Transformative Planning (ePub)

Andrea I. Frank, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests encompass comparative international planning, sustainable development, public participation and pedagogy. Throughout her career she has promoted capacity building for and in planning education. She has represented the Association of European Schools of Planning and Chaired the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) 2010-14. She is currently Chair of the Association of European Schools of Planning's (AESOP) Excellence in Teaching Prize Jury and coordinates the AESOP Thematic Group on Planning Education. Her scholarly work includes Urban Planning Education: Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects (co-edited with C. Silver, 2018) and Teaching Urban and Regional Planning: Innovative Pedagogies in Practice (2021) with Artur da Rosa Pires. She is one of the founders of AESOP's open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal Transactions of AESOP.

Christopher Silver, PhD, FAICP is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning who joined the faculty at University of Florida in 2006 as Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning (until 2016). Previously he served as Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998-2006) and as Professor of Planning and Associate Dean at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a four-time Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia and holds honorary professorships at the University of Indonesia and the Institute of Technology, Bandung. Silver's scholarship includes 8 books (authored, co-authored and edited), 16 book chapters and 18 refereed articles. His initial publications dealt with race, politics and planning in the United States, including Twentieth Century Richmond: Planning, Politics and Race (1984) and (with John Moeser) The Separate City: Black Communities in Urban South, 1940-1968 (1995).