Joon Sik Kim is a Professor in the Urban Planning and Design Department at XJTLU. His research interests focus on strategic planning in smart cities, environmental planning, and geographic information systems. With his practical experiences in GIS and smart cities, he is concerned about how emerging technologies can be applied in urban development and management in a real-life context. He has been involved in GIS consulting projects for local governments in Korea and smart city projects worldwide. He is a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Qualifications
Ph.D. , The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK - 2002
MCD , The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK - 1998
BEng , Dong-A University, Busan, Korea - 1996
Experience
Visting Researcher, The Institute of Urban Science, The University of Seoul, Korea - 2023 to 2024
Head of Department, Urban Planning and Design, XJTLU - 2018 to 2013
Director, Research Institute for Future Cities, XJTLU - 2018 to 2020
Visiting Research Fellow, The University of Manchester, UK - 2018
Acting Head of Department, Urban Planning and Design, XJTLU - 2016
Director, Research Institute for Smart and Green Cities, XJTLU - 2015 to 2018
Visiting Lecturer, Department of U-City Construction,SKK(Sungkyungkwan) University, Korea - 2007 to 2009
Principal Consultant, Samsung SDS, Korea - 2006 to 2011
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geoinformatics,University of Seoul, Korea - 2005 to 2006
Senior Researcher, GIS Research Institute,Chung-Ang Aerosurvey, Korea - 2002 to 2006
Research interests
Smart Cities in the Digital Age
Collaborative Planning in Planning Practice
Waterside Revitalisation
GIS in Urban Planning
Human-Computer and Space Interface
Articles
Batey, P.W.J and Kim, J.S.* “Preface, Special issue on comprehensive watershed management: sustainability, technology, and policy”. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science. 2021. 5(2), pp523-530. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41685-021-00204-9 (* corresponding author)
Kim, J.S. and Batey, P.W.J. “Integrated watershed revitalization: the experience of the Mersey Basin Campaign”. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science. 2021. 5(2), pp531-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41685-020-00146-8
Kim, J.S., Batey, P.W.J., Fan, Y., and Zhong, S. “Embracing integrated watershed revitalization in Suzhou, China: learning from global case studies”. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science. 2021. 5(2), pp565-595. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41685-021-00203-w
Yang, Y., Chung, H., and Kim, J.S., “Local or Neighborhood? Examining the Relationship between Traffic Accidents and Land Use Using a Gradient Boosting Machine Learning Method: The Case of Suzhou Industrial Park, China”. Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/8246575
Kim, J.S. "Smart Cities: Introducing Digital Innovation to Cities". Town Planning Review, 2020, 91(5), pp561-562.
Song, J., Huang, B., Kim, J. S., Wen, J., & Li, R. “Fine-scale mapping of an evidence-based heat health risk index for high-density cities: Hong Kong as a case study”. Science of The Total Environment, 2020, 137226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137226
Kim, J.S. and Wang, Y. “Tourism Identity in Social Media: the Case of Suzhou, a Chinese Historic City”, Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 2018, 2(1), 63-80
Kim, J.S. “Making smart cities work in the face of conflicts: lessons from practitioners of South Korea’s U-City projects”, Town Planning Review, 86 (5), 2015, pp561-585.
Kim, J.S. “How can Smart Cities engage with Sustainability?: Synergy and Conflict” (Chinese Edition), SUR Smart Urban Regeneration, December 2016, 002, pp4-7. 2016.
Kim, J.S. and Batey, P.W.J. “Research Note: A Collaborative Partnership for Integrated Estuary Management: The Mersey Strategy, North West England”, International Journal of Public and Private Partnerships, 3(1), 2000, pp145-150.
Proceedings
Kim, J.S. and Feng, Y. “ Empirical Perspectives in Smart Cities: Understanding Complex Viewpoints in Smart Sustainable Cities from the Experience of Suzhou, China”. AESOP Congress, Lodz, Poland, 11-15 July 2023.
Feng, Y. and Kim, J.S. “WeChat Matters: How Digital Relations Influence Social Network Inclusion Of Construction Migrant Workers In China”. AESOP Congress, Lodz, Poland, 11-15 July 2023.
