Korea's Planning for Healthy Cities

Shi-Chul LEE, Professor of Kyungpook National Univ. (KNU), S. Korea, now Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Yale FES, was Dean of Academic Affairs; Dean of Strategy & Finance; and Dean of Graduate School of Public Administration at KNU for the past five years. He also served as Editor-in-chief of Journal of Local Government Studies (2012-14) and taught undergraduate courses at the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst for three semesters (2009-10). He had served both national and major local government for 15 years before entering academia in 2003; his last government job was Director-General of Transportation Bureau in Daejeon Metropolitan City, Korea’s fifth largest city. He acquired a Ph.D. at the Univ. of Washington in 2000 (Dissertation: “Measuring acceptance of regulatory growth management policy”). With research interests being local government, green urbanism, and health impact of urban policies, he has recently authored: Recent decentralization challenges in Korea (2007); Implications of green urbanism for Korea's urban management (2013); A Tale of Two Greens: European green urbanism and Korea’s Green Growth policies (2015); Health impact of spatial planning: An inquiry comparing Sweden and Korea (2016), etc.