About me
Michael Neuman is Professor of Sustainable Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster since January 2017, and principal of the Michael Neuman Consultancy since 1995. He was Professor of Sustainable Urbanism in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he served as Director of the Infrastructure Research Cluster, Chair of the Built Environment Node of the Australian Climate Change Adaption Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure, and Associate Director of the City Futures Research Centre.
Professor Neuman is the author of numerous articles, reports, and plans; translated into ten languages. His books include Engendering Cities, The Futures of the City Region, The Imaginative Institution, Building California´s Future, and Coordinating Growth and Environmental Management Through Consensus Building. Two forthcoming books include The Routledge Handbook for Regional Design and Sustainable Infrastructure. Dr. Neuman has been awarded Fulbright and Regents Fellowships, and best article awards in Town Planning Review (twice), European Planning Studies and the Journal of the American Planning Association. His professional and scholarly work has won numerous awards ranging from the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Science Foundation to the Planning Institute of Australia, the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, and the Spanish and Catalan governments, among others.
Dr. Neuman’s experience spans more than 35 years, specialising in interdisciplinary integration among the fields of planning, engineering, design, and governance for sustainable towns, cities, and regions; with an emphasis on the integration of sustainability, infrastructure and urban development. He has advised the mayors of Barcelona, San Francisco, Oakland, and Wroclaw; along with the Regional Plan Association of New York, the Barcelona Metropolitan Plan, and governments and private clients around the world. He has served on the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Governing Board, the Board of Directors of the California and Texas Chapters of the American Planning Association, and on the Editorial Boards of numerous academic journals.
He has engaged in pro-bono work, NGO leadership, and civic activism on several continents.
Michael Neuman is known for his leadership in pioneering concepts and practices in the planning and design professions. These include a general theory of sustainability and a cognitive basis of institutional design and evolution. He co-led the development of regional design, cross acceptance, and life-cycle methods for infrastructure planning while Planning Manager for the New Jersey Office of State Planning, which during Michael’s tenure there prepared the New Jersey State Plan, cited in the Journal of the American Planning Association as one of three landmark American plans of the 20th century, and the only plan to win President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development Example of Excellence Award.
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AWARDS AND HONOURS
* Best Article of the Year, “Measuring Sustainability”, Town Planning Review
* Who’s Who in the World
* Planning Institute of Australia NSW, Innovation in Research and Teaching Commendation
* Best Article of the Year, “Ildefons Cerdà and the Future of Spatial Planning: The Network Urbanism of a City Planning Pioneer”, Town Planning Review
* Best Article of the Year, Association of European Schools of Planning Finalist, “Ildefons Cerdà and the Future of Spatial Planning: The Network Urbanism of a City Planning Pioneer”, selected from over 50 European journals
* Who’s Who in America
* Best Article of the Year "The Planning Dialectic of Continuity and Change: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning in Madrid", European Planning Studies
* Best Article of the Year Finalist, Association of European Schools of Planning "The Planning Dialectic of Continuity and Change: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning in Madrid", selected from over 50 European journals
* Generalitat de Catulunya, Spain Foreign Scholar Research Grant
* President's Council on Sustainable Development. Example of Excellence Award (for the New Jersey State Plan, in part, which has won numerous awards)
* Best Feature Award, “Does Planning Need the Plan?”, Journal of the American Planning Association
* American Institute of Architects (AIA) California Council. Special Commendation (Bay Bridge Coalition leadership)
* Fulbright Fellowship. City Planning in Spain
* Regents Fellowship
* National Endowment for the Arts. Mayors Institute Scholar
* National Endowment for the Arts. Design Advancement -- for Regional Design
Teaching
COURSES TAUGHT All graduate courses / modules unless otherwise indicated
University of Westminster - 2017 to present
7PLAN019W Sustainable Cities and Neighbourhoods
5PLAN004W Strategic Planning - undergraduate
5PLAN005W Urban Design studio - undergraduate
Sustainability and the Environment
University of New South Wales 2011 to 2015
BENV 7020 Postgraduate Research Design Seminar
Created new core course for PhD, MPhil and MRes students
BENV 7732 Sustainable Infrastructure and Transport
Created new cross-disciplinary course for multiple Masters degree programs
UDES 0002 Advanced Urban Design Studio
Core course for Master of Urban Development and Design Program
UDES 0003 International Urban Design Studio
Core course for for Master of Urban Development and Design Program
UDES 0004 History and Theory of Urban Development and Design
Core course for Master of Urban Development and Design Program
SUSD 0001 Sustainable Development and the Urban Environment
Core course for the Master of Sustainable Development Program
Texas A&M University
PLAN 669 Urban Infrastructure 2002 – 2011
Elective course on urban infrastructure networks and planning, international perspective.
URSC 469 Urban Infrastructure 2008 – 2011
Core course for undergraduate Urban Planning minor and major.
CARC 331 Field Studies in Design Philosophy Barcelona 2007 – 2008
Created summer undergraduate course on cities, focus on infrastructure and public spaces
URSC 631 Foundations of Planning Thought 2006 – 2011
Created new doctoral seminar on planning theory
PS PLAN 675 Sustainable Urbanism 2006 – 2011
Created new seminar and practicum on planning and design for urban sustainability.
