Annette Kim
Ford International Career Development Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning
Room 9-539
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: annette@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 324-6135
Current Research
substantive areas: property rights reforms; affordable housing; spatial analysis; social cognition in international economic development.
geographic areas: Eastern European and Asian transition countries, North Korea
Selected Publications
'Learning' to be Capitalists: entrepreneurs in Vietnam's transition economy. 2008. Oxford University Press.
'North versus South: the impact of social norms in the market pricing of private property rights in Vietnam,' World Development, 2007, 35(12): 20792095.
"Takings in the Twenty-first Century: comparisons of urban land development controversies in the US, China, and Vietnam," Cityscape, 2009, 11(1): 19-32.
"Beyond New Institutionalism: future directions for planning theory," in Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. New York: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming 2010).
"The Role of Property Rights Reforms in Warsaw's Housing Market," in The Urban Mosaic of Post-socialist Europe, edited by Tsenkova, S. and Nedovic-Budic, Z. 2006. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
"A Market Without the 'Right' Property Rights: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's newly emerged private real estate market" in Economics of Transition, 2004, 12(2): 275-306.
"Land Management Reforms in Transition Economies," in Land Reform Process in the Post-Communist Countries, 1996, Seoul: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.
Recent Classes
11.467J Property Rights in Transition Fall
11.483 Housing & Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions Fall 09
11.484 Project Appraisal in Developing Countries Spring
11.485 Planning In Transition Economies Spring
11.487 Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries Fall 09
11.944 Housing Markets, Policies and Plans Spring
Recent Awards
Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for the Best Dissertation in Planning
Additional Information
Annette M. Kim received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of California, Berkeley in City and Regional Planning as well as a concurrent M.A. in Visual Studies; a M.P.P. in 1995 from Harvard University in public policy and urban planning; and in 1990 a B.A. in Architecture and Studio Art from Wellesley College. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, the World Bank, African and Asian governments, as well as community-based NGOs. Professionally, she worked as an architect of low-income housing and construction project manager of commercial projects in the United States.
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