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Dr. Michael Neuman
School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS, UK

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Michael Neuman is Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the University of Westminster and principal of the Michael Neuman Consultancy. He is the multi-award winning author of numerous books, articles, reports, and plans that have been translated into ten languages and recipients of numerous awards. His research and practice span urbanism, planning, design, engineering, sustainability, infrastructure, and governance. He has advised the mayors of Barcelona, San Francisco, Oakland, Sydney, and Wroclaw; the Regional Plan Association of New York, the Barcelona Metropolitan Plan, and other governments and private clients around the world.

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Journal article
Published: 02 June 2021 in World
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The word border may be the most constraining on human thought and action in history. Whether borders on territory, borders from ideologies, from politics, or anything else; they all condition action and thinking. I want to focus on the many borders that humans erect, walls that we construct, and how they block flows and processes that constitute life and well-being. If this were a conference on sustainability or ecology, I would go on about how human borders, especially administrative and infrastructural ones, block ecological flows and processes and thus harm biological life, including humans. Most ancient traditions of wellness and health, including Ayurvedic, Tantric, Chinese, Greek, and Persian, stressed the free flow of energy. Blockage of flows in the body were sources of illness and disease. Borders of all kinds are infused into virtually every thing that humans create, from organizations and institutions to customs and traditions. Yet the most constraining borders of all are the borders on our own thinking. After addressing several essential characteristics of borders, a number of policies and actions are suggested for dealing with political conflicts and humanitarian crises related to borders.

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Michael Neuman. Borders and the Design of the Civic. World 2021, 2, 302 -307.

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Michael Neuman. Borders and the Design of the Civic. World. 2021; 2 (2):302-307.

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Michael Neuman. 2021. "Borders and the Design of the Civic." World 2, no. 2: 302-307.

Research article
Published: 08 April 2021 in European Planning Studies
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This article reports on one experimental case of interdisciplinary collaboration on a design and planning exercise across several scales – local through urban to regional – and sectors – private, public, scholarly, and interest groups. The case is a collaborative and interdisciplinary design charrette on sustainable urbanism for envisioning the future of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Florence in Italy. The experiment entailed the attempt to integrate complex urban conditions via the design charrette in order to create more healthy and sustainable cities. This collaborative work shows how conditions that are at times not addressed comprehensively nor holistically can be combined through doing applied research by design; where design is understood as a process of discovery and creation that results in synthesis. The article details the methodology applied, and provides an initial assessment on the process that the charrette employed. Moreover, it highlights some professional and policy implications of the effort. Finally, it provides a provisional assessment on learning outcomes and addresses opportunities to improve future exercises of this nature.

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Michael Neuman; Camilla Perrone; Alessandra Mossa. Applied research by design: an experimental collaborative and interdisciplinary design charrette. European Planning Studies 2021, 1 -21.

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Michael Neuman, Camilla Perrone, Alessandra Mossa. Applied research by design: an experimental collaborative and interdisciplinary design charrette. European Planning Studies. 2021; ():1-21.

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Michael Neuman; Camilla Perrone; Alessandra Mossa. 2021. "Applied research by design: an experimental collaborative and interdisciplinary design charrette." European Planning Studies , no. : 1-21.

Journal article
Published: 09 October 2020 in Sustainability
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Infrastructure is all around us: under, above, even inside our built and natural landscapes. Sometimes hidden, sometimes visible. The flows that course through them make our cities, economies, and lives possible. Cities could not even exist without infrastructure. Life is endowed with more possibilities by infrastructure. The centrality of infrastructure is pervasive. Worldwide, cities embrace infrastructure for economic competitiveness, well-being, access, environmental protection and knowledge creation. As cities are crucibles that concentrate the human condition, infrastructures are conduits that enable that concentration and empower human achievement. As infrastructures shape almost every aspect of daily life, this article assays the various ways it currently makes places both less sustainable and resilient, as well as more so, and how we can minimise the former and optimise the latter.

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Michael Neuman. Infrastructure is Key to Make Cities Sustainable. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8308 .

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Michael Neuman. Infrastructure is Key to Make Cities Sustainable. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8308.

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Michael Neuman. 2020. "Infrastructure is Key to Make Cities Sustainable." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8308.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2020 in Town Planning Review
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As infrastructure is key to the prosperity and sustainability of cities, this article discusses whether London’s and the central government’s critical investments in infrastructure capacity in recent years have been sufficient, and, especially for the government, whether they are understood spatially. Taking recent projects like Crossrail, HS2 and the National Infrastructure Plan into consideration, it explains what is being done to keep ahead of the pace in order to maintain London’s and Britain’s leading positions globally and within Europe after ‘Brexit’. Critically, the analysis addresses the need for a new framework of spatial strategy for sustainable infrastructure and its sustainable financing.

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Michael Neuman. The power of infrastructure that shapes spatial strategy: who is left behind? Town Planning Review 2020, 91, 475 -487.

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Michael Neuman. The power of infrastructure that shapes spatial strategy: who is left behind? Town Planning Review. 2020; 91 (5):475-487.

