Company / Institute
Curtin University

Track
Track 1: LIMITLESS CITIES and urban futures: planning for scale

Position
Professor of Sustainability

Bio
Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He has written 20 books and over 340 papers on sustainable cities including Cities and Automobile Dependence in 1989 which has been called one of the most influential books in urban planning. His book on Green Urbanism in Asia in 2013 was based on his teaching in the National University of Singapore with Masters students from across Asia. In 2014 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to urban design and sustainable transport. Peter has worked in local government as an elected councilor, in state government as an advisor to three Premiers and in the Australian Government on the Board of Infrastructure Australia and the Prime Minister’s Cities Reference Group. He is a Co-ordinating Lead Author for the IPCC on Transport and his latest book is Resilient Cities: Overcoming Fossil Fuel Dependence. He is Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Earth, a new Nature journal and in 2018 was made WA Scientist of the Year.