Student projects preparing regional plans (New Orleans) or regional analyses (Texas Urban Triangle) were published as 120 and 140 page 11 x 17 full color reports and can be accessed on line: http://sustainableurbanism.tamu.edu/projects.html
* American Planning AssociationTexas Chapter Best Student Project Award
* American Planning Association Central Texas Section Best Student Project Award
PLAN 664 History and Theory of Planning 2000 – 2004,
2008 - 2011
Core course – an international historical survey of planning theory and practice.
PLAN 610 Structure and Function of Cities 2000 – 2005
Core course – an international historical survey of cities and urbanization.
Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Societies 2003 – 2004
University Scholars Seminar with students selected from top 45 undergraduates in entire university. Conceived, coordinated, co-taught with faculty from six disciplines.
URSC 415 Urban Issues 2007
Core course for undergraduate Urban Planning minor and major
PLAN 610 Cities and Cultures (ENGL 489 cross-list) 2003
Conceived and coordinated this combined Urban Planning graduate course and undergraduate Honors course co-taught with English professor Victoria Rosner. 30 students from 5 departments. On modern cities in Europe and North America since 1850.
PS PLAN 662-663 Collaborative Planning Studio 2002 – 2003
Six credit collaborative, client-based urban design studios with a community outreach and service learning focus. Students and faculty from up to three degree programs. Received $67,000 in grants - $45,000 from the City of Palacios (2003) to study existing conditions and prepare an Urban Design Plan, and $22,000 from Sherwin Alumina Corporation (2002) to analyze existing conditions and prepare a Sustainable Land Development Plan for 11,000 acres. Lead faculty, with Profs. Tazim Jamal and Ute Jamrozy, Dept. of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences (2003), and Tom Woodfin (2002) and Jody Naderi (2003), Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Palacios Urban Design Plan won in 2004:
* American Planning Association Best Student Project Award Honorable Mention
* American Planning AssociationTexas Chapter Best Student Project Award
PS ARCH 405 Sustainable Urban Redevelopment Studio 2001
On my initiative, faculty members from architecture, urban planning, land development, and construction science collaborated on the first-ever college-wide urban plan/design/build studio, with 40 students. Co-coordinated this urban design project for downtown Bryan.
PLAN 620 Conflict Resolution and Negotiation 2000 – 2001
Seminar on conflict resolution and consensus building, taken by students from across the university. Developed completely new syllabus, taught solo 2000, led / co-taught 2001.
University of California at Berkeley
PS PLAN 116 Sustainable Community Redevelopment Studio 1999
Four credit collaborative urban design studio had 20 graduate and undergraduate students from eleven degree programs. Developed completely new syllabus, co-taught with one other lecturer. Service project for the West Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation.
PLAN 110 Introduction to Planning 1991
Teaching Assistant, led section of 32 undergraduates one day per week, assisted professor with three other teaching assistants, 130 students total.
Seton Hall University
PSMA 7111 Strategic Planning Theory Seminar 1990
Seminar on strategic planning for the public and corporate sectors, 12 masters students.
National and International Competitions and Awards won by my Students, Advisees, and myself
Three minute thesis presentation winner, University of Westminster, awarded to my doctoral student Megan Sharkey
Three minute thesis presentation winner, University of New South Wales, awarded to my doctoral student Aida Afrooz
Three minute thesis presentation winner, UNSW Faculty of the Built Environment, awarded to my doctoral student Matt McLaren
Planning Institute of Australia NSW, Innovation in Research and Teaching Commendation
Best Urban Design Student Project, the Commissioner Hoffmann Urban Design Award, UNSW, awarded to my Master of Urban Design and Development student Genevieve Blanchett
Best Student Project Award, American Planning Association Texas Chapter Texas Urban Triangle: Framing Future Growth
Best Student Project Award, American Planning Association Central Texas Section 2009 Texas Urban Triangle: Framing Future Growth
Finalist, American Planning Association, Best Masters Student Thesis, Jennifer Opon
Winner, Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies International Competition Prize for the Best Essay on Urban and Regional Themes by Young Authors (under 35), Zhu Qian
(This was a conference paper for 2nd World Planning Schools Congress in Mexico City and published as Zhu Qian (2007) “Institutions and local growth coalitions in China's urban land reform: The case of Hangzhou High-Technology Zone”. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 48(2), 219–233)
American Planning Association Texas Chapter Best Student Project Award Palacios Urban Design Plan
American Planning Association Best Student Project Award, Honorable Mention Palacios Urban Design Plan
EDUCATING EDUCATORS
Wakonse Fellow Texas A&M
Wakonse South Teaching Seminar, Facilitator / Mentor Texas A&M
Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence, Faculty Teaching Academy Certificate
Research
Research grants are listed first, publications follow.
