친환경적 도시개발과 개발 갈등

Abstract

Urban development and growth depends upon the ability of maintaining urban sustainability. In order to fit up such the ability, constant change is required. Environmentally-friendly urban development is an instrumental meaning for new urban changes. Environmentally-friendly urban development is a new urban development approach to remedy the existing reckless development to stabilize urban natural environment and living condition as well as social and economic domain. However, environmentally-friendly urban development presupposes the improvement of environmental aspects through green plan that demands high costs. While the high cost of development leads to the influx of economically relaxed upper-middle-income people, existing low-income natives are being displaced or kicked out that raises social inequality and unfairness. This phenomenon is pointed out as a result of urban gentrification, especially green gentrification that is accepted as one of the side effects of environmentally-friendly urban development. Green gentrification as one of the side effects of such environmentally-friendly urban development has brought a debate over its effects along with what factors have made the effects is also drawing attention. This study identifies the background of green gentrification due to environmentally-friendly urban development and the factors that led to green gentrification as well as analyze the controversial aspects of impact and effectiveness.