Online Master of City Planning

Born in Milan, Italy
2012 - today Full Professor and Director, School of Planning, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, University of Cincinnati.
2002-2012 Associate Professor of urban planning and design at the School of Building Engineering-Architecture, Politecnico di Milano.
1997-2002 Assistant Professor of urban planning and design at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
Licensed Architect in Italy from 1990 

Carla Chifos, Ph.D.,AICP, has interests that include sustainable development, urban environment and international development. Her dissertation research was "Urban neighborhoods and the natural environment: examples from the city of Jakarta". This work was the culmination of three years in Indonesia with funding from the United States Agency for International Development and close collaborations with the Ministry for National Planning. She has continued specializing in Southeast Asia and has carried out research on urban environmental and community development issues in Indonesia as well as in Thailand. Her forthcoming book, co-edited with Ruth Yabes, entitled Southeast Asian Urban Environments: Spontaneous and Structured, will highlight some of her research findings. In addition to this international focus, Dr. Chifos is also pursuing research in the area of sustainable development and how it applies to urban and community development in US cities. The results of her research are being applied to her courses, both seminar and workshop formats, to integrate the concepts of sustainable development, livable communities, smart growth, and eco-cities, into urban and community planning. With relation to these topics she has tried to integrate out-of-class experiences for the students. For example, students in her course "Sustainable Development and the City" attended the "National Town Meeting for Sustainable Development" which was sponsored by the President's Council for Sustainable Development in Detroit, May 1999 and went to Lexington, Kentucky to learn about and see the results of the growth management strategies of Fayette County.

Christopher Auffrey, PhD, Professor of Planning
School of Planning, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
University of Cincinnati
6106 DAAP
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016
Phone: (513) 556-0579, Fax: (513) 556-1274, E-mail: chris.auffrey@uc.edu

Rainer vom Hofe is a Professor of Economic Development in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati.  He is also the School’s PhD Graduate Director. Rainer received his MS and PhD in Regional Science from Cornell University and completed his undergraduate studies at the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan, Germany.
 
Rainer’s research interests lie in the area of urban and regional economics, economic development planning, environmental quality of life, and quantitative methods for urban and regional planning and policy analysis, including economic and fiscal impact analysis and spatial econometrics.  He has published in several planning and regional science journals, including, among others:  Urban Studies, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Environment and Planning B, Annals of Regional Science.

Shilpa Mehta is a city planner, urban designer and architect with a keen interest in urban placemaking and civic engagement. Shilpa holds graduate degrees in City Planning, with a focus on City Design and Development, and Architecture. With over thirteen years of professional work and eight years of teaching experience, Shilpa brings depth of knowledge on a wide range of urban planning and design issues such as climate action, sustainability and multimodal transportation. With an approach that integrates design thinking with data-driven analytical validation, Shilpa innovatively bridges urban design and planning practice to facilitate creative problem solving that is community oriented and place-based - People, Places, Partnerships!