lecturers
Its evident that the faculty need to be international too and mostly familiar with international co-operation practices.
Formerly professor of urban planning at university of technology in berlin and at the development planning unit of university college London.
Rod Burgess, PhD. Urban geographer, Senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Previously taught at Delft University of Technology, John Hopkins University, Clark University, Essex University, Polytechnic of Central London, Architectural Association London and University College London. Main topics: urban geography, globalization, strategic planning, compact cities, self-help housing. Regional focus: Latin America.
Yves Cabannes. PhD. Economist and urban planner. Professor at the Development Planning Unit, University College London. Previously lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Urban Design and director of the UN-Urban Management Programme for Latin America. Other teaching assignments at the Federal University Rio de Janeiro, Catholic University Louvain-la-Neuve, University Paris VIII, Ceara State University, Gudalajara University, Autonomous University Mexico DF among others. Board member of HIC, the Megacities Program, AITEC and others. Holder of the UN-HABITAT Scroll of Honour; Tokyo and Dubai Awards of excellence.
urban planner (New School University, New York, formerly The World Bank, Washington D.C.)
Claire Colomb, M-Phil., is a sociologist and urban planner educated in France, the UK and Germany. Since 2005 she is a full-time Lecturer (assistant professor) at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. After completing a first degree in Politics & Sociology at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), she studied urban planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Her PhD research focused on city marketing in the New Berlin since 1989. Prior to joining the Bartlett School, Ms. Colomb was Project Developer for a European Union Programme involving transnational co-operation projects in spatial planning across 8 countries. Her research interests cover Urban and Regional Governance; Urban marketing; Culture, Identity and Urban Regeneration; European Spatial Planning; and Urban Sociology.
University of Giessen, germany
Cor Dijkgraaf, MSc. architect planner. Since November 2003 co-director of ‘Urban Solutions’ consultants in Rotterdam. For 19 years he was director of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) in Rotterdam. Project and advisory assignments worldwide. Specialist in Capacity Building programmes, institution building, housing, urban management, inner city revitalisation and urban heritage conservation. Teaching at the Master degree courses in IHS Rotterdam, University of Southern California., Delaware University, and Lund University (Sweden).
Tilman Evers, PhD, habil. Sociology, law and political science. Lecturer at the Berlin Free University, in the Masters Course on Peace and Conflict Transformation at the Austrian Peace Centre and at the Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V. (Civil Peace Service, Bonn) and Association of German Protestant Adult Education. Visiting professor at the University of Vienna and Giessen. Consultancy work in conflict analysis for peace initiatives and other civil society organizations of the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot community in Cyprus.
A sociologist and urban planner. Lecturer at the Architectural Association Graduate School, where he is the Chair of the Graduate Management Committee and Director of the Housing & Urbanism Graduate Programme. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Development Planning Unit of the University College London and is a visiting lecturer at several Latin American and European universities. Consultant to a number of international and national urban development agencies on urban planning and housing policy. Research and publications mainly on issues of housing and urban development policy. Currently researching and working on the subject of spatial strategies and urban social policy, with particular reference to the role of urbanism and design in slum upgrading and poverty reduction in the cities of the developing world.
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Claus hemker is architect and specializes in disaster prevention and reconstruction tasks. He is principal architect for damage assessment and reconstruction projets for Caritas Germany.
Dirk Heinrichs is urban researcher and urban planner. He is based at the German aerospace centre in Berlin, Germany. His Research focus interests on the governance in megaurban regions, particular interest social-spatial segregation, land use and land markets. Previously he has been scientific coordinator of the ‘Risk Habitat Megacity’ research initiative with focus on cities in Latin America for the Helmholtz research centre in Leipzig..
Ali S. Huzayyin is Prof. of Transport and Traffic Engineering & Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University and Executive Manager of the Transportation Program (TP), DRTPC of Cairo University. He is Vice President of CODATU (cooperation for urban mobility in developing world) organizing conferences/training in developing countries. He is member of the Steering Committee, WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society), organizing comprehensive World conferences on all transport fields. He conducted many research/consulting projects with DRTPC-TP solely or in cooperation with international firms. He is Chair/member of national transport committees/agencies in Egypt and holder of the State Award in Engineering Sciences.
