{"id":3339,"date":"2013-04-28T20:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T00:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.era.on.ca\/blogs\/office\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2014-02-13T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T22:43:49","slug":"seoul-its-heritage-and-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/2013\/seoul-its-heritage-and-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul: its heritage and its future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3342\" title=\"book\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ERA\u2019s Sharon Hong was recently published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415507394\/\">Transforming Asian Cities<\/a>, a new book edited by Nihal Perera and Wing-Shing Tang for Routledge. According to Perera and Tang, Asian cities are too often thought of as \u201cfollowing global models\u201d and \u201cWestern-dominated urban hierarchies and spatial structures.\u201d This new publication, however, aims to provide \u201cinside-out\u201d interpretations of Asian urbanism.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon\u2019s text describes Seoul, a complex admixture of Confucian ideals, <em>pungsu<\/em> (or <em>fengshui) <\/em>praxis, post-Corbusian planning efforts, contemporary eco-consciousness, and neoliberal cultural industry. The text paints a picture of a genuinely strange concatenation of forms, typologies, histories, cultures, narratives, and artifacts, all attempting to work together and all tilting toward some yet unseen future state.<\/p>\n<p>As Sharon suggests, while Korean cultural and built fabric continue to evolve, its heritage provides useful guidance. Seoul, which has seen a vast amount of change through colonization, industrialization, and various post-industrial strategies, has a valuable wealth of resources in its unique landforms, traditional <em>pungsu<\/em> planning, and long cultural history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERA\u2019s Sharon Hong was recently published in Transforming Asian Cities, a new book edited by Nihal Perera and Wing-Shing Tang for Routledge. 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