Resilience In Ecology And Urban Landscape

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A quote “How can ecological science and the theory and practice of urbanism join in the effort to position cities and towns to adapt to the massive, accelerated, and sometimes unprecedented changes they face” in the book Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design , captivated my interest and still influences my academic goal. I have my dream of becoming a scholar who contributes to research area of landscape issues associated with the urban changes. My research will be an exploration of the application of spatial analysis to landscape, emphasized on changes in urban structures. The unprecedented urban growth is one of major urban issues relating to human activities and developments. We live in complexity of urban systems, vital to sustaining
I observed how my hometown was demolished and redeveloped, and experienced how the city of Seoul was radically transformed in the 90’s with the rapid economic development. I mainly learned how growing urban neighborhoods can be developed and managed through sustainable ways at the University of Seoul, my undergraduate school. These background experiences of mine have naturally shaped my interest in urban growth and sustainable issues. At the University of Washington, my master program that was focused on urban ecosystems played an important role to set up my research interest for doctoral study. While I took a series of landscape and urban planning classes and participated in several related projects, my academic interest became specified into two fundamental questions: (1) How do development patterns affect landscape ecology and vice versa? and (2) How effective are sustainable design elements of current development in terms of climate
Not only have I taken classes related to my interest in order to establish theoretical and methodological knowledge of my doctoral study, including ‘Environmental Planning,’ and ‘Landscape Urbanism Studio: Surging Seas,’ at the UW and ‘Geocomputating,’ ‘Statistics for Sociologist II,’ and ‘Spatial Data Analysis (next semester)’ at the UW-Madison, but I have also put a great deal of effort into honing my spatial analysis skills which will be a key tool in my Ph.D. research. I am currently working at the Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, participating in a project about evaluating coastal resilience along the Lake Michigan, and also worked at the UW Green Futures Laboratory, participating community planning projects. My responsibilities are and were mainly GIS data analysis and creation of deliverable

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