2024-12-22T03:16:56-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/90763575/lessons-from-north-korean-urbanism Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-01-08T15:43:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2g/2ghxpfbpqf6pazaq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>They conceive of urban space as space owned by the public, not space for real estate development.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Much of the North Korean news that reaches the United States reads like tabloid hearsay, as glimpses of a totalitarian dictatorship rife with human rights violations are peeked through <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-dennis-rodman-happy-birthday-north-korea-20140108,0,4827481.story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dennis Rodman</a> and <a href="http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/07/kerry-us-will-not-accept-north-korea-as-a-nuclear-state/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">military showboating</a>. <em><a href="http://www.nknews.org/category/news/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NK News</a></em>, an independent and private news source based in Washington, D.C., is unique to both online journalism and treatment of its subject, in its rigorous and impressively connected focus on North Korean life and policy. Written from sources both in and out of the DPRK, <em>NK News </em>will most certainly get you to think differently about North Korea.</p> <p> In part one of his interview with <a href="http://www.risd.edu/Architecture/Dongwoo_Yim/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dongwoo Yim</a>, founder of the firm <a href="http://archinect.com/praud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PRAUD</a> and author of <em>Pyongyang, and Pyongyang After</em>, <em>NK News</em>' Academic / Research Director Gianluca Spezza takes a step back from current politics to ask Yim about the past and future of capital city Pyongyang's urban development. If Korea were to reunify, how would Pyongyang posture itself against Seoul, South Korea's megapolis capital?</p> <p> Most of Nor...</p>