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Dortmund Area, Germany Germany

interim Head of Department of International Planning Studies bei TU Dortmund University

Education

Currently acting chair of International Planning Studies at the Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University. Associate Professor at the German University of Technology (GUtech) in Muscat, Oman. PhD in Spatial Planning from the TU Dortmund University, Germany. Research focus is on informal urban development, regional planning and tourism development mainly in Africa and Latin America. 1992 – 1998 employed as a town planner at the 'Büro für Stadtplanung und Stadtforschung, Prof. Zlonicky, Prof. Wachten and Othmar Ebert': projects on urban design and urban development, Dortmund; 1998 -2000: employed at the ‘Büro für Stadtplanung und Stadtentwicklung H.-J. Hamerla’: projects o