From Camp Town to International City: Us Military Base Expansion and Local Development in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. (8th November 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- From Camp Town to International City: Us Military Base Expansion and Local Development in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. (8th November 2018)
- Main Title:
- From Camp Town to International City: Us Military Base Expansion and Local Development in Pyeongtaek, South Korea
- Authors:
- Martin, Bridget
- Abstract:
- Abstract: In Pyeongtaek, South Korea, the US military is currently completing construction of its largest overseas base, and tens of thousands of American troops, civilian workers and accompanying family members are relocating to the city. Activist and civil society groups fiercely opposed base expansion in Pyeongtaek, leading to violent confrontations with police in 2006. As many scholars have pointed out, the country's 1980s democratization and 1990s decentralization created the conditions in which such vocal anti‐US and anti‐base politics became possible. Yet it was under the very same conditions that South Korea's central government harnessed local aspirations for urban growth to counter the anti‐base protests. By deregulating land use in Pyeongtaek and promising support for a number of major urban projects, the central government sought to build support for US expansion in the city and re‐cast militarization as a desirable form of 'international city' development. Haunted by the specter of gritty soldier‐entertainment 'camp town' areas and eager to see urban growth, the city government joined with the central government in constructing Pyeongtaek's new urban vision. However, new projects intended as a form of collective compensation displaced thousands and sparked new protest movements.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of urban and regional research. Volume 42:Number 6(2018)
- Journal:
- International journal of urban and regional research
- Issue:
- Volume 42:Number 6(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 42, Issue 6 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0042-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 967
- Page End:
- 985
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11-08
- Subjects:
- Korea -- Decentralization -- Military Base -- Developmental State -- Security -- Land Use -- Infrastructure -- Local State -- International City -- Pyeongtaek
City planning -- Periodicals
Regional planning -- Periodicals
307.1205 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1111/1468-2427.12698 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0309-1317
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