Clara Irazábal is Assistant Professor of Urban and International Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University, New York City. In her research, she explores the interaction of culture, politics, and placemaking. She primarily focuses on Latin American cities and Latino communities in the US. Irazábal has worked as consultant, researcher, and/or professor in Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Germany, Spain, and the US; and has lectured in many other countries. She is the author of Urban Governance and City Making in the Americas: Curitiba and Portland and the editor of Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events: Citizenship, Democracy, and Public Space in Latin America. She has published academic articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Prof. Dr. Kosta Mathéy is head of department at PAR – Planning and Building Overseas, Faculty of Architecture, Darmstadt University. He previously taught at the universities of Havanna (Cuba), Sta. Marta (Colombia), Porto Alegre , (Brasil), Ife (Nigeria), Karlsruhe, Weimar and Kassel (all Germany). As a housing and settlement expert on behalf of GTZ, KfW, EU, ILO, UN-HABITAT and NGOs he worked in numerous countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America over the last 20 years. Mathéy is co-founder and editor of TRIALOG journal and author of several books on housing and settlement issues in countries of the South.
Michael Mattingly, MA. Is an Urban Planner who, after 13 years practising urban planning with governments and consultants in the USA, Uganda, Kenya, and the UK, Mr Mattingly has been engaged since 1977 in teaching, research and consultancy on urban land, urban planning, and urban management. This has included capacity building, program assessment assignments and research in more than a dozen countries of Africa, plus many others in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Recently, studies of rural-urban links and the peri-urban interface have been prominent in his activities, both as a researcher and as advisor to a DFID research fund.
Johannes Novy, M.A., M.Phil. is an urban planner and PhD candidate at Columbia University, New York. His work experience includes, among others, advisory services on participatory urban Planning in Indonesia for the GTZ. He is co-instructor in the planning studio “Tourist City-Social City” at the GSAPP, Columbia University. Novy is member of the International Research Project “Ethnic Neighborhoods as Tourist Attractions” of the University of Amsterdam, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies. He has published in many books and professional journals and is regularly being invited to conferences and panel discussions.
An Urban Planner from the Polytechnic of Milano, Roberto Ottolenghi has spent 35 years working in more than 60 developing and transitional countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe. For more than 20 years he has worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in various capacities, among which holding the posts of Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean and of Director of the Regional Technical Co-operation Division. He brings to the Master Course a long experience which combines policy and strategic analysis with an ample range of field-work in urban development and reconstruction deriving from his direct involvement in designing and managing field projects sponsored by a variety of multilateral and bilateral agencies. Since 2003 he has held teaching assignments at the Master Course in Venice.
polvora Jacqueline Polvora, PhD, is a Brazilian anthropologist specializing in urban studies and urban segregation. She obtained her university education in Porto Alegre (PUCRS, UFRGS) and Austin, USA (University of Texas). She is Assistant Professor at PUCRS but also taught at other universities in Brazil, the US, Spain and France (Mundus Urbano Program).Ms. Polvora conducted a large ethnographic research within Afro-Brazilian lower class communities linked by religious ties, focusing on the disputes between “formal” city and the one that Afro-religious communities conceive. This guided her to professionally collaborate with Afro-Brazilian communities who were displaced from their original place and were removed new urban environments. The experience of resettlement of these communities exposed the existence of conflicts played within and over the space. These conflicts appeared on the space intertwined with other layers of tensions: racial, gender, class, and other socio-cultural standpoints – one of the matters she continues to conduct research upon.
Dr. Shanti Pillai Shanti Pillai is an artist and academic who lives and works throughout the year in Cuba, South India, and New York City. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. She has taught about globalization and culture at Sarah Lawrence College in New York City, at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales in Ecuador, at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and at the Vietnamese German University. In addition she directed two American university exchange programs in India and served as the director of the Sarah Lawrence semester in Cuba program from 2006-2009. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University. Her duties include directing Princeton’s program in Havana and teaching about cultural policy. In her life as an artist she is a classical South Indian dancer and a writer.
Ronaldo Ramirez, is Honorary Research fellow at the Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London, University of London. He is former Director of Master Courses on Development Studies and on International Housing Studies at the DPU. Teaching, research and consultancy in Latin America, Africa and Asia on urban sociology, development studies, housing studies, urban poverty, community participation. Research projects include: “Self-help Housing Provision in Latin America: the Case of Venezuela”; “Urban Poverty Alleviation Through Environmental Upgrading in Rio de Janeiro: the ‘Favela Bairro’ Programme” and “Factors Affecting Success or Failure of Community Initiatives. Experiences from Havana, Cuba”. Numerous international publications and conference papers.
is a geographer and social anthropologist with many years work experience in development cooperation, academic education and journalism. She has been working in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America with a focus is on land policy, land tenure, land administration as well as urban and regional planning in the broader context of governance and sustainable development in urban as well as rural areas.
Prof. Bruno, alumni of the German Institute for Development Policies (DIE), developed the ‚didactical game planning’. He taught Urban Planning and Planning Methodology at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences before moving to Indonesia where he worked as a GTZ expert for a university development programme. He was visiting professor at the Indonesian university of Manado, where he taught Urban Management and Human Resources Management. Prof. Bruno conducted an important DFG funded research project on ‚clandestino’ settlements in Lisbon.
