Professor
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.
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
2011 MLA, Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University
2008 BLA, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2015 PhD, Architecture and Design Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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
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
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
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
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
2018 Recognized Reviewer, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, Land Use Policy
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
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 Meeting
and Expo, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Delegate – March 21-24. 2018, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Annual
Meeting, 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
2018 Participant – October 19. 2018, LAAB Accreditation Workshop, American Society of Landscape
Architects (ASLA) Annual Meeting and Expo, Philadelphia, PA
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 Meeting
and Expo, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Delegate – March 21-24. 2018, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Annual
Meeting, 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)
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
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
2018-19 Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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