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Speaker, Session 1d
Mr. Newman has been a consultant to OECD and the World Bank on urban policy issues, and is the author of many academic and popular publications as well as several books including Cities and Automobile Dependence, Winning Back the Cities. and Case Studies in Environmental Hope. Mr. Newman is Associate Professor in City Policy and Director of the Institute for Science and Technology policy at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. He has worked for over twenty years on how cities can integrate environmental concerns into their urban fabric through political involvement as well as research on cities around the world and gathering data on the extent of automobile dependence. His recent work emphasizes case studies on cities that have begun to overcome the problems of excessive car use.
Associate Professor in City Policy