A Study on Effects through the Establishment of Evaluation Indicators of Place-Based Spatial Welfare

Abstract

(Background and Purpose) The urbanization due to the development of science and technology and the industrial revolution has brought about various social and environmental problems. Based on the rational thinking that was implemented to solve this problem, urban plans were disregarded by urban residents, causing colonization of the Life World. Accordingly, this study aims to discuss the effect of the evaluation indicators of spatial welfare reflecting the characteristics of the place by establish the concept of spatial welfare and analyzing the urban public space from the human ecological perspective in order to realize space-based welfare services that sufficiently reflect the place characteristics of the residential area by approaching the organic relationship between the urban environment and dwellers from the perspective of an ecological system. (Method) It reviewed the concept of welfare and space through existing literature and previous studies, through which the concept of spatial welfare and welfare facilities were typified. In addition, it suggested a human ecological approach to recover the sense of place in urban space through theoretical review of urban space and place. To this end, evaluation indicators for place-based spatial welfare were established by extracting analysis items for urban spatial structure based on human ecology and analysis items for human behavior. (Results) In the case of spatial structure analysis, a scenario was identified that the research of researchers widely used in the public were synthesized and combined with the human ecological system theory to reinterpret the spatial structure as a layered structure, and a stable urban ecosystem is realized by cross- stacking the structural elements. In the case of human behavior analysis, it has conducted the research to reflect the place characteristics of the region rather than to create generalized public space by deriving evaluation types by cross-applying the sense of place forming elements to the elements extracted by organizing and analyzing previous studies related to public space. Through this, a plan for development of evaluation indicators was presented so that it can be applied when evaluating regions with different characteristics. (Conclusions) Through this study, it expects the following effects. First, it can identify various desires hidden in human behaviors based on place as well as physical and policy issues of public space for spatial welfare. Second, it can prepare a higher-level evaluation indicators by considering not only rational and reasonable values but also emotional elements according to the formation of the sense of place. Lastly, it tries to put value on the realization of user-centered spatial publicity, and to contribute to the quality improvement of public space through strengthening evaluation and monitoring functions by breaking away from the practices of public space projects that focus only on administrative performance.