광주광역시 도심공동화의 접근시각과 활성화전략

The phenomenon of hollowing out downtown is the one that resulted from a decrease in a settled population, an out-worn houses and a worsened life environment by expanding a downtown in the suburbs. This phenomenon makes a downtown to lose a function of self-sufficiency and a marked characteristic of a downtown, and therefore leads to a decline of local development, which de-activates a function of a downtown. A decline in a downtown of Gwangju city has been started since the late 1980s. howeyer, it has not been taken an interest since the city was externally growing rapidly after upgrading to metropolitan. After 20 years of hollowing downtown of Gwangju city the problem of city has been too serious to just leave it. This paper shows, therefore, the way of how to cope with the gollowing downtown of Gwangju city after theoretically reviewing the way of activating a downtown. However, it has the limitations of representative of those standardized cases since it just examined the example of Gwangju city.