Tunney Lee (Chinese: 李燦輝, 1931 – July 2, 2020) was an architect, planner, educator, and activist known for his community engagement work primarily in Chinatown, Boston.
[3] In the late 1950s, Lee and his neighbors in Boston's Chinatown fought to resist the destruction of a portion of Chinatown by the planned Mass Pike connection to the Central Artery interstate highway[9] that helped to save the home where he grew up on 73 Hudson Street.
[4] These efforts of community resistance are chronicled in Karilyn Crockett's book titled People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making.
[10] In 1968 he was part of the team (with John Wiebenson, James Goodell, and Kenneth Jadin) that designed Resurrection City, an occupation of the Washington Mall in coordination with the Poor People's Campaign.
[11] Lee continued to grow his roots in Boston and joined MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning in 1970.