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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 

Dr. David J. Edelman, FAICP FSU Eur Ing SIA/KIVI, is Professor of Planning. He was formerly Director of the Master of Community Planning (MCP) program for thirteen years and the Director of the School of Planning for eleven years prior to that, both at the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning of the University of Cincinnati. Previously, he was Chairman of the Department of Urban Environmental Management at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) of Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Director of the Centre for the Urban Environment, operated jointly by IHS and another Dutch institution, Wageningen University. With more than thirty-five years of experience in urban and regional planning, energy planning and economics, urban environmental planning, university teaching, research and administration, as well as in the training of mid-career professionals, he has spent fifteen years of that time working as a technical expert and project manager in forty-five countries for both Swiss and American consulting engineering firms. His long-term overseas experience includes Liberia as a US Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher, Thailand as Associate Professor of Energy Planning and Policy at the Asian Institute of Technology, the Philippines as Staff Energy Consultant at the Asian Development Bank developing the Second Bangladesh National Energy Plan, and Israel as Lady Davis Research Fellow in City and Regional Planning at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University in Turkey, at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitas Jenderel Soedirman (UNSOED) in Indonesia, and at the Faculty of Architecture, Urban Design and the Creative Arts at Mahasarakham University in Thailand. Professionally certified in the US, Switzerland and the Netherlands, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. A Fellow of the Graduate School at the University of Cincinnati, he has received Fulbright awards to Germany, Thailand and Turkey. In the Fall Semester 2016, he was Visiting Professor of Urban Planning at the School of Architecture of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.

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!