
Ali Madanipour has studied (MArch, PhD), practised, researched, and taught architecture, urban design and planning, winning design and research awards, and working with academic and municipal partners from around the world. His work has been translated into German, Mandarin, Japanese and Persian. He is a founding member of Global Urban Research Unit at the University of Newcastle.
Design, development and management of cities, in particular research into: the urban space, its social and psychological significance, processes that shape it, agencies of urban change, and implications of change for disadvantaged social groups and the environment.
Published books include: Knowledge Economy and the City (2011, Routledge); Whose Public Space? International Case Studies in Urban Design and Development (2010, ed, Routledge); Designing the City of Reason (2007, Routledge); Public and Private Spaces of the City (2003, Routledge); Social Exclusion in European Cities (2003, co-ed, Routledge,); Urban Governance, Institutional Capacity and Social Milieux (2002; co-ed, Ashgate,); The Governance of Place (2001, co-ed, Ashgate,); Tehran: the making of a metropolis (1998, Wiley, 2000 Persian); Design of Urban Space: An inquiry into a socio-spatial process (1996, Wiley, 1999 Mandarin, 2000 Persian trans); Managing Cities (1995, co-ed, Wiley).
Currently supervising doctoral candidates on public space, urban development and management.
- Spatial innovation, planning, design and user involvement, 2010-14 (SBO-IWT)
- Sustainable Urban Metabolism for Europe, 2008-2011 (European Commission)(www.sume.at/)
- Public space vitality in the Northeast region, 2006 (Culture Northeast, One Northeast)(www.ignite-ne.com/ignite/Events0.nsf/0/96D2165A924F9D63802574640032BD42/$file/2007%20-%20Public%20Vitality%20Final%20Draft.pdf)
- The values of place, 2005 (Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment) (www.cabe.org.uk/data/pdfs/physical_capital.pdf)
- City and University, 2005 (Cambridge-MIT Institute & Newcastle University)
(www.cambridge-mit.org/object/download/1711/doc/Synergy_03.pdf)
- Neighbourhood Governance: Capacity for social integration, 2001-4 (EC) (www.infra.kth.se/SB/sp/forskning/index.html)
- Social Innovation, Governance and Community Building, 2001-4 (EC)
(users.skynet.be/bk368453/singocom/index2.html)
- Cities’ Actions to Combat Social Exclusion (CASE), 2001-3 (EC)
(www.dublinpact.ie/pdfs/CASE1.pdf)
- Understanding Social Exclusion as a Learning Process, 2001-2 (EC)
- Social Exclusion in European Cities, 1998-99 (EC)
- Institutional capacity, partnerships and city centre regeneration, 1998-99 (ESRC)