원도심 쇠퇴 상권 기능 회복을 위한 자율형 상권관리제도 도입에 관한 연구

A Study on the Comparison of Policies of Advanced Countries to Vitalize the Function of Business Districts in Old Towns and Adoption of a New System

Due to urbanization and industrialization, business districts naturally moved and changed according to regional development and growth, which worsened social problems and gaps. As the functions and roles of business districts decline and they are ignored by consumers, business districts are on decline leaving their reputation behind. Such problems led to the imbalance of new and old business districts, deepened the gap between generations, genders, people of different income levels, which exacerbated social conflicts and caused complex and various problems. When social problems occurred, the government usually came up with top-down, government-led policies along with planning measures and systems to resolve the issues and constantly investing budget. This trend, however, is changing as domestic and overseas policy-making process is in transition. Now the new trend is the government and local people reviewing problems and coming up with solutions together. In the meantime in advanced countries, governments and local people have long been putting various efforts to recover and manage the business districts in old downtown. Korea also has made various attempts but is not satisfying the needs of the users. So this study aims to review the systems of advanced European countries to revive the declined business districts in old downtown and turn them into competitive ones. Also, based on the problems of the current policy to vitalize business districts, it will present a new direction by reviewing domestic and overseas cases and a system that applies the newly suggested autonomous management system of business district. So this study was conducted with two purposes. First, it aims to establish new governance before coming up with a new policy system so it can secure autonomy. Second, it also aims to provide base data for government to suggest policies in the future.