Xvisionnaire and Founder
Xplorers
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- Dan Krieger
- Deni Ruggeri
- Holly Ziegler
- Michael Neuman
- Sharon Norling
- Tom Neuhaus
- Patricia Borgardt
- Kimberly Winson-Geidiman
Partnerships
The Team
Michael Neuman
Xsense Partner
Sustainable Design Xpert
Principal of the Michael Neuman Consultancy, Dr. Neuman works with clients throughout the United States and Europe, specializing in designing and managing large scale, multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder planning and design processes for infrastructure and development projects. He also consults on strategy, management, and design for sustainability in cities, regions, and states.
As Associate Professor of Urban Planning, and founder and Chair of the Sustainable Urbanism program at Texas A&M University, his current graduate seminars include Sustainable Urbanism, Infrastructure Planning, and Foundations of Planning Thought, Structure and Function of Cities, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation, Applied Planning Studio, and History and Theory of Planning. At the University of California, Berkeley, he taught Sustainable Urban Redevelopment Studio.
In collaboration with others, Dr. Neuman has led the development of such ground-breaking concepts and practices as regional design, institutional design, life-cycle infrastructure planning, and the development of a quantitative basis to measure and achieve sustainably built environments of all types.
The only scholar whose academic writings have won Best Article Awards in the Journal of the American Planning Association and the journal European Planning Studies, Dr. Neuman, whose works have been translated to seven languages, has been awarded grants from agencies and foundations ranging from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the states of California and New Jersey, to the Spanish and Catalan governments. He is the author of numerous publications on city planning, infrastructure, sustainability, institutions, and governance; his book Infrastructure Planning is scheduled to be published by Island Press in 2007. Both a Fulbright Fellow and a Regents Fellow, Dr. Neuman has lectured and consulted widely in Europe as well as throughout North, Central and South America.
Michael can be reached at michael@x-sense.biz
Michael C. Neuman, Ph.D., AICP
Associate Professor and Chair, Sustainable Urbanism Certificate Program
Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
ACADEMIC PREPARATION
University of Pennsylvania, Chemical Engineering, B.S. 1977
University of Pennsylvania, City and Regional Planning, M.C.P. 1986
University of California, Berkeley, City and Regional Planning, Ph.D. 1996
APPOINTMENTS
Texas A&M University, Associate Professor, August 1999 – present
University of California, Berkeley, Lecturer, 1999
Seton Hall University, Adjunct Professor, 1990
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - ALL SOLE AUTHOR, UNLESS INDICATED
Michael Neuman and Sheri Smith. Infrastructure Planning for Sustainable Cities, Island Press, Washington DC. Forthcoming, 2007.
“Multi-Scalar Large Institutional Networks in Regional Planning” Planning Theory and Practice, under review.
“Infiltrating Infrastructures” Journal of Urban Technology, 13,1:3-31, 2006.
“How Institutions and Individuals Use Plans: Planning Cultures and Images of Futures” in Lewis Hopkins, ed. Generating Urban Futures, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute Press. Forthcoming, 2007.
“The Planning Dialectic of Continuity and Change: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning in Madrid”
Michael Neuman and Jose Gavinha, European Planning Studies, Vol. 13,7:985-1012, 2005.
“Planning Without Plans” Agora (Netherlands) special issue Perspectives on Planning, Vol. 21,5:11-14, 2005.
“The Uses and Scope of City Planning Theory” Planning Theory, Vol. 4,2:123–145, 2005.
“The Compact City Fallacy” Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 25,1:11-26, 2005. Lead Article, Silver Anniversary Issue. Fifth most accessed article 2006.
“Infrastructure” in Roger Caves, ed. Encyclopedia of the City. London: Routledge. 2005, pp. 261-264.
“Planning Houston: A City Without a Planning Culture” Proceedings, 11th Conference of the International Planning History Society. Barcelona, Spain: IPHS 2004.
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. 108 pages.
“A New Approach to Planning and Governing: The Jersey Shore Experience”, Ocean and Coastal Management, 42:815-34, 1999.
“Does Planning Need the Plan?” Journal of the American Planning Association, 64,2:208-220, 1998. Best Feature Article 1999 Journal of the American Planning Association
AWARDS AND HONORS (Representative)
* National Science Foundation grant for Multi-Scalar Large Institutional Networks 2006.
* European Planning Studies Best Article Award 2005. (“The Planning Dialectic of Continuity and Change”)
* Generalitat de Catulunya, Spain Foreign Scholar Research Grant 2005.
* American Planning Association Texas Chapter Best Student Project Award 2004.
(Palacios Urban Design Plan)
* American Planning Association Best Student Project Award, Honorable Mention 2004 (Palacios Urban Design Plan)
* President’s Council on Sustainable Development. Example of Excellence Award 1999 for the
New Jersey State Plan. (The New Jersey State Plan has won numerous awards.)
* Journal of the American Planning Association. Best Feature Award 1999. (“Does Planning Need the Plan?”)
* American Institute of Architects (AIA) California Council. Special Commendation 1998.
(Bay Bridge Coalition leadership)
* Fulbright Fellowship. City Planning in Spain 1994 - 1995.
* National Endowment for the Arts. Mayors Institute Scholar 1992.
* National Endowment for the Arts. Design Advancement Grant 1991. (Regional Design)
PEER REVIEWED SPONSORED RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
Principal and co-principal investigator for twenty five funded research projects totalling $600,000 for sponsors such as the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, New Jersey Office of State Planning, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Generalitat de Catalunya (regional government of Catalonia, Spain), and the Public Policy Institute of California, among many others.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
The Michael Neuman Consultancy
Prepared plans, urban designs, strategies, and reports for such clients as the Barcelona Metropolitan Plan, the Portuguese Association of Environmental Engineers, the Public Policy Institute of California, the City of Palacios, Texas, the Sherwin Alumina Corporation, the American Planning Association, Oakland: Sharing the Vision, and the Fruitvale Community Collaborative.
The New Jersey Office of State Planning
Planning Manager, participated in the creation of the first New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan. Pioneered regional design, innovated a sustainable development strategy, and established a life cycle capital investment management system which incorporated a life-cycle planning method. Negotiated the state plan’s “cross-acceptance” with coastal counties and municipalities.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (Representative)
* Ch-Chair, International Conference on Sustainable Urbanism 2007, College Station, Texas
* Editorial Board, Journal of Architecture and Planning Research 2002 – present
* Editorial Board, Berkeley Planning Review 1992 - 1994
* American Institute of Certified Planners/Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Planning Accreditation Board 2005 – present
* Board of Directors, American Planning Association Texas Chapter 2000 – 2002
* Board of Directors, American Planning Association Northern California Chapter 1997 – 1999
* Co-chairman, “TDR: The Time is Now”, Annual Conference of the New Jersey chapter of the American Planning Association 1990