FACULTY

Contact Information 

• Office: Building 110 (EB4), 1001-4

• E-mail: jskim14@unist.ac.kr

• Tel: +82-52-217-2830

Education

• ​Ph.D (2012): Ph.D. in Design, Construction and Planning , University of Florida

• M.S (2003): Master of Science in Civil, Urban and Geo-system Engineering, Seoul National University

• B.S (2001): Bachelor of Science in Civil, Urban and Geo-system Engineering, Seoul National University

Professional Experience

• ​Associate Professor (2019-Present) : ​Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Urban and Environmental Engineering

• ​Assistant Professor (2014-2019) : ​Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Urban and Environmental Engineering

• Postdoctoral Associate (2014-2014) : Shimberg Center for Housing Studies, University of Florida

• Consultant (2013) : Inter-American Development Bank

• Researcher (2008-2009) : Daegu-Gyeongbuk Development Institute

• Policy Research Fellow (2007-2008) : Daegu Metropolitan Council

• Planner (2003-2007) : Cheil Engineering, Dept. of Urban Planning

Services

• 울산광역시 건축위원회 위원 (2020-현재)

• 울산광역시 교통위원회 위원 (2020-현재)

• 울산광역시 북구 경관위원회 위원 (2019-현재)

• 울산광역시 남구 도시계획위원회 위원 (2019-현재)

• 부산광역시 주거정책심의위원회 위원 (2018-2022)

• 울산광역시 도시계획위원회 위원 (2015~2021)

• 울산광역시 교통영향평가심의위원회 위원 (2019~2021)

• 울산광역시 지방산업입지심의위원회 위원 (2016-2022)​​

Teaching

Prof. Kim focuses on developing students’ critical thinking skills and providing a balanced perspective between theory and practice. In his class, students are encouraged to participate through group discussions and in-class debates. Also, students are required to collaborate and present a variety of group project to address urban planning issues in effort to apply theory to a real-life scenario.

Undergraduate courses

​1. Introduction to Urban Planning (도시계획개론)

​This course focuses on the history and theory of urban planning, and the structure and practice of contemporary planning. It also introduces key concepts and principles of sub-fields of urban planning, such as urban design, urban redevelopment, transportation planning, economic development planning, and environmental planning, as well as growth management.

2. Urban Development (도시개발론)

​This course introduces fundamental concepts and theories applied to urban development. This course also explores the process and outcomes of major urban development projects. Students are required to develop a land development proposal, including site analysis, development concepts, and feasibility studies, as a group project.

3. The Future of Cities (도시의 미래) - 교양과목

This course focuses on challenges and new pathways of the future of cities. It discusses the opportunities, challenges and the way forward of future cities based on reading articles, media reviews and group projects. This course combines lectures with students' debates and presentations. 

Graduate courses

1. Planning for Housing (주택론)   

​This course examines the evolution of public sector involvement in housing issues, current housing problems, and public policies designed to overcome these problems. But more than simply presenting this information, the course attempts to build students’ capabilities for diagnosis of problems, incisive critiques of policy, and written and oral presentation of these findings.  The course will focus on how historic, economic, programmatic, geographic, and social conditions influence the provision of affordable housing.

2. Urban Regeneration (도시재생)

​This course aims to understand the theories and practice in urban regeneration policy and planning. The course focuses on analyzing how economic, social, physical conditions of central cities can be improved through a variety of urban-planning efforts. It also addresses the process of neighborhood revitalization and the main planning issues for the process.

3. Urban Modeling and Simulation (도시 시뮬레이션)

​Urban modeling and simulation is an essential analytic technique for scenario planning. This course addresses two popular urban modeling and simulation techniques: space syntax and agent-based simulation model. After successfully completing this course, the students will be able to understand the modeling process and apply the techniques to analyze urban planning and design issues. 

4. ​Urban Design Workshop (도시설계워크샵)

This course explores the interface between architecture, urban design and planning through projects focused on the design of urban regeneration sites in Ulsan. Recently, Ulsan has experienced loss of jobs and population and is struggling to revitalize old town areas. Ulsan has implemented policy efforts to regenerate declined neighborhood, but strategic and physical plans are not prepared for many neighborhoods. In this course, students are required to choose a site for urban regeneration in Ulsan, and conduct site analysis and develop district unit plans for the site. The district unit plan should be effectively engaged with urban regeneration plan of the site. 

5. Disasters and Environmental Economics (재난 및 환경경제학)

​This course introduces basic concepts and theories in environmental economics. It also addresses various methods for valuation of non-market goods such as hedonic price models, input-out model and contingent valuation. Students are required to apply these techniques to prepare cost-benefit analysis of disaster management and prevention projects.