TOTAL SPONSORED FUNDING $1,088,400 – $816,400 as CI/PI, $272,000 as Co-PI
30 graduate students and postdocs funded
Externally Funded Research – Peer Reviewed:
Project Title: PS Sydney Climate Change Adaptation Research Review – Settlements
Funding Source: New South Wales Department of Environment and Heritage
Period: 2012
Grant Amount: $20,000
Contribution: Chief Investigator
Postoc and Student Funded: Dr. Sandra Schuster and Erica Tineo
Project Title: PS Sydney Climate Change Adaptation Research Review - Buildings and Neighborhoods
Funding Source: New South Wales Department of Environment and Heritage
Period: 2012
Grant Amount: $20,000
Contribution: Chief Investigator
Doctoral Students Funded: Tracie Harvison, Aida Afrooz
Project Title: Center for Transportation and Electricity Convergence
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Period: 2010-2015
Grant Amount: $7,500,000 * not included in totals above
Contribution: Researcher
Project Title: PS Texas Urban Triangle: Pilot Study to Implement a Spatial Decision Support System for Sustainable Mobility
Funding Source: University Transportation Center for Mobility
Period: 2010-2011
Grant Amount: $109,785
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Graduate Students Funded: Hwanyong Kim, Martin Siwek
Project Title: PS Texas Urban Triangle: Creating a Spatial Decision Support System for Mobility Policy and Investments to Shape Texas’s Growth Sustainably
Funding Source: University Transportation Center for Mobility
Period: 2009-2010
Grant Amount: $100,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Graduate Students Funded: Nathanael Proctor, Martin Siwek
Project Title: I/UCRC for PHEV: Transportation and Electricity Convergence in the Built Environment
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Period: 2009-2010
Grant Amount: $10,000 planning grant
Contribution: Researcher
Project Title: Creating a Multi-factor Performance Assessment Model to test Governance Performance in Multi-Scalar Large Institutional Networks
Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Period: 2006-2008
Grant Amount: $125,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Post-Doc Funded: Franziska Hasselmann
Project Title: PS Texas Urban Triangle: Framework for Future Growth
Funding Source: Southwest Region University Transportation Center
Period: 2006-2007
Grant Amount: $50,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Graduate Students Funded: Jose Gavinha, Zhu Qian, Tony Topping, Jennifer Opon, Nathanael Proctor, Varun Gupta
Project Title: Building Institutions for Flexible Governance: Planning in Barcelona and Madrid
Funding Source: Generalitat de Catulunya, Spain (autonomous regional government)
Period: 2005
Grant Amount: $25,000 (19,000 euros)
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: PS Community Development Work Study Grant
Funding Source: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Period: 2001-2003
Grant Amount: $90,000
Contribution: Co-Principal Investigator, with Kermit Lynch, Principal Investigator and Marlynn May, Co-Principal Investigator
Graduate Students Funded: three with full HUD scholarships
Project Title: PS Community Outreach Partnership Center Grant
Funding Source: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Period: 2000-2002
Grant Amount: $150,000
Contribution: Co-Principal Investigator, with Kermit Lynch, Principal Investigator
Project Title: Madrid City and Metropolitan Planning
Funding Source: Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities
Period: 2000
Grant Amount: $1,500
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: PS Current Conditions in California’s Infrastructure Planning
Funding Source: Public Policy Institute of California
Period 1999
Grant Amount: $36,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Graduate Student Funded: Jan Whittington, University of California at Berkeley
Project Title: City Planning in Barcelona
Funding Source: Fulbright Fellowship
Period: 1994 – 1995
Grant Amount: $20,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Building Institutions for Flexible Governance
Funding Source: US Department of Education Area Studies Fellowship
Period: 1993 - 1994
Grant Amount: $8,500
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Madrid City and Metropolitan Planning
Funding Source: Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities
Period: 1993
Grant Amount: $4,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: PS Regional Design
Funding Source: National Endowment for the Arts. Design Advancement Grant
Period: 1991 - 1992
Grant Amount: $27,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
PEER REVIEWED SPONSORED RESEARCH – INTERNAL
Project Title: Collaborative and Interdisciplinary International Design:
Charrette on Sustainable Urban design practices in Florence, Italy
Funding Source: University of Westminster Strategic Research Fund
Period: 2017
Grant Amount: £34,094
Contribution: Chief Investigator
Project Title: Infrastructure Research Cluster
Funding Source: UNSW Built Environment Faculty Research Grant
Period: 2014
Grant Amount: $18,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Graduate student funded: Alec Gelgota
Project Title: Electric Vehicle Research
Funding Source: UNSW Built Environment Faculty Research Grant
Period: 2013
Grant Amount: $18,850
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Post-doc funded: Araz Taeihagh
Project Title: City Planning in Madrid
Funding Source: Texas A&M University International Research Assistance Grant
Period: 2004
Grant Amount: $750
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Sustainable Infrastructure Planning
Funding Source: Texas A&M University College of Architecture Research and Interdisciplinary Council
Period: 2004
Grant Amount: $7,500
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Graduate Students Funded: Baoliang Liu and Firas Al-Douri
Project Title: Sustainable Infrastructure
Funding Source: Texas A&M University College of Architecture Research and Interdisciplinary Council
Period: 2002
Grant Amount: $5,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Urban Identity in Berlin
Funding Source: Texas A&M University International Research Travel Assistance Grant
Period: 2001
Grant Amount: $1,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: The Mother of Reinvention: Barcelona in the Modern Era
