Socio-economic paradigm for urban developments has been continuously evolved to meet various demands of the times. Accordingly, with regards to appropriate development methodology, various modifications in development typologies and business structures have to be accompanied along with those evolutions.
Recently, some local cities are promoting individual “old city restoration projects” in compliance with local autonomies. However, they are promoting short term effective physical facility maintenance oriented project rather than overall city targeted in liaison with the vicinity areas.
Consequently, many mid-sized city''s old-towns have been facing deterioration followed by blighted infrastructures, deteriorated economic and environmental conditions, serious decrease in population, recession of the regional economies, decline of commercial businesses, and decrease in investment.
So, old downtown provide historical, cultural and artistic center space looking at the major old downtown restoration projects overseas in response to these problems, and has been utilized creative urban regeneration methodology with creative old downtown restoration projects through the utilization of the neighboring areas.
As a result, there have been demands for securing quality of life in cities, requiring continuous techniques for downtown reproduction addressing the ageing of downtowns properly. Developed countries are actively utilizing local culture to solve the problem of deterioration of downtown.
Furthermore, those continuously evolving social paradigm has resulted in different objects and methodologies in developments'' perspectives. With responds to these phenomena, this study aims to provide systematic classifications as well as analysis in urban regenerative perspectives on various tools and strategies adopted in Creative City as a new development form. Further to provide public sector with theoretical backgrounds to help them to carry out development to be more creative and effective ways.
Thus, the purpose of this study is to find out the factors through of literatures related to urban regeneration & creative city, theory study, advanced studies, case analysis in domestic and overseas, and to analyze interrelationship between urban regeneration creative city. This study suggests approach system of creative city with consideration of sustainable urban regeneration. By doing so, this study suggests activating the Urban Regeneration Methodology for Old Downtown by Utilizing Sustainable Creative City Approach System to accomplish resident survey actual demands from residents in Cheon-an’s old town followed by precedent analysis .

Keyword : Urban Development, Sustainable Urban Regeneration, Old Downtown Regeneration , Creative City, Residents Consciousness Survey.