Annette Kim

Annette Kim is an American academic and urban planner.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Kim is an associate professor at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy, and Director of the Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB).^[6][7][8] Kim previously served as associate professor at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning.^[9]

Annette Miae Kim
Occupation	Associate Professor
Academic background
Education	Wellesley College (BA) Harvard University (MA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)
Thesis	Making a Market: The Institutions Supporting Ho Chi Minh City's Urban Land Development Market (2002)
Academic work
Discipline	Housing and Land Use International Development Planning Art and Culture Placemaking Urban Spatial Data and Visualization
Institutions	USC Price School of Public Policy Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kim has commented extensively on the sidewalk economy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and on the recent sidewalk clearing campaign led by the District 1 People's Committee.^{[10][11][12][13]} Kim published Sidewalk City: Re-mapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City in 2015, which presented an ethnography of public space in Ho Chi Minh City that provides usage to pedestrians and street vendors alike.^{[14][15][16][17][18]}

Publications

• Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam's transition economy (2008)^[19]
• Sidewalk City: Re-mapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City (2015)^[20]