About

Min Park is an urban policy researcher. She studies how planning systems, land and housing policy shape who gets to use and enjoy the city, and what everyday life feels like in the places those decisions produce.

She trained first as an architect in Seoul, then as a planner in London, and still works a little like both: reading policy documents and walking the sites they describe. Her methods move between comparative policy analysis, GIS, interviews, archives and quantitative frameworks, but she has never believed cities can be understood from a desk alone.

Her recent work includes Green Belts 2.0, an international study of green belt governance with the Urban Frontiers Foundation and C40 Cities; research on publicness in privately owned public spaces in London and Seoul; and policy work on UK planning reform for Korean public institutions, including MOLIT, LH and KRIHS.

She is now turning to the large apartment estates of Seoul, starting with Mokdong, a neighbourhood she has known for most of her life. These estates house millions of people, and she wants to understand how they came to look the way they do, and what they could become.

Outside research, she art directs MPLAN Mag, an independent planning publication from the Bartlett, and keeps a camera close. Some of what she sees ends up in Observations.

Master of City Planning, University College London. BArch, Yonsei University. Based in London, with roots in Seoul.