This course intends to deepen and widen the understanding of Landscape Architecture by means of studying existing, important literature of Landscape Thoughts, or texts relevant to it. It will help the students to develop a more profound understanding of the themes that they are working on for their dissertations, and therefore will lead to research results that are theoretically better embedded in the existing body of Landscape Architecture knowledge and practice. Reading excerpts from classic landscape books, or choosing from contemporary, philosophic works, or prose, the complex workings of the human mind when faced with landscape in a wide sense will be studied and explored. From a Master’s student one may expect an understanding of Landscape Archi-tecture in an inter-disciplinary, or cross-disciplinary context. The present PhD course intends to enhance an awareness of Landscape Architecture outside and even beyond this context. As the course proceeds and the discussion gains momentum from the side of the students, they may propose English texts for the course themselves. Students must have a reading knowledge of English, and are expected to join in the discussion on subjects proposed.

This course aims at enhancing planners’ understanding of the mechanism of real estate development, which constitutes the underlying basis of various urban development activities. Following the whole procedures of housing, retail, office, entertainment properties’ development, it provides theoretical and practical knowledges regarding project and development strategies, market analysis, feasibility study and investment decision-making, financing, marketing, and property management.

This course applies economic theory and thinking to analyze the land and housing markets. Office market analysis will be included as well. Lectures will cover land price curve, housing market segregation, housing and office suburbanization, micro and macro analysis of housing market, macro analysis of non-residential property, real estate cycle and time-series analysis. Students will learn how real estate markets function and will be required to explore their own research topics on real estate markets as a final goal. There is one course material: Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets by DiPasquale and Wheaton(PrenticeHall,1996).

By utilizing landscape planning methods, this studio course will formulate alternative plans for study areas on a regional scale rather than on a site scale in landscape design such as natural landscape areas vulnerable to environmental problems due to development and environments that need to be conser- ved. Focus will be on alternative plans for environmentally friendly development such as development projects that are sustainable for the achievement of ESSD in view of environmental pollution and nature destruction in Korea. Studio sessions will investigate management strategies and establish landscape plans for such issues as national environmental conservation plans, ecopolis, sustainable planning and design, ecotourism, green networks, national and provincial parks, greenbelts, river watershed management, waste disposal sites and surrounding areas, and rural communities. Students will learn about GIS by utilizing it to analyze information on the study areas.

This course is overview of the planning theories and practices at urban, regional and national levels. National physical planning is critically reviewed with the goal settting and strategies for sustainable national development and regional planning is focused on regional development theories and strategies which improve the quality of life of the residents. This course will introduce the integrated approach among economic, social, environment, land use, and transportation planning in attaining sustainable regional development. Thus this course provides the substantial theories and practices of regional economic and social development as well as examination of contemporary national and regional planning institutions and practical cases.

This course will cultivate students’ ability to employ remote sensing technologies to collect data necessary for decision-making processes related to our natural environment and the quality of air and water in Korea and abroad. Two types of data will be used. The first type will include satellite image data from IKONOS, KOMSAT, Landsat TM and ETM+, SPOT, AVHRR, MODIS, and Radarsat. The latter type will include ground truth data obtained from field trips or airphoto interpretation. These data will be used in supervised image classification and classification accuracy tests.

This course aims at preparing students for conducting academic researches or theses in landscape architecture by covering the following: selection of research topics; data collection and analysis; statistical analysis; and thesis writing skills. The course covers qualitative research methods as well as quantitative research methods.

This course will review the concept of cultural environment and recent issues in the cultural industry and cultural engineering. Then a workshop on cultural environmental design will be held. The latter half of the course will cover cultural policies and cultural environment or events of cities; and sample research on the cultural environment of traditional downtowns and new towns.

In this course, students will come to understand major issues in energy, environment, and economy and the sociopolitical implication of sustainable energy systems. They will then be prepared to conduct energy policy analysis as a part of environmental management.

The problems of traditional transport planning methods that have emphasized plan and operation management of network facilities are criticized in this class. Paying attention to the importance of intelligent transportation systems as location, structure and design of terminals that are knot facilities, student will study design criteria and detailed structure of transport terminals such as railroad stations, bus terminals and goods circulation center.

