Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Landfill in the study of urban ecology -- Landfill and landfill regeneration -- Waste management research -- Research methodologies -- Historical approach to the landfill study -- Field work and primary sources -- Theoretical background -- Waste management and ecological equilibrium -- Ecology as the way of inhabiting the world -- The urban in the globalised capitalist urbanism -- A bordered space -- Notes
Chapter 1 Transformations of Nanjido -- Pre-landfill period (1945-1977): nature -- Appropriation of natural environment -- Idealisation of nature -- Landfill period (1978-1992): waste -- Post-industrial age and landfills of Seoul -- Environmental conditions of Nanjido Landfill -- Environmental and social ecologies of Nanjido Landfill -- Post-landfill period (1993-present): regeneration -- Post-landfill vision in the neoliberal economic turn -- Nanjido Post-Landfill Park: cultural and environmental value creation -- The Nanji Golf Course debate: ecology and class issues -- Notes
Chapter 2 Sanitary management in post-war Seoul -- Sanitation as morality and ideology -- Sanitation as morality for industrial and military forces -- Sanitation as anti-communist ideology -- Control of garbage collectors: physical sanitary management -- Ragpickers in post-war Seoul -- Institutional control of garbage collectors -- Market control of garbage collectors -- DDT: symbolic sanitary management -- The Korean War and DDT -- A belief system of fumigation -- Nanjido Landfill: spatial sanitary management -- The waste management sites and waste itself -- Fumes and borders -- Notes
Chapter 3 Nanjido Landfill as human habitat -- Housing in Nanjido Landfill -- Self-help housing (1978-1984) -- Collective housing complex (1984-2001) -- Adequate and sustainable housing -- Adequate housing -- Sustainable housing -- Garbage collecting in Nanjido Landfill -- Recycling: assimilation -- Scavenging: disruption -- Imaginaries of Nanjido Landfill -- Fear and threat -- Subversive zone -- Notes -- Chapter 4 From landfill to post-landfill park -- The building of Nanjido Post-Landfill Park -- Post-landfill plans -- Models of the post-landfill park -- Nanjido Landfill's regeneration
Detoxification: leachate and gas treatments -- Aestheticisation: deodorisation and planting -- The global style of parks -- US style and global style of parks -- Nanjido Post-Landfill Park as a global style of parks -- Global economy and environmentalism -- Environmentalism in the global economic system of South Korea -- The South Korean middle class, 'the public' and the environmental concern -- Nanjido Post-Landfill Park for 'the public' -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Art: Disruption of Nanjido Post-Landfill Park -- Unease and placelessness -- The sense of unease -- Place and placelessness
