Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School of Natural and Built Environments
School of Natural and Built Environments
Andreas Faludi presently holds a chair in Spatial Policy Systems in Europe at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He studied architecture and urban planning and completed his doctorate in Vienna before taking up his first teaching appointment at the Oxford Polytechnic, followed by chairs at Delft University of Technology (1974-7), the University of Amsterdam (1977-1998) and the Radboud University Nijmegen (1999-2004).
His interests are planning theory and methodology, Dutch strategic planning and European and comparative planning. He has been a British Council Scholar (1967-8), an Australian-European Fellow (1984), a Fulbright Scholar (1984-5), a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Social Science and the Humanities (NIAS) (1992-3), a European Fulbright Scholar (2000) and of the Rockefeller Centre at Bellagio. He has been a visiting professor in Australia, Austria, France, Italy, Israel, Malta, Sweden and the United States.
Faludi’s most significant publications include 'Planning Theory' (1973/1984), 'Flexibility and Commitment in Planning’ (co-author, 1983), 'Critical Rationalism and Planning Methodology' (1986), 'A Decision-centred View of Environmental Planning' (1987), 'Rule and Order: Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century' (co-author, 1994), and ‘The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective’ (co-author). He was also the editor of 'A Reader in Planning Theory' (1973), ‘European Spatial Planning’ (2002), ‘Territorial Cohesion and the European Model of Society’ (2007) and ‘European Spatial Research and Planning’ (2008). Faludi has published in American, Australian, Austrian, Belgian, Canadian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, South African and Spanish scientific journals.
He is a member of the editorial board of ‘Built Environment', 'European Planning Studies', ‘The European Journal of Spatial Development’, 'International Planning Studies', the 'Journal of Planning Education and Research', ‘disP’, 'Planning Theory', ‘Housing and the Built Environment’ and ‘Scienze Regionali’. In 1993 he was appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and in 2008 of the Association of European Schools of Planning. In 2008 he received an honorary doctorate from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden.
Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, is Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Director of the City and Regional Planning Program at Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). His research concerns collaborative governance of environmental policy, methods for improving government agency bargaining, and planning school advancement. He regularly teaches courses in planning theory, methods of environmental analysis, and planning dispute resolution.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA), and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), Stiftel is a former president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and founding chairperson of the Global Planning Education Association Network. He is now reviews editor of Planning Theory, a member of the editorial boards of International Planning Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, and Town Planning Review, and chair of the Association of Collegiate School of Planning’s Committee on the Academy and the Profession.
Dory Reeves joined the School of Architecture and Planning at The
University of Auckland on 1st February 2008. Originally from Northern
Ireland, she has lived and worked in Sheffield, England and Glasgow,
Scotland. She is currently collaborating with colleagues in London,
Belfast and Illinois on various planning projects.
Dory is a chartered town planner and corporate member of the RTPI, an
Associate of the New Zealand Planning Institute and a fellow of the
Higher Education Academy (UK). She has worked in planning and associated
areas since 1981, starting off in the public sector at metropolitan
level in Sheffield before moving to higher education at the University
of Strathclyde, Glasgow in 1994. Dory also held the post of visiting
Professor at Queens University Belfast 2000-2003. From 2003-2008 she ran
her own consultancy, Reeves Associates.
Dory’s professional practice experience has involved developing
city-wide policies in social sustainability and social infrastructure
and involving the public in the development plan process. Her teaching
mirrors this experience and her research is also directed towards
mainstreaming equality into urban sustainability and planning, equality
impact assessments, public involvement, planning management and creative
solution finding. She is also involved in developing creative approaches
to teaching and learning using multi media.
In 2005 Dory published ‘Planning for Diversity’ and last year
co-authored the Good Practice Note ‘Gender and Spatial Planning’
published by the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Dory has played an active role in the Royal Town Planning Institute, (RTPI)
at regional and national level, chairing the Education and Life Long
Learning Committee and also as a member of the Education Commission
reassessing the future of planning education.
Recent research projects have included major evaluations of equality
legislation carried out for the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland
and work with Strathclyde Partnership for transport on equality impact
assessing their regional transport strategy. Ongoing research includes
diversity in the planning profession and work with the UN Habitat Safer
Cities Programme and Gender Mainstreaming Unit on the Nanjing Conference
in November 2008 and the role of planning in creating safer cities.
