Strategic planning schemes of Mixed-Use developments to support urban regeneration in South Korea

Many studies of urban regeneration describe strategic planning schemes based on the experiences of practitioners gleaned from a variety of projects in several cities of the world. Whilst this literature provides a general understanding of strategic planning schemes, none explores what is happening and what is planned to happen in the context of South Korea. Our research framework was designed to present formal strategic planning schemes to support urban regeneration within regional contexts. This paper identifies urban regeneration planning schemes for Mixed-use development (MXD), based on a literature review of Korean refereed papers, and examines planning schemes via an expert survey. The literature survey includes 29 papers published by three major institutes in architecture and urban design in South Korea. In terms of strategic planning, the schemes have the potential to impact on MXD. Various urban development experts participated in the survey, and the data collected reflect consensus about strategic planning schemes in regional contexts. The results generated 41 strategic planning schemes and 12 strategic planning factors via Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The results enable us to explore meaningful directions for the future. This paper provides an understanding of key planning schemes in urban contexts in South Korea as well as of strategic planning for the future MXD projects.