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.
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.
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.
Michael Cohen. PhD. Prof and director of the International Affairs Program, New School University New York.; previously Visiting Fellow of the International. Center for Advanced Studies at New York University and Senior Advisor to World Bank. Expert on International Donor policies and Environmentally Sustainable Development. He is co-editor of ‘Preparing the Urban Future’ and ‘The Human Face of the Urban Environment’ and author of ‘Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s’ apart from numerous articles and World Bank Papers. He is President of the Board of the International Institute for Environment and Development-Latin America (IIED-AL).
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.
Prof. Dr. Peter Cornel is Head of the Chair of Wastewater Technology (WAR) and Professor of the Qingdao Technical University, VR China The Institute „WAR" is one of nine institutes in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Darmstadt University of Technology. By integration of different fields of research and education, the institute makes an important contribution to the solution of complex environmental problems. In addition to the five subjects included in the title "WAR", further research topics are e.g. water quality and the remediation of contaminated sites. Prof. Cornel
He is author of almost 100 publications and conference papers since over the last 8 years
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.
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.
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
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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.
Rahul Mehrotra, MSc. architect and urban planner, Since 1990 director of Rahul Mehrotra Associates that designed and executed projects for office interiors, boutiques, weekend houses, factories, institutes and office buildings. His projects have been published in various architectural journals in India and abroad. Professor at the National Singapore University, (1998) and, since 2002, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Executive Director of the Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI) since 1994.
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.
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dr. kosta mathéy
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.
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.
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.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Ostrowski is chair of engineering is chair of the department for engineering hydrology and water management (ihwb) at Darmstadt University. 1988 - 1991 he was associate professor at Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, but subsequently also taught in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Canada and Italy. 2004-2006 he also was the director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Technological Transfer (ZIT) at Darmstadt University. He is author of some 90 books or articles in scientific journals.
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.
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.
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.
Shanti Pillai holds a PhD with distinctionin performance studies from New York University and a MA in Asian Studies from University of California in Berkeley. She did her B.A. with Honors in Anthropology and International Relations at Stanford University C.A. She is Professor at the Department of Global Studies of Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York and was Resident Director, Sarah Lawrence College Semester in Cuba, Havana, Cuba. She also teaches at the Program in Anthropology, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador. the Department of Undergraduate Drama of New York University, the Touro College, New York and University of New Hampshire's Geo Communities Semester in India, Pondicherry, India. She is also a New York State Council for the Humanities Speaker offering lectures on India's arts. She has been performing and lecturing throughout New York and in Latin America. Shanti performed as a modern dancer and actress with the noted company, el Frente de Danza Independiente, in Ecuador from 1991-1994. As a consultant, MS Pillai worked with the Cross-Cultural Ramanyana Project," New York; was Program Coordinator at Institute for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA. and was Research Assistant, Institute for Development Anthropology, Binghamton, NY. She currently lives in New York, Havana and Pondicherry, India.
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.
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.
Dritan Shutina is the executive director of the Albanian NGO Co-PLAN (Institute for Habitat Development) . He has strong civil engineering and urban planning background both by education at the University of Tirana and experience especially in infrastructure development and community-based urban upgrading programs. He has experience in feasibility and affordability analyses, research in social and economic aspects of both rural and urban development interventions, financial management and donor reporting. A co-organizer of Civic-Society workshops with emphasis on urban realities, He is a member of the Albanian Association of Real Estate Evaluators, European Network of Housing Research, ENHR, European Urban Research Association, EURA and the Network of Civil Society in Spatial Development of South-East European Region, CSDnet. Dritan has completed his graduate studies at the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
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.
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.
Roland Ziss, MSc. urban economist, industrial engineer and consultant. Director, chief economist and institutional development advisor of SUM Consult GmbH, Wiesbaden. Key qualifications include urban economy and development planning, housing policy and finance, community participation and settlement upgrading, conflict management and violence prevention, construction and building material industry, Organizational development and process moderation. Work experience in several countries of Latin America and Africa.