Architect Muchan Park operated a thinktank called XIM(X-Information Modeling) at Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York for four years and developed an urban design process that combines Urban Informatics and Parametric Urbanism and applied to the architecture and urban designing practices in large cities, such as New York, London, and Shanghai. Major research theme was Performance-based Zoning, and he has performed various research on New York’s zoning system.