A REPOSITORY OF DIVERSITY FOR URBAN HOUSING: THE ANSWER IS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
A multitude of housing forms coexist in the city, between detached houses and apartments, such as studio-type housing, row housing, multi-unit and multi-household houses and urban residential housing. How might we define the identities of such housings in our alleyways? The book The Answer Is in the Neighbourhood by Park Kibum (director of Architectural Culture and Landscape Division, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport), identifies such housing as middle housing, and observes the potential value and meaning of middle housing within the context of the ‘neighbourhood’. Let’s discover more about the author’s projection of ‘the future of the neighbourhood’ between tales illustrated using fascinating keywords such as Realseoulestate, Millennial, Living Social Overhead Capital (SOC), new house vendors, local creators, multiple use functionality, and Sur-se-gweon.
Bang Yukyung (Bang): The Answer Is in the Neighbourhood begins by discussing local architecture and small to mid-size housing, topics neglected by academia until now. What led you to publish this book?
Park Kibum (Park): While writing my doctoral dissertation, I tracked the evolution of small and medium-sized housing according to institutional and policy changes such
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