Challenge of Green City, Seoul

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Challenge of Green City, Seoul
September 22, 2008
Seoul Metropolitan Government
Ahn Seung-il, Director General of Green Seoul
Bureau
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Contents
Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions of
Seoul
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History of Seouls Green Policy
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Green City Project of Seoul
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Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions of
Seoul
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Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions of
Seoul
Overview of Seoul
Seoul is located at the center of the Northeast
Asia serving as Asias beachhead. It hosted the
1998 Seoul Olympics and the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

• Area 605.33? (0.6 of Koreas total land area)

• Population 10,421,782 people (21.2 of Koreas
  total population)

• Economy GDP 202,883,000,000, per capita
  income 20,181

• Main industries IT, BT, fashion, tourism,
  service industry and others

RUSSIA
MONGOLIA
CHINA
JAPAN
KOREA
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Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions of
Seoul
Status of Seouls parks and green space 166.05?
(per capita 19.53?)
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Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions of
Seoul
Status of Seouls parks and green space 166.05?
(per capita 19.53?)
Namsan Mt. is located at the center of Seoul,
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Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions of
Seoul
Status of Seouls parks and green space 166.05?
(per capita 19.53?)
Namsan Mt. is located at the center of Seoul
which is surrounded by Bukhansan Mt. and Suraksan
Mt. to the north
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Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions of
Seoul
Status of Seouls parks and green space 166.05?
(per capita 19.53?)
Namsan Mt. is located at the center of Seoul
which is surrounded by Bukhansan Mt. and Suraksan
Mt. to the north and Gwanaksan Mt. to the south.
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Social, Economic and Environmental Conditions of
Seoul
Status of Seouls parks and green space 166.05?
(per capita 19.53?)
Namsan Mt. is located at the center of Seoul
which is surrounded by Bukhansan Mt. and Suraksan
Mt. to the north and Gwanaksan Mt. to the south.
Cheonggyecheon and Hangang flow passing through
the center,
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History of Seouls Green Policy
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History of Seouls Green Policy
Before 1970
Establishment of park related Laws

• Establishment of park related Laws Urban
  Planning Law(1962), Park Law(1967)
• Promoting erosion projects and planting projects
  for restoring damaged land
• since the liberation from colonial rule
• Recognizing historic sites, royal tombs and
  famous sites as parks

Changkyungwon (1966)
Erosion project (1962)
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History of Seouls Green Policy
19711979
Park policy implementation

• Promoting forestation and protection-oriented
  policies, such as setting up development limited
  area (1971), under the urban economy development
  logic rather than expansion of parks and greenery
• Promoting village unit forestation project and
  developing a resting place for citizens by
  utilizing existing facilities

Childrens Grand Park (1973)
Namsan Botanical Garden (1971)
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History of Seouls Green Policy
19801994
Promoting urban beautification project

• Promoting various kinds of policies for making
  Seoul, the capital of Korea, green in preparation
  for international events, such as the 86 Asian
  Games and the Seoul Olympics
• Establishment of Hangang General Development
  Plan (1981), establishment of Capital Forestation
  Projects Five-Year Plan (1982)
• Development of Olympic Park (1984), Seoul Grand
  Park (1988) and others

Hangang General Development
Seoul Grand Park
Olympic Park
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History of Seouls Green Policy
Promoting Parks and Greenery Expansion Projects
Five-Year Plan
19951998

• Even if an open space had been reduced due to
  development-oriented policies until the early
  1990s, the demands for environment, and parks and
  greenery have been increased thanks to increased
  wealth and improvement of conscious awareness.
• Promoting green policy for improving quality of
  life with the implementation of local
  self-governing system
• Expanded area 3,270,000? (portion of parks and
  greenery 24.91 ? 25.44)

Park of Yuido Plaza
Park of OB beer plant relocation site
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History of Seouls Green Policy
Developing the Deoksugung road you want to walk
Demolition of Namsan encroachment facilities
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History of Seouls Green Policy
19992002
Planting 10 million trees of life

