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Selected as the university to carry out the Innovative Human Resources Development project for Smart City in 2019 (from 2019 to 2023) by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA), Seoul National University plans to carry forward the training of core professionals necessary for industrial revitalization and expansion to the overseas market with the specialized education program reflecting the need of the smart city industry. In order to train the core professionals, we have newly set up the Smart City Engineering Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and enhanced the linkage with the undergraduate courses by utilizing diversity of the participating professors of seven Departments (Dept. of the Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of the Computer Science and Engineering, Dept. of the Architecture and Architectural Engineering, etc.). *The number of participating professors will be increased in the future.

Kwon, Young-Sang Professor

Urban Design Laboratory

+82-2-880-7374 35-425

Urban Design is a sophisticated interdisciplinary field that encompass urban planning, civil and transportation engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, public design, real estate development, humanities, urban policy and other specialties in order to make better human settlement. It concerns with the creation of the three-dimensional physical layout of human settlements and their integral parts. It is an art of not only relating one set of professional concerns to other sets, but also attaining a multitude of ends simultaneously. These ends range from the provision of urban space for various built environment to the soundness of the historical and biological environments. Because of these overlapping tasks, urban designers are required to master the relevant knowledge about those related fields. In this sense, students are encourages to take some courses to related fields. Recently, a research emphasis is placed on site planning, human settlement, urban regeneration, new town and foreign urban development, urban sustainability and resilience, historical and cultural space, waterfront, how to improve urban landscape and to formulate better urban design model.

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