Funding Source: Texas A&M University Faculty Mini-Grant
Period: 2000
Grant Amount: $1,500
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Regional Design of the Texas Urban Triangle
Funding Source: Texas A&M University College of Architecture Research Council
Period: 2000
Grant Amount: $5,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Graduate Students Funded: Mike Rehm
Project Title: Urban Planning in Spain
Funding Source: Texas A&M University International Research Travel Assistance Grant
Period: 1999
Grant Amount: $1,500
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Barcelona City and Metropolitan Planning
Funding Source: University of California at Berkeley Catalonian Studies Program
Period: 1994
Grant Amount: $3,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Urban Planning in Spain and Italy
Funding Source: University of California, Berkeley Center for German & European Studies
Period: 1992
Grant Amount: $2,500
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
TEACHING AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS – total $185,000
Project title: Sustainability Audit for Master Plans
Funding Source: Tampa-Hillsborough, FL Joint City-County Planning Commission
Period: 2009-2010
Grant Amount: $25,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Graduate Students Funded: Russell Blessing, Heather Anderson, Ridwan Quaium, Caleb Spangenberger
Project Title: Pathways to the Doctorate Research Assistantship
Funding Source: Texas A&M University
Period: 2009 - 2011
Grant Amount: $36,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator – to fund a new minority doctoral student
Graduate Student Awarded: Rudy Eguia – funds not dispersed
Project Title: PS Texas Urban Triangle: Framework for Future Growth
Funding Source: Southwest Region Universities Transportation Center
Period: 2006-2007
Grant Amount: $50,000 Note: also listed with research. Most of this money supported graduate students in two courses, PLAN 662 and PLAN 675
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Project Title: PS Palacios Texas Urban Design Plan
Funding Source: City of Palacios, Texas
Period: 2003
Grant Amount: $45,000 Virtually all of this total supported students, save production costs
Contribution: Principal Investigator
Student Funded: Lorraine Lopez
Project Title: PS Sherwin Alumina Land Development Plan
Funding Source: Sherwin Alumina Corporation, Texas
Period: 2003
Grant Amount: $22,000 Virtually all went to support students, save production costs
Contribution: Co-Principal Investigator
Project Title: Cities and Civilizations
Funding Source: Texas A&M University College Honors Curriculum Development Grant
Period: 2002-2003
Grant Amount: $2,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Development of Interactive Multimedia for CP 116
Funding Source: University of California, Berkeley
Period: 1999
Grant Amount: $2,880
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Data Compilation and Acquisition of Materials for CP 116
Funding Source: University of California, Berkeley
Period: 1999
Grant Amount: $1,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
Project Title: Course Improvement Grant
Funding Source: University of California at Berkeley
Period: 1991
Grant Amount: $1,000
Contribution: Principal Investigator (sole investigator)
BOOKS AND RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS
5. Inés Sánchez de Madariaga and Michael Neuman, editors. 2020. Engendering Cities. Designing Sustainable Urban Spaces for All. London: Routledge.
4. Michael Neuman and Angela Hull, editors. 2011. The Futures of the City Region. London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-58803-4. Paperback edition, 2013. ISBN 978-0-415-82890-1
3. Michael Neuman. 2010. The Imaginative Institution: Planning and Governance in Madrid. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, ISBN 978-1-4094-0541-2. eBook edition, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4094-8878-1
2. Michael Neuman and Jan Whittington. 2000. Building California’s Future: Current Conditions in California's Infrastructure Planning, Budgeting and Financing. Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, ISBN 978-1582130248.
1. Judith Innes, Judith Gruber, Michael Neuman, Robert Thompson. 1994. Coordinating Growth and Environmental Management Through Consensus Building. Report to the California Policy Seminar, Berkeley, California. 270 pages.
RESEARCH REPORTS
Harvison, T., Afrooz, A., Neuman, M. 2012 Climate Change Adaptation: Buildings and Neighbourhoods. Report to the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney, Australia. 105 pages.
Schuster, S., Tinio, E., Neuman, M. 2012. Climate Change Adaptation Research Review: Settlements and Communities. Report to the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney, Australia. 45 pages.
Hwan Yong Kim, Doug Wunneburger, Jun Huang, Curtis Morgan, Michael Neuman (PI). Texas Urban Triangle: Creating a Spatial Decision Support System for Mobility Policy and Investments that Shape the Sustainable Growth of Texas, Phase Two, 2011, University Transportation Center for Mobility, Texas Transportation Institute. 42 pages. http://utcm.tamu.edu/publications/final_reports.stm
Michael Neuman, Elise Bright, Curtis Morgan. Texas Urban Triangle: Creating a Spatial Decision Support System for Mobility Policy and Investments that Shape the Sustainable Growth of Texas, 2010, University Transportation Center for Mobility, Texas Transportation Institute. 35 pages. http://utcm.tamu.edu/publications/final_reports.stm
Michael Neuman, ed. Hillsborough County Sustainability Report, 2010, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, TAMU. Led group of 15 graduate students from three disciplines to prepare recommendations to revise the comprehensive plan. 166 pages.
Michael Neuman, ed. City of Tampa, Florida Comprehensive Plan Sustainability Audit, 2010, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, TAMU. Led group of 18 graduate planning students to prepare a sustainability audit. 132 pages.
Michael Neuman, ed. Hillsborough County, Florida Comprehensive Plan Sustainability Audit, 2010, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, TAMU. Led group of 18 graduate planning students to prepare a sustainability audit. 138 pages.