• Raising the awareness of citizens on the
  importance of greenery with the implementation
  of parks and greenery project along with citizens
  by breaking away from official promotion methods
  
• Expanded area 3,526,000?, planting 16,410,000
  trees (portion of parks and greenery 25.44 ?
  26.11)
• Main achievements Development of World Cup Park,
  Sunyudo Park, Naksan Park and others

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History of Seouls Green Policy
Development of World Cup Park

• Developing a park with the size of 3,471,000? at
  Nanjido, a landfill, on the occasion of the 2002
  FIFA World Cup

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History of Seouls Green Policy
Development of Sunyudo Park

• Developing an eco-friendly park with a spatial
  characteristics of closed water purification plant

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History of Seouls Green Policy
Development of Naksan Park

• Restoring natural landscape by making highland
  citizen apartments as park

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History of Seouls Green Policy
20032006
Extending 3.3 million? of parks green space
within residential areas

• Expanding medium and large size resting spaces
  following increased leisure time and shortage of
  resting spaces
• Development of urban natural ecological base in
  the harmony of human beings and nature
• Expanded area 3,638,000?(portion of parks and
  greenery 26.11 ? 27.12)
• Main achievements Restoration of Cheonggyecheon,
  and development of Seoul Forest and Seoul Plaza

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History of Seouls Green Policy
Restoration of Cheonggyecheon

• Section Entrance of Taepyeong-ro Sindap Iron
  Bridge 5.84?
• Project period July 2003September 2007

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History of Seouls Green Policy
Development of Seoul Forest

• Size 1,156,498?
• Project period January 2003 June 2005

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History of Seouls Green Policy
Development of downtown citizen plaza

• Seoul Plaza
• (May 2004)
• - Size 13,206?

• Sungryemun Plaza (May 2005)
• - Size 8,200?

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History of Seouls Green Policy
Preservation and protection of outstanding
ecosystem

• Designation and maintenance of ecosystem
  preservation area
• - 19992004 Designated 8 places including
  Bamseom Island,
• - 2005 Designated 2 places Heonin Royal Tomb,
  Yuido Satgang)

Ecological Pond of Hyochang Park
Spot-billed ducks lay eggs in Bamseom Island.

Black-crowned night heron habit in Bamseom Island
Bamseom Island, downtown habitat for migratory
birds
Common heron habitat
Ducks visit Bamseom Island.
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Green City Project of Seoul
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Green City Project of Seoul
Policy directions of Seouls parks and greenery

• Expanding Parks within residential areas through
  the development of large size parks, various
  kinds of theme parks, building roof park and
  open green area of apartments, and reducing
  areas without parks
• Developing ecological protection system in
  Hangang and the riverside, and eco-friendly urban
  ecological base with the restoration of broken
  green axis and others

Green City, Seoul in harmony with nature
Expanding parks within residential areas
Remaintaining infrastructure
Restoring natural ecosystem
Expanding open green area

• Developing large size parks
• Remodeling existing parks
• Developing various kinds of theme parks

• Roof park
• School playground park
• Developing open green area of apartments

• Developing Gwanghwamun Plaza
• Dongdaemun Stadium Park
• Developing Magok Waterfront

• Developing eco-friendly river
• Promoting Hangang Renaissance
• Linking broken green axis

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Green City Project of Seoul
Parks and greenery plans index
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Green City Project of Seoul
Expanding parks within residential areas
Developing large size parks

• Developing large size parks in Gangbuk area
  (October 2009)
• - Size 905,278?

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Green City Project of Seoul

• Developing Yongsan National Park (2015)
• - Size 2,458,076?

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Green City Project of Seoul

• Developing Magok Waterfront
• - Size 1,170,180?

