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You Lie is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, serving as Assistant Dean of the School of Design and Secretary of the Party Branch of the Department of Architecture. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning and a master’s degree in Architectural Design and Theory from Tianjin University, as well as a Ph.D. in Urban and Rural Planning from Tongji University. He previously worked at East China Architectural Design & Research Institute and is a National Certified Urban Planner. 

His academic research focuses on human settlement spaces, adhering to the worldview and methodology of materialist dialectics. His work spans multiple disciplines, including urban and rural planning, architecture, human geography, and urban and regional economics. His research directions encompass regional and urban-rural development, regional innovation, urban regeneration, rural planning, and sustainable design strategies. Notable original contributions include:

1. Developing a model of human settlement space transformation from the perspective of population and construction land change rates, proposing six states of human settlement space transformation—"expansion, sprawl, dilution, atrophy, shrinkage, and intensification"—which are quantifiable and visualizable. This model can be used for identifying, comparing, dynamically monitoring, and evaluating the states of human settlement space transformation.

2.  Introducing the original concept and theoretical framework of "human settlements space inertia," which explains the spatial-side objective reasons for the asynchrony between changes in physical spaces (such as buildings, construction land, and infrastructure) and human dynamics.

3. Proposing an original analytical framework for human settlements space cycles based on the relationship between the total amounts and change rates of population and construction land. This framework can be used to understand and guide counter-cyclical macro-regulation of human settlement space resources, such as land and housing.

His research achievements have been recognized with several awards, including the Second Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences in Shanghai (Book Category), the First and Third Prizes of the Jin Jingchang China Urban Planning Outstanding Paper Award, the Third Prize and Honorable Mention in the National Young Urban Planner Paper Competition, and the Excellence Award in the Shanghai Architectural Society Architectural Creation Award. Additionally, one of his policy advisory reports received instructions from central leadership.