Chen, M., Jun, C., McDonald, N., Kim, J.S. “Seasonal And Spatial Variation Of Flood Estimates In The UK”, IAHR World Congress 2019, Panama, 1-6 September 2019.
Wang, YW, Craig, P., Manley, A., Kim, J.S., Chen, G. “Smart APPs for Museum Visitor Studies: the Use of Technology for Collecting and Visualising Visitor Behavioural and Tracking Data”, 2nd International Conference on Heritage of China 2018: Continuity and Celebration of Living Heritage of China, Suzhou, 6-9 September 2018.
Kim, J.S. and Wang, Y. “Tourism Identity in Social Media: the Case of a Chinese Historic City, Suzhou”, AESOP 2017 Congress, Association of European Schools of Planning, Lisbon, 11-14 July 2017, Nominated as the Best Papers of AESOP 2017
Kim, J.S. “Mapping Conflicts in the Development of Smart Cities: the Experience of Using Q Methodology for Smart Gusu Project, Suzhou, China”, CORP 2016, Hamburg, Germany, 22-24 June 2016.
Kim, J.S. “Making smart cities sustainable: Exploring attitudes of smart city practitioners using Q methodology”, AESOP Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 13-16 July 2015.
Kim, J.S. and Wang, X. “Rethinking the Strategic Dimensions of Smart Cities in China’s Industrial Park Developments: the Experience of Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, China”, CORP 2014, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 May 2014. (pp487-496. ISBN: 978-3-9503110-7-5)
Kim, J.S. “Making smart cities work in the face of conflicts: lessons from practitioners of South Korea’s U-City projects”, AESOP-ACSP Joint Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 15-19 July 2013.
Kim, J.S. “U-Green City Shaped: U-City Global Trend and Approach”, International Conference on u-City 2009, IFEZ Incheon, Korea. 27th-28th August 2009. pp 325-339.
Kim, J.S. and Batey, P.W.J. “A Collaborative Partnership Approach to Integrated Waterside Revitalisation: The Experience of the Mersey Basin Campaign”, the 1st World Planning Schools Congress, Shanghai, China, 11th-15th July 2001
Kim, J.S. and Batey, P.W.J. “Delivering Integrated Estuary Management: The Mersey Estuary as an Example of Collaborative Partnership”, the Planning Research Conference 2001, Liverpool, UK, 9th-11th April 2001.
Kim, J.S. “Revitalising the Waterside in a Community Context: the experience of the Mersey Basin Campaign”, 13th AESOP Congress, Bergen, Norway, 1999.
Kim, J.S and Kang, C.C. “Analysing Spatial Location of Urban Local Facilities Using Geographic Information System: Case of Saha-gu, Busan, Korea”, the Congress of Korean School of Urban Planning, Chung-Nam University Press, 1995, pp34-41.
Books, monographs, compilations and manuals
Xu, Y. and Kim, J.S. (eds), “Future Suzhou: urban planning and operation of Suzhou from an international perspective (Chinese edition, 未来苏州: 国际视角下的苏州城市规划与运营)”, China Architecture & Building Press (中国建筑工业出版社). 2021. ISBN: 9787112260539
Kim, J.S. et al., “Food and the City: a smarter and greener approach towards urban regeneration (Chinese edition, 食物与城市：绿色与智慧型城市再生途径——以苏州工业区为例)”, Xuelin Press (学林出版社). 2018. ISBN: 9787548614548
Yang, J. H. and Kim, J. S., “Cities, Space of Consilience: Urban Planning and Complexity (Korean edition)”, Pubple, 2013. ISBN: 9788924009118
Kim, J.S. et al., “Smart City Planning Methodology (Text Book, Korean edition)”, SKK(Sungkyungkwan) University Press, 2007.
Park, H.S. and Kim, J.S. “A Study on the Application of Voluntary Partnership for Watershed Management (Korean edition)”, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements. 2002.