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Green City Project of Seoul
Expanding parks within residential areas
Remodeling existing parks

• Namsan Renaissance Project (2015)
• - Size 2,898,315?

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Green City Project of Seoul

• Developing Imagination Childrens Park (May
  2010)
• - 300 childrens parks

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Green City Project of Seoul
Expanding parks within residential areas
Developing various kinds of theme parks

• Developing new parks 192,170,000?

• Park of urban planned facilities and relocation
  sites
• 153,820,000?

2010
2015
2020
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Green City Project of Seoul
Expanding open green area
Roof park

• Roof park
• 441(0.25) ? 2,129 (1.46)
• 138,261? 801,803?

? Under promoting as a key project for
efficiently using limited lands along with
increase of land prices in downtown area and
reducing heat islands by Seoul City
- Support of project costs Public institute
90, private housing 50
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Green City Project of Seoul
Expanding open green area
School playground park

• Afforesting school playground with natural lawn
  to reduce urban heat island
• Afforesting possible schools among
  elementary, middle and high schools
• School roof park and utilization of solar energy
  

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Green City Project of Seoul
Expanding open green area
Developing open green area of apartments

• Demolish walls of ATP and school by regions and
  developing streamlined green area and sidewalk
• - Developing 59 ATP open green areas ? 256
• - Developing 631 open schools ? 725

? Inducing and developing open green areas in
new town and redevelopment site
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Green City Project of Seoul
Expanding open green area
Developing green way
Lane reduction street greenery type (collector
road)
(Case of developing green way, Guil 5-gil,
Guro-gu)
Lane keeping street greenery type (minor
arterial)
(Case of developing green way, Wonhyo-ro,
Yongsan-gu)
(Subject area to green way of Gyeongchun and
Gyeungui lines)
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Green City Project of Seoul
Remaintaining infrastructure
Developing Gwanhwamun Plaza

• Developing Gwanghwamun Plaza (June 2009)
• - Size Length 550m, width34m

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Green City Project of Seoul
Remaintaining infrastructure
Dongdaemun Stadium Park

• Dongdaemum Stadium Park (June 2010)
• - Size 66,500?

    
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Green City Project of Seoul
Remaintaining infrastructure
Expanding urban development linkage parks
Securing urban development projects parks 2010
Securing urban development projects parks 2015
Securing urban development projects parks 2020
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Green City Project of Seoul
Restoration of natural ecosystem
Hangang Renaissance Project

• Hangang Renaissance Project (June 2010)
• - Size Length 41.5km, area 39.9?

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Green City Project of Seoul
Restoration of natural ecosystem
Developing eco-friendly river

• Maintaining flood control-oriented concrete
  artificial shore protection to eco-friendly one

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Green City Project of Seoul
Restoration of natural ecosystem
Linking broken green axis

• Sewoon Commercial Street restoration of Namsan
  green axis
• - Size Length 1,000m, width 90m

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Green City Project of Seoul

• 80 places including Haebang Village, Onsu
  Station, Banpo-ro, Giltong Ecological Park and
  others
• - Linking walking overpass type green axis
• - Linking green axis on development project

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Green City Project of Seoul
Parks and greenery of Seoul in 2020
Bringing the rate of areas without parks to zero
areas without parks within a 5 minute walking
distance
2008 17.09 ?
2020 Zero
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Green City Project of Seoul
Future of Seoul in 2020
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Green City Project of Seoul
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Information on Hosting the 3rd C40 Summit
Official title
C40 Climate Leadership Group

• Main large cities around the world correspond to
  climate changes.
• Sharing new and renewable energy, energy
  efficiency technology development and their
  using experiences
• Promoting a joint project for reducing CO2
  emission in large cities with Clinton Climate
  Initiative

Purpose of establishment
period
Place
Subject
Achievements and tasks of corresponding to
climate changes on cities
May 18(Mon)21(Thu), 2009 / 4 days
Seoul (Silla Hotel)
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Thank you