#SpeculativeUrbanization #PostGangnam-ization #PlatformUrbanism #UrbanCommons #UrbanTransition

The Center for Asian Urban Societies (CAUS) aims to suggest post-developmental city paradigm and the urban transition strategy, which help Asian cities overcome the limitations of developmental urbanization and establish a human-centered urban community. It also wants to contribute citizens to make alternative daily lives by making and flourishing commons-oriented urban platforms as social-cultural-spatial infrastructures. The Center strives to disseminate its research results to society through active policy proposals. Further, it establishes research-based urban solidarity through domestic and overseas research and activity networks.

•  Constructing commons-oriented urban platforms as social-cultural-spatial infrastructures of ‘Post Gangnamization’
• Analyzing social-cultural-spatial process of speculative urbanization
• Researching urban living and everyday lives and seeking alternatives: 100 livings and 100 everyday lives
• Developing urban transition strategies for ‘Post-Gangnamization’
• Pioneering experiments and policy proposals to establish an institutional foundation for commons-based urban transition

Cho, S. (2019). Public Land Leasing Theory: Reforming the land policy in North Korea. Hanulmplus.

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Sonn, J. W. & Shin, H. B. (2019). Contextualizing Accumulation by Dispossession: The State and High-Rise Apartment Clusters in Gangnam, Seoul. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110 (3).

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Bae-Gyoon Park | Director | geopbg@snu.ac.kr | Geography

Hanbyul Shim | Research Fellow | pinehill@snu.ac.kr | Urban Planning

Seoungwon Lee | Research Fellow | ishi0920@snu.ac.kr | Political Science

Yilsoon Paek | Research Fellow | thinki01@snu.ac.kr | Geography

Junho Yang | Co-Researcher | junho@inu.ac.kr | Economics

Kwang Suk Lee | Co-Researcher | leeks2k@gmail.com | Cultural Theory

Sang-Hun Lee | Co-Researcher | ttochi65@hs.ac.kr | Environmental Social Sciences