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Michael Neuman. 2020. "The power of infrastructure that shapes spatial strategy: who is left behind?" Town Planning Review 91, no. 5: 475-487.

Book review
Published: 20 November 2019 in European Planning Studies
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Michael Neuman. The poverty of territorialism: neo-medieval view of Europe and European planning. European Planning Studies 2019, 28, 850 -852.

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Michael Neuman. The poverty of territorialism: neo-medieval view of Europe and European planning. European Planning Studies. 2019; 28 (4):850-852.

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Michael Neuman. 2019. "The poverty of territorialism: neo-medieval view of Europe and European planning." European Planning Studies 28, no. 4: 850-852.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2019 in Town Planning Review
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Michael Neuman. Is resilience planning’s holy grail? Town Planning Review 2019, 90, 109 -115.

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Michael Neuman. Is resilience planning’s holy grail? Town Planning Review. 2019; 90 (2):109-115.

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Michael Neuman. 2019. "Is resilience planning’s holy grail?" Town Planning Review 90, no. 2: 109-115.

Articles
Published: 17 April 2018 in European Planning Studies
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Regional design, long a backbone for spatial planning, even if under other names, has become topical again for two reasons – as a key strategy and as a key tool in spatial management. This is due to several reasons. New conditions of urbanization that result from the convergence of several factors highlight the need for spatial strategy formation and application at supra-metropolitan scales. These new conditions include globalization, climate change, booming urban population, increased mobility and interconnectivity, and new infrastructure technologies. These forces driving urbanization today and into the future play out at the urban scale, which is increasingly encompassed in the city-region. The solutions to the impacts and problems that these forces cause must be dealt with by a strategic urbanism at a scale that matches. This scale of urbanism can be denoted as regional design. To justify these claims and to understand the origins of regional design and its relevance today and into the future, the master strokes in its history are presented next. After that, we discuss current concepts and practices in regional design. In conclusion, we offer answers to the question: why a resurgence of regional design?

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Michael Neuman; Wil Zonneveld. The resurgence of regional design. European Planning Studies 2018, 26, 1297 -1311.

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Michael Neuman, Wil Zonneveld. The resurgence of regional design. European Planning Studies. 2018; 26 (7):1297-1311.

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Michael Neuman; Wil Zonneveld. 2018. "The resurgence of regional design." European Planning Studies 26, no. 7: 1297-1311.

Perspective
Published: 01 August 2017 in Ambio
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Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social–ecological–technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders, has progressed such an approach in the Australian context, aiming to also contribute to international knowledge development and sharing. This process has generated three outputs: (1) a shared framework to support more systematic knowledge development and use, (2) identification of barriers that create a gap between stated urban goals and actual practice, and (3) identification of strategic focal areas to address this gap. Developing integrated strategies at broader urban scales is seen as the most pressing need. The knowledge framework adopts a systems perspective that incorporates the many urban trade-offs and synergies revealed by a systems view. Broader implications are drawn for policy and decision makers, for researchers and for a shared forward agenda.

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Robert Webb; Xuemei Bai; Mark Stafford Smith; Robert Costanza; David Griggs; Magnus Moglia; Michael Neuman; Peter Newman; Peter Newton; Barbara Norman; Chris Ryan; Heinz Schandl; Will Steffen; Nigel Tapper; Giles Thomson. Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation. Ambio 2017, 47, 57 -77.

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Robert Webb, Xuemei Bai, Mark Stafford Smith, Robert Costanza, David Griggs, Magnus Moglia, Michael Neuman, Peter Newman, Peter Newton, Barbara Norman, Chris Ryan, Heinz Schandl, Will Steffen, Nigel Tapper, Giles Thomson. Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation. Ambio. 2017; 47 (1):57-77.

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Robert Webb; Xuemei Bai; Mark Stafford Smith; Robert Costanza; David Griggs; Magnus Moglia; Michael Neuman; Peter Newman; Peter Newton; Barbara Norman; Chris Ryan; Heinz Schandl; Will Steffen; Nigel Tapper; Giles Thomson. 2017. "Sustainable urban systems: Co-design and framing for transformation." Ambio 47, no. 1: 57-77.

Book chapter
Published: 29 June 2017 in The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
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This chapter describes a collaborative interdisciplinary studio approach to teaching practice. These studios have engaged students, faculty, and in most cases, clients in real-world problem-solving activities ranging from an integrated plan-design-build urban redevelopment projects to regional scale analyses and plans. We found that integrated service-based learning projects were of benefit to students and communities alike if a specified set of criteria were met at the outset of the studio. Lessons for future pedagogy and research are derived from the findings.

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Michael Neuman. The Collaborative Interdisciplinary Studio. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods 2017, 269 -292.

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Michael Neuman. The Collaborative Interdisciplinary Studio. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods. 2017; ():269-292.

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Michael Neuman. 2017. "The Collaborative Interdisciplinary Studio." The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods , no. : 269-292.