Michael Neuman and Elise Bright, eds. Texas Urban Triangle: Framework for Future Growth, 2008, Southwest Universities Transportation Consortium, College Station, TX. 141 pp. 11 x 17. Led a group of 30 students from 5 disciplines to prepare an analysis of the Texas Urban Triangle urban mega-region of 17 million persons and 58,000 square miles.
Michael Neuman, ed. Rebuilding a Sustainable Gulf Coast: A Regional Plan for New Orleans and Environs, 2006, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, TAMU.
Led a group of 18 students from 6 disciplines to prepare an analysis and recovery plan for New Orleans and South Louisiana, working at multiple scales. The LRA and the City of NOLA use it for their Hurricane Katrina recovery work.
ARTICLES in Refereed Journals
* indicates co-author is my student, advisee, or mentee
T indicates Teaching and Pedagogy – article specifically written for pedagogical purposes
37 Michael Neuman and Camilla Perrone “Interrogating a collaborative and interdisciplinary design charrette on sustainable urbanism” European Planning Studies. Under review.
36 Michael Neuman “The Power of Infrastructure that Shapes Spatial Strategy – Who is Left Behind?” Town Planning Review. Forthcoming, 2020.
35 Michael Neuman “Is Resilience Planning’s Holy Grail?” Town Planning Review. 90(2):109-115, 2019.
34 Michael Neuman and Wil Zonnenfeld. “The Resurgence of Regional Design” European Planning Studies, 26(7): 1297-1311, 2018. Lead Article.
33 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, 47(1):57-77, 2018.
32 Inés Sánchez de Madariaga and Michael Neuman “Mainstreaming Gender in the City” Town Planning Review, 87(5): 493-504, 2016. doi:10.3828/tpr.2016.33
31 T Michael Neuman “Teaching Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Service-based Urban Design and Planning Studios” Journal of Urban Design, 21(5): 596-615, 2015.
30 Michael Neuman and Stuart W. Churchill “Measuring Sustainability” Town Planning Review, 86(4): 457–482, 2015. Winner, Best Article. Most downloaded article, 2015.
29 Michael Neuman “The Long Emergence of the Infrastructure Emergency” Town Planning Review, 85(6):795-806, 2014.
28 Crystal Legacy*, Carey Curtis, Michael Neuman “Adapting the Deliberative Democracy ‘template’ for Planning Practice” Town Planning Review, 85(3):319-340, 2014.
27 HwanYong Kim*, Douglas Wunneburger, Michael Neuman, and S.Y. Ahn "Optimizing High-Speed Rail Routes using a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS): The Texas Urban Triangle (TUT) Case" Journal of Transport Geography, 34:194-201, 2014.
26 HwanYong Kim*, Douglas Wunneburger, and Michael Neuman. “High-Speed Rail Route and Regional Mobility with a Raster-Based Decision Support System: The Texas Urban Triangle Case" Journal of Geographic Information Systems, 5(6):559-566, 2013.
25 Michael Neuman “The Image of the Institution: A Cognitive Theory of Institutional Change” Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(2) 139-156, 2012.
24 Michael Neuman and Stuart Churchill “A General Process Model of Sustainability” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 50: 8901-8904, 2011.
23 Michael Neuman “Infrastructure Planning for Sustainable Cities” Geographica Helvetica, 15(2) 100-107, 2011.
22 Michael Neuman “Ildefons Cerdà and the Future of Spatial Planning: The Network Urbanism of a City Planning Pioneer” Town Planning Review, 82(2) 117-143, 2011. Winner, Best Article of the Year. Most downloaded article, 2011.
21 Vaibav Malhotra*, José Fernández Solís, Sarel Lavy, Michael Neuman ¨Feasibility of an Off-grid Renewable Energy Source for the Mercantile Sector” Journal of Green Building, 5(1) 71-87, 2010.
20 Michael Neuman and Sheri Smith “Infrastructure and City Planning: Once and Future Partners” Journal of Planning History, 9(1) 21-42, 2010. Most downloaded article, 2009/2010.
19 Michael Neuman “Spatial Planning Leadership by Infrastructure: An American View” International Planning Studies, 14(2) 201-217, 2009.
18 Michael Neuman and Angela Hull “The Futures of the City Region” Regional Studies, 43(6) 777-787, 2009.
17 Michael Neuman. "Multi-Scalar Large Institutional Networks in Regional Planning" Planning Theory and Practice, 8(3) 319–344, 2007.
16 Michael Neuman. “La Gobernanza Regional Metropolitana: Grandes Redes Institucionales y Fenómenos de Multiescala” (Metropolitan Regional Governance: Large Institutional Networks and Multi-Scalar Phenomena) Urban, 11:6-23, 2006. Lead article.
15 T Michael Neuman. “Infiltrating Infrastructures” Journal of Urban Technology, 13(1):3-31, 2006. Lead article.
14 T Michael Neuman. “The Uses and Scope of City Planning Theory” Planning Theory, 4(2):123–145, 2005. Lead article.
13 Michael Neuman. “The Compact City Fallacy” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 25(1):11-26, 2005. Lead Article, Silver Anniversary Issue.
12 Michael Neuman and Jose Gavinha*. "The Planning Dialectic of Continuity and Change: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning in Madrid" European Planning Studies, 13(7):985-1012, 2005. Winner, Best Article of the Year.
11 Michael Neuman. "Regional Design: Recovering a Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Tradition" Landscape and Urban Planning, 47:115-128, 2000.
