Ayoung Woo Ph.D., Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Texas A&M University, MS 3137 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-3137 (Cell) 979-587-9397, (E-mail) awoo@arch.tamu.edu EDUCATION: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, College Station, Texas [August 2010 - May 2014] Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Sciences, GPA (3.92/4.00) - Dissertation Title: Siting of Subsidized Housing in Neighborhoods: Assessing Economic, Neighborhood, and Social Equity Impacts - Advisor: Dr. Shannon Van Zandt - Committee Members: Drs. Kenneth Joh, Jesse Saginor, and Dudley Poston SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Seoul, Korea [March 2003 - February 2005] Master of Urban Planning, GPA (3.87/4.30) - Thesis Title: Effects of Social Mix with Public Rental Housing on Neighborhood Housing Prices - Winner, Best Thesis Award in Housing-City Dissertation Competition, Citizens for Decent Housing, 2005 - Advisor: Dr. Mackjoong Choi - Committee Members: Drs. Seongsoo Kim and Sangcheol Choi HANYANG UNIVERSITY, Seoul, Korea [March 1998 - August 2002] Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning and Engineering, GPA (4.02/4.50) - Completed the Eight Semester Coursework in Six Semesters (1999-2001: GPA: 4.02/4.50) ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE: 2014 - Present Full-time Lecturer, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 2010-2014 Research Assistant, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Ayoung Woo 1
- Examining Trends in Walking Travel in Southern California, 2001-2009: Insights from National Household and Regional Travel Surveys, Literature review, data coding, and statistical analyses, especially through t-tests, OLS (Ordinary Least Squares), and fixed effects regression models. - Assessing Benefits of Walkability to Single Family Property Values: A Hedonic Study in Austin, Texas, funded by the Texas Department of Transportation (PI: Dr. Wei Li), $31,170, 2012-2013, Literature review, data collection, and data coding. - Multifamily Housing and Walkable Neighborhoods: Assessing Economic and Social Equity Impacts, funded by the Texas Department of Transportation (PI: Dr. Wei Li), $31,170, 2012-2013, Literature review, data collection, and data coding. - Assessing Economic Benefits of Walkability to Rental Housing Values in Austin, Texas, funded by the Texas Department of Transportation (PI: Dr. Wei Li), $31,170, 2012-2013, Literature review, data collection, data coding, and statistical analyses using the spatial hedonic price model. 2008 2010 Researcher, Environmental Planning Institute of Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea - Qualitative Study of Urban Decline of Korean Cities and Urban Regeneration of Foreign Countries, funded by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (PI: Dr. Mackjoong Choi), $250,000, 2008-2012, Helped develop research frameworks and conduct empirical approaches through the logistics regression model. 2005 2008 Team Head Engineer, Cheil Engineering Urban Planning Division, Seoul, Korea - Urban Redevelopment Plan of the Singil District, Seoul, Project Revenue: $800,000 - Urban Redevelopment Plan of the Gwanak District, Seoul, Project Revenue: $1,000,000 - Urban Redevelopment Plan of the Sinam District, Daegu City, Project Revenue: $1,000,000 - Urban Redevelopment Plan of the Janggyo District, Seoul, Project Revenue: $500,000 - District Unit Plan of the Sokdal District in Gunpo City, Gyeonggi Province, Project Revenue: $400,000 - District Unit Plan of the Okgye District in Yeoncheon District, Gyeonggi Province, Project Revenue: $400,000 Ayoung Woo 2
- District Unit Plan for Migration Complex for Residents in Duryu District, Gyeongju City, North Gyeongsang Province, Project Revenue: $300,000 - Master Plan for Gwangjin-gu (Great Gwangjin Design Project), Seoul, Project Revenue: $500,000 - Master Plan for Washington Times Aviation (WTA) Industrial Complex in Gimpo City, Gyeonggi Province, Project Revenue: $1,000,000 - Feasibility Analyses of Development in the South Seashore Tourism Belt in Korea, Jeollanamdo Province, Project Revenue: $300,000 - Feasibility Analyses of Urban Planning Facilities and Comprehensive Plan in the Sewoon Commercial District, Seoul, Project Revenue: $350,000 - Feasibility Analyses of Urban Development in the Muahn District, Jeollanamdo Province, Project Revenue: $200,000 - Feasibility Analyses of Urban Development in the Yongyu-Mui Districts, Incheon City, Project Revenue: $400,000 - Construction of UPZine (Urban Planning Magazine) for Practical Application. 2002-2003 Research Assistant, Urban and Regional Planning, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea - The Plan for Renewal the Wangsip-ri District, Seoul. funded by the Ministry of Construction and Transportation (PI: Dr. Mackjoong Choi), $150,000, 2002-2004, Worked on data collection and coding. 2000-2001 Intern, Samsung Engineering and Construction, Seoul, Korea - Master Plan for the Banpo Apartment Complex Redevelopment, Seoul. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES ACCEPTED/PUBLISHED: Ayoung Woo and Kenneth Joh (2015), Beyond Anecdotal Evidence: Does Subsidized Housing Development Increase Neighborhood Crime? Applied Geography (Forthcoming). Ayoung Woo and Young-Jae Kim (2015), Spatial Location of Place-Based Subsidized Households and Uneven Geography of Opportunities: Case of Austin, Texas in the U.S., Community Development (Forthcoming). Ayoung Woo, Kenneth Joh, and Shannon Van Zandt (2015), Unpacking the Impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program on Nearby Property Values, Urban Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0042098015593448. Ayoung Woo 3
