서울시립대학교 UNIVERSITY OF SEOUL
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Shinwon Kyung

  • FIELDUrban regeneration and sustainable communities
  • LABORATORY-
  • PHONE02-6490-5138
  • HOMEPAGEhttps://www.urbanandcommunity.org/
  • EMAILswkyung0221@gmail.com

Academic Background

PhD in Urban and Regional Studies: 2002 - 2006
University of Birmingham, UK
Thesis title: ‘Community involvement’, is it the answer? Perspectives on housing renewal in Britain and Korea

Career History

Director: 2018-present
Urban andCommunity Research Center
Seoul, SouthKorea

Lecturer(part-time):2016– 2018
Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Seoul National University, South Korea

Researcher: 2014-2016
Resilient Cities Housing Initiative (RCHI), Centre forAdvanced Urbanism
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

SPURS (SpecialProgram for Urban and Regional Studies) Fellow: 2014 - 2015
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Visiting Fellow/Consultant:2010- 2014
Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Centre
Urban Institute, Washington DC, USA

AssistantProfessor in Comparative Housing and Urban Development
Co-director ofthe International Continuing Professional Development Course: Housing, UrbanPlanning and Regeneration Policy and Practice: 2006 - 2009
Centre for Urban and Regional Studies
University of Birmingham, UK

AssociateResearch Fellow: 1998 - 2001
Korea Housing Institute (KHI), South Korea

Research Achievements

2020
Strategic action plan for local job creation in Jeju
Jeju Center for Creative Economy and Innovation
2020
Evaluation of urban regeneration projects in Seoul
Seoul Urban Regeneration Center

2020
Strategic action plan for local creators
Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development

2019
A governance model for development of Seoul into a global city
Seoul Metropolitan council

Papers and Publications

Kyung, S. (2019) The shifts and changes of alleyways in Seoul: Millennials and gentrification, Param book: Seoul.

Kyung, S. (2018) Searching for‘community’ and ‘community involvement’ in urban policy, International Journal of Urban Science, published online on 26March 2018, https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2018.1455529 (ID: 1455529 DOI:10.1080/12265934.2018.1455529).
Kyung, S. (2018)Goodpractice guide to estate regeneration in London. World and Cities, 22:126-131.
Kyung, S. (2017)Lessonsfrom the Housing Market Renewal Programme in England. World and Cities, 20:24-33.
Kyung, S.(2017) Canthe development of mixed communities transform the prospects of deprivedneighborhoods? Lessons from the HOPE VI program in the US, Journal of the Korean Urban Geographical Society, 20 (1): 157-169.
Kyung, S.(2017) Inan era of economic austerity, ‘community empowerment’, for whom? Perspectiveson the Coalition’s urban policy in the UK, Spaceand Environment, 27 (1): 278-306.
Kyung, S.(2015)Urban renaissance inBirmingham. In Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (ed.) Planners’ eyes on cities of the world.Hanol, Seoul.