Chapters, cases, readings and supplements
Kim, J.S. and Feng, Y., “Understanding Stakeholder Perceptions in Smart Cities: Applying a Q Methodology to the Smart Gusu Project in China” In: Kim, H.M., Sabri, S. and Kent, A. eds. Smart Cities For Technological and Social Innovation: Case Studies, Current Trends, and Future Steps, Elsevier, 2021, pp115-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818886-6.00007-1
Kim, J.S. and Feng, Y., “Making a Future Suzhou Smart and Sustainable: Strategic Dimension for the Development of New Smart Suzhou (Chinese edition)” In: Xu, Y. and Kim, J.S. (eds), “Future Suzhou: urban planning and operation of Suzhou from an international perspective (未来苏州: 国际视角下的苏州城市规划与运营)”, China Architecture & Building Press (中国建筑工业出版社). 2021, pp 1-28.
Kim, J.S., Batey, P.W.J., Sheng, Z., and Fan, Y., “Integrated Waterside Revitalisation for Future Suzhou: the Institutional Arrangement (Chinese edition)” In: Xu, Y. and Kim, J.S. (eds), “Future Suzhou: urban planning and operation of Suzhou from an international perspective (未来苏州: 国际视角下的苏州城市规划与运营)”, China Architecture & Building Press (中国建筑工业出版社). 2021, pp 195-224.
Kim, J.S. and Wang, X., “Rethinking the Strategic Dimensions of Smart Cities in China’s Industrial Park Developments: the Experience of Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, China” In: Caprotti, F. and Yu, L. eds., Sustainable Cities in Asia. Routledge. 2017.
Kim, J.S. “How can Smart Cities engage with Sustainability?: Synergy and Conflict” (Chinese Edition, 论智慧城市如何应对可持续性：协同与对立), SUR Smart Urban Regeneration (智慧城市更新SUR), December 2016, 002, pp4-7. 2016.
Rebecca, K., Kim, J. S. and Chen, B. “A Pedagogical Approach to Designing the Future of China’s Urban Fringe” In: Verdini, G., et al. eds. Conceiving the rural fringe in urbanising China. Actors, dimensions and management challenges. Routledge. 2016.
Kim, J.S. Facts and Fallacies of Smart City. In: Gongsaenggye, ed. Urban Planning Professional Engineer Guidebook (Korean edition). Seongandang. 2012.
Conference presentations
Kim, J.S. Keynote Speech, “Vitality and Performance of Neighbourhood Centres in Suzhou Industrial Park, China”, International Conference on Development Zone Transformation and City Innovation, Urban Planning Society of China, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 15-17 Nov. 2019.
Kim, J.S., Xu, Y, Zhong, S., Chung, H, “Urban innovation challenges: smart urban agriculture towards the sustainable transformation of industrial parks in China”, European International Conference on Transforming Urban Systems (EICTUS-2019), Strasbourg, France, 26-28 Jun 2019.
Wang, YW, Craig, P., Manley, A., Kim, J.S. Chen, G. "Smart APPs for Museum Visitor Studies: the Use of Technology for Collecting and Visualising Visitor Behavioural and Tracking Data", 2nd International Conference on Heritage of China 2018: Continuity and Celebration of Living Heritage of China, Suzhou, 6-9 September 2018.
Kim, J.S. Food and the city: smart urban agriculture for a sustainable future, Manchester, University of Manchester, 9 May 2018.
Kim, J.S. Public Forum: Korean Planning Approaches to Smart Green Cities, University of Melbourne, sponsored by the Australia-Korea Foundation and Department of Foreign Affairs, Australia, 8 May 2017.
Kim, J.S. Keynote Speech, “Smart cities and low-carbon: solving jigsaw puzzles without a picture”, Chinese Low Carbon City International Forum, Shanghai, China, 20th-21st November 2014.
Kim, J.S. “U-City Development in Korea”, Saudi Arabia and UAE, Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, Korea, 20th -24th February 2009.
Kim, J.S. “U-City Strategy for Greener City”, Lower Carbon Green City Symposium, Ministry of Environment, Korea, 27th August 2009.
Kim, J.S. “The U-City Shaped: The Experience of Samsung in Developing Ubiquitous City Projects”, 5th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology Al Ain, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, 16th-18th December, 2008.
