Transforming Housing to Commercial Use: A Case Study on Commercial Gentrification in Yeon-nam District, Seoul
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea
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Smart City Research Center, Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology, Suwon 16229, Korea
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Sustainability 2020, 12(10), 4322; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104322
Received: 14 April 2020 / Revised: 12 May 2020 / Accepted: 22 May 2020 / Published: 25 May 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Livable Public Spaces and Sustainable Urban Regeneration)
Commercial gentrification has had a significant impact on the urban environment, particularly in leading to the upscaling and expansion of food and beverage (F&B) commercial activities. F&B commercialization and proliferation has emerged from (a) the borders of newly provided urban open space and (b) seed points where small-sized commercial areas had already been formed. However, few studies have simultaneously explored the commercialization process of these different contextual sub-regions over a relatively long time period. This study of Yeon-nam district, Seoul, aims to demonstrate empirically (1) how the F&B commercial stores have been distributed over the past decade and (2) which of the factors that are the spreading center of the F&B store is the critical factor. Using kernel density estimation, the study discovered that the old–residential district has been entirely transformed to an F&B commercial district since the Gyeong-ui Line Forest Park opened in the district. Furthermore, through the analysis of standard deviational ellipses, we empirically verified that F&B commercialization was more substantial in the seed region. Based on the findings, policy recommendations for urban planning and design, especially urban gentrification management and regeneration, are provided.
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Keywords:
commercial gentrification; Kernel density estimation; standard deviational ellipses; F& B; commercializing; government-led; linear green park; Yeon-nam district; Gyeong-ui line forest park; Seoul
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Cho, W.; Kim, M.; Kim, H.; Kwon, Y. Transforming Housing to Commercial Use: A Case Study on Commercial Gentrification in Yeon-nam District, Seoul. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4322. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104322
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Cho W, Kim M, Kim H, Kwon Y. Transforming Housing to Commercial Use: A Case Study on Commercial Gentrification in Yeon-nam District, Seoul. Sustainability. 2020; 12(10):4322. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104322
Chicago/Turabian StyleCho, Wonjun, Minho Kim, Hyunjung Kim, and Youngsang Kwon. 2020. "Transforming Housing to Commercial Use: A Case Study on Commercial Gentrification in Yeon-nam District, Seoul" Sustainability 12, no. 10: 4322. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104322
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