Urban Design Living Lab has a goal to approach and to solve urgent problems from diverse aspects practically. This design studio would give architects and urban designers an ability to understand urban complex, to bring different interests in line and finally to create good spaces for daily life. Such a qualification of architects and urban designers, required by current bottom-up urban management, demands a new urban design method and design approach. In this context, Urban Design Living Lab is an “open urban design studio”, which requires a workshop with community, public officers and inhabitants. The area, which has a top priority for urban improvement, would be the design issue and site, suggested by community. The workshop would be taken on the design site, participant would live and work in planning area, in order to communicate with resident and get deep insight into planning issues. And not only urban designers but also inhabitant and other experts from environmental and economic fields would review this interdisciplinary design studio.

Urbanization significantly changes the form landscape of the city, and also contributes to change energy, water, carbon exchange across the city. Then, climate and ecosystem in the urbanized area differ from that in natural area. In this course, we explore the features in urbanization related to population, economy, and policy change. We finally study the mechanisms on the impact of urbanization on climate and ecosystem in the city. This course will help students to develop better policy for urban planning and climate mitigation plan.

Cities significantly contribute to global energy consumptions and carbon emissions. A better understanding of the relationships between urban form and energy performance in global urban contexts is necessary to facilitate energy efficient and resilient urban development. This course aims to prepare graduate students through the introduction of contemporary theory arguments, cutting-edge modeling tools and exploratory design applications on the energy performance of urban form with a global perspective. Following the quantitative approach to define urban form, four types of energy performance and their relationships with urban form will be discussed in this course: transportation energy, building operational energy, embodied energy of buildings and infrastructures, and decentralized renewable energy. Cutting-edge urban scale energy modeling tools will be introduced to students and some of the tools will be tested in exercises to examine energy performance of different urban forms with global cultural and regulatory contexts. The course will further introduce energy-oriented planning and design methods, and the energy resilient zoning and other policy tools. The course will conclude with a discussion of integrating science, design and policy in the field of urban form and energy for energy efficient and resilient urban development.

Urban growth management is representing recent trends to overcome traditional urban planning. This class reviews and discusses growth management’s historical backgrounds, purposes, various tools, economic effects, institutional frame. Tools for growth management include urban growth boundary, public facility requirement, impact fee, development exactions, special plan, TDR (Transfer of development right), PDR (purchase of development right). Theories, practices, and implications for Korea will also be examined.

Urban fabric is not accidental; it is a pattern that sits on the substrate of a landscape. Landscape, then, is a system defined by climate, geology, soil, water, topography, vegetation, and patterns of human occupation. In particular older cities have a history of occupation that is still readable for its original connection with the natural landscape system. Some parts of the landscape were a good place to live, to put up markets or sacred sites and these still form the core of the city. Other elements of the landscape favored modern traffic systems or large scale housing projects for citizens with lower income. This studio takes an existing urban situation as subject. After a thorough research into the urban landscape system of the subject site, the second half of the studio is devoted to design. How can we take advantage of the existing urban landscape system to increase meaning, identity, and resilience of future developments?

Modeling has been widely used in urban studies. But what is urban modeling? What are the common types of urban modeling? How are they applied in the planning processes to support the decision-making? This course introduces the field of urban modeling and Planning Support Systems (PSS) to master/PhD students to better understand those questions. The course starts with the introduction of the definition and development of urban modeling, and discusses its relationship with theory in planning. Typical urban modeling methods and their implications are introduced, such as the land use-transportation modeling, urban energy modeling and microclimate modeling. For each type of them, simple modeling tools are demonstrated. The course goes on to introduce the concept and development of PSS, and further discusses how urban modeling can be integrated in PSS to support planning decision making through the lens of theory of planning. The course concludes with the arguments on the further development of urban modeling and PSS in the new era of big data, their effectiveness on real city problem solving, and their potential biases leading to social equity issues.

This studio course will improve urban environment by harmonizing artificial and natural environments. Students will be required to comprehend three areas of urban landscape architecture (nature within city, open space, and urban space) and will learn theories and skills to plan and design urban open spaces.

This course offers a theoretical knowledge and practical solution concerning urban parks. It deals with diverse themes such as planning methods, management strategies, park planning and design cases, etc. In order to understand the broad context of urban parks, the evolution of urban parks will be reviewed. Multi-sector planning strategies will be examined based on legal and institutional frameworks and diverse stakeholders. Recent cases in pubic in parks management will be investigated.

