Carmelo Ignaccolo, Ph.D., is an urbanist and educator whose work focuses on urban design, spatial inequalities, heritage, and technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) in May 2024, with a doctoral dissertation titled...
Clinton J. Andrews is a Distinguished Professor, center director, and the associate dean for research at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. He was educated at Brown and MIT in engineering and planning, and he worked...
Juan Ayala teaches urban design skills and the application of visual communication to the urban planning and design process. His skills in developing design solutions originate from an understanding of the traditions in hand drawing, modeling, photography, and image...
Barbara Faga joins the Bloustein School following a 30-year career as an author, professor and professional urban planner, having worked with communities to enhance the public’s perception of landscape architecture and urban design. Barbara joined AECOM (then EDAW) in...
Fereydoun Nikpour holds a Ph.D. in Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers University and is a Professor of Teaching at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He holds a M.A. in Urban Development from The National University of Iran (NUI), and M.C.R.P. (Master...
Dr. Jim Samuel is an Associate Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Informatics Program at Bloustein. He is an information and artificial intelligence (AI) scientist, with significant industry experience in finance, technology, entrepreneurship and data...