The topics of this course include the following: (1) investigating the changing process of urban environment in Korean or foreign cities, and understanding the culture and ideologies inside the urban environment; and (2) examining design philosophies, insights, value, and methodologies of planners and designers appearing in examples of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

This course will explore theoretical backgrounds of cost benefit analysis which is the main analytical tool to investigate economic and environmental feasibility of public investment projects and policies. We will also cover case studies regarding the application of CBA in various fields of government policies.

By encouraging both the socio-cultural imagination of space and spatial imagination of socio-cultural sites, this class aims at increasing the background knowledge regarding urban socio-cultural planning. This course will be cover various and diverse sites in everyday life of ordinary people, including apartment, factory, department store, hotel, convenience store, gallery, concert hall, library, museum, stadium, and transportation facilities.

This course will cover use behavior by spatial patterns and the relationship between culture and environmental behavior to understand the differences in human behavior in utilizing spaces in accordance with the characteristics of space and the kinds of relationships between cultural backgrounds and environmental behavior. Theories on perception and cognition, environmental behavior, and leisure behavior will be systematically analyzed and basic theories related to spatial behavior that is linked to environmental design will be learned. Forecasts of changes in environmental and leisure behavior in parallel with expected social and technological changes in the future will be made and the psychological characteristics of older and younger generations will be reviewed.

Whether internationally or nationally, the current prevailing approaches to sustainable development, such as Green or Smart Cities, narrowly emphasizes the present and the future. This attitude discusses the future based only on the current big trend that limits devising a strategy. In this context, this course spotlights culture, which is a significant component accompanying the environment, society, and economy in achieving sustainable development. UNESCO and UN-Habitat also have presented ‘Urban Culture and Heritage’ as an ingredient to leverage the sustainable development of cities, urban competitiveness, and social inclusion. The course aims to discuss sustainable urban development in a time of great urban transformation by offering an in-depth understanding of combining past-present-future in terms of ‘urban culture and heritage.’ Accordingly, the course provides an opportunity to explore how better to conserve, utilize, and strengthen urban culture & heritage for the planning and management of transition city; and how better to integrate them into urban policy for a sustainable future. The course will take an interdisciplinary perspective, including but not limited to architecture, museology, anthropology, archaeology, and development studies.

The objective of this course is to learn how natural scientists, engineers, and social scientists test hypotheses on environmental problems and to improve the necessary skills to analyze participating students’ own data. For the objective, the students are given wide opportunities to understand and explore the causes of a variety of environmental problems and their scientific solutions by following current research papers published in major journals in environmental studies. In this course are covered not only the basic principles of science but also the methodologies applying the principles.

This course covers major methods used by governments, businesses, and communities for innovative decision-making. The methods include brainstorming, living lab, and negotiation, mediation, and facilitation as well as focus group interview, Delphi technique and AHP (analytic hierarchy process)—and ANP (analytic network process) as its alternative—stated preference survey on virtual scenarios, Q-methodology for analyzing subjective perceptions, and backcasting and Futures Wheel as futurology techniques. Also, students will learn the importance of communication for preventing any distortion and error in the process of applying the methods. The course deals mainly with the theoretical background and where and when to use, domestic and international cases, and strengths and weaknesses as well as subsequent alternatives of the methods. Its contents are beneficial to seminar and living lab courses offered in the Urban and Social Innovation Major.

This class, convergence science, focusing on Asia regions, studies restoration planning processes and scientific analysis methods on natural disaster. In recent years, frequency and magnitude of extreme weather regarded to be growing. In line with that, occurrence and its damage are also reported to growing. Especially, due to the increased natural disasters in summer such as typhoon, landslide, and torrential rains, Asia regions are now having economic loss and lots of casualties. To adapt those situations, Asia regions put their efforts to build infrastructures including dam, drainage and erosion-control walls. However, those practices have been criticized because of their requirement of much money, destruction of nature and limited effectiveness for just once of time. Therefore, this study aims to discuss planning and practicing methods to build adaptation plan based on environmental restoration mechanism, but not focusing on adaptation plan with regard to civil engineering or soil conservation engineering. Particularly, the class puts a strong emphasis on environmental restoration, which supports coordination with nature and method not harming ecosystem, to understand environmental restoration’s actual effectiveness.

