首都圈 衛星都市의 形成과 發達

A study on the development of satelite cities in Seoul metropolitan area

The Metropolitan area of korea, Which takes the most important part of the national territory and become the core of city reigon, holds a significant meaning in the research of urbangeography. The development and formation of theses cities have been related basically on the city of Seoul. The result of the study are as follow: 1. The fist satellite city of the metropolitan area began with the commercial settlement along the Han River during Chosun Dynasty, But it is hard to consider them as the real satellite city in character. 2. The development of satellite city began with the Japanese rule over Korea in terms of mordern concept, for the constructing of railroads, peripheral towns of mother city developed to be satellite cities. Thereofre satellite cities have come into existance and development in accordance with the growth of mass transportation means. 3. After the Liberation, the development of satellite cities are inactivity except predominant cities in military. 4. Since the economic development in 1960 s, a rapid Metropolitan overpopulation and the plane sprawl of neighboring area more and more. 5. The spatial destribution of the satellite cities in the Metropolitan area shows that the clustered distribution forms of satellite cities in 1970 s changed to random destribution in 1980 s. This expedited the decentralized urbanization. The linear pattern of cities along railways in 1970 s developed into sectorial pattern in 1980 s, and again began to be the surface pattern. To conclude spatial distribution of the in Seoul Metropolitan area in staged the period maturity