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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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. from University of California-Berkeley........[more]

 


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