Ayoung Woo, Kenneth Joh, and Shannon Van Zandt (2014), Impacts of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program on Neighborhood Housing Turnover, Urban Affairs Review, DOI: 10.1177/1078087414561824. Ayoung Woo (2015), Analysis of Research Trends Examining the Impacts of Subsidized Housing Developments on Nearby Property Values in the U.S.: A Critical Review on Empirical Methodologies, Journal of Korea Real Estate Analysts Association, 21(2), 71-82. Wei Li, Kenneth Joh, Chanam Lee, Jun-Hyun Kim, Han Park, and Ayoung Woo (2015), Assessing Benefits of Walkability to Single Family Property Values: A Spatial Hedonic Study in Austin, Texas, Journal of Planning Education and Research, DOI: 10.1177/0739456X15591055. Kenneth Joh, Sandip Chakrabarti, Marlon Boarnet, and Ayoung Woo (2015), The Walking Renaissance: A Longitudinal Analysis of Walking Travel in the Greater Los Angeles Area, USA, Sustainability, 7, 8985-9011. Wei Li, Kenneth Joh, Chanam Lee, Jun-Hyun Kim, Han Park, and Ayoung Woo (2014), From Car-Dependent Neighborhoods to Walkers Paradise: Estimating Walkability Premiums in the Condominium Housing Market, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2453, 162-170. Ayoung Woo and Namseok Ji (2009), Effects of the New-Town Projects as District Designation on Multi-family Housing Prices of Adjacent Areas: The Case Study of the New-Town Districts in Seoul, Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea, 25(8), 233-242. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW AND REVISION: Ayoung Woo and Sugie Lee (2015), Illuminating the Impacts of Brownfield Redevelopments on Neighboring Housing Prices: Case of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Environment and Planning A, Revised and Resubmitted (1st Review Decision: Mildly Positive), This article is the winner of the Real Estate Valuation manuscript prize presented at the 2015 American Real Estate Society (ARES) Annual Meeting. Young-Jae Kim and Ayoung Woo, Natural Environmental Conditions of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Subsidized Households: A Case Study of Austin, Texas, Sustainability, Revised and Resubmitted. Ayoung Woo 4
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES WORK IN PROGRESS: Ayoung Woo, Spillover Effects of Subsidized Housing on Neighboring Property Values: A Critical Review of the Literature, Working paper to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals. Ayoung Woo, Subsidized Housing and Neighborhood Walkability: Examining Spatial Disparities for Subsidized Households in Walkable Neighborhood Amenities, Working paper to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals. Ayoung Woo, Kenneth Joh, and Marlon Boarnet, Subsidized Housing and Public Transportation Opportunities in Neighborhoods: Case of the Greater Los Angeles Area, Working paper to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals. Ayoung Woo, Shannon Van Zandt, and Kenneth Joh, The Role of Planners in Severing the Vicious Circle of Residential Segregation and Inequality of Opportunity: Estimating the Spatial Location of Subsidized Housing for the Geography of Opportunities, Working paper to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Spring 2015 Instructor, URPN 201: The Evolving City (Undergraduate Core) - This course helps students to understand key design, social, economic, political, and technological forces that shape city form and its ramification for urban and regional planning. - Student Enrollment: 30 Spring 2015 Instructor, URPN 361: Urban Issues (Undergraduate Core) - This course helps students to be familiar with various planning theories and perspectives on urban development and urban life, especially in terms of the evolution and development of cities, socioeconomic, cultural, and physical development of urban areas, and their contemporary problems such as unemployment and poverty, crime, public health, housing, residential segregation, and other quality of life issues. - Student Enrollment: 39 Ayoung Woo 5
Fall 2014 Instructor, PLAN 610: Structure and Function of Urban Settlements (Graduate Core) - This course introduces students to forces that originated and shaped urban areas, especially in terms of transportation and urban form, urban sprawl, housing policy, uneven geography of opportunities, economy and urban form, and discussion of cities for a sustainable future. - Student Enrollment: 30 - Student Evaluation: 4.7/5.0 Fall 2014 Instructor, URPN 201: The Evolving City (Undergraduate Core) - Student Enrollment: 25 - Student Evaluation: 4.8/5.0 Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant, URPN 370: Health System Planning - This course introduces students to strategic planning process at the community and organizational levels, different models of "health," demographics, and many other pressures impacting health and health care in the U.S. - Instructor: Dr. Dean Boyd - Course Format: Classroom lecture - Student Enrollment: 138 Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant, URPN 301: Urban and Regional Planning (Undergraduate Core) - This course introduces students to contemporary issues of urbanization, past influences and current practice of public planning in the U.S., the tools, techniques and challenges of being a planner, issues that affect planning, concepts related to the planning process, as well as the various fields of planning. - Instructor: Dr. Youngho Ko - Student Enrollment: 25 Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant, URPN 370: Health System Planning - Instructor: Dr. Dean Boyd - Course Format: Classroom lecture Ayoung Woo 6
