Instructor: KEUNTAE KIM

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KEUNTAE KIM

Keuntae Kim is a PhD student at the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah. As his academic career, he held his undergraduate degree of architecture at Ajou University, finished his master’s degree in city planning from Seoul National University, and completed another master degree in urban design at School of City and Regional Planning (SCaRP) at Georgia Institute of Technology.

While taking master's courses, he participated in various research projects at Seoul National University such as transit-oriented development and housing management plans for steel company towns (Pohang and Kwangyang POSCO company towns) in Korea. In particular, while participating in Fort McPherson Redevelopment, Atlanta during the urban design studio at Georgia Tech, he developed his academic interest in participatory urban planning and neighborhood redevelopment and wrote his master's thesis on the impact of form-based codes and conventional zoning on Fort McPherson Redevelopment, Atlanta.

As his professional career, he worked as an assistant research fellow at Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement (KRIHS) for two and half years and participated in the Multifunctional Administrative City (Sejong City, South Korea) Comprehensive Plan before he went to study urban planning in US. After finishing his master's degree in urban design in 2010, he is working as an assistant research fellow at Architecture and Urban Research Institute (AURI) in Korea and conducting a field research for development of evaluation model for pedestrian environment in Korea.

During his doctoral study, he would like to study a scenario-based planning support system for encouraging participation in the planning process and smart growth policy-making through a more evidence-based approach. Now, as a graduate research assistant and original user of Envision Tomorrow Plus, he is working on documenting the ET+ user manual for both beginners and advanced users.

KEUNTAE KIM is currently teaching:

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KEUNTAE KIM has previously taught:

  • Scenario Planning in Envision Tomorrow Plus (ET+)
  • Envision Tomorrow Plus: Level 2
  • Envision Tomorrow Plus: Level 1