Planning:Recovery:Management:Sustainability
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Speaker Biography:
Professor Edward J Blakely is honorary professor of urban policy at the United States Studies Centre at the
University of Sydney. He is a global leader in all aspects of urban and regional planning with numerous awards for
his services to cities, states/provinces all over the world in planning and management of large scale development
projects. He served as the executive director of recovery management for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the
worst urban disaster in US history from 2007-2009. Prior to that he served in leading recovery roles in Oakland,
California 1989 and 1991 as well as 9-11 in New York. He has been dean of urban planning at the University of
Southern California and the Milano Graduate School of public policy at the New School University in New York as
well as department chair for more than a decade at the University of California at Berkeley.
He chaired the Sydney Metropolitan Plan Reference Panel 2003-2005 and has advised on metropolitan planning in
Melbourne, Brisbane-Southeast Queensland and Adelaide as well as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Island and
in cities in Viet Nam, France, England, Sweden, Nigeria, South Africa, China, Malaysia, Turkey and Canada.
He is author, co-author of 12 books; 3 prize winning works and more than 200 scholarly and professional articles
and hosts his own weekly podcast at www.blakelycitytalk.com
Major Recent Awards include:
Eliot Richardson Award for Integrity in Government, US National Academy of Public Administration 2008;
Jay Chaterjee Award for Service to the Profession and Community for recovery work in New Orleans
and other cities 2009;
The D.R. Rossetor Housing Lecture Housing Institute of Australia 2011
Dr. Blakely appointed visiting faculty at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Harvard University.
Professor Blakely named Chair of the Board of Ecotuitive Corporation. Ecotuitive's mission is to create ecological
and sustainable products & technologies. To learn more click here
Professor also named Non Executive Director of the Bendigo Community Bank Spit Junction, Mosman
Major Books (prize winning):
With Nancey Green Leigh Planning and Local Economic Development (Sage, 2009 4th edition)
With Bill Goldsmith Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in US Cities (Temple, 2010 2nd edition)
With Mary Gail Snyder Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States (Brookings, 2000)
Professor Edward J Blakely is honorary professor of urban policy at the United States Studies Centre at the
University of Sydney. He is a global leader in all aspects of urban and regional planning with numerous awards for
his services to cities, states/provinces all over the world in planning and management of large scale development
projects. He served as the executive director of recovery management for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the
worst urban disaster in US history from 2007-2009. Prior to that he served in leading recovery roles in Oakland,
California 1989 and 1991 as well as 9-11 in New York. He has been dean of urban planning at the University of
Southern California and the Milano Graduate School of public policy at the New School University in New York as
well as department chair for more than a decade at the University of California at Berkeley.
He chaired the Sydney Metropolitan Plan Reference Panel 2003-2005 and has advised on metropolitan planning in
Melbourne, Brisbane-Southeast Queensland and Adelaide as well as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Island and
in cities in Viet Nam, France, England, Sweden, Nigeria, South Africa, China, Malaysia, Turkey and Canada.
He is author, co-author of 12 books; 3 prize winning works and more than 200 scholarly and professional articles
and hosts his own weekly podcast at www.blakelycitytalk.com
Major Recent Awards include:
Eliot Richardson Award for Integrity in Government, US National Academy of Public Administration 2008;
Jay Chaterjee Award for Service to the Profession and Community for recovery work in New Orleans
and other cities 2009;
The D.R. Rossetor Housing Lecture Housing Institute of Australia 2011
Dr. Blakely appointed visiting faculty at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Harvard University.
Professor Blakely named Chair of the Board of Ecotuitive Corporation. Ecotuitive's mission is to create ecological
and sustainable products & technologies. To learn more click here
Professor also named Non Executive Director of the Bendigo Community Bank Spit Junction, Mosman
Major Books (prize winning):
With Nancey Green Leigh Planning and Local Economic Development (Sage, 2009 4th edition)
With Bill Goldsmith Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in US Cities (Temple, 2010 2nd edition)
With Mary Gail Snyder Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States (Brookings, 2000)
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"Rebuilding Lives" Prof. Blakely
on 6pm with George Negus
on 6pm with George Negus
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