Profile
Dr. Neuman is Associate Professor of Urban Planning, former Master of Urban Planning Program Coordinator, founder and Chair of the Sustainable Urbanism Certificate Program, and founder of the multi-disciplinary Barcelona Program at Texas A&M University. His current graduate seminars include Sustainable Urbanism, Infrastructure Planning, History and Theory of Planning, and Foundations of Planning Thought. He has taught Structure and Function of Cities, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation, Applied Planning Studio, and Sustainable Urban Redevelopment Studio.
He founded the Michael Neuman Consultancy, and is Partner in XSense-Neuman Partners with clients in the United States, Europe, and Central America. His professional practice specializes in strategy, management, policy, planning, and design for sustainability in city, regional, and environmental planning. Recent projects have included new town planning, community redevelopment, and infrastructure planning and analysis, with an emphasis on life cycle analysis.
Dr. Neuman’s interest is in the integration of design, planning and governance for sustainability. Expertise includes infrastructure planning and design, sustainable urbanism, urban and regional design, metropolitan and regional planning, planning theory, and institutions and institutional theory.
Michael has 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 under contract to be published with Island Press.
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. in Chemical Engineering and M.C.P from University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. from University of California-Berkeley...
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