visiting scholars 2009 / 2010

	► prof. mario coyula, ph.d. Cuban architect and planner Mario Coyula Cowley has been a professor of merit at the Faculty of Architecture of Havana since 1964 and was vice-director of the Group for the Integrated Development of the Capital (GDIC). Dr. Coyula is also a member of several commissions, scientific councils and advisory councils. While studying Architecture at Havana University in the 1950’s he joined the underground fight against dictator Batista with Directorio Revolucionario, enrolled in the Engineers Corp of the Rebel Army, locating new rural communities. He continued this same work with Viviendas Campesinas 1960-62, and then was part of the team designing a giant school center for rural children at Sierra Maestra, in the eastern province Oriente 1962-64. Coyula has been invited to lecture in Spain, France, the Netherlands Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Poland, Britain, Italy, Mexico, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic; Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the USA. He was named Fellow from the SIGUS program at MIT, and is a member Research Laboratory for Infrastructure, Architecture and Territory in Paris. In 2002 he was the first Cuban Visiting Professor from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies teaching at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University.  2006 he was Guest Professor at the Vienna Academy of Arts. As an architect, Coyula was co-author of two commemorative monuments in Havana that are considered as relevant: Parque-Monumento de los Mártires Universitarios (1965-67) and the Pantheon for the Heroes of March 13th, at Colón cemetery (1981-82, 2005). He was co-author of the conversion of the Caballero funeral parlor at La Rampa, Havana’s most alive modern center, into a cultural house (1967). As a writer, he is author or co-author of eight books, more than 190 articles, prologues, essays and reviews in 21 Cuban and 30 foreign publications. He was awarded the National Prize of Architecture in 2001 and National Habitat Award (2004), both for life-time.
	► prof. ana falú, ph.d. Ana Falú is an Argentinean Architect, Professor at the National University of Argentina in Cordoba. She also acts as Regional Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women for Brazil, Argentine, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay since 2002 and, in parallel, Vice president of the Habitat International Coalition. She founded the Argentinean NGO ' Centro Investigación y Servicios de Promoción del Hábitat' (CISCSA). She has been a University teacher since 1970 and is a renowned expert in Gender issues related to housing and urban policies. Since the mid-1989s she has been directing Research Programmes and belongs to the National Council of Technology and Scientific r research of Argentina. Internationally she has been teaching at Master Course level for more than one decade in Argentina, Latin America, Spain and the Netherlands. Her current research interests include: (a) social housing policies and urban sociology; (b) conception, design and evaluation of development programs and (c) a gender focused approach to housing and urban development policies.
	► govind gopakumar, ph.d. Govind Gopakumar has conducted his university studies in Electrical Engineering, Science and Technology at the University of Kerala, India (B.Tech.); Michigan Technological University (MSc), University of Delaware, USA (BSc) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.(PhD.). He was lecturing Cultural Anthropology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Environmental Science at California State University, Sacramento. In 2009, he is moving on to a tenure-track position at University of Toronto.  Gopakumar's main interests concern the nature of urban infrastructure supply policies in countries of the South. In this context, he has adapted the 'splintering urbanism theory' to the conditions of Third World Cities, where extreme social segregation leads to white spots in the supply of technical infrastructure provision, which he identifies as 'technological recesses'. The lack of material resources is being compensated through social networks and resources. Gopakumar was involve in a large number of research projects, he published on book and several articles and was awarded a large number of grants, fellowships and awards.
	► prof. carmen ledo, ph.d.   Carmen Ledo  studied Economic Sciences and Sociology at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia and did her Masters in social population studies at the Centro Latinoamericano de Demographic (CELADE) in Santiago de Chile. Her Doctorate was at the Department of Urban Planning of the TU Delft in the Netherlands at present she is director of the Center for Planning and Management and full professor of Demographics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences (FES) at the San Simon University in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Apart from academic research carried out for the University she worked as a consultant to UNIFEM, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, ILO, the University of Oxford and others. Current research interests are directed to migration as a factor of city formation.
	► prof. abdel malek, ph.d.   Abdel Malek, Egyptian and Canadian citizen, is an economist who obtained his academic education at the Alexandria University, Egypt (B.Com), University of Manchester, UK  (M.A) and London School of Economics (MSc). He is professor of economics at American University in Cairo (AUC) and the bulk of his work for the past 40 years has focused on international aspects of development at the macro and micro levels. . Since 2003, he also is Economic adviser to the Minister of International Cooperation at the Ministry of International Cooperation, Egypt. Before, he served as a member of the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and member of the Evian Group Think Tank, Switzerland, since 2002. As a professor he taught at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, the National Institute of Management Development, Cairo; the University of British Columbia; University of Bradford, U.K.; Xi'an Jiaotong University, China and University of Tor Vergata in Rome. As a consultant, he worked for The World Bank ; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD); Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA); PRODEC (affiliated with the Finnish International Development Agency); the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); The European Union’s Private Sector Development Programme (PSDP) in Egypt and OECD.
