Annette Kim
- Director, Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB)
- Associate Professor
- USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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Expertise Summary
Expert in urban planning and housing policy, especially in Asia
Expertise
- housing markets and policy, especially in the Global South
- property rights and land conflicts
- rapid urbanization and migration within Vietnam and China
- street vending and the informal economy
- public space and urban design
- international development planning
- visualization in the social sciences
- urban mapping and public engagement
Additional Information
- Research examines the livelihood strategies of migrants and immigrants in rapidly growing Asian cities through spatial ethnography and humanistic cartography. She has also researched the development of real estate markets and the reformation of property rights in transition countries in Eastern Europe and Asia
- Author of Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transition Economy (2008) and Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City (2015)
- Previously Associate Professor at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003-2014
- Visiting Professor at Peking University, in Beijing, China 2013-2014
- Fulbright Scholar, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1999-2000
- Leads Race, Arts, and Placemaking faculty collaborative