This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.
With a focus on five major areas—population, economics, architecture, urban planning, and culture—the authors examine the preconditions that led to the emergence of ideas related to urban sustainability, assess and reassess the trends in sustainable development brought about by market forces, and recommend paths for their further intensification. Since this work covers a variety of topics, ranging from geomancy and social control to economic issues and green architecture (both locally and in comparison with European post-socialist cities and South Korea), it will point to lessons that other countries could learn from.
This book will be a valuable reference for scholars, researchers, students, and the general public who have a regional interest in North Korea, Korean unification, and East Asia as a whole; and/or a topical interest in urban studies, urban sustainability, and post-socialist urban transformation.
Introduction P. Em Pavel Part I: Society and Culture Under Control 1. The People's Group as a Mechanism of Urban Maintenance, Corvée Labor, and Surveillance Andrei Lankov 2. The Red, Big Family Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein 3. North Korean God(s) Roman Husarski 4. Life Songs and Lifelong Expertise Peter Moody Part II: Toward Economic Sustainability 5. Common Pool Resource Management and Problems of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea Peter Ward 6. Tourism Development and the Quest for Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea Dean J. Ouellette 7. Enjoy Socialist Paradise Manon Prud'homme 8. Public Eating Establishments as a Factor of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korean Cities Maria Osetrova Part III: Environmental Issues and Environmental Politics 9. North Korean Environmental Policy in the Middle of Crisis Hyun Jong Noh 10. Are There Signs of Unsustainability in the Seemingly Sustainable City?: Finding Instances of (Under-) Privileged Urban Nature in Pyongyang Jin-Tae Hwang 11. Sustainable Water Management in North Korean Cities Robert Winstanley-Chesters Part IV: Urban Planning and Urban Architecture 12. Back to Basics: Does Geomancy Still Influence Urban Sustainability in North Korea? Nataliya A. Chesnokova 13. The Urban Planning of Pyongyang: Unintended Support for Sustainable Development? P. Pavel 14. Recent Transformations of Pyongyang Sallimjip Dongwoo Yim 15. Architectural Styles for Urban Sustainability: North Korean Architecture and Its Eurasian Influences Jelena Prokopljević 16. Is There Green Architecture in Pyongyang?: The Case of Ryŏmyŏng Street P. Em Pavel Part V: Imaginings of North Korean Cities in South Korea 17. Comparing Images of Pyongyang's New Urban Development in North and South Korean Newspapers: Are There Any References to Sustainability? Alexey Nosov 18. Infrastructure, Future, and Speculative Land Ownership in the South Korean Demilitarized Zone Jonathan Yainishet
Pavel P. Em is Research Associate at the Center for Korean Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. His work primarily concerns urban development in North Korea.