Kim, J.S. “U-City Future Strategy”, Samsung SDS U-City Seminar, August 2009
Kim, J.S. “Ubiquitous City: Business Models, Service Values and Implementation Issues”, International Conference on u-City 2008, Seoul Korea. 30th-31st October 2008.
Kim, J.S. “Collaborative Partnerships in Revitalising Watersides: The Experience of the Mersey Basin Campaign”, Poster presentation in the Planning Research Conference 2001, Liverpool, UK, 9th-11th April 2001.
Grants
NSFC-Joint Programme Initiative-Urban Europe, Financing Clean Air (CI, 1.9 million RMB, April 2019)
XJTLU Research Development Fund, Smart City Challenges: towards a holistic approach to the development of smart cities in China (PI, RDF-16-01-36, Dec. 2016)
EU Higher Education Mobility Erasmus+ HE Staff Mobility Agreement for Teaching, 2016
Suzhou Social Science Planning Programme, 2016, Mapping Suzhou’s Digital Tourism Identity in Social Media: a Smart Tourism Approach for a Unique International Tourism Identity (PI, Y2016LX044)
XJTLU IIH-RISGC Research Grant, Smart Urban Agriculture for SIP 4.0: an innovative approach towards the sustainable transformation of Suzhou Industrial Park (PI, IIH-RISGC)
XJTLU RISGC Research Seed Grant Programme, Feasibility Assessment and Roadmap for XJTLU Campus Information and Visitor Service System as A Test Bed for Large-Scale Location-Aware Services in SIP (CI, RISGC-2017-4)
XJTLU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), 2017: Effective Information Visualization of Museum Visitor Behaviour and Movement Data with Edge Bundling and Curved Lines (CI, 11,500RMB)
XJTLU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), 2017: More than a Buzzword: mapping the strategic significances in the online communication of contemporary urban governance (PI, 10,000RMB)
XJTLU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), 2016: Sense of Place in the Digital Age: analyzing social media for urban planning (PI, 10,000RMB)
XJTLU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), 2015: Stakeholders analysis in urban heritage regeneration: conflicts and cooperative potentials (CI, 10,000RMB)
XJTLU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), 2015: Participatory design approach to smart cities: strengthening a sense of community using intelligent technologies (PI, 10,000RMB)
XJTLU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), 2014: Mapping ‘Lost Space’ within inner-city shopping areas: spatial correlations between the attractiveness of urban facilities and pedestrian route choices (PI, 10,000RMB)
XJTLU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), 2013: Towards a Smart Future of the Industrial Park Development in China: A Smart City Approach to Transformation Strategies of the SIP, Suzhou, China (PI, 9,600RMB)
Professional service activities
Editorial Board, Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, 2018 to Present
Special Issue Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, Special Issue on Comprehensive Watershed Management: Sustainability, Technology, and Policy
Referee, Town Planning Review, 2012-Present.
Referee, Journal of Regional and City Planning, 2019-Present
Academic Committee, SUR-Smart, Urban, Regeneration, Magazine of CA-Group, 2016 to Present
Courses taught
UPD204 Geographic Information Systems
UPD207 Spatial Design and the Built Environment I
UPD303 Environment and Planning
UPD305 Final Year Project and Dissertation
Professional memberships
Chartered Member, The Royal Town Planning Institute, UK, 2021 to Present
Member, Korea Planning Association, Korea, 2019 to Present
Fellow, The Higher Education Academy, UK, 2015 to Present
Senior Engineer Member, Korea Construction Engineers Association, Korea, 2003 to Present
Awards and honours
2021 Outstanding Achievement Award of Applied Social Science Research (2nd Prize), Jiangsu Association of Philosophy and Social Sciences
2017 Outstanding Achievement Award of Applied Social Science Project (2nd Prize), Suzhou Association of Philosophy and Social Science
2013 XJTLU Outstanding Teacher Prize, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
1998 British Government Scholarship, UK Government
1996 Korean Urban Planning Institute Award, Korean Urban Planning Institute