10 Michael Neuman. "Communicate This: Does Consensus Lead to Advocacy and Pluralism?" Journal of Planning Education and Research, 19(4):343-350, 2000.
9 Michael Neuman. "A New Approach to Planning and Governing: The Jersey Shore Experience" Ocean and Coastal Management, 42:815-34, 1999.
8 Michael Neuman. "Planning, Governing and the Image of the City" Journal of Planning Education and Research, 18:61-71, 1998.
7 T Michael Neuman. “Does Planning Need the Plan?” Journal of the American Planning Association, 64,2:208-220, 1998. Winner, American Planning Awards, Best Feature of the Year, 1999.
6 Michael Neuman. “The Imaginative Institution: Planning and Institutions in Madrid” Berkeley Planning Journal, 12:159-160, 1997.
5 Michael Neuman. “The Imaginative Institution: Planning and Politics in Madrid" Planning Theory, 15:120-131, 1996.
4 Michael Neuman. "Images as Institution Builders: Metropolitan Planning in Madrid" European Planning Studies, 4(3):293-312, 1996.
3 Michael Neuman. "La Ciudad y La Imagen" Ciudad y Territorio, 104:377-394, 1995. (Madrid)
2 Michael Neuman. Utopia, Dystopia, Diaspora" Journal of the American Planning Association, 57(3):344-7, 1991.
1 Hilda Blanco and Michael Neuman "The Environment as Common Ground" Journal of the American Planning Association, 55(3):339-341, 1989.
EDITED JOURNALS / SPECIAL ISSUES
Town Planning Review special issue (87(5), 2016) titled Planning the Gendered City, co-editor with Prof. Inés Sánchez de Madariaga.
Regional Studies special issue volume 43 issue 6 (2009), pages 777 – 877 titled The Futures of the City Region. Lead Editor, with Angela Hull, Co-Editor. Contributors: Peter Hall, Patsy Healey, Angela Hull, Robert Lang, Michael Neuman, Ananya Roy, Ivan Turok, Stephen Wheeler
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS AND ANTHOLOGIES
9 Michael Neuman and Nadia Nur “Simplexity, Complicity, and Emergent Collectivities: Informal Urbanism in Rome” in Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund, editors. Forthcoming, 2018. In the Post-Urban World: Emergent Transformations of Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy. London: Routledge.
8 T Michael Neuman “The Collaborative Interdisciplinary Studio” in Chris Silver and Andrea Frank, editors. Forthcoming, 2017. Educating the World of Planning. New York: Springer.
7 Michael Neuman “Rethinking Borders” in Wendy Steele, Tooran Alizadeh and LeilaEslami-Andargoli, editors. 2014. Planning Across Borders. London: Routledge, 15-30.
6 Peter M J Fisher and Michael Neuman “Restoring Infrastructures” in Edward Blakely, Eugenie Birch, Roland Anglin & Haruo Hayashi, editors. 2011. Managing Urban Disaster Recovery: Policy, Planning, Concepts and Cases. Crowthorne, UK: Crisis Response Publishing, pp. 179-197.
5 Michael Neuman & Angela Hull “The Futures of the City Region” in Michael Neuman & Angela Hull, editors. 2011 (May) The Futures of the City Region. London: Routledge, ISBN is 978-0-415-58803-4.
4 Michael Neuman. “Using Research to Build Planning Institutions”, pages 215-219, in Van den Broeck, J., Moulaert, F., Oosterlynck, S., eds., 2008. Empowering the Planning Fields: Ethics, Creativity, Action. Leuven, Belgium: ACCO Press.
3 T Michael Neuman. “Does Planning Need the Plan?” Reprinted in Eugenie Birch, ed., 2008. The Urban and Regional Planning Reader. London, New York: Routledge.
2 T Michael Neuman. “How Institutions and Individuals Use Plans: Planning Cultures and Images of Futures”, pages 155-174, in Lewis D. Hopkins and Marisa A. Zapata, eds., 2007. Engaging the Future: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans, and Projects. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute Press.
1 Michael Neuman. "Images as Institution Builders: Metropolitan Planning in Madrid", pages 77-94, in Patsy Healey, et al., eds., 1997. Making Strategic Spatial Plans: Innovation in Europe. London, University College London Press.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Michael Neuman. "Infrastructure", pages 261-264, in Roger W. Caves, ed., 2005. Encyclopedia of the City. London; New York: Routledge.
REVIEWS and REVIEW ESSAYS in Refereed Journals
10 Michael Neuman. Book review of Bishwapriya Sanyal, Lawrence Vale and Christina Rosan, eds., 2013. Planning Ideas that Matter, edited by Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, in Urban Policy and Research, 31(4):500-502.
9 Michael Neuman. Book review of Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, editors, 2011. Companion to Urban Design London: Routledge, in Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(2):212, 2012.
8 Michael Neuman. Book review of Patsy Healey, 2007. Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies: Towards a relational planning for our times. London: Routledge, in Planning Theory, 8(3): 309-316, 2009.
7 Michael Neuman. Book review of Tim Marshall, ed. 2004. Transforming Barcelona, London: Routledge, in Town Planning Review. 77(5):630-633, 2006.
