Profile
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.
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