Differential citizenship in policy-led urban redevelopment.

I examine how city government appropriates urban redevelopment policy to squeeze values out of underdeveloped areas in Seoul, and what are the implications of the policy-led redevelopment for citizenship of low-income residents. Economic, political, and spatial changes in the 1990s have created conditions that call for active role of states in extracting values from space. As Korean economy has moved toward flexible accumulation, local economic development has increasingly relied on spatial development. On the other hand, developable land in the SMA has almost been exhausted due to the extensive development in the 1990s. With the newly-elect mayor, Seoul has seen a resurgence of large-scale development. To earn popular support for policy-led redevelopment, the city government resorted to discursive strategies, problematizing Seoul’s spatial inequality. As redevelopment policy unrolls itself in urban space low returning rates of original residents show that it is a resident replacement project. While the city government reproduces differential citizenship by institutionalizing minimal compensations to low-income residents, resistance against legitimized displacements is now growing as residents organize to claim their citizenship. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]