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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
IntroductionP. Em PavelPart I: Society and Culture Under Control1. The People's Group as a Mechanism of Urban Maintenance, Corvée Labor, and Surveillance
Andrei Lankov 2. The Red, Big Family
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein3. North Korean God(s)
Roman Husarski4. Life Songs and Lifelong Expertise
Peter MoodyPart II: Toward Economic Sustainability5. Common Pool Resource Management and Problems of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea
Peter Ward6. Tourism Development and the Quest for Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea
Dean J. Ouellette7. Enjoy Socialist Paradise
Manon Prud'homme8. Public Eating Establishments as a Factor of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korean Cities
Maria OsetrovaPart III: Environmental Issues and Environmental Politics9. North Korean Environmental Policy in the Middle of Crisis
Hyun Jong Noh10. Are There Signs of Unsustainability in the Seemingly Sustainable City?: Finding Instances of (Under-) Privileged Urban Nature in Pyongyang
Jin-Tae Hwang11. Sustainable Water Management in North Korean Cities
Robert Winstanley-ChestersPart IV: Urban Planning and Urban Architecture12. Back to Basics: Does Geomancy Still Influence Urban Sustainability in North Korea?
Nataliya A. Chesnokova13. The Urban Planning of Pyongyang: Unintended Support for Sustainable Development?
P. Pavel14. Recent Transformations of Pyongyang Sallimjip
Dongwoo Yim15. Architectural Styles for Urban Sustainability: North Korean Architecture and Its Eurasian Influences
Jelena Prokopljevi¿16. Is There Green Architecture in Pyongyang?: The Case of Ry¿my¿ng Street
P. Em PavelPart V: Imaginings of North Korean Cities in South Korea17. Comparing Images of Pyongyang's New Urban Development in North and South Korean Newspapers: Are There Any References to Sustainability?
Alexey Nosov18. 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.
