• Housing and Land Use
• International Development Planning
• Art and Culture Placemaking
• Urban Spatial Data and Visualization
Annette M. Kim, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy. She is also the Director of SLAB, the spatial analysis laboratory at USC Price that advances the visualization of the social sciences for public service through teaching, research, and public engagement. She also holds a courtesy appointment at the USC Roski School of Art and Design.
Her research experiments with ways to recover data of overlooked peoples and phenomenon by incorporating fieldwork and humanities knowledge into spatial analysis. She utilizes critical cartography and spatial ethnography to re-conceptualize contemporary urbanism and find more inclusive and humane ways to design and govern the 21st century city. 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 Sidewalk City: Re-Mapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transition Economy (Oxford University Press, 2008), translated into Vietnamese in 2022 by Nha Nam Press.
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.
Presentation at Federal Reserve Board of Governors Community Development Research Seminar
UCLA Lewis Center Podcast about Community Land Trusts
UN Habitat Quito
Media coverage around Beijing Underground Housing Research project
Roski School of Art and Design
USC Department of American Studies and Ethnicity
USC Equity Research Institute
Annenberg Innovation Lab
Annenberg Research Network on International Communication
Center for Transpacific Studies
Lusk Center for Real Estate