Profile
Dr. Neuman is Associate Professor of Urban Planning. His current graduate
seminars include Sustainable Urbanism, Infrastructure Planning, and Foundations
of Planning Thought. He has taught History and Theory of Planning, Structure
and Function of Cities, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation, Applied
Planning Studio, and Sustainable Urban Redevelopment Studio. He received
a Ph.D. in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley,
in 1996 and founded the Michael Neuman Consultancy, with clients throughout
the United States and Europe, that specializes in strategy, management,
and design for sustainability in city, regional, and environmental planning.
Dr. Neuman's interests include planning theory, institutions and institutional
theory, infrastructure planning and design, sustainable urbanism, urban
design, and the integration of design, planning and governance for sustainability.
Michael’s refereed articles have won Best Article Awards in the
Journal of the American Planning Association and European Planning Studies,
the only scholar with that distinction. He has been awarded grants from
agencies and foundations ranging from the National Science Foundation
to the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Spanish and Catalan
governments. His book Infrastructure Planning is scheduled to be published
by Island Press in 2007. His articles “The Uses and Scope of City Planning Theory" in
Planning Theory; "The Compact City Fallacy" Journal of Planning
Education and Research; "The Planning Dialectic of Continuity and
Change: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning in Madrid" European
Planning Studies; “Infiltrating Infrastructures” in The Journal
of Urban Technology; and “Infrastructure” in The Encyclopedia
of the City all appeared in 2005. Other widely cited articles include “Regional
Design: Recovering a Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning tradition,” Landscape
and Urban Planning, 2000; “Communicate This: Does Consensus Lead
to Advocacy and Pluralism,” Journal of Planning Education and Research,
2000; “Does Planning Need the Plan?” Journal of the American
Planning Association, 1998; "Planning, Governing and the Image of
the City" Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1998; and "Images
as Institution Builders: Metropolitan Planning in Madrid", European
Planning Studies, 1995.
His professional work, and the work of his students while at Texas A&M,
have won numerous national distinctions, from the American Planning Association
and the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, to the
American Institute of Architects. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, Regents
Fellow, and has lectured and consulted widely throughout North, Central
and South America and Europe.
Michael received B.S. and M.C.P from University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D.
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