The present study aims to investigate decline of Suwon city to be preceded in order to study urban regeneration in re-urbanization process in city development steps. The study examined declined areas that requires urban regeneration on the basis of objective data. In order to do this, decline indexes were selected based on basic statistical data on forty administrative blocks in Suwon city and then declined areas were identified. By identifying declined areas. the study patterned and characterized urban regeneration.
In order to grasp declining areas in Suwon city, a primary index was applied and six individual indexes such as population fluctuation, an aging index, a rate of change in the number of worker, a rate of change in the number of enterprise, a rate of housing for the aged and a percent of new housing, which are secondary indexes, were standardized through ranking and the weighted values were calculated through factor analysis and then declining areas by block were identified through multiple decline index. Through these, the study patterned and characterized urban regeneration.
As a result of multiple decline index, the declining degree appeared in the order of Seryu-1dong, Haenggung-dong, Godeung-dong and Yeonmu-dong. Also, characteristics by block were analyzed by grouping of declining areas through group analysis. The result of analysis of block, in declining areas in the direction of periphery from center based on land use data, more specific declining areas were revealed by applying the principle of overlapping: the inner city areas around the provincial government were in decline. As a result of applying multiple decline index, Suwon was divided into four types; declining type, stable type, growing type and newly growing type.
The type of regeneration of declining areas was divided into two: A and B. The tope 10% of declining areas is in the inner area of the city. In terms of urban regeneration, the type A was a type of town forming (history, culture, tourism and resource utilization in he area) and the type B was a type of housing regeneration (neighborhood unit for the aged). As a characteristic of Haenggung-dong, the project of governance participation-based urban regeneration activation. The area has been a center of Suwon-Hwasung in the last two hundreds years. While the area played a role due to the Suwon station opened after modernization, and the establishment of the provincial government in 1960’s, the inner city turned into a declining area because of housing land development attributable to suburbanization, relocation of public institutes and companies, and physical deterioration and so on. The type of urban regeneration is sorted into two: a town-forming type and a housing regeneration type. Establishing data collection for urban regeneration and local potential source for urban regeneration as well as city decline index is required and cooperative relationship with residents for source system development of urban regeneration of Suwon and for a town renaissance project are also necessary.