This studio course will aim at understanding socioeconomic and cultural phenomena related to recreational activities; planning and designing spaces for recreation and pleasure; and finding solutions to recreational resource management and services. Students will learn design methods according to representative types of recreational facilities on the basis of an understanding of basic recreational behavior.

This course will explore logistics systems from a societal point of view. Specifically, it will outline logistics systems as a whole and survey the models needed to analyze and to forecast logistics. The methods used to estimate logistics-related costs and the rules for pricing truck/rail freight operations will also be covered. The effects of deregulating logistics industry will be studied.

This course will cover planning and management problems related to the urban public transport system. Specifically, it will explore the methods used in measuring the performance of transportation firms and financing urban public transportation projects. It will also provide the methods used to estimate the demand for public transportation and the cost structure of the public transportation industry. Finally, the course will cover measures that can improve the management conditions of public transport firms (for example, congestion pricing).

This course will cover models as means of evaluating alternative policies in urban and regional planning.

The experimentation of multiculturalism as an alternative ideology for social integration and policy to assimilation has a long history in many Western countries where immigration and ethnic diversity triggered social debates on nation-building. Asian countries have joined this process as late participants, among which South Korea emerged as one of the fastest transformers. Although multiculturalism as political thought and social movement has drawn much attention in academia and pedagogy, its spatial aspects were rarely incorporated into the curriculum in higher education. The spatial approach sheds light on the co-presence of difference, the reconstruction of borders, and the hybridization of cultures. The course introduces the spatial approach to multiculturalism and theoretical, ethical, and policy issues related to the production of multicultural spaces. The first half of the course reviews international migration research that has driven the multicultural turn, focusing on local and national differences. The second half consists of theoretical and policy discussions around the ‘spaces of multicultures,’ including student field research on selected Korean sites. This course critically reflects the implication of multicultural spaces and their challenges to urban and regional planning.

Walking is the oldest transport mode in history, and is fundamental of all transport modes. We cannot use other transport modes without walking. The lecture aims at studying the characteristics of walking as a transport mode. It consists of various topics such as pedestrian transport in urban history, the economic value of pedestrian transport, pedestrian behavior characteristics, pedestrian traffic flows, pedestrian environment improvement programs. A better understanding of pedestrian transport will contribute to better walkable street design and urban planning.

Smart city has been one of the hottest issues in city planning as the world experiences ICT(Information and Commu- nication Technology) conversion. This class recognizes a smart city as both a huge platform for future innovation and a realization of such innovation, not limited to application of IoT and network system. This class emphasizes the importance of value creation for people and environment in smart city. Issues in the class include concepts and types of smart cities, limitations of ubiquitous city, citizen participation for smart city planning, smart city for value creation, implications of disruptive technology, and city of the future.

This course explores the historical evolution of cities and city planning. Both Western and Eastern cities are examined from ancient to modern times. While the focus centers around the perspective of planning ideas, the understanding of the cultural and historical forces that shaped the structure and form of the great cities are emphasized. Also important is critical analyses of representative examples of city planning and its resultant urban manifestation in each times. Notable plans, planners and planning thoughts in Western and Eastern cultural traditions are the major subject of the course.

This course instructs legal and administrative framework for spatial planning at national, regional and local levels. Korean laws on urban planning, land use control, urban development, metropolitan and regional planning, and national planning are analyzed in terms of their substantive and procedural structures. Individual laws as well as their relationships are examined in the political context of socio-economic and environmental needs of the times. Students are expected to gain a systematic and critical understanding of statutory, legal and administrative foundation upon which planning activities are formulated and restrained.

This course explores the meaning and concept of public planning, as well as its historical background and development. It also discusses those issues which are related with the logical legitimacy and practical efficiency of public planning. Studying various theories in public planning in the 20th century is another objective of this course, which will be followed by the examination of the theories of governance and social capital in the future.

This course will study the characteristics and environmental requirements of landscape plant materials including annals, bulbs, shrubs, and trees; and investigate ways of utilizing landscape materials for diverse purposes such as outdoor space design, landscape enhancement, microclimate control, and air pollution abatement. To achieve the goals of planting design, it is essential to select landscape plant materials that are suitable to environmental conditions such as local climate, soil, and solar radiation and to apply necessary management techniques such as pruning, fertilization, irrigation, pest control, and protection in winter. During class sessions, plant samples, slides and Powerpoint files will be extensively used to cultivate basic knowledge necessary for the identification and planting design of each species, such as specimen identification tips, biological and ecological characteristics, management requirements, and examples of planting design. Field trips are a very important part of this course. Characteristics of landscape plant materials can be learned at botanical gardens, arboretums, nursery farms, and flower shops. Field trips to large residential or industrial complexes, parks and streets, and natural plant communities in our national parks and ecological reserves will provide students with knowledge on the use and management of landscape plant materials.

