seoul metropolitan region is characterized by the most compact urban development owing to the high-density housing development, while the metropolitan regions in the Southeast Asia, particularly Manila and Bangkok metropolitan regions, suffer from the sprawled urban development pattern coupled with the low-density housing development.