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 parksNanjido Post-Landfill Park as a global style of parks4.4 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