Kim, Annette M.

Contact Information
Associate Professor
Director, Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB)
Sol Price School of Public Policy
Fax: (213) 740-1801
Email: annettek@usc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley

Background
Annette M. Kim, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy. She is also the Director of SLAB, the newly formed spatial analysis laboratory at Price that advances the visualization of the social sciences for public service through teaching, research, and public engagement.

Her current 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. Her books include Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transition Economy (Oxford University Press, 2008) and the forthcoming Sidewalk City: Re-Mapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Previously, Dr. Kim was Associate Professor at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She received her Ph.D. in city and regional planning and masters of visual studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her masters in public policy and urban planning from Harvard University and her B.A. in architecture and studio art from Wellesley College. She is a native of southern California.

Selected Publications

• Weng, C. Y., & Kim, A., The Critical Role of Street Vendor Organizations in Relocating Street Vendors into Public Markets: the case of Hsinchu City, Taiwan; Cityscape, 18(1): 47-70; 2016.
• Bostic, R., Kim, A., & Valenzuela, A., An Introduction to the Special Issue: Contesting the Streets 2: Vending and Public Space in Global Cities; Cityscape, 18(1): 3-10; 2016.          
• Kim, A. M., The Extreme Primacy of Location: Beijing’s Underground Rental Housing Market; Cities, 52(2016): 148-158; 2016.
• Kim, A. M., Seeds of Reform: Lessons from Vietnam about informality and institutional change; International Economic Journal, 26(3):375-390; 2012.

• Kim, A. M., Introducing the Mixed-use Sidewalk: Vending and Property rights in public space; Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(3):1-14; 2012.

• Kim, A. M., Talking Back: the role of narratives in Vietnam’s recent land compensation changes; Urban Studies, 48(3):493-508; 2011.

• Kim, A. M., Real Rights to the City: Cases of property rights changes towards equity in eastern Asia; Urban Studies, 48(3):459-69; 2011.

• Kim, A. M., Unimaginable Change: future directions for institutional reform in planning practice and research; Journal of the American Planning Association, 77(4):328-337. Reprinted in R. Crane and R. Weber (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. Oxford University Press, 2012; 2011.

Funded Projects
Market Institutions in Transition Economies
Principal Investigator: Annette M. Kim
Sponsor: Humanities and Social Sciences Grant
Amount Awarded: $15,000

From Workers to Owners: the Impact of Property Rights Reforms on Investment and Productivity in Rural Romania
Principal Investigator: Annette M. Kim
Sponsor: William Davidson Institute
Amount Awarded: $40,776

Property Rights Project
Principal Investigator: Annette M. Kim
Sponsor: Humanities and Social Sciences Grant
Amount Awarded: $10,000

Seeds of Reform: Analysis of recent North Korean civilian economic activity and its implications for North Korean integration into the global community
Principal Investigator: Annette M. Kim
Sponsors: MISTI Global Seed Fund, Amount Awarded: $20,100
Sponsors: East-West Center/POSCO, Amount Awarded: $5,000

Sidewalk City/Mapping the Unmapped
Principal Investigator: Annette M. Kim
Sponsor: Council for the Arts at MIT, Amount Awarded: $2,600 Sponsor: MIT Wolk Gallery, Amount Awarded: $6,000

Re-Mapping Beijing’s Current Historic Urbanization
Principal Investigator: Annette M. Kim
Sponsor: MISTI Greater China Fund
Amount Awarded: $30,900