Professor - Landscape & Urban Ecosystems Lab
Prof. Gunwoo Kim
Gunwoo Kim is Director of Landscape & Urban Ecosystems Lab and Assistant Professor, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. He received his BLA (2008) degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MLA (2011) degree from Seoul National University, and Ph.D. (2015) degree in Architecture and Design Research from Virginia Tech. He worked as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University (2015-2017) and an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture (Tenure-Track) at North Carolina A&T State University (2017-2018).
The overarching theme of his teaching and research is to study and understand the complex interrelationships between ecosystem services and human health and well-being and to find solutions or alternatives to support sustainable futures. His research focuses on urban vegetation and its effects on environmental quality and human health, in particular the urban ecosystem services provided by green infrastructure. Current his research examines the contribution to urban ecosystems made by green infrastructure and ways to value the vegetation growing on vacant land in our cities, and seeks to identify alternative strategies for utilizing these spaces for short and long-term urban regeneration and renewal. A paper on this project was published to the Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (2015), which recently won a Virginia ASLA Research Award. He has been award a grant for project “Assessing Multiple Ecosystem Services in Urban Green Infrastructure to Support of Sustainable Community in Arizona by APS Endowment for Sustainable Design Research ($14,824.51). He is an invited reviewer of Landscape and Urban Planning and Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
Passionate about sharing ecological design approaches and models, he has extensive teaching experience, having taught site analysis, planning and design, sustainable landscape design seminar, ecological design, GIS and design foundation courses to name a few and he has collaboration experience working in teams at the USDA Forest Service. His interest here is to explore the role of landscape architecture in supporting urban sustainability to improve environmental quality and human health and well-being.
He is the author of 9 peer-reviewed articles with several more in progress. He has made more than 32 international presentations related to urban ecosystem services, green infrastructure and human health and well-being.
Expertise
The areas of expertise he can bring to the Hanyang University are the modeling of ecosystem services in manner that provides information helpful to landscape architects and planners such as the effects of trees on environmental quality, particularly air quality and greenhouse gases, and how to assess urban vegetation systems using aerial and ground-based techniques.
Education
| 2015 | PhD, Architecture and Design Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
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| 2011 | MLA, Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University |
| 2008 | BLA, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Academic Experience
| Current | Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture (Tenure-Track) Graduate School of Urban Studies l Graduate School of Engineering Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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| 2017-18 | Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture (Tenure-Track) North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC |
| 2015-17 | Clinical Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture The Design School, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2015-17 | Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2012-15 | Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant Landscape Architecture Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
| 2010-11 | Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant Department of Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
Awards and Honors
| 2018 | Recognized Reviewer, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, Land Use Policy |
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| 2018 | Recognized Reviewer, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening |
| 2018 | Outstanding Reviewer, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, Sustainable Cities and Society |
| 2017 | Recognized Reviewer, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, Sustainable Cities and Society |
| 2016 | Senior Sustainability Scientist/Scholars Award, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University |
| 2016 | Research Award, VA ASLA 2016 Professional and Student Awards, The Greening of Cities, from Research to Policy, American Society of Landscape Architects, Virginia Chapter |
| 2015 | Research Award, VA ASLA 2015 Professional and Student Awards, Assessing urban vacant land ecosystem services: Urban vacant land as green infrastructure in the City of Roanoke, Virginia, American Society of Landscape Architects, Virginia Chapter |
| 2012-15 | Graduate Research and Teaching Assistantship, Landscape Architecture Program, School of Architecture + Design, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech |
| 2011 | International Design Competition, 3rd Place Green Design Awards 2011 ($1,000), Dorim Stream Green Infrastructure Project, Seoul, South Korea, Sponsored by: Korean Institute of Construction & Transportation Technology Evaluations and Planning |
| 2010-11 | Graduate Research and Teaching Assistantship ($11,322), Department of Landscape Architecture,College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University |
| 2010 | Merit-Award, St.Louis ASLA 2010 Professional and Student Awards: HOK Planning Group Mixed-Use Development Pole Project, Moscow, Russia |
| 2010 | International Design Competition, Merit-Award The 7th Docomomo, Korea Design Competition,Re-Connecting Urban Life: Baedari, the other Incheon |
| 2010 | Honor Scholarship ($3,861), Seoul National University Foundation |
| 2007 | Sigma Lambda Alpha Honor Society, the PSI Chapter |
| 2006 | Merit-Award, WASLA 2006 Professional and Student Awards: In Recognition of Outstanding Professional Achievement, American Society of Landscape Architects, Washington Chapter |
| 2005-06 | The National Society of Collegiate Scholars |
| 2005-06 | Dean’s List |
Professional Development and Academic Activities
| 2018 | Participant – October 19. 2018, LAAB Accreditation Workshop, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Meeting and Expo, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 2018 | Participant – October 19. 2018, Navigating SITES v2 Certification and Preparing for the SITES AP Exam,American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Meeting and Expo, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2018 | Delegate – October 19-22. 2018, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Meetingand Expo, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2018 | Delegate – March 21-24. 2018, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) AnnualMeeting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
| 2018 | Section Coordinator – November. 2018, NCASLA – USGBC Sustainable Sites Event Series, North Carolina, American Society of Landscape Architects |
| 2018 | NCASLA Executive Committee – May. 2018, North Carolina, American Society of Landscape Architects |
| 2018 | Faculty Advisor – May. 2018, NC A&T State University, Student Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects, Greensboro, NC |
| 2016 | Delegate - June. 2016, Esri User Conference, San Diego, CA |
| 2017 | Delegate - September. 2017, 10th Annual Great NC Tree Conference, Raleigh, NC Blacksburg, VA |
| 2017-18 | Invited Speaker - October. 2017-18, HBCU Research Summit, October 15-16, Virginia Tech |
| 2015-18 | Member - August. 2015 – Present, Sustainable Cities Network, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2015-18 | Member - August. 2015 – Present, Central Arizona-Phoenix Long Term Ecological-Research Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2014 | Student Delegate - November. 2014, 2014 Partners in Community Forestry National Conference Charlotte, NC |
| 2013 | Workshop Participant - March. 2010, i-Tree Eco Training Workshop, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Syracuse, NY |
| 2011 | Graduate Student Delegate - June. 2011, The International Federation of Landscape Architect(IFLA), 48TH IFLA WORLD CONGRESS Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2010 | Student Delegate - May. 2010, The International Federation of Landscape Architect (IFLA),47TH IFLA WORLD CONGRESS Suzhou, China |
| 2010 | Graduate Student Delegate - March. 2010, International Symposium for Planning Baekdudaegan Arboretum, Korea Forest Service – Graduate Student Panel of Master Plan with Jones & Jones Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Seattle, WA |
Professional Affiliations
Hanyang University Seoul Campus InfraMap Committee: Environment & Landscape Architecture
The Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture (KILA) Executive Committee
North Carolina, American Society of Landscape Architects (NCASLA) Executive Committee
North Carolina, American Society of Landscape Architects (NCASLA)
US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture (CELA)
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Invited Reviewers
| 2018-19 | Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science |
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| 2018-19 | Land Use Policy |
| 2018-19 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
| 2017-19 | Sustainable Cities and Society |
| 2017-19 | Council of Educators of Landscape Architecture |
| 2017-19 | Current Landscape Ecology Reports |
| 2016-19 | Urban Forestry & Urban Greening |
| 2016-19 | Landscape and Urban Planning |
| 2016-19 | Environmental Science & Policy |
| 2016-19 | Sustainability |