6 Michael Neuman. Book review of Olivier Coutard, Richard Hanley, and Rae Zimmerman, eds. 2005. Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems London: Routledge, in Planning Theory and Practice. 7,3:353-354, 2006. Lead Review
5 Mark Linenschmidt* and Michael Neuman. Book review of Gene Bunnell, 2002. Making Places Special Chicago, IL: APA Press, in Town Planning Review. 74(4):476-77, 2003.
4 Michael Neuman. Book review of Bruce Katz, ed., 2000. Reflections on Regionalism, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, in Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. 19(4):351-354, 2002. Lead Review
3 Michael Neuman. "Museum with a Message" in Journal of the American Planning Association, 61(4):518-20, 1995, Book review of Espuche, Albert Garcia, 1994. Ciudades: del globo al satelite. Madrid: Electa; and Dethier, Jean and Alain Guiheux, 1994. Visions Urbanes Europa 1870 – 1993. Madrid:Electa. Lead Review
2 Michael Neuman. "Space and Place, Haste and Waste" in Berkeley Planning Journal. 7:157-165, 1992. Book review of Henri Lefebvre, 1991 (1974). The Production of Space. Oxford: Basil Blackwell; and Kevin Lynch, 1990. Wasting Away. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
1 Jim Gilbert and Michael Neuman. Book review of Sidney Plotkin, 1987. Keep Out: The Struggle for Land Use Control, University of California Press, Berkeley, in Journal of the American Planning Association. 54(4):545-546. 1988.
PAPERS in Refereed Conference Proceedings
18 Aida Afrooz*, David White, Michael Neuman, “Way-finding Improves Visual Memory for Built Environments” Proceedings, 2nd International Workshop on Eye Tracking for Spatial Research, Vienna, Austria September 2014.
17 Aida Afrooz*, David White, Michael Neuman, 2014. “Which visual cues are important in way-finding? Measuring the influence of travel mode on visual memory for built environments” Proceedings, Universal Design 2014 Conference, Lund, Sweden, Vol. 35, pp. 394-403. DOI 10.3233/978-1-61499-403-9-394
16 Michael Neuman, “Teaching Sustainable Urbanism Practice Via Collaborative Interdisciplinary Studios”, Proceedings, ANZAPS, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools, annual conference, Bendigo, Victoria, September 2012.
15 Michael Neuman, “Good City Process Knowledge for Sustainability” Proceedings, IFKAD-KCWS 2012 annual congress, Matera, Italy, June 2012.
14 Michael Neuman, “Texas Urban Triangle: A Spatial Decision Support System to Shape Future Growth” Proceedings, Association of European Schools of Planning annual conference, Liverpool, England, July 2009.
13 Michael Neuman, “The Texas Urban Triangle: Framework for Future Growth” Proceedings, Joint ACSP/AESOP Congress, Chicago, IL. July 2008.
12 Michael Neuman “Regional Plan and Design to Rebuild a Sustainable Louisiana Gulf Coast” Proceedings, Association of European Schools of Planning annual conference, Naples, Italy, July 2007.
11 Michael Neuman “Spatial-Institutional Isomorphism: Mirror Mirror on the Ground” Proceedings, World Planning Schools Congress, Mexico City, July 2006.
10 Michael Neuman “A General Theory of Sustainability” Proceedings, World Planning Schools Congress, Mexico City, July 2006.
9 Churchill, S.W., Neuman, M. “A generalized mathematical model for sustainability” Conference Proceedings, American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting, pp. 344-354. Cincinnati: AIChE. October 2005.
8 Michael Neuman. “Multi-Scalar Large Institutional Networks for Regional Planning”, Proceedings, Association of European Schools of Planning annual conference, 2 pp., Vienna, Austria: AESOP July 2005.
7 Neuman, M., Churchill, S.W. 2005 “The role of thermodynamics and rate processes with respect to alternative fuels” American Institute of Chemical Engineers Spring National Meeting, Conference Proceedings, pp. 2389 Atlanta, Georgia: AIChE April 2005.
6 Michael Neuman. "Planning Houston: A City Without a Planning Culture" Proceedings, 11th Conference of the International Planning History Society. p. 215. Barcelona, Spain: IPHS 2004.
5 Michael Neuman. "The Planning Dialectic of Continuity and Change: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning as Institutional Design" Proceedings, Association of European Schools of Planning annual conference, pp. 168-9. Grenoble, France: AESOP 2004.
4 Michael Neuman. "Innovation in Regional Planning: The Evolution of Large Institutional Networks" Proceedings, City Futures: An International Conference on Globalism and Urban Change. Chicago: University of Illinois 2004.
3 Michael Neuman. "Planning the City Without a Plan" Proceedings, International Sustainable Urban Form Conference. pp. 69-75. Trani, Italy, published by Uniongrafica Corcelli Editrice, Bari, Italy, 2003.
2 Michael Neuman. “Images and Place-Making Institutions”, Proceedings, Inaugural World Planning Schools Congress. p. 178. Shanghai, China, 2001.
1 Michael Neuman. “Will the Real Sustainable Development Please Stand Up?” Proceedings, XIV Congress Association of European Schools of Planning. p. 83. Brno, Czech Republic, 2000.
PLANS, PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS
26 Michael Neuman, “Good City Process” MUDD 17 Annual Report, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, 2012.
