손정원Jung Won Sonn

런던대학교 도시계획학과

도시계획학 박사

Bartlett School of Planning, University College London

PhD in Urban Planning

서울대학교 공과대학과 환경대학원을 졸업한 후, UCLA에서 도시계획학 박사학위를 받았다.  지역경제발전이 주 연구분야이며 한국, 미국, 중국, 인도네시아의 지역경제에 관한 논문을 다수 발표하였다. 최근의 연구 주제는 정책결정과정, 기술혁신과 지역경제성장, 도시 및 지역 담론 등이다.

Dr. Sonn’s research is focused on two themes in urban and regional economic development: 1) the urban and regional dimension of technological knowledge production and 2) political analysis of regional economic planning. The geographical focuses of his research are the U.S., South Korea and China. Funded projects include temporal changes of localised knowledge spillovers in the U.S. (funded by the Benjamin Stevens Fellowship of North American Association of Regional Science), the emergence of a metropolitan knowledge cluster (funded by the Leverhulme Trust), a comparative study of innovative capacities between the Seoul metropolitan area and the Southeast region (funded by the Asian Institute for Regional Innovation), creative centres as a new orthodoxy in Chinese urban development (funded by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and Localised knowledge spillovers and regional absorptive capacity (funded by European Commission through Marie Curie Fellowship).

Sonn, J.W., M. Hess, and H. Wang. Forthcoming “Skills and deskilling in creative and high-tech industries” Geoforum.

Sonn, J.W., Shin, H. R., and S. Park, 2017. “A mega urban project and two competing accumulation strategies: Negotiating discourses of the Songdo International Business District development” International Development Planning Review. 39 (3) 299-317