Abstract
Innovation City projects, aimed at balanced national development in South Korea, have relocated public institutions from the Seoul metropolitan area to provinces, decentralizing population and economic functions, over the past decade. This study measured changes in regional centrality (the central and local location or hierarchy of objects in a network) at the 14 cities where Innovation City projects were constructed. Commuter Origin-Destination data were analyzed using Rstudio. In the case of connectivity centrality, 13 out of 14 regions saw a rise in centrality values; among them, Busan, Daegu, and Ulsan belong to large cities. This suggests that the impact of Innovation City projects on established metropolitan areas may not be very significant. Five of the 14 projects increased the value of eigenvector centrality, while 10 increased the centrality ranking. This means that the absolute traffic volume of Innovation Cities across the country had increased, while the centrality of areas around these cities declined, suggesting that Innovation Cities should pursue co-prosperity with surrounding areas. In this way, Innovation Cities can have a positive impact on surrounding areas, and positive externalities of relocation projects are maximized. However, such development effects are confined to Innovation City areas, negatively influencing balanced regional development.
Highlights
IntroductionInnovation City (IC) projects refer to regional cities that integrate newly relocated institutions as part of the national balanced regional development strategy implemented in
This study aims to investigate whether these innovative cities created for balanced national development helped determine growth in the locational importance of public sector relocation areas [9]
This study provides the following implications for development of strategies required to achieve sustainable growth in local cities through the newly established Innovation City (IC)
Summary
Innovation City (IC) projects refer to regional cities that integrate newly relocated institutions as part of the national balanced regional development strategy implemented in. This strategy was intended to tackle overcrowding in the metropolitan area surrounding Seoul and imbalanced growth in the rest of the country with the goal of developing ICs by relocating government agency headquarters to existing cities and provinces [1]. Starting with the 2003 announcement of the planned relocation of public institutions to provincial areas for balanced national development, the Innovation. In 2006, candidate areas were selected for the development of ICs, and 153 government agencies were moved out of Seoul and its surrounding areas between 2007 and 2019, as scheduled [2]
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