While aesthetic and environmental functions have long been recognized as a central as well as a unique role of parks and open spaces, the lack of economic justification has always made them viewed as a secondary component of urban environment. Especially, tax money has become unreliable public resources increasingly, and land scarcity has been a critical issue in highly developed cities in realizing urban green spaces. In this course, students will learn basic finances in parks and open space procurement, as well as evaluate socioeconomic effects of those after the construction. In addition, alternative business model will be sought, which would enable urban parks and open spaces to become entrepreneurial economic entities that further generate jobs and incomes.

This course aims to advance the understanding of ecological planning theories and share the planning practices from the viewpoint of ecosystem management. Students are required to introduce a selected chapter of recommended textbooks or articles, which are related with the key theory of ecology, landscape ecology or conservation biology. Also, students are required to lead the discussion on the theoretical approaches to their own study topics, as a part of course assignment.

This course focuses on the balance between development and conservation by exploring diverse topics in environmental and ecological planning. The course introduces a range of techniques and strategies for urban ecosystem resilience, environmental management and restoration, healthy environments, and natural hazard protection. The purpose of this course is to provide students with insight into the sustainability and rationality of spatial planning that responds to climate change and rapid urbanization.

This course will help students understand the properties and fundamentals of environmental destruction and problems resulting from economic development and urbanization. Students will study the methodologies of environmental conservation and management. Topics will cover the conservation of man-made environments including urban ecosystems, urban landscape, historical landscape, and urban historic buildings; and natural environments such as river watersheds, coastal zones, nature and rural landscape, and management of lakes. The focus of the course will be on planning and design techniques as well as environment management methodologies.

The course introduces contemporary digital media techniques for spatial analysis and representation of urban environments. It focuses on advancing knowledge of software platforms and migration of visual and quantitative data across these platforms for analytical, design and representation purposes. The course will be working with ArcGIS, open source geodata applications, 2D vector and 3D modeling programs such as ACAD, Adobe Illustrator, Rhino, along with Rhino plug-in programs such as Grasshopper for spatial analytical work. Final projects are to be visualized through basic animation programs and 3D Printing.

This course is divided into two parts. Part I will explore the history of environmental design in the West. Examples of three fields of environmental design include landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design. Leading periods of each field will be introduced. Topics will cover gardens, parks, plazas, streets, and new towns. Part II will examine the history of environmental design in Asia, especially in Korea, China, and Japan. Focus will be on these countries’ traditional gardens, their authors, and gardening theories.

This course provides the students to understand basic knowledge and techniques in dealing with diverse scales of spatial environment. Based on the understanding of topography, scale, circulation and spatial organization, the students will gain the capacity of creating the functional and aesthetic outdoor space.

This course will cover ecology as explored in the Depart- ment of Environmental Planning. Topics will include nature and human beings as well as land use, planning, design, and management. Students will pursue their own landscape ecology or environmental ecology.

Students will each be required in this course to select a specific environmental topic of their interest, study its theoretical background, and write a research proposal on the topic. The research report will be written after literature review, data collection, and field study and will be presented in class with discussions.

To solve environmental problems and to comprehend the actual contents of positive laws, this course will examine the basic principles of environmental laws and search for ways of developing them. Topics will cover the application of global environment problems and the ESSD concept to environmental law systems.

Scientific and accurate assessment of the environmental condition in the site is a prerequisite for better environmental planning. In recent years, along with the development of various environmental monitoring technologies, it has become possible to acquire high-quality environmental data in more efficient way and in a higher spatial-temporal scale. It is also expected that data collected in different environmental fields with different purposes and intensities will be used for environmental assessment by integrating and analyzing through big data technology. This course will introduce monitoring methodologies and techniques for various biological and abiotic factors in ecological environment, and discuss the usefulness and limitations of them through workshops. Though this course, we will get a better understanding of environmental data, and based on this, we will demonstrate better environmental assessment ways.

This course will provide an introduction to environmental applications studied in the Department of Environmental Planning and the Department of Landscape Architecture.