This course will include presentations on important issues in academic and artistic crafts in landscape architecture and review of these issues by units. Discussion topics will be determined according to student demands.

This subject discusses economic, social, and scientific factors and necessary conditions of policies which must be considered when establishing the urban and environmental policy. And in relation to these discussion, this subject examines and evaluates major urban and environmental policies at present. This will help students to gain comprehensive understanding and analytical technique about the current policies of the fields.

This course aims at enhancing planners’ capabilities to understand and cope with various urban and regional issues which derive from mega trends or current public concerns. It is designed to make urban and regional planning flexible enough to deal with not only long-range comprehensive plan-making but also short-term strategic problem-solving in order to meet diverse social demands.

This course is a seminar course composed of lectures and discussions. In this course, the ways to establish climate change adaptation strategies are explored in the context of deepening climate change. This course aims to examine diverse previous studies and project results about climate adaptation considering the concept of resilience and to raise practical ability to establish climate adaptation strategies. The goal of this course is to build students’ capacity for integrated and comprehensive climate adaptation strategies through an interdisciplinary approach of urban planning, transportation management and environmental management.

Landscape is a system of geology, soil, water, vegetation, wildlife, and land use - rural and urban. We can study landscape by taking these elements apart and see mutual relations as a system that has a structure in time and in space. It functions as an ecological system, because there is coherency between, for example, vegetation and soil, or water and cityscape. Recognizing coherency enforces spatial cognition. And when landscape is readable, it contributes to the sustainability of individuals and communities. Systematic analysis of landscape is therefore essential when planning for ecology and aiming for social, cultural, and psychological health. Students meet weekly with the teacher to study and discuss topics of Landscape System Analysis. As an input to the discussion students regularly prepare short introductions to selected themes.

Urban innovation, when done right, can improve the local quality of life, while also contributing to the formation of the social capital. This course aims to introduce case studies of urban innovation through city marketing, cultural tourism, and public transportation policies as a strategy for revitalizing the local community and to analyze the effects of such cases. Through domestic and international examples, the course deals with the physical, social, and economic conditions of urban innovation, which helps students understand the success and risk (failure) factors and their ripple effects. It will also identify relevant domestic and international policies and discuss development directions to minimize risks and to maximize their positive impacts.

Logistics systems consist of various elements such as industry and market, law and system, operation and management because of their functions supporting the overall field of economics activities. Therefore, this course deals with their concept, role, meaning and latest trend. The course also deals with the methods to rationalize transportation facilities and operating systems in order to increase the efficiency of logistics systems in respect of transportation management.

Site design signifies the design of spaces or places to which landscape design techniques for large area can be applied rather than a high level of garden design. The primary interests of this studio course therefore will be spaces with special themes such as representative or memorial spaces, not traditional garden designs; creation of new types of landscape spaces that can cope with newly emerging social demands; and improvement of the knowledge, techniques, and artistic level related to the design of those spaces.

Social innovation is to solve various problems in education, health and welfare, housing, transport, energy, environment, labor, etc. and also tries to solve newly rising problems including aging, youth issues, climate crisis through new ideas and methods in connection with city planning, urban regeneration, real estate finance, living lab, and town management, among which digital transformation is a focal axis through all social innovation activities. In this class, innovation is examined in dimension of ‘social’ innovation and business innovation to sustain it. Accordingly, social innovation will be connected to smart city. Smart cities and social innovations aim to create social innovation and business as a diverse innovative ecosystem to solve social problems through technology and economy and to sustain them to improve the quality of life of citizens. Through this lecture, students of various majors who are interested in cities and regions will be equipped with a deep understanding and interest in various interdisciplinary research and regional issues.

This course overviews the concept of social economy, the key actors of social economy and the status of social economy by country. In this course, we first discuss the first sector (market) and the second sector (government) with their limitations and failures. Then, we consider social economy in the third sector as an alternative solution to complement the limitations (failures) of the first and second sectors. The topics of social economy such as social entrepreneurship, co-operatives, social business enterprise, microfinance institution, social finance, and corporate social responsibility will be discussed in the course.