Place, location, and urban fabric affect the form and use of architecture. Therefore, an understanding of architecture requires a precedent understanding of urban structures and fabric. This course will explore the relationship among people, places, architecture, and urban fabric.

A comprehensive and strategic nature of contemporary urban planning is emphasized through this lecture-centered course that combines various practical fields of urban planning. The fundamental concepts, current issues and recent trends are studied through required reading, critical writing and case studies. Global and comparative perspectives are introduced to better plan Korean cities and towns.

Cities are home to more than 50% of the world's population, and are the engines for economic growth. While urbanization has generated beneficial agglomeration advantages, it has also contributed to the growth in forces threatening sustainability. Cities, in particular, are becoming increasingly critical in reaching carbon neutrality as human and economic activities in cities increase energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This class aims to understand the role and strategy of urban and regional planning to fundamentally reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation and building sectors, as well as to study domestic and international carbon neutral urban planning cases and current research trends.

This course aims at understanding the causes, process and consequences of contemporary urban decline and studying theories, policies and cases of urban regeneration. Korean urban context is the primary focus of the course, while examining the similarities and differences with the urban experiences of Western and other cultures. Declined city center, stressed residential communities, blight inner city areas. and dilapidated industrial and port areas are the target of the study. The regeneration strategies and methods are examined in the light of physical, socio-economic, cultural and environmental objectives.

This course will deal with strategies and practical methods in order to revitalize the city by utilizing potentials in the existing urban areas. It aims to enhance the improved physical condition and social and economical opportunities for citizens. This course require a strategic multi-sectional approach making best use of public and private resources in a collaborative process.

City is a social phenomenon which takes place upon certain physical space. Urban studies must be, therefore, interdisciplinary in its approach. This course explores the various features of city and urban life, with a focus on its human and social aspects. The historical rise and development of cities, major sociological theories of cities, main characteristics and tendencies of contemporary cities, and urban problems of Korea will be mainly discussed in this course.

This course analyzes the diverse systems that determine the built environment of the city to find alternative modes of urbanism. The studio will explore urban spatial typologies such as hakwon, convenience stores, mega-marts, SROs (Single Room Occupancies), rooftop rooms and their social, economic, cultural, political, environmental ecologies through the analysis of relevant built environments as a means to reveal the inherent spatial mechanisms of social inequalities, economic divides and political conflicts, mono cultural issues and advance alternative spatial scenarios based on the research. The course will cover methodologies of mapping and analysis of urban spatial systems and typologies, as well as spatial scenario design, planning techniques.

The ultimate goal of social innovation is the sustainable development of a city and region and the happiness of its residents. Based on the relationship between spatial sustainability and individuals’ happiness (well-being), this course deals with the Big 7 causes of happiness, that is, family relationships, financial situation (income and wealth), work, health, personal freedom, personal value (belief), and community and presents the importance of the community participation, trust, and relationship. Accordingly, students can understand how the government and individuals can initiate and realize social innovation.

Water, wind, light, and vegetations are the variable and dynamic environment and design factors that must be reflected in the design of the urban environment and landscape architectural outdoor space. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the development of landscape design elements that can respond to environmental changes as well as users by applying IoT technology and programming. This course introduces the application of virtual reality as a tool to design, analyze and evaluate the outdoor space. The course aims to explore design techniques that simulate the landscape with interactive design elements and environmental changes in virtual reality and utilize them efficiently in a design process.

Landscape is about making and using places by humans, whether rural or urban. Landscape in its turn forms the foundation for more elevated constructs of the mind. In this course we study ways in which humans adapted their environment for a variety of purposes and reasons, with a variety of mind constructs as result. Learning about success and failure throughout the ages we also gain insight into strategies towards design. The course takes a thematic approach: students will learn how landscape was affected by aspects like time, seasons, love, power, and fertility, but also capitalism, socialism, or fashion.

This course will consist of three parts. First, it will explore the basic water chemistry including relevant chemical principles and their implications in water to understand water pollution. Second, it will cover the management of nonpoint sources and watershed. Third, it will study the fate and diffusion models of pollutants and management techniques for water pollution to conserve and to manage water quality.

This course focuses on the relevancy of ecology to landscape design. Training the attitudes and the sense of discrimination to read the possibilities and constraints of the site, understanding the ecological principles and techniques as it’s theoretical base, and practicing the process and method for the scientific analysis of the site are the essential part of the course. Students will be asked to study both basic theories of ecology and the methods for analysis of site ecology, and finally to incorporate them into landscape design.