Minjee Kim
@minjeekim.bsky.social
Assistant professor at UCLA urban planning https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/minjee-kim / formerly at FSU / land use regulation and zoning / real estate development
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Minjee Kim
@minjeekim.bsky.social
· May 22
Building Inequality or Inclusion? Demographic Diversity and Housing Affordability in Florida’s Planned Communities
Building planned communities on greenfield sites has long been a primary strategy for mass-producing housing in cities and nations worldwide. In the United States, however, these planned communitie...
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New towns are back as a fix for housing affordability, from California Forever to "Freedom Cities." But US planned communities carry a long history of engineered exclusion. So who actually lives in them today, and what shapes that?
@houspoldebate.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1051...
@houspoldebate.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1051...
New towns are back as a fix for housing affordability, from California Forever to "Freedom Cities." But US planned communities carry a long history of engineered exclusion. So who actually lives in them today, and what shapes that?
@houspoldebate.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1051...
@houspoldebate.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1051...
Building Inequality or Inclusion? Demographic Diversity and Housing Affordability in Florida’s Planned Communities
Building planned communities on greenfield sites has long been a primary strategy for mass-producing housing in cities and nations worldwide. In the United States, however, these planned communitie...
doi.org
May 22, 2026 at 9:13 PM
New towns are back as a fix for housing affordability, from California Forever to "Freedom Cities." But US planned communities carry a long history of engineered exclusion. So who actually lives in them today, and what shapes that?
@houspoldebate.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1051...
@houspoldebate.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1051...
Here is my take on the state of rebuilding after the 2025 LA fires.
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One year after the Palisades and Eaton fires, what comes next for Los Angeles? We sat down with Professor Minjee Kim to discuss what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what rebuilding for equity and… | UCLA ...
One year after the Palisades and Eaton fires, what comes next for Los Angeles? We sat down with Professor Minjee Kim to discuss what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what rebuilding for equity and resilien...
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January 29, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Here is my take on the state of rebuilding after the 2025 LA fires.
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If you are wondering who decides where and for what purposes redevelopment resources are distributed and who benefits from these decisions, you found your happy place!
Here is my publication in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Here is my publication in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you are wondering who decides where and for what purposes redevelopment resources are distributed and who benefits from these decisions, you found your happy place!
Here is my publication in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Here is my publication in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Minjee Kim
Students in @minjeekim.bsky.social Site Planning Studio partnered with Solano Canyon residents to make the neighborhood more fire resilient. This new report on that effort is a model for community engaged planning across LA.
Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...
Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...
Fire Resilient LA: Solano Canyon
The January fires highlight urgent questions: Should we keep building in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) amid worsening climate disasters, and how can we protect the homes already there?
www.lewis.ucla.edu
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Students in @minjeekim.bsky.social Site Planning Studio partnered with Solano Canyon residents to make the neighborhood more fire resilient. This new report on that effort is a model for community engaged planning across LA.
Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...
Read below!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/fir...
Sharing a new Open Access article just published in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA), urging planning programs to "Bring Zoning Back Into the Planning Curricula."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bring Zoning Back Into the Planning Curricula
Zoning is central to the practice of planning, but planning programs rarely forefront zoning’s exclusionary history and its implications for inequities when teaching about it. We created a multi-ca...
www.tandfonline.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Sharing a new Open Access article just published in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA), urging planning programs to "Bring Zoning Back Into the Planning Curricula."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Brand new to Bluesky and I am excited to be featuring my first theoretical thought experiment published at Planning theory as the first official post on the platform journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Brand new to Bluesky and I am excited to be featuring my first theoretical thought experiment published at Planning theory as the first official post on the platform journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...