Job Accessibility as a Lens for Understanding the Urban Structure of Colonial Cities: A Digital Humanities Study of the Colonial Seoul in the 1930s Using GIS
This study examined the urban structure of colonial Seoul in the 1930s, the capital city of Korea under the rule of the Japanese empire, by adopting quantitative geographical methods. We utilized a job accessibility index to operationalize the urban structure. We also used geographic information sci...
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| author | Youngjoon Kim Junghwan Kim Hui Jeong Ha Naoto Nakajima Jinhyung Lee |
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| description | This study examined the urban structure of colonial Seoul in the 1930s, the capital city of Korea under the rule of the Japanese empire, by adopting quantitative geographical methods. We utilized a job accessibility index to operationalize the urban structure. We also used geographic information science (GIScience) analysis tools to digitize neighborhood-level sociodemographic and parcel-level business location information from historical materials. The results illustrated several findings that were not revealed by previous studies based on qualitative approaches. First, transit-based job accessibility (13.392) is significantly higher (<i>p</i> < 0.001) than walk-based job accessibility (10.575). Second, there is a Γ-shaped area with higher job accessibility, including the central part of colonial Seoul. Third, Japanese-dominant neighborhoods had significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.001) higher transit-based (27.156) job accessibility than Korean-dominant neighborhoods (9.319). Fourth, transit-based job accessibility is not significantly correlated with the unemployment rate overall. Although colonial Seoul was the seventh-largest city of the Japanese empire, few practical planning actions were taken to resolve urban issues, unlike the other large cities in mainland Japan. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a0c43b6ca5c44a399b200ba664b46382023-11-24T15:21:16ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642022-12-01111261410.3390/ijgi11120614Job Accessibility as a Lens for Understanding the Urban Structure of Colonial Cities: A Digital Humanities Study of the Colonial Seoul in the 1930s Using GISYoungjoon Kim0Junghwan Kim1Hui Jeong Ha2Naoto Nakajima3Jinhyung Lee4Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, JapanDepartment of Geography, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USADepartment of Geography and Environment, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C2, CanadaDepartment of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, JapanDepartment of Geography and Environment, Western University, London, ON N6A 5C2, CanadaThis study examined the urban structure of colonial Seoul in the 1930s, the capital city of Korea under the rule of the Japanese empire, by adopting quantitative geographical methods. We utilized a job accessibility index to operationalize the urban structure. We also used geographic information science (GIScience) analysis tools to digitize neighborhood-level sociodemographic and parcel-level business location information from historical materials. The results illustrated several findings that were not revealed by previous studies based on qualitative approaches. First, transit-based job accessibility (13.392) is significantly higher (<i>p</i> < 0.001) than walk-based job accessibility (10.575). Second, there is a Γ-shaped area with higher job accessibility, including the central part of colonial Seoul. Third, Japanese-dominant neighborhoods had significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.001) higher transit-based (27.156) job accessibility than Korean-dominant neighborhoods (9.319). Fourth, transit-based job accessibility is not significantly correlated with the unemployment rate overall. Although colonial Seoul was the seventh-largest city of the Japanese empire, few practical planning actions were taken to resolve urban issues, unlike the other large cities in mainland Japan.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/11/12/614colonial urban planningdigital humanityjob accessibilityKoreacolonial Seoulurban structure |
| spellingShingle | Youngjoon Kim Junghwan Kim Hui Jeong Ha Naoto Nakajima Jinhyung Lee Job Accessibility as a Lens for Understanding the Urban Structure of Colonial Cities: A Digital Humanities Study of the Colonial Seoul in the 1930s Using GIS ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information colonial urban planning digital humanity job accessibility Korea colonial Seoul urban structure |
| title | Job Accessibility as a Lens for Understanding the Urban Structure of Colonial Cities: A Digital Humanities Study of the Colonial Seoul in the 1930s Using GIS |
| title_full | Job Accessibility as a Lens for Understanding the Urban Structure of Colonial Cities: A Digital Humanities Study of the Colonial Seoul in the 1930s Using GIS |
| title_fullStr | Job Accessibility as a Lens for Understanding the Urban Structure of Colonial Cities: A Digital Humanities Study of the Colonial Seoul in the 1930s Using GIS |
| title_full_unstemmed | Job Accessibility as a Lens for Understanding the Urban Structure of Colonial Cities: A Digital Humanities Study of the Colonial Seoul in the 1930s Using GIS |
| title_short | Job Accessibility as a Lens for Understanding the Urban Structure of Colonial Cities: A Digital Humanities Study of the Colonial Seoul in the 1930s Using GIS |
| title_sort | job accessibility as a lens for understanding the urban structure of colonial cities a digital humanities study of the colonial seoul in the 1930s using gis |
| topic | colonial urban planning digital humanity job accessibility Korea colonial Seoul urban structure |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/11/12/614 |
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