The Consideration of Progressive Urban Park and The Possibility of Urban Agricultural Park

Abstract

: Urban parks are progressing but are in chaos in the twenty-first century. Therefore the purposes of this study are to consider critically and classify the new paradigm of urban parks. Urban parks are one of the space products, and progressing aspects can be divided into three parts; supply, demand and market aspects. In the abstract, urban parks' progress represents process, openness or voidness, general and cultural ecology, productivity, experience program, identity or sense of place, carriers of urban regeneration, urban infrastructure, community space, multi-layered activity, active space, communication with urban space, tool of low carbon strategy and consilience. But urban parks have come under increased criticism about the long period development on trees growth, covering open space, limitation of general and cultural ecology, production, activity programs, identity and community space, visible urban regeneration, economic validity, urban sprawl, not using as the low carbon strategy, and finally negative consilience with contiguous fields. We collected these critical consideration about progressing urban parks, and proposed urban agricultural park as one of the alternative urban parks. This is closely connected with sustainable region development, low-carbon society, local food, well-being, Lohas paradigm and amenity of urban life.

Proposal of Urban Agricultural Park Management and Operation Plan Using the Public Service Design Process

“…The second group of ideas for revitalizing urban agricultural parks is "user participation in design," which means that the creation and efficient management and operation of urban agricultural parks should be planned, decided, and executed through the direct participation of users. This is in keeping with the findings of Yun and Cho (2012) that urban agricultural parks need to be approached from a physical and content perspective in which resident participation can be actually realized, through a new model of a forward-looking urban park that requires resident participation. The methods of user participation in design derived in this study come down to establishing standard user regulations and operating a coordinator system in urban agricultural parks.…”

“…It would also be possible to create jobs for various vulnerable social groups and utilize nationally nurtured professionals such as urban agricultural managers as coordinators. By introducing "agriculture" into the urban space, "productive codes" are combined with the consuming city, recalling the importance of the "primary industry" and expanding the pluralistic values of agriculture and rural areas (Kwon et al, 2003) to the city; and in the process of expanding the pluralistic values of agriculture and rural communities (Kwon et al, 2003) to urban areas, the role and cooperation of agricultural and rural experts can be requested (Yun and Cho, 2012).…”

Study of Plans to Ensure the Sustainability of Urban Farming in Apartment Complexes

“…These studies can be largely categorized into three types. First, studies from the environmental perspective have focused on the reduction of particulate matter through an increase in urban green spaces [1], carbon reduction [1], responses to climate-change impacts [1], and control of environmental pollution driven by a reduction in the size of the distribution network for agricultural products [2]. Second, studies from the economic perspective have delved into job creation [3][4][5][6][7], energy savings due to the reduction in the size of distribution networks for agricultural products [2,4,7,8], and food self-sufficiency [1,7].…”

“…First, studies from the environmental perspective have focused on the reduction of particulate matter through an increase in urban green spaces [1], carbon reduction [1], responses to climate-change impacts [1], and control of environmental pollution driven by a reduction in the size of the distribution network for agricultural products [2]. Second, studies from the economic perspective have delved into job creation [3][4][5][6][7], energy savings due to the reduction in the size of distribution networks for agricultural products [2,4,7,8], and food self-sufficiency [1,7]. Third, studies from the social perspective have focused on agricultural education for youth [6], facilitation of local communities [2], recreational activities [6,7,9], sustainable agriculture [8,10], and diversity of urban landscapes [1,6,7,9].…”

“…Second, studies from the economic perspective have delved into job creation [3][4][5][6][7], energy savings due to the reduction in the size of distribution networks for agricultural products [2,4,7,8], and food self-sufficiency [1,7]. Third, studies from the social perspective have focused on agricultural education for youth [6], facilitation of local communities [2], recreational activities [6,7,9], sustainable agriculture [8,10], and diversity of urban landscapes [1,6,7,9].…”