- Student Enrollment: 83 Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant, PLAN 673: Design for Sustainable Transportation (Graduate Core) - This course introduces an overview of sustainable transportation policy and planning, with an emphasis on the environmental impacts of transportation and the role of active transit in sustainable cities. - Instructor: Dr. Kenneth Joh - Student Enrollment: 32 Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, PLAN 604: Planning Method I (Graduate Core) - This course helps students to understand quantitative research methodology, various statistical models, and techniques for data collection. - Instructor: Dr. Kenneth Joh - Course Format: Classroom lecture and lab exercise - Student Enrollment: 28 Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant, PLAN 673: Design for Sustainable Transportation (Graduate Core) - Instructor: Dr. Kenneth Joh - Student Enrollment: 24 Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant, PLAN 604: Planning Method I (Graduate Core) - Instructor: Dr. Kenneth Joh - Course Format: Classroom lecture and lab exercise - Student Enrollment: 31 Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, PLAN 604: Planning Method I (Graduate Core) - Instructor: Dr. Kenneth Joh - Course Format: Classroom lecture and lab exercise - Student Enrollment: 30 Ayoung Woo 7
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: Ayoung Woo (presenter), Kenneth Joh and Marlon Boarnet, Subsidized Housing and Public Transportation Opportunities in Neighborhoods: Case of the Greater Los Angeles Area. Paper will be presented at The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 55th Annual Conference, Houston, TX, October 22-25, 2015. [full paper and oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter) and Sugie Lee, Illuminating the Impacts of Brownfield Redevelopments on Neighboring Housing Prices: Case of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Paper presented at The American Real Estate Society (ARES) Annual Meeting, Fort Myers, FL, April 14-18, 2015. [full paper and oral presentation], This paper is the winner of the Real Estate Valuation manuscript prize (sponsored by the Appraisal Institute) presented at the 2015 ARES Annual Meeting. Ayoung Woo (presenter), Shannon Van Zandt, and Kenneth Joh, The Role of Planners in Severing the Vicious Circle of Residential Segregation and Inequality of Opportunity. Paper presented at The Urban Affairs Association (UAA) 44th Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 19-22, 2014. [abstract and oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), Shannon Van Zandt, and Kenneth Joh, Does Assisted Housing Have Significant Ramifications for Neighborhood Stability? Paper presented at The 60th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Atlanta, GA, November 13-16, 2013. [full paper and oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), The Impacts of Assisted Housing Programs on Neighborhood Stability. Paper presented at The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Ph.D. Workshop, Cambridge, MA, August 8-10, 2013. [abstract and oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), The Impacts of Assisted Housing Programs on Neighborhood Stability. Paper presented at The Urban Affairs Association (UAA) 43rd Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 3-6, 2013. [abstract and oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), The Impacts of Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values. Paper presented at The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 53rd Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 15-19, 2012. [full paper and oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), The Impacts of Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values. Poster Ayoung Woo 8
exhibited at The GIS Day 2012 Poster Exhibition, Texas A&M University Library, November 13-14, 2012. [Poster and oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), The Impacts of Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values. Paper presented at The Urban Affairs Association (UAA) 42nd Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 18-21, 2012. [abstract and oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), The Plan to Assume from the Urban Renewal Project Profits. Paper presented at The Korean Professional Urban Planners Association (PUPA), 2007. [oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), The Significance of the Built Environment Redevelopment Act and Potential Improvements. Paper presented at The Korean Professional Urban Planners Association (PUPA), 