Planting design is a crucial part of landscape architecture functionally and aesthetically. Creating a unique atmosphere and a meaning of a space requires not only the design skill to use materials but also a formative consciousness to reestablish and to recreate space formatively. This studio course will practice the creation of intended spaces by using plant materials. Topics will cover the basic thinking process of planting design; characteristics of outdoor spaces; interpretation of principal materials; design of views; skills in using materials; design methods and styles; and design practice.

This course aims to allow students to expand theoretical horizons to solve environmental problems based on their understanding of political ecology and diverse ecological discourses within the field. This course raises the following questions: What is the root cause of environmental problems? Who holds the ultimate power over the environment? How do existing policies and stakeholder interactions affect the use of environment by society? How do conflicts between conservation and development arise and become resolved? What role does social justice play in sustainability? How should society be reconfigured to increase ecological sustainability? The field of political ecology tries to understand the relationship society and the environment have had up until now, and is an interdisciplinary attempt to combine environmental science and social science in order to analyze the interaction occurring between a wide-variety of social organizations mediated by the environmental results of resource use and the dynamic relationship of society. As such, there are a wide-range of discourses that exist in the political ecology field. This course helps students to understand the mechanisms that trigger environmental destruction from local to global dimensions and provides instruction to figure out ways to solve them. This will be done by exploring diverse and complicated interlocking political, economic and social power relationships, which shape the relationship between human beings and nature, and diverse ecological discourses which provide a wide-variety of diagnoses and prescriptions for solving environmental problems. The first half of the course is dedicated to the introduction and understanding of the concept of political ecology and diverse ecological discourses, while the second half focuses on analysis and discussion on diverse environmental problems.

Many hazardous chemicals contaminate all the media in the environment (e.g., air, water, soil, sediment, and ecosystems) regardless of the first medium that they are released into. The contamination often spreads from a local scale through to a regional or even wider scales depending on their environmental fate properties. Process dynamics of important environmental processes that govern the multi-media contamination are taught in the lecture including transport, partitioning, degradation, and accumulation.

Many cities in Wester countries have founded public development agencies, which have intervened extensively in urban regeneration and other development businesses. They have taken an active role in establishing a master plan, finance, and development operation management and performing these businesses through a joint-venture model, after negotiating with public developers. This development model is called a Public-Private Development(PPD). In the PPD, a non-profit private developer (ex, social enterprise, local community corporation, etc) plays a vital role. Especially in US, the Community Development Corporation (CDC) considers primarily for public concern and provides practical solutions based on the understandings of finance, real estate market, and regional economy. This course is an introduction to 1) public and private sector roles and responsibilities, 2) public policy and its implication for Korea, 3) financial strategy for community development, 4) the implementation of regional analysis and strategies for specific areas in Seoul (Changsin-dong, Sillim- dong, etc.).

The course will examine qualitative research methods appropriate for field work of cultural landscape which is a base of environmental planning and design. It analyzes the philosophical underpinnings and development of qualitative research methods. Critically the course examines qualitative research designs, data collection and methods for analysis and interpretation of landscapes. It focuses primarily on participant-observation, on asking questions, on writing field notes, and on the transformation of these primary field data into written ethnographic documents. The course further will explore applications of the research findings in environmental planning and design.

This course attempts to introduce diverse methodologies in qualitative research and to guide students to understand the advantages and limits of each method through discussion and practical exercises. In particular, the course deals with qualitative methods frequently utilized in the fields of urban study, planning and spatial studies. In so doing, the students will be able to apply those methods to their research projects. The course ultimately shows the way through which the students can learn not only specific techniques, but also ethical issues accompanied by each method, thereby, moving onto introspection on the whole processes of research. The students, therefore, can develop comprehensive understandings of qualitative research and methods including institutional requirements and attitudes as well as various techniques.

This course is a seminar class to understand quantitative research methods specialized for urban environment research. The aim of this course is to nurture researchers who can conduct research independently by educating basic quantitative methods and developing basic skills for applying appropriate methods to their own study. To this end, this class consists of three topics: “Measurement of Urban Form”, “Introduction to Quantitative Methods” and “Fundamental Quantitative Models.” The “Measurement of Urban Form” deals with concepts and indicators of urban form. The “Introduction to Quantitative Methods” covers the concepts of data, variables, operationalization of concepts, and hypothesis testing. The “Fundamental Quantitative Models”part focuses on basic quantitative models, such as OLS, Logistic, and Count models, practicing hypothesis testing and interpretation of analysis results using real data.

This course deals with rail transportation that is a representative environmentally friendly green travel mode with a focus of both engineering and systems planning perspectives. Comprehensive topics such as railway planning, travel demand analyses and appraisal, facilities and systems, and operation and maintenance are explored. The role of rail transportation for the sustainable development is also discussed.

This course is prerequisite for students in master’s and doctoral programs writing their theses.