Political Economy of Planning in South Korea

Political Economy of Planning in South Korea was funded by RICS, Korean Research Institute for Human Settlement.

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Dr Jung Won Sonn has been investigating on political economy of urban and regional development in East Asian countries, mainly in South Korea and China. This project investigates issues such as polarized development strategy and land-development-based primitive accumulation of capital in South Korea, economic rationale behind culture-led regenerations in China.

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Outputs

Sonn, J.W. 2010 'Contesting state rescaling: An analysis of the South Korean state's discursive strategy against devolution' Antipode 42(5) pp. 1200-1224

_________. 2007, 'Insulation with solidarity as a political condition for implementation of polarized development strategy: the South Korean experience and its theoretical implications.' International Planning Studies, vol. 12(3) pp.221-240

_________. 2005 'Regionally embedded spatial autonomy: The spatial process of the developmental state in South Korea, 1970s.' Research Papers in Environmental and Spatial Analysis 101, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics