Urban Upcycling Cooperative takes Korean housing model to Uzbekistan

Urban Upcycling Cooperative said Friday it signed a preliminary memorandum of understanding with the Urgench District government in Uzbekistan's Khorezm Region to pursue a 130,000-square-meter mixed-use residential development project.

The initiative explores a public rental housing model based on a public-private-people partnership framework.

Drawing on Korea's experience in urban regeneration, social housing and cooperative-managed rental housing, the cooperative plans to propose a housing mod ...