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This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.
With a focus on five major areas-population, economics, architecture, urban planning, and culture-the authors examine the preconditions that led to the emergence of ideas related to urban sustainability, assess and reassess the trends in sustainable development brought about by market forces, and recommend paths for their further intensification. Since this work covers a variety of topics, ranging from geomancy and social control to economic issues and green architecture (both locally and in comparison with European post-socialist cities and South Korea), it will point to lessons that other countries could learn from.
This book will be a valuable reference for scholars, researchers, students, and the general public who have a regional interest in North Korea, Korean unification, and East Asia as a whole; and/or a topical interest in urban studies, urban sustainability, and post-socialist urban transformation.
List of contents
Introduction
P. Em Pavel
Part I: Society and Culture Under Control
1. The People's Group as a Mechanism of Urban Maintenance, Corvée Labor, and Surveillance
Andrei Lankov
2. The Red, Big Family
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein
3. North Korean God(s)
Roman Husarski
4. Life Songs and Lifelong Expertise
Peter Moody
Part II: Toward Economic Sustainability
5. Common Pool Resource Management and Problems of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea
Peter Ward
6. Tourism Development and the Quest for Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea
Dean J. Ouellette
7. Enjoy Socialist Paradise
Manon Prud'homme
8. Public Eating Establishments as a Factor of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korean Cities
Maria Osetrova
Part III: Environmental Issues and Environmental Politics
9. North Korean Environmental Policy in the Middle of Crisis
Hyun Jong Noh
10. Are There Signs of Unsustainability in the Seemingly Sustainable City?: Finding Instances of (Under-) Privileged Urban Nature in Pyongyang
Jin-Tae Hwang
11. Sustainable Water Management in North Korean Cities
Robert Winstanley-Chesters
Part IV: Urban Planning and Urban Architecture
12. Back to Basics: Does Geomancy Still Influence Urban Sustainability in North Korea?
Nataliya A. Chesnokova
13. The Urban Planning of Pyongyang: Unintended Support for Sustainable Development?
P. Pavel
14. Recent Transformations of Pyongyang Sallimjip
Dongwoo Yim
15. Architectural Styles for Urban Sustainability: North Korean Architecture and Its Eurasian Influences
Jelena Prokopljevic
16. Is There Green Architecture in Pyongyang?: The Case of Ry my ng Street
P. Em Pavel
Part V: Imaginings of North Korean Cities in South Korea
17. Comparing Images of Pyongyang's New Urban Development in North and South Korean Newspapers: Are There Any References to Sustainability?
Alexey Nosov
18. Infrastructure, Future, and Speculative Land Ownership in the South Korean Demilitarized Zone
Jonathan Yainishet
About the author
Pavel P. Em is Research Associate at the Center for Korean Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. His work primarily concerns urban development in North Korea.
Summary
This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.
