Faculty

Michael C. Neuman

Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Location : A344 • Phone: (979) 845-7062
neuman@archone.tamu.edu
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Neuman

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Dr. Neuman is Associate Professor of Urban Planning, founder and Chair of the Sustainable Urbanism Certificate Program, founder of the multi-disciplinary Barcelona Program, and former Coordinator of the Master of Urban Planning Program at Texas A&M University. He founded the Michael Neuman Consultancy, with clients in the United States, Europe, and Central America. His professional practice, as well as academic research and teaching, specializes in strategy, policy, planning, and design for sustainability in city, regional, and environmental planning.

Professor Neuman teaches, conducts research, and practices in the fields of sustainable community and urban design, the structure and function of cities and regions, network infrastructure planning and design, and governance institutions; all with the intent of designing and managing integrative, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary and multi-interest processes for successful project delivery. Innovations he has played a key role in, such as regional design, sustainable urbanism, cross-acceptance, and life-cycle infrastructure planning, have helped define new fields of practice world-wide.

Michael’s refereed articles “The Planning Dialectic of Continuity and Change: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning in Madrid" in European Planning Studies and “Does Planning Need the Plan?” in the Journal of the American Planning Association have won best article awards in those journals, the only scholar with that distinction. His work has been published in seven languages. He has been awarded research grants from agencies and foundations ranging from the National Science Foundation to the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as from the Spanish and Catalan governments. His books The Futures of City Regions and The Imaginative Institution are scheduled to be published in 2010 by Routledge and Ashgate, respectively.

Professor Neuman’s work, along with that of his students, have won numerous national and international distinctions in disciplines as diverse as art, design, planning, and sustainability from the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects to the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, and the President’s Council on Sustainable Development. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, Regents Fellow, and has consulted and lectured widely throughout the Western Hemisphere, Asia and Australasia, and Europe.

Professor Neuman serves on the editorial boards of Town Planning Review and of the Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, is on the Governing Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, and has served on the Boards of the American Planning Association in Texas and California, along with numerous other leadership activities in professional and civic sectors. He has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) since 1988.

He earned a Ph.D. in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996; a Master of City Planning and Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986, and a B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. [more]