Seoul Mini-Mountains - Book

Seoul Mini-Mountains: Reading the City from its Topographical Gaps rethinks the city through its unbuilt topography—two dozen mini-mountains scattered across the urban fabric. These residual peaks, rising between 66 and 200 meters, resist the momentum of development and form a quiet counterpoint to the city’s dense expansion. Often overlooked and unrecognized as cultural landmarks, they serve as spatial buffers that allow the city to breathe. Through mapping, historical analysis, and the observation of everyday activities, the book constructs a new urban narrative—one that values voids, questions boundaries, and imagines Seoul as an archipelago of topographical gaps.