Also known as: buttsmeister
Born and raised in San Diego, California, Kuan is currently a Masters student at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is studying City Planning with a primary focus in Transportation. Kuan has a professional background in urban planning and architecture. Presently residing in Somerville, Massachusetts Kuan has worked extensively throughout the Midwest and holds a special interest in tackling issues unique to the recuperation of Rust Belt urban economies and the retrofitting of existing travel infrastructure. Specifically, he seeks to adapt extant infrastructure to modern mode choice and travel behavior demands. Kuan's study and research pertains to the relationship of this mode choice modeling to the built environment, how the two react with one another, and how perception-based influences can leverage untapped efficiencies from existing facilities. While the work behind this study has been based in international research (primarily Dhaka, Bangladesh and Mexico City, Mexico) Kuan's personal goal is in developing methods for South-North technology transfers that seek to reverse knowledge flows from the developing to the developed context, and thus engage age-old transit challenges with contextually original market concepts. Personal Portfolio www.kuanbutts.com Resume httpsdl.dropbox.comuUpdateResume.pdf Blog httpsystemcity.wordpress.com