Trevor Budge coordinates the community planning and development programs at La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus. He also holds an Adjunct Professor position at RMIT University in the planning and environment program. He is the Chair of the Planning Institute of Australia’s National Education Committee, and is a former National Councillor and President of the Institute’s Victorian Division. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute and in 2008 was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award. He has played a leading role in the Institute’s award winning Sri Lanka post tsunami project.
Commencing in planning in 1975, he spent 14 years working for state and local governments and regional authorities in a range of settings. He subsequently formed his own consulting business where he built one of Australia’s best known practices in rural and regional planning which he managed until 2005. His experience covers a wide variety of planning projects, demographic analysis, heritage and conservation studies, community consultation, planning appeals and panel hearings, regional studies, tourism promotion and marketing, and the provision of education and training programs. His work has involved him in rural regions, small country towns, outer metropolitan areas and major regional centres.
He has given numerous lectures on planning at universities and conferences in Australia, the United States, Sri Lanka, Canada and New Zealand. He is widely acknowledged for his work in integrating land use planning with natural resource management plans and strategies and for his work in the planning and development of country towns.
Steve Hamnett is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of South Australia where he has led the planning programs for most of the past 25 years. He is also a Commissioner of the Environment, Resources and Development Court of South Australia. In 2000, with Robert Freestone, he co-wrote and edited 'The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History' which won the PIA National Award for Scholarship. Steve has published many other works on Australian planning, including, most recently, an edited collection on ‘The State of Australian Cities’ (with Clive Forster, published as volume 34, 3, 2008 of the journal Built Environment.
Steve’s current research interests include Lifetime Affordable Housing, Planning for Climate Change and Transit-oriented Development, and he holds Australian Research Council grants in relation to these interests. Steve has made many significant contributions to the planning profession including, amongst other things, as Editor of Australian Planner, President of the SA Division of the Planning Institute of Australia, National Vice-President of PIA, Chair of the Planning Education Foundation of SA, Program Convenor for the 2003 Adelaide National Planning Congress, a member of the Steering Committee of the National Inquiry Into Planning Education and Employment and, currently, as a member of the PIA National Education Committee.
Steve has also made broader contributions to the development of planning in South Australia including, notably, his role as a member of the three-person Steering Committee of the Planning Review between 1990 and 1992 which prepared the first of the current series of planning strategies and the Development Act 1993. He has also served as Deputy Presiding member of the Development Assessment Commission and chaired the Transport and Planning Committee as part of the preparation of the SA Greenhouse Strategy (2007).
Steve was a member in 1994-95 of the national evaluation committee for the Commonwealth Better Cities Project. Over the past 15 or so years, Steve has worked extensively in Asia both as an academic and for AusAID on projects intended to build local government planning capacity in Indonesia, The Philippines, Malaysia, Fiji, Nauru and elsewhere. Steve was elected as a Life Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia in 2004 for outstanding contributions to planning and planning education.
Lee Lik Meng is a planner registered with the Board of Town Planners
Malaysia. He obtained his first post-graduate degree in planning from
Universiti Sains Malaysia and after a short period in the private sector
as well as local government, he joined academia in 1985 and then went on
to pursue a Ph.D. in urban design and planning at the University of
Washington, Seattle. He is currently an associate professor at the
School of Housing, Building and Planning, USM and is also Coordinator of
the Healthy Campus program in the university’s Corporate and Sustainable
Division , focussing on moving the university towards sustainability.
Lik Meng is the current President of the Asian Planning Schools
Association (APSA) and also serves on the Coordinating Committee of the
Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN).
Dr. Carolyn Whitzman is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the
University of Melbourne. She is a Board Member of Women in Cities
International (www.womenincities.org), a member of the Commonwealth
Association of Planners Women in Planning Network, a member of the
Planning Institute of Australia’s National Education Committee, and a
jury member for the Planning Institute of Australia (Victorian Division)
Social and Community Planning Award. Carolyn is the author of The
Handbook of Community Safety, Gender, and Violence Prevention: practical
planning tools (Earthscan, 2008), and the co-author of Safe Cities:
guidelines for planning, design, and management (Van Nostrand Reinhold,
1995). Previously, she worked for the City of Toronto on healthy city
initiatives.
Dr. Whitzman has an international reputation for her work on the prevention of violence. Current research interests include the development of integrated violence prevention initiatives at the local government level, increasing independent mobility for children, and the policy implications of planning for healthy and equitable cities in a national and international context.
