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| Position | Assistant Professor |
|---|---|
| Phone | 805.756.1773 |
| Fax | 805.756.2270 |
| jkim99@calpoly.edu | |
| Office | 34-215 |
| Web Site |
Areas of Expertise
Landscape Spatial Patterns and Human Behavior
Community Design for Active Living
Landscape Ecology and Environmental Perception
Urban Design and Physical Planning
Computer-Aided Design Communications
Faculty Biography
Jun Hyun Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poy). Professor Kim is expected to receive his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science from Texas A&M University in May 2010. He holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.
The overarching goal of Professor Kim’s research is to create better outdoor places with landscape ecology and health perspectives. He has been involved in several research projects assessing the influence of the built environment conditions on promoting physical activities. His recent research includes the role of landscape spatial patterns on walking, physical activity, and health-related quality of life by assessing both subjective and objective measures including self-administrated surveys, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), remote sensing, and landscape indices. With his works, Kim was awarded research grants and several fellowships including the Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Active Living Research (ALR) program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and Nurture by Steelcase Dissertation Grant from the Center for Health Systems and Design (CHSD) at Texas A&M University.
His research and teaching interests include landscape spatial patterns and human behavior, community design for active living, landscape ecology and environmental perception, urban design and physical planning, and computer-aided design communications. Further, his teaching interests focus on evidence-based planning and design toward creating better places to provide more opportunities for engaging active living, and sustainable healthy communities.