Waste and Urban Regeneration

Jeong Hye Kim is visiting professor of Seoul National University of Science and Technology with a primary research focus on architectural design and art in urban settings. Her subjects of research interest are the political and socio-economic relationship with urban environment, post-traumatic historical spaces, sense of place[less]ness and ecological equilibrium. Translations include Hal Foster’s The Art-Architecture Complex and Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver’s Adhocism.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Transformations of Nanjido

1.1 Pre-landfill period (1945–1977): nature

Appropriation of natural environment

Idealisation of nature

1.2 Landfill period (1978–1992): waste

Post-industrial age and landfills of Seoul

Environmental conditions of Nanjido Landfill

Environmental and social ecologies of Nanjido Landfill

1.3 Post-landfill period (1993–present): regeneration

Post-landfill vision and the neoliberal economic turn

Nanjido Post-Landfill Park: cultural and environmental value creation

The Nanji Golf Course debate: ecology and class issues

Chapter 2. Sanitary Management in Post-war Seoul

2.1 Sanitation as morality and ideology

Sanitation as morality for industrial and military forces

Sanitation as anti-communist ideology

2.2 Control of garbage collectors: physical sanitary management

Ragpickers in post-war Seoul

Institutional control of garbage collectors

Market control of garbage collectors

2.3 DDT: symbolic sanitary management

The Korean War and DDT

A belief system of fumigation

2.4 Nanjido Landfill: spatial sanitary management

The waste management sites and waste itself

Fumes and borders

Chapter 3. Nanjido Landfill as Human Habitat

3.1 Housing in Nanjido Landfill

Self-help housing (1978-1984)

Collective housing complex (1984-2001)

3.2 Adequate and sustainable housing

Adequate housing

Sustainable housing

3.3 Garbage collecting in Najido landfill

Recycling: assimilation

Scavenging: disruption

3.4 Imaginaries of Nanjido Landfill

Fear and threat

Subversive zone

Chapter 4. From Landfill to Post-Landfill Park

4.1 The building of Nanjido Post-Landfill Park

Post-landfill plans

Case studies for the post-landfill park

4.2 Nanjido Landfill’s regeneration

Detoxification: leachate and gas treatments

Aestheticisation: deodorisation and planting

4.3 The global style of parks

US style and global style of parks

Nanjido Post-Landfill Park as a global style of parks

4.4 Global economy and environmentalism

Environmentalism in the global economic system of South Korea

The South Korean middle class, ‘the public’ and the environmental concern

Nanjido Post-Landfill Park for ‘the public’

Chapter 5. Art: Disruption of Nanjido Post-Landfill Park

5.1 Unease and placelessness

The sense of unease

Place and placelessness

5.2 Artistic engagement with the urban space

Documentary photographs on the landfill

Place and memory-image

5.3 Artistic exploration of Nanjido Post-Landfill Park

SeMA Nanji Residency

Site-specific art on Nanjido Post-Landfill Park: embodying the past-present

Conclusion