도시생활지표를 활용한 정주환경분석에 관한 연구

Abstract

Although Korea has reached a high level of urbanization today, its supply of urban infrastructure and arrangement of living environments has remained very poor, which is partially attributed to its ignorance of a city's proper functions such as expansion of urban planning facilities and quality increase of urban living environments as well as to its reckless concentration of quantity expansion of cities including the population. Facing the increasing demands and needs of residents following localization and integration of cities and guns, the local governments are required to enhance their abilities of autonomous administration and deal with many different issues and difficulties. A city can assume one simple function. But it's often the case that a city plays complex and diverse functions. Especially, a modern city might as well display the features of a general city. Taking into account the reality that there is more concern directed towards shifting the policies of local development in the era of localization, it's important to discard the old macroscopic, tow-down, and uniform approaches to development. Under the goal of balanced land development across the nation and a welfare society, the local governments should replace the old approach with a new bottom-up approach to meet the needs of locals who are the subject of development. This study set out to conduct a preliminary examination to review and settle down a shift of policies, investigate the current settlement environments using urban indicators, help meet the needs of the residents to improve the settlement environments including a range of convenience facilities, and provide basic data and information for national development plans and local development policies. After analyzing the settlement environments of the cities in Jeollanam Province, it was examined what kind of correlations would be found between the population of the cities and the city-oriented factors that were the indicators related to urban growth. The results of the settlement environment of each of the cities by the factors can be summarized as follows: 1. The factors that were adopted to be used in reliability analysis for the categorization of the variables included in the factors of the settlement environment showed strong cohesive power with the indicators, each of which had high reliability. Thus they seemed to have no problem representing the corresponding variable values. 2. They had strong correlations with the urban settlement environments in the very high level of reliability with the significance level of 96% and 97% in 2000 and 2005, respectively. The results indicate that there were very reliable correlations between them. 3. The overall level of the settlement environments was presented in standards points. The cities were ranked in grade and order by the factors. As a result, Yeosu, Suncheon, and Mokpo City had a very good or good settlement environment. And Naju and Gwangyang City turned out to be in great need of a better settlement environment and increase of convenience facilities. They should provide policy supports to improve the problem areas and apply such urban planning techniques as the planned unit development and infrastructure linkage system in order to promote continuous urban growth based on the sound establishment of settlement environments. It's also critical to make ongoing efforts to improve the settlement environments of the cities in the process of urban planning and policy making.