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7. From Foreign Community to Creative Town? Creativity and Contestation in Itaewon, Seoul

verfasst von : Hyunjoon Shin

Erschienen in: Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia

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Hyunjoon’s chapter presents four different creative led gentrifications in the Itaewon area in Seoul, South Korea. The different genealogies of gentrification remind us of different historical-cultural factors as well as economic drivers in the development of creative districts. Hyunjoon challenges the ‘creative class’ as a unified concept along class lines. He observes that the varied alignment of economic and cultural interests within the creative class in South Korea could generate very different outcomes for creative led urban regeneration.

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Titel: From Foreign Community to Creative Town? Creativity and Contestation in Itaewon, Seoul
verfasst von: Hyunjoon Shin
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-46290-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-46291-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46291-8_7

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