Pursuing Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea

Introduction

P. Em Pavel

Part I: Society and Culture Under Control

1. The People's Group as a Mechanism of Urban Maintenance, Corvee Labor, and Surveillance

Andrei Lankov

2. The Red, Big Family

Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

3. North Korean God(s)

Roman Husarski

4. Life Songs and Lifelong Expertise

Peter Moody

Part II: Toward Economic Sustainability

5. Common Pool Resource Management and Problems of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea

Peter Ward

6. Tourism Development and the Quest for Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea

Dean J. Ouellette

7. Enjoy Socialist Paradise

Manon Prud'homme

8. Public Eating Establishments as a Factor of Sustainable Urban Development in North Korean Cities

Maria Osetrova

Part III: Environmental Issues and Environmental Politics

9. North Korean Environmental Policy in the Middle of Crisis

Hyun Jong Noh

10. Are There Signs of Unsustainability in the Seemingly Sustainable City?: Finding Instances of (Under-) Privileged Urban Nature in Pyongyang

Jin-Tae Hwang

11. Sustainable Water Management in North Korean Cities

Robert Winstanley-Chesters

Part IV: Urban Planning and Urban Architecture

12. Back to Basics: Does Geomancy Still Influence Urban Sustainability in North Korea?

Nataliya A. Chesnokova

13. The Urban Planning of Pyongyang: Unintended Support for Sustainable Development?

P. Pavel

14. Recent Transformations of Pyongyang Sallimjip

Dongwoo Yim

15. Architectural Styles for Urban Sustainability: North Korean Architecture and Its Eurasian Influences

Jelena Prokopljevic

16. Is There Green Architecture in Pyongyang?: The Case of Ryomyong Street

P. Em Pavel

Part V: Imaginings of North Korean Cities in South Korea

17. Comparing Images of Pyongyang's New Urban Development in North and South Korean Newspapers: Are There Any References to Sustainability?

Alexey Nosov

18. Infrastructure, Future, and Speculative Land Ownership in the South Korean Demilitarized Zone

Jonathan Yainishet