Han River Renaissance Project in Semiotics of Space

Abstract

[Abstract] This paper aims to examine the direction and strategy of Han River Renaissance Project which the city authority of Seoul is trying to promote with a positive drive and to propose the direction to establish competitive identity of Han River, with theories and methodology in Space Semiotics. Recently urban places have won more and more academic concerns, especially focused on how to create cultural — aesthetic — symbolic value for the cities, naturally led to theories and methodology in Space Semiotics, which can be dealt to overcome conventional planning of formation and concept for the urban spaces so that makes new ideas and concepts for space identities. In detail this paper, centered on theories of Space Semiotics A. J. Greimas suggested, intends to analyze the identity of Han River the core space of Seoul and to propose a new idea for that: in historical-cultural context, bringing vestige the traditional values to the present that citizens, the main users and the real owners, have accumulated both on space and time line.