TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiescreated in the Seoul metropolitan areas, and if including complexes involving over25-storied apartments, the figure stands at 47[1]. This indicates that super high-risehousing types are the new mainstream in Korea’s housing market.In recent years, super high-rise residences are increasingly rising in cities all overthe world, becoming popular as a sustainable residence type, differently from thepoor residential environment in the past. Binder(2001) insisted that super high-risebuildings represented economic dominance and power, and that super high-riseresidences represented the social status of their dwellers, and that the quality ofsemi-public spaces represented the quality of the dwellers (Yuen, 2005)[2].Domestic super high-rise mixed-use buildings provided high-revenue opportunitiesfor builders in 1999 when limitations on the size of residential facilities withinmixed-use complexes were completely lifted, and this development led diverseurban consumers to have their own residences. This trend, coupled with thedemand, furthered the segmentation of demand for housing, facilitating thediversification of demand for housing. Super high-rise mixed-use buildings, whichwere constructed in the 1990s, provide a new residential space totally differentfrom the previous apartments, thereby serving as a great advantage to high-incomehousing consumers. Provided within residential spaces are diverse facilitiesdevoted to cultural, entertainment, leisure, convenience, and commercial purposes,making so-called one-stop living possible (Jeong Eun-jin, 2006)[3].2. DEVELOPMENT OF MIXED-USE HOUSINGThe concept of mixed-use development is defined to mean the execution of diversefunctions with regard to particular time, and particular places, or a combination ofdifferent social and economic functions with regard to the identical land (Priemus,2001).[4] Generally, the definition of mixed-use development is an inclusivelanguage targeting cities, and the concept itself does not explain a new type ofcities, but the mixed-use development has a distinctive concept from a historical550