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Development Strategies of Community Facilities for the Socially Underprivileged
사회적 약자를 위한 도시시설 확충방안 연구(RR2000-23) Young-A Lee, Young-Hwan Jin, and Jae-Gwan Byeon
2000. 12·132 pages·Korean
Background and Purpose
Korea has seen a rapid increase in the number of socially underprivileged population such as the handicapped and the aged. The burden of providing care to them has mostly been the responsibility of their family, and it has always been too difficult. This study proposes a number of methods at the social level to improve the lives of the handicapped and the aged. It proposes that the key solution lies in improving the physical environment. The handicapped often gives up their fundamental human rights in every day lives because they have less accessibility. This study aims to provide strategies for the improvement of community facilities for the socially underprivileged in concrete terms and make them lead daily lives on their own. For this objective, this study will consider the question of what constitutes community facilities for the underprivileged and suggest improvement strategies for them.
The important principle in this study is to expand and arrange community facilities in the way to strengthen community welfare. The subject of caring in the concept of community welfare in advanced countries is transferred from the central government to local govenments. In the case of Korea, the responsibility to care the handicapped and the aged shifted or enlarged from the family to the local level, and therefore, the concept of community welfare is worth considering in this study.
Major Areas of Analysis
This study is divided into five chapters, excluding the introduction and conclusion chapters. In the second chapter, it look into what significance the physical environment has to the socially underprivileged and discusses how urban planning deals with them.
In the third chapter, community facilities for the handicapped and the aged are
selected based on urban planning laws and guidelines. And then, a questionnaire survey of the facilities firstly selected was conducted to finally select the facilities highly demanded by the handicapped and the aged. In the fourth chapter, location criteria of the selected facilities were investigated. Chapter five discusses the improvement principles of community facilities. In chapter six, some strategies were considered to make community facilities, to enhance accessibility and to build community welfare networks.
