Basic Report

  
  
    Roh Moo-Hyun government as the Participatory Government promotes the livable community or region making as a new regionally balanced development policy since 2006. The livable community making is to build a local community as a beautiful, delightful(community with the amenity), and distinctive community. This community building effort is initiated by local people under local autonomy to upgrade both quality of space and life.
   It is widely appreciated that this policy is essential and also timely in terms of the qualitative growth of Korean society. However, this policy is not successful in an initiative effort of local people. Considering this limitation of policy, this study attempts to set up an implementation model to improve the livable community making project focusing on local people's initiatives.
   In this study, following the introduction, chapter 2 deals with theoretic discussions and explains the concepts and types of the region making and features of its components.
   Chapter 3 examines and analyzes policy implementations of the livable community making projects by MOCT(Ministry of Construction and Transportation) and MAF(Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) as well as by MOGAHA(Ministry of government administration and home affairs).
   In Chapter 4, we review Korean state and trend of the regional making movements in decades and do case studies with three communities: North village in Seoul, Bupyung market in Incheon, and agricultural villages in Jinan. Each case represents a typical type of community making in residential area, in commercial area and in agricultural area.
   Chapter 5 focuses on the institutions and experiences of the overseas cases of community making in Japan, USA and UK understanding their success factors and policy considerations. In particular, Setagaya in Tokyo, a Japanese case gives us significant implications.
   In Chapter 6, we set up an implementation model of region making to improve the livable community making. To put the model into practice, we propose promoting strategies according to development stages. Above all, the role of city governments are important in that city governments have more information about their region and residents than any other level of governments.
   Finally, this implementation model will be useful to enhance the initiative of local people and in that sense, this study contributes for future policy making by recommending several alternatives of livable community making project.