Bumsoo Lee to Join DURP Faculty

Dr. Bumsoo Lee will join the faculty of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in August 2008 as Assistant Professor. Dr. Lee, who earned his Ph.D from the University of Southern California in 2006, conducts research on land use, travel behavior, transportation, and urban spatial structure, with a focus on how technological change is reshaping agglomeration economies and urban form. His recent projects address trends in commuting and non-commuting travel, variations in commuting behavior across different workplace and residential neighborhood types in California, congestion pricing in the U.S., and emerging metropolitan spatial structure and its links to economic growth. He is also involved in several research projects on extreme events, including analyses of economic impacts and transportation mode choice change after terrorism events.

Dr. Lee will teach Economics for Planners (UP 597-1) in the fall semester 2008, which introduces fundamental microeconomic principles, rationales for planning intervention, and economic approaches to various urban problems. His teaching experience also includes a course in urban and regional economics at University of Southern California, and his teaching at DURP will include such topics as urban form and travel behavior, urban transportation planning, urban and regional analysis, and quantitative methods (including spatial data analysis).

Upon the completion of his dissertation in 2006, Dr. Lee worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at USC. He holds a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Seoul National University, Korea and a Bachelor's in Urban Planning from HanYang University in Korea. He worked as a researcher at Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS) for three years before entering the doctoral program at USC. Click here for Dr. Lee's CV.

Contact Information
Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089-2902
Phone: 213-821-3920
E-mail: bumsoole@usc.edu

Current Research Areas

Primary research interests are in studying underlying forces of urban spatial change, modeling the links between travel behavior and urban form at different geographical scales, and the evaluation of growth management policies with a focus on transportation impacts.

Selected Publications

Lee, Bumsoo. 2007. “Edge or edgeless cities? Urban spatial structure in U.S. metropolitan areas, 1980 to 2000,” Journal of Regional Science 47(3), pp. 479-515.

Lee, Bumsoo and Peter Gordon. 2008. “The U.S. context for highway congestion pricing,” in Richardson, Harry W. and C.-H. Christine Bae (eds.) Road Congestion Pricing in Europe: Implications for the United States. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (Forthcoming).

Gordon, Peter, Bumsoo Lee, James E. Moore II, Qisheng Pan, Jiyoung Park, and Harry W. Richardson. 2008. “Estimating the economic impacts of WMD attacks,” in Maurer, Stephen M. and Christine Hartmann-Siantar (eds.) WMD Terrorism: Science and Policy Choices. Cambridge: MIT Press (Forthcoming).

Richardson, Harry W., Larry S. Bourne, Peter Gordon, Christopher J. Henrie, David Plane, Jim Simmons, and Bumsoo Lee. 2006. “North America: A region of core peripheral extremes,” in Geyer, H. S. (ed.) Global Regionalization: Core-Peripheral Trends. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Work in progress

Lee, Bumsoo, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II, and Harry W. Richardson. “Commuting trends in U.S. cities in the 1990s,” Submitted to Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Lee, Bumsoo and Peter Gordon. “Efficient spatial structure? Urban structure and growth in U.S. metropolitan areas,” Submitted to Journal of Regional Science.

Lee, Bumsoo, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II, and Harry W. Richardson. “The importance of non-work travel in residential location, land use, and transportation,” Submitted to Transportation.

Lee, Bumsoo, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II, Jiyoung Park, and Harry W. Richardson. “Estimating the state-by-state economic impacts of a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) attack,” Submitted to International Regional Science Review.

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