Journal of the Korean Geographical Society ISSN:1225-6633(Print) 대한지리학회지

This paper examined the changing socio-economic spatial structure after the development of new towns with different sizes in Hwaseong-si. The population distribution of Hwaseong-si has become more concentrated in urbanized areas centering on the new town. With the development of Dongtan new town, Hwaseong-si has expanded the scope of the growth-leading region to Dongtan new town and its neighboring areas. Dongtan 1 dong, which serves as the center of Dongtan new town, functions as a core area of Hwaseong-si. As the Dongtan new town and its surrounding areas strengthened the function of the economic center, the spatial separation of the administrative center and economic center has deepened. Unlike Dongtan new town, Hyangnam new town and Namyang new town did not have a great influence on the urban spatial restructuring. In Hwaseong-si, the regional disparity between eastern and western regions has widened, which is the gap between the growth-leading region and the development-retarding region, as well as between urbanized area and rural area.