YOUNG ACADEMICS COORDINATION TEAM
Valeria Fedeli
E-mail: valeria.fedeli@polimi.itDegree in Architecture (1996) and Master in Planning at Politecnico di Milano (2002), PhD in Planning and Public policies at IUAV, Venice (2001). Junior researcher and lecturer in Urban Planning at DIAP, Politecnico di Milano. My research interests focus on governance/government; locale; public policies; strategic planning. Institutional analysis and policies studies are the base of my research methodology. Working on “locale” to understand how it deals with the production of “public” I have been studying the Italian and the French recent institutional reforms in the field of local autonomies, with a particular attention to the new institutional frame of European Union.
Involvement in Young Academics Coordination Team
I got involved in the Coordination Team because I think this is an important occasion for exchanging experiences on our research fields and on our everyday life of young researchers: networking, discussing on issues and interest in common, updating each other, comparing our experiences and problems can be an important way to grow together.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annie-Claude Sebban
Institut d’Aménagement Régional (Regional City Planning Institute)
156, Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France
Tel: +33 (0)1 48 41 28 25
E-mail: ac.sebban@voila.fr, stirman@nomade.fr
Research interests
’Complementarity between bicycle and public transport’. The PhD is about all forms of cooperation between bicycle an public transport vehicles (bus+ bicycle, train+ bicycle, tram+ bicycle, bicycle parking) for any purpose (urban, leisure, sport, tourism). This work takes into consideration many cycling facilities : i.e. cycle paths, greenways, bus lanes, signposts, bike stations------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roelof Verhage
Institut d’Urbanisme de Lyon – Université Lumière Lyon 2
14 avenue Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France
E-mail: roelof.verhage@univ-lyon2.frResearch interests
My research focuses on the relation between public and private sector activities in processes of urban development. My PhD thesis, entitled “local policy for housing development: European experiences” was about urban development on greenfield locations. In this context, I have been studying quite extensively questions of land policy. Currently I am concentrating on process of urban renewal. Many of the research projects I have been working on have a cross national comparative character.Involvement in Young Academics Coordination Team
The idea of developing a network of young academics within AESOP was first mentioned by Hans Mastop, who was at that time president of the organisation. He has asked some people he knew to work this out further and I was one of them. The idea interested me for two main reasons. The first one is that I am convinced that AESOP can play an important role in helping people starting in academic positions to find their way about. The second one is that I think that AESOP can do with some fresh blood (and ideas), to meet the challenges of a network organisation in the 21 century. AESOP is potentially important for young academics, and the young academics are potentially important for AESOP. The mission of both AESOP and the young academics network is to get rid of the word “potentially” in the last sentence. I think that things are now moving in that direction------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherin Aminossehe
E-mail: ss@dircon.co.uk
Sherin Aminossehe is based in London and works at Terry Farrell & Partners, an architecture firm. She studied Architecture at University College London, where she also obtained an MSc in European Property Development and Planning. She has presented papers at a number of conferences on a variety of topics, ranging from the language of urban design to planning and housing policy in London. Her main research interests are planning, architecture and urban policy formulation.
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YOUNG ACADEMICS' MEMBERS
Efthimios Bakogiannis
Surveying Engineer - Urban Planner, Ph.D. Candidate, National Technical University of Athens, School of Rural & Surveying Engineering, Department of Geography and Regional Planning
H. Polytechneiou 9, Zografos Campus 15780, Greece
Tel: +30 210 772 1153
Mob: +30 693 7010033
Fax: +30 210 7722752
E-mail: ebako@mail.ntua.gr
Web: http://users.ntua.gr/ebako/
Research interests
Mapping out of policy in circulatory subjects relative, with the two-wheeled and the bicycle. Search of methodologies with regard to the arrangement of big work in urban areas. Analysis and recognition of built-up physiognomy in island bands.
Urban operations and Local Self-government------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Brand
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin; since Sept. 2003 working in Germany
E-mail: ralf@b-r-a-n-d.de
Web: http://www.b-r-a-n-d.de/
Research Interests
Science and Technology Studies (STS); in particular, the dynamic interaction between the design of technologies / infrastructures and behaviour. My academic curiosity is dedicated to the circumstances under which citizenships design and create a technological / infrastructural environment, which makes socially desired behaviour attractive. With such an approach, I hope to contribute to a productive questioning of the dichotomy between advocates of technical and social "fixes" in the sustainability discourse.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Massimo Bricocoli
E-mail: massimo.bricocoli@polimi.it
Massimo Bricocoli holds a PHD in Urban and Regional Planning. Contract professor at the Urban and Regional Planning postgraduate courses at Politecnico di Milano (Urban Anthropology) and IUAVenice (Public Action and Planning Practices). Academic research at "Sui generis - Laboratorio di sociologia dell'azione pubblica ", Department of Sociology, Università di Milano Bicocca and at Diap - Politecnico di Milano, where he is responsible of the Socrates Intensive Program "Borderlines in Urban Spaces and Planning" within a network of five european faculties. Main research interests are planning practices, institutions and local governments in action, with specific focus on field work, policies for urban safety and "quartiers en crise"------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Enrico Gualini
Lecturer, AME Amsterdam study centre for the Metropolitan Environment
University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Department of Geography and Planning
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, NL - 1018 VZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 525 4044
Fax: +31 20 525 4051
E-mail: e.gualini@uva.nl
Web: http://gp.fmg.uva.nl/ame/cv/gualini.html
Research interests
Urban and regional governance and politics; EU urban and regional policy; regionalization; Europeanization; institutional change and institutionalization; planning theory
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Neil Harris
Lecturer in Statutory Planning, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University.
