Amaryllis Park

Obtaining her bachelor and master’s degrees in architecture along with her professional design experience in the field, Amaryllis Park earned her doctorate in urban and regional science from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. She has developed her passion for the relationship between neighborhood environments and children’s everyday activities within, understanding that the role of architects and planners is not just to provide environments that physically support people but also to consider combined environmental factors, such as general societal perceptions and social variables.

In her doctoral research, Park seeks to add new empirical evidence about environment-mobility and health relationships among children by connecting the aspects of neighborhoods (or context), which contribute to spatial disparity issues (e.g., in distance to green space or in coverage of green space) by income and race/ethnicity. She is currently involved in two National Institutes of Health-funded projects in Texas, focused on active living conditions within the city neighborhoods.

• B.S. in Architectural Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
• M.S. in Architecture, Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea)
• Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas)

• LARCH 65: Built Environment and Culture

• Dongying Li, Chanam Lee, Amaryllis H. Park*, Hanwool Lee, and Yizhen Ding (under review). Contextual and Environmental Factors that Influence Health: A Within-Subjects Field Experiment Protocol. Frontiers in Public Health.
• Chanam Lee, Amaryllis H. Park*, Hanwool Lee, Gregory Bratman, Steve Hankey, and Dongying Li (under review). Measuring Urban Nature for Pedestrian Health: Systematic Review and Expert Survey. Landscape and Urban Planning.
• Yang Song, Sungmin Lee, Amaryllis H. Park, and Chanam Lee (in press). COVID-19 impacts on non-work travel patterns: A place-based investigation using smartphone mobility data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.
• Amaryllis H. Park, Sinan Zhong, Haoyue Yang, and Jiwoon Jeong, and Chanam Lee (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on Physical Activity: A Rapid Review. Journal of Global Health, 12.
• Jinhee Park, Amaryllis H. Park, and Sohyun Park (2016). Interpreting Open Spaces of a Car-free Apartment Complex through Children’s Outdoor Activities: A Case Study based on Lower Grade Elementary Students’ GPS Data in Jamsil Redevelopment Site. Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design, 32(9), 109-120.
• Amaryllis H. Park, Jinhee Park, and Sohyun Park (2016). Types of Children’s Play Spaces and Their Route Characteristics in a Residential Neighborhood: Based on Travel Logs and GPS Data of Buk-chon’s Elemetary School Students in Grade 1-3. Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design, 32(2), 191-202.

• Amaryllis H. Park and Yizhen Ding (2022). Indicators of Healthy Community for Children: A Systematic Review. Children & Nature Network’s 2022 Inside-Out International Conference.
• Chanam Lee, Amaryllis H. Park, Hanwool Lee, Dongying Li, Steven Hankey, Gregory Bratman (2022). Urban Nature and Active Living: Theoretical and methodological insights. Oral and poster presentation at XV World Forestry Congress 2022.
• Chanam Lee, Amaryllis H. Park, Hanwool Lee, and Dongying Li (2021). Measuring Urban Green for Pedestrian Health: A literature review and Expert Survey. Oral presentation at Active Living Conference 2021 Virtual.
• Amaryllis H. Park, Chanam Lee, Wei Li, and Marcia Ory (2021). Neighborhood Environment and Physical Activity among Families with Children. Oral presentation at Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2021 Virtual Conference.
• Amaryllis H. Park, Sinan Zhong, Chanam Lee, Haoyue Yang, and Jiwoon Jeong (2021). Active Living amid COVID-19: The roles of community environments. Oral and poster presented at Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2021 Virtual Conference.
• Amaryllis H. Park, Chanam Lee (2019). Conceptualizing Spatial Disparity in Child Health. Poster presented at the 2019 Transportation, Air Quality, and Health Symposium, Austin, TX.
• Amaryllis H. Park (2014). Street Improvement and Walkability Design for Neighborhood Regeneration: A Case Study of Seoul Human Town in Yeonnam-dong. Oral presentation at the Great Asian Streets Symposium in Singapore.