Sugie Lee

Sugie Lee is an assistant professor in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.S. in City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology, along with a M.S. and a B.S. in Urban Planning from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. His major fields of research include land use planning, urban/metropolitan spatial structure, growth management/smart growth, urban/suburban decline and revitalization, and GIS.

His research focuses on alternative land use policies at the local and regional levels to encourage smart growth principles, enhance the vitality of central cities and inner-ring suburbs, reduce intra-metropolitan socioeconomic disparities and polarization, and preserve the natural environment at the fringe of metropolitan areas. His current research focuses on the inner-ring suburban decline and revitalization in the context of metropolitan smart growth strategies. He is also interested in the integrated research of land use with a variety of disciplines in urban planning such as transportation, housing, environment, and public health.

Recent Publications:
Lee, Sugie and Nancey Green Leigh. 2005. The Role of Inner-Ring Suburbs in Metropolitan Smart Growth Strategies. Journal of Planning Literature 19, 3:330-46.

Leigh, Nancey Green and Sugie Lee. 2004. Philadelphia's Space in Between: Inner-Ring Suburbs Evolution. Opolis: An International Journal of Suburban and Metropolitan Studies 1, 1:13-32.

Working Papers:
Lee, Sugie and Nancey Green Leigh. Intra-Metropolitan Spatial Differentiation and Decline of Inner-Ring Suburbs: A Comparison of Four U.S. Metropolitan Areas (Under Revision).

Lee, Sugie. Analyzing the Poverty Expansion in the Multi-Ring Polycentric Metropolitan Structure: Case of the Metropolitan Atlanta Region (Under Review).

French, Steven P. and Sugie Lee. Urban Heat Island Effect: Physical Market for Mitigation Measures (Under Review).

Lee, Sugie. The Impact of Urban Sprawl and Containment on Intra-Metropolitan Socioeconomic Disparity: Evidence from the U.S. Metropolitan areas (Working).

Sample Syllabi:

• UST/ENV/PAD/PDD 601: Applied Quantitative Reasoning I, Spring 2007
• UST 601 Website, spring 2007
• UST/ENV/PAD/PDD 642: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Spring 2007

View Dr. Lee's Curriculum Vitae.