Jörg Dettmar is Professor of landscape planning and urban ecology at Darmstadt University. In addition, as a consultant he is specialized on the conversion of derelict brown fields and industries; he has an extensive list of publications.
Dewar holds the BP chair in City and Regional Planning and is convenor of the City and Regional Planning degree programme at the University of Cape Town. He has lectured widely in other countries. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Jaycees Four Outstanding Young South Africans award, and the Ernest Oppenheimer Travel Fellowship (twice). He was a founder member, and for many years, director, of the Urban Problems Research Unit. He is author or co-author of 9 books and over 200 monographs and articles on city and regional planning and in 1997 was elected a Life Fellow of the University. He also consults widely in Southern Africa and for the last two years has been core consultant to the City of Cape Town in drawing up a Spatial Development Framework for the city. In 1997 he was appointed to the National Development and Planning Commission, charged, inter alia, with drawing up a Green Paper on planning in South Africa. The Commission has recently completed its work.
architect (University Kwazulu Natal, Durban & International Architects Union)
Karl Kluegel, PhD. studied Economics and Social Sciences at University of Augsburg (PhD), Michigan State University (MBA), San Francisco State University (BSc) and University of Goettingen. He was nominated Professor of Business and Economics at Zurich University of Applied Sciences after previously having taught at TU Vienna University of Technology, University of St. Gallen, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) Beijing, China. At the Tongji University Shanghai he became Founding Vice Director of the Sino-German College of Graduate Studies and acted as director of the Sino-German Forum in Shanghai, Numerous consultancy contracts i.e. with the Shanghai City Government, the Swiss Mail System, the Swiss Confederation’s Innovation Promotion Agency, the Central Bank of China, the Chinese oil and natural gas conglomerate, the Lansing Chamber of Commerce (USA), and many others more.
Peter Marcuse, PhD. Lawyer, Professor of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, Insurmountable publications, conference presentations, articles, lectures on gentrification, housing policies, urban planning, globalization. Member of International Advisory Group, Housing Studies, 1986-1997, Contributing Editor of City Limits 1985-1994, Co-editor; editorial Advisory Board, Hagar: International Social Science Review, 2000 onwards.
Corrado Minervini, MSc. architect, professor at the Post-graduate School of Technology, Architecture and Towns in developing countrie, Polytechnic of Torino (Italy), international teaching experience in the P.R. China, Tunisia, Brazil and Iraq. Expert in development and emergency programmes in LDC, consultancies in development programmes in China, South America and Africa, and in Emergency Response Programmes in Rwanda, Burundi, Bosnia and in the Caucasus. Recently he worked for the United Nations Mission Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) Albania and Montenegro.
architect & disaster prevention specialist (Wits University, Johannesburg)
Architect and author, GPA consultants, London
Elisabeth Peyroux, PhD. human geography, academic staff member at the University of Toulouse. Scientific coordinator of the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) in the research programme “Privatization of security in sub-Saharan African cities: urban dynamics and new forms of governance”. Other areas of research include urban development; socio-spatial segregation; restructuring of post-apartheid cities; social control; security; violence prevention. Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institut für Afrikastudien, Universität Bayreuth. Field experience in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Lagos, Ibadan, Kano, Maputo, Windhoek.
Anette Rudolph-Cleff holds the chair for Urban Development and Design at Darmstadt University since 2006. Previously she taught at the universities of Wuppertal and Karlsruhe. She is member of the CIB International council for Research and Innovation in Building CIB Task Group 58 on Innovation Systems in construction. Within the Master course she is teaching on use of Geographical Information Systems in the context of urban planning.
John FC. Turner. Architect, well-known pioneer in housing and community empowerment and has promoted the cause of community self-management through his field-work, teaching and publications for over 40 years. Taught at the MIT Cambridge Mass, Development Planning Unit London, Architectural Association London, University of Westminster. Consultant to the UN, the World Bank and other development institutions. Some of his numerous writings, such as ‘Freedom to Build’, Housing by People, Tools for Building Community have been translated in many different languages.
Prof. Julian Wékel, architect, teaches urban and regional development at Darmstadt University. He studied architecture in Vienna and Berlin, followed by a postgraduate study in urban management in Manchester. Previously building director of the cities of Hamburg-Harburg, Frankfurt, Hannover and Berlin.
is a geographer and social anthropologist with many years work experience in development cooperation, academic education and journalism. She has been working in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America with a focus is on land policy, land tenure, land administration as well as urban and regional planning in the broader context of governance and sustainable development in urban as well as rural areas.