Placemaking: People, Place, and Planning in Urban Environments

You are cordially invited to attend the research seminar by Eunah Jung:

Date: 17 Sept 2024

Time: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Venue: SDE3 Level 4 LT 421

Placemaking: People, Place, and Planning in Urban Environments

Dr. Eunah Jung’s presentation will share lessons learned from her series of empirical research projects on place-based urban and environmental policies and practices. The main focus will be on two of her recent studies, which explore diverse dimensions of urban public and green spaces. The first study addresses environmental justice issues related to green space provisions in New York City neighborhoods. By employing latent profile analysis, this research identifies the diversity of neighborhood types in which green spaces, particularly parks, are either concentrated or sparsely distributed across different segments of society in New York City.

The second study explores the influences urban landscapes and public spaces offer to human cognitive and behavioral features, in response to environmental changes and challenges, using digital humanities techniques with social media data. The study analyzes how people’s overall sentiment polarities expressed in tweets within public spaces—either publicly or privately owned public spaces—vary before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared with sentiments generated outside of those public spaces in Manhattan, New York City. These works have been published or are currently under review in Landscape and Urban Planning and the Journal of Urban Affairs, respectively.

Dr. Eunah Jung is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Population Studies and Training Center and the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences research initiative at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Landscape and Architecture from Seoul National University in South Korea. Her research expertise lies in the evaluation of place-based urban planning and design practices (placemaking), environmental changes, and neighborhood dynamics, mainly focusing on how, where, and to whom they and their influences are distributed across different groups of society.

 Throughout her academic journey, Dr. Jung has participated in a variety of research projects that address these broad questions in various forms, employing quantitative and geospatial analyses and data science technologies, across multidimensional viewpoints and spatiotemporal scales. Her work has been published in esteemed journals, including Landscape and Urban Planning, Habitat International, and the Journal of Urban Affairs, among others.