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Dr. Lee is Assistant Professor in Department of Landscape Architecture
and Urban Planning. Ms. Lee's areas of interest are in urban design and
physical planning, urban form and non-motorized transportation, physical
activity and public health. During the past five years or so, she has
been involved in building empirical knowledge bases and agendas on several
challenging issues related to the designers and planners the built environment.
These issues include sedentary lifestyle, automobile dependency, smart
growth and social equity. Her research emphasizes the strong roles that
the designers and planners have in shaping people’s behaviors and
health.
She has also worked to make the profession of landscape architecture
visible in the on-going national movement to promote active living and
physical activity,
by managing a research project, performing several empirical studies, making
presentations at many national and international conferences and workshops,
and guest-lecturing classes in various disciplines.
Chanam has written or co-authored
several articles including “Operational
definition of walkable neighborhood: empirical and theoretical insights.” Journal
of Physical Activity and Health, 2006; “Environmental correlates of walking
for transportation versus recreation purposes.” Journal of Physical Activity
and Health, 2006; “Spatial sampling and the built environment.” Annals
of Epidemiology, 2005; “Physical activity and environment research in
the health field: Implications for urban and transportation planning practice
and research.” Journal of Planning Literature, 2004; International Urban
Form Comparison: Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Seoul.” Seoul
Development Institute; “Implementing transportation-efficient land use:
A local overview.” Washington State Transportation Center, 2002.
Ph.D.,
University of Washington, 2004, M.L.A., Texas A&M University, 1995,
B.A., Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, 1996....[more]
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