2006. [oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), Special Act for Accelerating Urban Redvelopment: Issues and Potential for Improvement. Paper presented at The Korean Professional Urban Planners Association (PUPA), 2006. [oral presentation] Ayoung Woo (presenter), Effects of Social Mix with Public Rental Housing on Housing Prices. Paper presented at The Citizens for Decent Housing (CiDeH), 2005. [full paper and oral presentation] INVITED PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS, AND LECTURES: Guest Lecturer, Impacts of Subsidized Housing on Nearby Property Values: Difference-in-Differences Specification Study, School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Korea, August 18, 2015. Guest Lecturer, Sprawl, Segregation, and Housing Policy in the U.S., Urban Issues (URPN 361, Undergraduate Core Course), Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, Fall 2014. Guest Lecturer, Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planning, Planning Method I (PLAN 604, Graduate Core Course), Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, Fall 2014. Guest Lecturer, Section 202 Supportive Housing Program for Low-income Elderly Populations, Health System Planning (URPN 370), Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, Fall 2014. Ayoung Woo 9
Guest Lecturer, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Developments and Neighborhood Spillover Effects, Department of Environmental Planning, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, July 26, 2014. Guest Lecturer, Impacts of Subsidized Housing on Nearby Property Values: Difference-in-Differences Specification Study, Korea Planners Association, Seoul, Korea, July 25, 2014. Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Urban Planning: The Role of Urban Planners, International Summer Semester, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, July 11, 2014. Guest Lecturer, Impacts of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Developments on Surrounding Neighborhoods, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, July 9, 2014. Guest Lecturer, Impacts of Subsidized Housing on Nearby Property Values: Difference-in-Differences Specification Study, Department of Urban Planning, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, June 24, 2014. HONORS, AWARDS AND SCHOLOARSHIPS: August 2015 Winner of the Real Estate Valuation Manuscript Prize (sponsored by the Appraisal Institute), American Real Estate Society (ARES) May 2015 Fall 2013 Funded Project for New International Scholar, Land & Housing Institute (LHI), Korea Community Resilience Scholarship from the Center for Housing and Urban Development, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University Summer 2013 Spring 2013 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Ph.D. Workshop Scholarship, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Department Head Award (The Recognition of Academic Excellency and Exemplary Leadership), College of Architecture, Texas A&M University Fall 2010 - Spring 2014 Spring 2005 Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (LAUP) Graduate Assistantship, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University Best Thesis Award in Housing-City Dissertation Competition, Citizens for Decent Housing (CiDeH), Seoul, Korea Fall 2004 Seoul National University Scholarship (Academic Excellency), Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University Ayoung Woo 10
Spring 2004 National Science and Engineering Grant, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, Seoul, Korea Spring 2003 Seoul National University Scholarship (Academic Excellency), Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University Spring 2001 Hanyang University Scholarship (Excellent Record(C), Third on the List), Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Hanyang University Fall 2000 Hanyang University Scholarship (Excellent Record(B), Second on the List), Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Hanyang University Fall 1999 Hanyang University Scholarship (Excellent Record(B), Second on the List), Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Hanyang University ACTIVITIES: 2014 - Present PLAN Advisory Committee, Texas A&M University - Member of the Urban Planning Advisory Committee 2014 - Present Lecture Series Committee, Texas A&M University - Member of the Department Lecture Series Committee 2012-2013 Urban and Regional Science Student Organization (URSSO), Texas A&M University - President of the Urban and Regional Science Student Organization - Developing and hosting the first Ph.D. Students Brown Bag Presentation Series (Research Colloquiums) - Hosting and preparing an alumni meeting and social events 2000-2001 Urban Engineering Student Organization, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea - President of the Urban Engineering Student Organization PROFESSIONAL STRENGTH: ECONOMETRICS / STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: - STATA (professional), SPSS (professional), SAS (intermediate), HLM (professional) Ayoung Woo 11
OTHER COMPTUTER TOOLS: - ArcGIS (professional), AutoCAD (professional), Adobe Photoshop (professional), Adobe Illustrator (professional), Camtasia Studio 8 (professional) TEACHING CERTIFICATE: - Graduate Teaching Academy (GTA) Fellow at Texas A&M University Ayoung Woo 12