Web: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/
Research interests
The development of planning policies; statutory planning instruments; communicative planning theory; spatial planning.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meg Holden
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Geography, Simon Fraser University
515 W. Hastings St. Rm. 2300
Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3, Canada
E-mail: holdm136@newschool.edu
Research interests
Sustainable urban development, American pragmatism and urban environmental philosophy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nikos Karadimitriou
Research Officer, Department of Real Estate and Planning, University of Reading, Reading, UK
PhD student, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London, UKWeb: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucftnik
Research interests
I am currently working on constraints to brownfield redevelopment and housebuilder strategies in the context of changing government policies. I am interested in issues of urban regeneration, business strategy, risk and uncertainty in property development. Please visit my personal web page for more details and contact information.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Louna (Luna) Khirfan
Doctoral Student: Urban, Regional and Environmental Planning.
Urban, Technological and Environmental Planning Program, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Office #2208, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2069
OR:
P.O. Box 1594
Amman 11593, Jordan
Web: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lkhirfan/Research interests
My research focuses on planning for tourism in historic cities, and specifically on the physical impacts of heritage tourism on the urban form of the city and its socio-economic impacts on the residents.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Nicolas Lebrun
Teaching Assistant, University of Strasbourg I (France)
Laboratory: Image et Ville UMR 7011 CNRS
3, rue de l'Argonne 67083 Strasbourg Cedex, France
E -mail: nicolas.lebrun@lorraine.u-strasbgResearch interests
retailing, urban planning, edge cities------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karel Martens
Environmental Simulation Laboratory, Tel Aviv University
Yad Avner Building, P.O. Box 39040, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel: +972 (0)3 640 6932
Fax: +972 (0)3 640 5719
E-mail: kmartens@post.tau.ac.il
Web: http://www.eslab.tau.ac.il
Research interests
- Transport and justice: research into principles that actually guide, and search of principles that should guide, the distribution of the ‘transportation good’, among others through urban dynamics modeling
- Governance, democratization and the state-less-state: research into communicative and interactive modes of governance that challenge the role of state organizations
- Sustainable transport: research into transport and land use policies that decrease the dependency on the private car
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Sedky
10 Mahmoud Tharwat Street, Manial, Cairo 11451 Egypt.
PhD Candidate, School of Architecture, ECA, Heriot-Watt University, UK.
MA Islamic Art & Architecture, American University in Cairo 1998; BArch., Cairo University 1992.
Tel: +202-3682231/ Mob: +2-0105320007
E-mail: sedkyahmed@hotmail.com & sedkyahmed@maktoob.com.Research interests
Urban management in deteriorated historic areas; database of the projects and organisations and researchers involved in conservation in the Fertile Crescent, Egypt and Tunisia. Title of the PhD thesis: Assessment of Area Conservation in the Arab-Islamic Cities: the Case Study of Historic Cairo.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elisabete A. Silva Ph.D., MRP - Regional Planning (Lisbon, Portugal)
E-mail:elisabetesilva@ist.utl.pt
Elisabete Silva is a Researcher of the Lisbon Technical University (CESUR, IST). She holds a Ph.D. in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), and a Master in Regional Planning from the New University of Lisbon. She has been a guest researcher of the National Center for Geographical Information & Analysis at Santa Barbara, USA (NCGIA-UCSB), and a researcher of the Portuguese National Center for Geographical Information & Analysis (CNIG, Portugal). Her teaching, research and publications focus on integrated regional planning (urban/environment/public), metropolitan planning, and GIS. Her Ph.D. builds on the prior fields and adds the novelty of using Cellular Automata Models.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paulo Silva
University of Aveiro, Department of Environment and Planning
Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-490 Aveiro, Portugal
Tel: 00351.234370387, 00351.919819065
Fax: 00351.234429290
E-mail: psilva@dao.ua.ptResearch interests
Metropolitan Areas as a process; Urban Discontinuities as the result of tensions between plans, agents and urban design; Regeneration of old peripheries as result of reshaping the territory of metropolitan areas;New Centralities and the design of the metropolitan form.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anna Maria Uttaro
Ph.D. candidate, University “La Sapienza”, Dipartimento di Architettura e Urbanistica per l’ingegneria
Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 6 44585189
E-mail: anna.uttaro@uniroma1.itResearch interests
City and creativity. Collective creative processes: experimentation and contamination between contemporary researches in urban and artistic fields------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Johan Woltjer
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning
Amsterdam study centre for the Metropolitan Environment (AME), University of Amsterdam
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130
1018-VZ Amsterdam
Tel: +31 20 5254571
Fax: +31 20 5254051
E-mail: j.woltjer@uva.nl
Web: http://gp.fmg.uva.nl/ameResearch interests
-New developments in regional planning.
-Dutch environmental and infrastructure planning.
-Public participation