	► prof. slobodan milutinovic, ph.d.   Solobodan Milutinovic obtained his PhD on Urban Sustainable Development from the University of Nis, Serbia, Dept of Environmental Engineering. From the same university, where he is professor in the School of Architecture, he holds a M.Sc. on Indoor Air Pollution and a M.A in Architecture. He was a visiting lecturer at the Central European University in Budapest, the London School of Economics, Moscow State University, the HIS in Rotterdam and at the University of North Carolina, USA. As a consultant he worked for the government of Serbia (Support for strengthening Local Self-Government capacities in the context of the European Integrations process), for the National Association of Towns and Municipalities of Serbia; UN HABITAT and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
	► prof. sudha mohan, ph.d.   Dr Sudha Mohan, is Associate Professor in the Dept of Civics and Politics, University of Mumbai, India and has 26 years of teaching experience. In 2007 she received the Best Teacher Award and is also holder of the Oliva I Reddick Award for Social Sciences. Dr. Mohan was the recipient of the Sr. Fulbright fellowship (2004-05) to pursue postdoctoral research at SUNY, NY and Columbia University, NYC. She also taught as visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster and the Salzburg Seminar. She has published in the areas of Urban Governance, Civil Society, Globalisation, and Decentralisation and Citizen Participation, among others. She has published a book entitled 'Urban Development and New Localism' in 2005. She has participated and presented research papers in several National and International Seminars and Conferences and has also undertaken research projects. Her current research interests include Global-Local Interface, Urban Governance, Substantive Democracy and Sustainable Development.
	► prof. amos rapoport Amos Rapoport was born in Poland and graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1955 with a degree in architecture. He is a registered architect in Australia and an associate of RIBA. In 1974 he became professor of architecture and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee (USA), where he taught until his retirement in 2001. He has also taught at the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney, the University of California, Berkeley, and University College London. He has also held visiting appointments in Israel, Turkey, Great Britain, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, India, and Switzerland, among other places. Rapoport is one of the founders of the field of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS). These can be defined as cross-cultural and other comparative studies of environment-behavior relations and extend to urban design, housing, vernacular design, and the built environments of developing countries. The last two also serve as 'model systems' for the construction of an explanatory theory of EBR. The latter forms part of his current emphasis on the relation of metascience (the scientific study of science) to environment-behavior studies (EBS). This includes, among others, the definition of the domain of EBS, unification and synthesis within EBS and with other (new) disciplines, the nature of theory and the identification of the mechanisms of EBR. In addition to House, Form, and Culture he is the author of three other books and nearly 200 articles, papers, and chapters, as well as editor or co-editor of four books.
	► gustavo riofrio, dea Gustavo Riofrio holds a DEA degree in Urban Development from the University Pierre Mendes France in Grenoble, a license in Sociology from the University of San Marcos in Lima and a Diploma in Gender Studies from the DPU – University College London. Since 20 years he is researcher for the Peruvian NGO Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo (DESCO) in the areas of Housing, Slum Upgrading and Urban Renewal. He is Founding member of the UN-Habitat Global research network. As a consultant we worked for UN-HABITAT (Earthquake reconstruction in Peru); Grupo Propuesta Ciudadana (participatory budgeting); the DPU London; the Comisión Nacional de Formalización de la Propiedad Informal (COFOPRI); OXCFAM, the World Bank, CORDAID, Misereor; INTERAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (BID), Alcaldía de Managua (ALMA) Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and others. As a writer he is author of a long list of book contributions, articles and conference papers.
	► prof. guiqing yang, ph.d.   Guiqing Yang is urban planner with a MSc from Harvard University, USA and a PhD from Tongji University, Shanghai, where he also is professor of urban design and has taught since 1991.  1995 he has been Visiting Scholar at the Urban Design Department of Liverpool University and 2003/2004 Visiting Scholar of European City Institute, Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Prof. Guiqing Yang is Deputy head of Urban Planning Department, CAUP, Tongji University, from 2006 to now, and Director of Centre for Urban-Rural Community Planning and Research, Tongji University, from 2007 to now: He is also editorial Member of the Urban Planning Forum, from 2009. As a professional planner Guiqing Yang has been acting as Planning Advisor of Weifang Municipality, Shandong Province; Commissioner of Planning Expert Committee of Qingpu District; Commissioner of Planning Expert Committee of Pudong New District; Mayor Assistant of Jiuquan City, Gansu Province; Vice Director of Detailed Planning Office of Urban Planning Department, Tongji University; Editor of Professional Magazine Urban Planning Forum.