Kim is founding director of the Center for Community Renewal and its Institute, created February 2014. He guides the ongoing development and replication support for Community Renewal, an actualized model and movement that systematically grows social capital citywide as a new network asset, the relational foundation. The model provides a means to consider community as a whole system; and a means to grow people to their potential wholeness, individually and collectively, through positive relationships.
His 40-year professional adventures in architecture and city planning began after Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from Louisiana Tech University. His graduate work included sociology and research in sustainable design, topics that informed his architecture and planning career. Kim is a tireless advocate for design and systems thinking, meaningful community engagement, historic preservation and local economies.
