1st Edition
Pursuing Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea
This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.
With a focus on five major areas—population, economics, architecture, urban planning, and culture—the authors examine the preconditions that led to the emergence of ideas related to urban sustainability, assess and reassess the trends in sustainable development brought about by market forces, and recommend paths for their further intensification. Since this work covers a variety of topics, ranging from geomancy and social control to economic issues and green architecture (both locally and in comparison with European post-socialist cities and South Korea), it will point to lessons that other countries could learn from.
The book will be a valuable reference for scholars, researchers, students, and the general public who have a regional interest in North Korea, Korean unification, and East Asia as a whole; and/or a topical interest in urban studies, urban sustainability, and post-socialist urban transformation.
Part I Society and Culture Under Control 1. The People’s Group as a Mechanism of Urban Maintenance, Corvee Labor, and Surveillance 2. The Red, Big Family: Utopian Surveillance in North Korean Cities 3. North Korean God(s): The Role of Religion in the Urban Sustainability of Pyongyang 4. Life Songs and Lifelong Expertise: The Hidden Sustainable Properties of Music in North Korean Secondary Cities Part II Toward Economic Sustainability 5. Common Pool Resource Management and the Problem of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea 6. Tourism Development and the Quest for Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea 7. Enjoy Socialist Paradise:How New Leisure Parks Have Improved the Urban Sustainability of Pyongyang 8. Public Eating Establishments as a Factor of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korean Cities Part III Environmental Issues and Environmental Politics 9. North Korean Environmental Policy in the Middle of Crisis 10. Are There Signs of Unsustainability in the Seemingly Sustainable City? Finding Instances of (Under-)Privileged Urban Nature in Pyongyang 11. Sustainable Water Management in North Korean Cities Part IV Urban Planning and Urban Architecture 12. Back to Basics: Does Geomancy Still Influence Urban Sustainability in North Korea? 13. The Urban Planning of Pyongyang: Unintended Support for Sustainable Development? 14. Recent Transformation of Pyongyang Sallimjip 15. Architectural Styles for Urban Sustainability: North Korean Architecture and Its Eurasian Influences 16. Is There Green Architecture in Pyongyang? The Case of Ryomyong Street Part V Imaginings of North Korean Cities in South Korea 17. Comparing Images of Pyongyang’s New Urban Development in North and South Korean Newspapers: Are There Any References to Sustainability? 18. Infrastructure, Future, and Speculative Land Ownership in the South Korean Demilitarized Zone
Biography
Pavel P. Em is a Research Associate at the Center of Korean Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His work primarily concerns urban development in North Korea.
