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  • Community capacity building in marginalised neighbourhoods of Seoul*

    Three decades ago, South Korean director Kim Dong-won made two important documentaries about the struggles and everyday life of the people of Songhak Maeul. Yet Songhak Maeul remains little-known as a successful case of community capacity building in a marginalised neighbourhood in Seoul. This article provides a historical background and explains the impact of market-driven urban redevelopment on neighbourhood…

  • Neighbourhood improvement and displacement in Seoul*

    Displacement of residents and traditional industries used to be an integral part of neighbourhood improvement in Seoul. While direct displacement has recently declined, new forms of indirect displacement are emerging as a result of the residents’ feelings of powerlessness, emotional distress and alienation, caused by the ongoing neighbourhood transformation in the city. Introduction Displacement has…

  • Urban gardening in South Korea and Slovenia as neighbourhood collective action*

    Ieum and Onkraj gradbišča community gardens in Incheon and Ljubljana show that the social importance of urban gardening as a neighbourhood collective action is growing in South Korea and Slovenia, largely due to the engagement of urban gardening activists and civil society organisations. Introduction: Urban gardening as collective actionUrban gardening refers to non-commercial food production…

  • Strengthening social cohesion through neighbourhood improvement in Seoul and Singapore*

    The cities of Seoul and Singapore offer valuable insights into the potential of neighbourhood improvement as a social policy that can strengthen social cohesion in neighbourhoods and cities. Social cohesion and sustainable development of citiesCities are vital to national and global economic growth. They are the centres of social, cultural, and political life. However, they…

  • Why Casie?

    CASIE seeks to understand and highlight the importance of collective action and social innovation for resilient neighbourhoods and cities in East Asia and Europe. Two-thirds of the world’s population is expected to live in cities, which are considered the engines of global and national economic growth and hubs of social, cultural, and political life. However,…