Over the past dozen years city environmental problem has been issued among major developed nations. This has positively caused the gradual improvement of city environment. However, as long as energy and natural resources are concerned, the city environmental problem is still a great burden upon their own lands and global environment. Especially 50% of the world population is living in city, whose number is expected to increase every year up to 60% by 2020. To overcome the soaring extension of city dwellers and its entailing city devastation, recently such view of assuming a city as a whole organic thing has been increasing. This view means to see a city as symbol-city in which human activities are connected with biosphere, energy naturally circulated throughout human city and nature. As a result of such consistent endeavor, various forms of eco-cities have been built in several developed nations. These cities have not been built under a certain standardized model of eco-city. They have been built on the base of their own unique environment, city-culture and dwellingconsciousness, accordingly being distinctive, differentiated from one another. This writing aims to select Freiburg in southern German, supposed to be a representative eco-city, and examine the conditions required for eco-city. This research can be useful in that it gives an opportunity of a self check to the eco-communities that are actively processed in a small scale in Korea. It also gives us a chance to assume the possibility of ecocity in Korea.
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II. 생태도시의 이론적 기반
III. 생태도시의 실천적 기반
IV. 결 론
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