Strategies for Overcoming the Urban Crisis Using Cultural Assets

Cities are suffering from massive natural disasters, climate change, diversification of social disasters, increased aging facilities, and the emergence of new disasters such as infectious diseases. Urban governments are required to change their policies to effectively prevent disasters and to provide substantial recovery and relief systems. However, social and economic policy alternatives related to the lives of citizens have not been specific in South Korea. This study suggests that citizens and communities with cultural consensus have a strong sense of pride in the region, and that expanding participation based on it is desirable to overcome urban disasters. According to the analysis results, cultural properties have a low relationship with urban crisis management, and cultural factors do not seem to have much impact on the disaster management processes. This study suggests the creation of new values based on cultural assets, expansion of exchange areas for cultural values and disaster resilience, understanding of culture to reflect regional specificities and differences, linkage between disaster education with culture and arts education, and change in various ways of civic participation.