메가시티 정책 담론, 무엇이 문제인가?

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This paper aims to analyze the problems of the megacity policy discourse that has been actively discussed in the Korean political circles and to suggest a desirable policy direction. The results of the study show that the megacity policy discourse in Korea has the following problems. First, it focuses only on administrative district integration, which is far from the original academic concept. Second, megacity is a term that refers to the phenomenon of over-urbanization in developing countries, and it overlooks the fact that successful cases of metropolitan development in the West are based on the concept of megacity region. Third, it does not properly reflect the experience of advanced countries in strengthening urban competitiveness through the establishment of a metropolitan governance system rather than administrative district integration. Therefore, the authors propose that the current megacity policy centered on administrative district integration be abandoned and the policy direction be changed to the establishment of a metropolitan governance system utilizing the special local government system. Through this, it is expected that cooperation between cities can be strengthened and actual urban competitiveness can be improved.

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