Dr. In Kwon Park, AICP, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of City and Regional
Planning and Economics

Contact Information:
Office: 401 Cooper St. Room #205
Phone: 856-225-2995
Email: ipark@camden.rutgers.edu

Education:
Ph.D. in Planning, The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
Dissertation: Essays on a City's Assets: Agglomeration Economies and Legacy Capital
M.A. in Economics, The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
M.C.R.P., Planning, The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
M.C.P., Planning, Seoul National University – Seoul, Korea
B.S. in Physics, Seoul National University – Seoul, Korea

Research Interests:
Urban Economics
Agglomeration Economies
Regional Economic Development
GIS and Land Use
Applied Econometrics

Teaching:
Econ 330: Urban Economics pdf
PPA 501: Foundations of Policy Analysis
PPA 705: Regional and Economic Development pdf
PPA 608: GIS for Public Sector pdf

Publications:
Park, In Kwon and Burkhard von Rabenau, "Disentangling Agglomeration Economies: Agents, Sources, and Spatial Dependence" Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming.

Sonn, Jung Won and In Kwon Park, "The Increasing Importance of Agglomeration Economies Hidden behind Convergence: Geography of Knowledge Production," Urban Studies, forthcoming.

Park, In Kwon, "Local autonomy and conflicts over state projects: The case of the Yeonggwang nuclear power plants," Critical Planning: Journal of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning 12, 77-90, 2005.

Park, In Kwon and Heon-Joo Park, "Estimating the impacts of pension houses on the local economy," Housing Studies Review 12(2), 185-212, 2004.

Park, In Kwon, "Integrating spatial planning and environmental policy in the region: Lessons from an integrated area-specific approach in the Netherlands," The Korea Spatial Planning Review 36, 3-18, 2003.

Park, In Kwon, "Italian regional issues and related policies: Focused on uneven development and centralization," Journal of Regional Studies 11(1), 85-109, 2003.

Papers Presented at Conferences
Park, In Kwon, "Why does a city's reinvention occur slowly? Modeling the redevelopment of a run-down area," Western Regional Science Association 50th Anniversary Meeting, Monterey, California, March, 2011

Park, In Kwon, Burkhard von Rabenau, "A City's Assets and Path Dependence of Growth." 51th Anniversary ACSP Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 2010

Park, In Kwon, Burkhard von Rabenau, "The New Economy and Vulnerable Industrial and Commercial Properties." 50th Anniversary ACSP Conference, Crystal City, Virginia, October, 2009

Park, In Kwon, Burkhard von Rabenau, "Industrial restructuring, legacy capital, and urban growth," 55th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Brooklyn, New York, November 2008.

Park, In Kwon, Burkhard von Rabenau, "Urban decline, legacy capital, and agglomeration economies," 4th AESOP-ACSP Joint Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 2008.

Park, In Kwon, Burkhard von Rabenau, "Regional wages, rents, and agglomeration economies," 48th ACSP Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2007.