Two Tails of Housing-led Urban Regeneration Policy Network: The UK and South Korea

Abstract

As the previous service delivery mechanism initiated by government is not desirable anymore, institutional agency on behalf of government is necessary to intermediate public and private interests through policy network. The focus of this study is to identify the role of different intermediate agencies of Cardiff and Seoul within policy network towards sustainable community building through housing-led urban regeneration. It was identified that the policy network of Cardiff was a horizontal network administration organization-type issue network, which favoured inclusiveness, sequential legitimacy and stability with a private-like, bottom-up relational role and a wide coverage of functional role. The policy network of Seoul was a hierarchical, lead organization-type policy community, which favoured efficiency, internal legitimacy and stability with a public-like, top-down relational role and a narrow range of functional role. Finally, it was suggested that housing-led regeneration should be networked effectively through the better role of intermediate agency.