시스템 사고를 활용한 스마트 도시재생의 인과구조 분석

Abstract

Recently, smart urban regeneration has begun to appear owing to the necessity of the integration of smart city technology and urban regeneration. The concept of smart urban regeneration combines smart city technologies such as information and communication technology, big data, and artificial intelligence with urban regeneration projects. To date, no studies have considered smart urban regeneration from the perspective of the entire city system based on the dynamic process of urban growth and decline. Therefore, in the present study, using systems thinking, the causal structure of how smart urban regeneration changes and interacts was analyzed, and policy implications for activating smart urban regeneration were derived. According to the results of the analysis, smart urban regeneration functions as a policy alternative for overcoming the limitations of land, capital, budget, and limited resident participation, which comprise the existing constraints on urban growth and regeneration. Among the key variables of smart urban regeneration, “education and promotion” constituted the main variable that was required for the transition to a virtuous cycle; the “revision of the legal system” and the “training of professional manpower” were derived as strategic intervention points. This study is meaningful in that it analyzed smart urban regeneration from the perspective of the entire city system by employing causal loop diagrams for the interactive relationships between major variables. In the future, the results herein can be used to establish promotion strategies for smart urban regeneration.