Inha University Establishes Graduate Program in Urban Regeneration... Research on Old Downtown, Ports, and Industrial Complex Revitalization

Application Deadline by the 21st of This Month, First Class in September

Inha University

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Inha University is establishing a new master's and doctoral program focused on urban regeneration starting next semester and is recruiting new students.

The graduate school program is open to graduates or prospective graduates of four-year universities, selecting around 20 students. The first class will begin this September.

The Department of Urban Regeneration offers interdisciplinary courses connecting urban planning, urban design, culture, administration, design, and tourism, conducting research applicable to real cities. Field classes reflecting regional characteristics will also be conducted. The program particularly focuses on urban regeneration in old downtown areas, ports, industrial complexes, and island regions.

Research on old downtown regeneration selects old downtown areas as study sites, meeting residents and analyzing local history, causes of decline, current status, and issues. The results from old downtown research will be supported for use in actual urban regeneration New Deal projects.

Port regeneration research investigates the process by which ports, once the starting points of urban growth, have lost their prominence, examining the current status, problems, and development directions of port urban regeneration. Industrial complex regeneration research visits sites to review the current status and issues of industrial complex urban regeneration and suggests development directions.

Island region regeneration research analyzes the impacts on island communities such as demographic changes, decline in economic activities, and physical environmental degradation, discovering ideas to enhance regional value. The program also looks globally to find various foreign urban regeneration problem-solving cases and studies ways to apply them to Korean society.

Professors from diverse fields including urban planning, urban design, architecture, administration, cultural management, and economics will teach to enhance expertise.

Professor Kim Kyung-bae of Inha University’s Department of Architecture, who serves as the head of the Urban Regeneration major, said, "Urban regeneration is a practical discipline based on resident participation, fieldwork, and multidisciplinary convergence, revitalizing declining cities physically, socially, environmentally, and economically, and proposing alternatives and policies for sustainable development,"

adding, "We aim to cultivate urban regeneration experts who understand specialized knowledge, theories, and legal systems and have the ability to plan and operate various urban regeneration projects."

Applications for the general graduate school, including the Urban Regeneration major, are open until the 21st of this month, with successful candidates announced on the 28th of next month. For more details, visit the website (http://grad.inha.ac.kr).

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