25 Miguel Roldan and Michael Neuman, “Nou Relat per a l’habitatge públic com a infraestructura cívica” in Xavier Trias, ed. Generació Barcelona. Barcelona: La Malgrana, 2011.
24 Michael Neuman, “Texas Urban Triangle: Framework for Future Growth” Planning and Policy, 10: 104-109, Seoul, Korea: Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, 2009.
23 Michael Neuman, et al., “Playa Dominical Master Plan Concept” Dominical, Costa Rica, 2007. 50 pages. Graduate students employed: Paula Lorente, Michael Work, Abhijeet Shaboo
22 Michael Neuman. “Planning Without Plans” Agora. (Netherlands) special issue titled Perspectives on Planning, December 21,5:11-14, 2005.
21 PS Michael Neuman. “Do Plans and Zoning Matter?” Planning. December 69,11:28-33, 2003. Cover article. Graduate student employed: Baoliang Liu
20 “Michael Neuman: The Recovery of Plan-Based Planning” Planning and Policy. (Korea) 245: 121-137, 2002. Interviewed by Wang-Geun Lee.
19 Michael Neuman. Photographs of Shanghai, China in Annette Homann, "Erster Welt Kongress der Stadt-und Regionalplanerschulen 2001 in Shanghai" Arch+. August 157:6-72001.
18 PS Michael Neuman. “The Web Comes to the Northern Section” APA California Northern News. July/August 1999, pp. 1-2. Cover article.
17 Betsy Morris and Michael Neuman, “Business Plan” and “Marketing Feasibility Study”, Spanish Speaking Unity Council, Oakland, California, 1999.
16 Michael Neuman, “Sustainable Oakland Strategic Plan”, Oakland Sharing the Vision, Oakland, California, 1998.
15 PS Michael Neuman and Paola Deda. "Planner Left Out Bridge's Soul" San Francisco Chronicle. Op-ed page, July 23, 1998, page A-23. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/07/23/ED33751.DTL&hw=michael+neuman&sn=001&sc=1000
14 PS William McClung, Stuart Cowan, Katy Langstaff, Noah Booker, Glenn Jones, Christopher Alexander, and Michael Neuman. "Toward a Civic Ecology of Buffer Zone Restoration" News from the Buffer Zone. 3:2-3, 1998.
13 Michael Neuman. “Darwin’s Pleasure” San Francisco Bay Guardian. Nov. 4, 1998, p. 51.
12 PS Michael Neuman. “The Northern Section Takes on the Bay Bridge” APA California Northern News. July/August 1997, pp. 1,4,6. Cover Article.
11 PS Michael Neuman. “Chamber Pushes for a Signature Bridge” Oakland Business Review. August , XV,8:14-15, 1997.
10 PS Michael Neuman. "El Eslabon Debil" Alfoz. 107:129-136, 1994. (Madrid) Special Issue on the Madrid General Plan, only non-Spanish author.
9 PS Michael Neuman. "Negotiation in Florida and New Jersey" Land Use Forum. 2,3:200-204, 1993.
8 New Jersey State Planning Commission, 1991, Interim State Development and Redevelopment Plan, Trenton, New Jersey.
7 Michael Neuman and Robert Kull. 1991. Resource and Investment Management System.
New Jersey State Planning Commission, Trenton, New Jersey. Report on the infrastructure needs of the State of New Jersey, in which we developed a life cycle needs assessment model. Total needs for the years 1990-2010 exceeded 108 billion dollars. 188 pages.
6 Michael Neuman, Chip King and Dorrie Margolin. 1991. Regional Design Advisory Committee Report. New Jersey State Planning Commission, Trenton, New Jersey. Report on urban design and regional design principles and policies, which formed the spatial framework for the New Jersey State Plan. 41 pp.
5 Robert Kull and Michael Neuman. 1991. Natural Resources Advisory Committee Report. New Jersey State Planning Commission, Trenton, New Jersey. Report prepared on natural resource and environmental policy, in which we developed a quantitative set of measures (indicators) for sustainable growth.
4 New Jersey State Planning Commission, 1989, Preliminary State Development and Redevelopment Plan, Trenton, New Jersey.
3 Michael Neuman. 1988. Agriculture Technical Advisory Committee Report. New Jersey Office of State Planning, Trenton, New Jersey. Report on agricultural, land banking, transfer of development rights, and farmland protection policy for the New Jersey State Plan.
2 Upper Merion Township, 1986, Upper Merion Township Comprehensive Plan, Upper Merion, Pennsylvania. My role was overall editor.
1 Monroe County, 1986, Monroe County Growth Management Plan, Key West, Florida.
CREATIVE WORK AND DESIGN COMPETITIONS
"Blue Skies" poem Editor's Choice Award, International Library of Poetry. Anthologized in book and Audio CD The Sound of Poetry, 2004. Peer reviewed.
Biennial Faculty Art Exhibit, Starck Museum, Texas A&M University, 2003, six photographs.
“Netherlands National Building” Kosmas, 14,2:105, 2001, photograph of a Frank Gehry building. Peer reviewed.
University of California at Berkeley, California, 1992, “The Quality of Light” solo exhibition, twenty-five photographs.
National Endowment for the Arts Design Advancement Grant, 1991, for regional design. Peer reviewed.
Boardwalk Art Show, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1990. Juried show, twenty photographs. Peer reviewed.
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.