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Strategies for Urban Cultural Policy: The Case of the Hub City of Asian Culture Gwangju, South Korea

Choo, YeunKyung
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420732989

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Arts Administration, Education and Policy.
In the field of urban cultural policy, hardly any non-Western studies have researched the initial stage of policy design and the role of culture, despite its significance in today’s evolving policy design processes. The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore the role of culture under the influence of policy paradigm shift and to gain a comprehensive understanding of contemporary urban cultural policy design. Based on a complementary set of preexisting models and studies that challenge the limitations of the Multiple Streams Model, this study investigates multiple aspects of the Hub City of Asian Culture (HCAC) project in South Korea. Conducting an in-depth case study by incorporating document analysis, personal interviews, and several timelines, the study provides a thick description on the new urban cultural development model of HCAC. The findings indicate that there is a significant paradigm shift in contemporary urban cultural policy design, and culture has been operationalized as an innovative and autonomous tool to manage the complexity of policy design, situations, and networks. The HCAC policy design adopted multiple culture-driven tools from precedent international cases and strategically integrated them to the policy design and initial implementation processes for the sustainable management of the project. Finally, the study makes recommendations for future researchers to advance the policy analysis model for exploring undiscovered cases around the world. The study also recommends cultural policy makers to recognize the need to minimize the government’s intervention in policy making, and learn how to collaborate with and nurture the vitality of policy communities.
Margaret Wyszomirski (Advisor)
Edward Malecki (Committee Member)
Wayne Lawson (Committee Member)
190 p.
Arts Management; Public Administration; Public Policy; Regional Studies; Urban Planning
culture policy, urban cultural policy, culture-led urban regeneration, Gwangju, the Hub City of Asian Culture, new governance, Multiple Streams Model, Alternative Lenses Analysis, operationalized culture, culture and decentralization

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  • Choo, Y. (2015). Strategies for Urban Cultural Policy: The Case of the Hub City of Asian Culture Gwangju, South Korea [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420732989

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Choo, YeunKyung. Strategies for Urban Cultural Policy: The Case of the Hub City of Asian Culture Gwangju, South Korea . 2015. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420732989.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Choo, YeunKyung. "Strategies for Urban Cultural Policy: The Case of the Hub City of Asian Culture Gwangju, South Korea ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1420732989

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