Cutting across diverse disciplines, such as economics, sociology, public administration, public policy, urban design and planning, urban engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and tourism research, The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul provides empirical evidence on how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoul-the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. The contributors show how shifting a traditional city into a digital one has brought about noticeable changes in the governance, economics, arts, and cultures of Seoul. This edited volume on the Seoul Metropolitan Government's quest for e-Seoul provides great resources for many cities worldwide to seek to benchmark this particular type of smart city, as well as for all those academics in the related fields to learn it theoretically and empirically, given that Seoul has systematically pushed different stages and strategies of the smart urbanization.
Hojeong Lee is assistant professor in the Department of Film and Theatre at San Jose State University. Jaehyeon Jeong is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah Asia Campus. Joong-Hwan Oh is professor of sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York.
Contents Introduction, Hojeong Lee, Jaehyeon Jeong, and Joong-Hwan Oh Part I: Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Development of a Smart City Chapter 1. The Local Business Analysis Service for Service-Oriented Government: Seoul Metropolitan Government Case, June-Suh Cho and KwangJong Ahn Chapter 2. Can Social Media Increase Government Responsiveness? A Case Study of Seoul, Korea, Seok-Jin Eom, Hanchan Hwang, and Jun Houng Kim Chapter 3. Seoul, City of Sharing and Collaboration: The Rise of an Urban Ecosystem of Social Innovation, Monica Bernardi Part II: Placemaking for E-Seoul: Network Governance, Art, and Tourism Chapter 4. Toward Sustainable Governance: Strategic Analysis of the Smart City Seoul Portal in Korea, Yejin Yoo Chapter 5. Developmentalist Smart Cities? The Cases of Singapore and Seoul, Yu-Min Joo Chapter 6. Arts and Cultural/Creative Activities as Creative Placemaking Strategy in a Newly Built Urban District: The Case of Seoul Digital Media City (DMC), Junmin Song Chapter 7. The Intra-and Inter-regional Economic Effects of Smart Tourism City Seoul: Analysis Using an Input-Output Model, Hyunae Lee and Sunyoung Hlee Part III: Case Studies: E-commerce, Urban Planning, and Urban Sustainability Chapter 8. Examining the Impact of E-commerce Growth on the Spatial Distribution of Fashion and Beauty Stores in Seoul, Sohyun Park and Keumsook Lee Chapter 9. Smart, Sustainable, and Citizen Centered: A Network Analysis of Urban R&D Trends in Seoul, South Korea, Bo Wang, Sang Do Park, Jong-Youl Lee, and Jesse W. Campbell Chapter 10. Urban Sustainability versus Green-Washing-Fallacy and Reality of Urban Regeneration in Downtown Seoul, Thorsten Schuetze and Lorenzo Chelleri Chapter 11. A Machine Learning Approach to the Residential Relocation Distance of Households in the Seoul Metropolitan Region, Changhyo Yi and Kijung Kim Chapter 12. What Factors Affect Commuters' Utility of Choosing Mobility as a Service? An Empirical Evidence from Seoul, Sujae Kim, Sangho Choo, Sungtaek Choi, and Hyangsook Lee About the Contributors
