Park Won-soon, the former mayor of Seoul, put forward a new vision of Seoul as a progressive city, and one of his signatures was the promotion of a new urban regeneration policy called the Seoul-type Urban Regeneration Model (SUR). It was first presented as a solution to compressed and profit-oriented urban redevelopment but evolved into an alternative model which conveyed the worlding desire of the Seoul Metropolitan Government to redefine Asian urbanism beyond developmentalism or neoliberalism. In this article, we argue that the SUR demonstrates a mixture of post-developmentalist features and the lingering impact of neoliberal rationalities. Specifically, we problematize SUR's hybrid aspirations for urban competitiveness, improved quality of life and participatory governance by articulating how the pursuit of a globally competitive city conflicts with and overrides other values and how citizen-centered governance was exploited as an efficient mechanism of neoliberal urbanism.

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首尔的城市复兴：另类城市主义还是新自由主义城市主义的韧性？

前首尔市长朴元淳提出了首尔作为进步城市的新愿景，其标志之一就是推行名为“首尔型城市再生模式”(SUR)的新城市再生政策。它最初是作为压缩和以利润为导向的城市再开发的解决方案提出的，但后来演变成一种替代模式，传达了首尔市政府重新定义超越发展主义或新自由主义的亚洲城市主义的全球愿望。在本文中，我们认为，SUR 展示了后发展主义特征和新自由主义理性挥之不去的影响的混合体。具体来说，我们对 SUR 对城市竞争力的混合愿望提出了问题，