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• 영문명: Evaluation of the Efficiency of Taegu City by the Optimal City Size Theory
• 발행기관: 한국지역개발학회
• 저자명: 최용호(Choi YongHo)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국지역개발학회지』제10권 제3호, 53~74쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역개발
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1998.12.30

영문 초록

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency and the development process of Taegu Metropolitan City with three approaches: the optimal city size theory based on agglomeration economies; the minimum costs approach; and the quality of life (QOL) approach. The results of the study are as follows: (1) As for the productivity of the city, the efficiency of the manufacturing sector has been continually dropping since 1979, especially in the latter part of the 1980s. (2) The cost of city management has been increasing faster than the rate of population growth. This is primarily due to the increase in public costs which are mainly composed of water-supply and sewerage cost, road construction and maintenance cost. The rise in public cost per capita implies the decrease in the efficiency of the city management. (3) As for QOL, the efficiency of the city has steadily improved since 1960. But when the city status was changed from an ordinary city bo a District City in 1981 and from a District City to a Metropolitan City in 1995, the index of QOL suddenly fell. It also decreased when the growth rate of the population was over 4%. This study suggests that the optimal size of population of Taegu city is around 1.75-1.90 million which is similar to the average population of the city between 1980 to 1982. The study further shows that the magnitude of agglomeration economies is greater than that of diseconomies. The three approaches resulted in different estimates of the optimal size of Taegu City. However the general evidence suggests that the agglomeration economies have been diminished along with the growth of the City. The policy implications are as follows : (1) The simple expansion of the territory and the population of Taegu city does not contribute to the efficiency of the city and even decreases it. (2) The priority of regional economic policies should be placed on the tertiary sector of industries, for example a knowledge-based service sector, and not on the manufacturing sector. (3) The city government should cooperate with the governments of neighbor counties and cities to induce new factories and to make new industrial complexes. One of the unique aspects of this study is that it is based on time series analyses in contrast with the existing cross-sectional analyses.