Robert Cervero: Beyond Mobility - Planning Cities for People and Places
KTH Centre for the Future of Places welcomes Robert Cervero, Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
The lecture was followed by a panel discussion with:
• Karolina Isaksson - Adjunct Professor in Urban Planning, KTH
• Yusak Susilo - Professor in Transport Analysis and Policy, KTH
• Andrew Karvonen - Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Studies, KTH
Moderator: Tigran Haas - director, KTH Centre for the Future of Places
Robert Cervero works in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning, focusing on the nexus between urban transportation and land-use systems. Professor Cervero has and continues to serve as an advisor and consultant on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide. His most recent book, Beyond Mobility, co-authored with Erick Guerra and Stefan Als, won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award. He is the first-ever recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research and is a two-time recipient of the Article of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association. In 2013, he was ranked among the top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UMB’s Futures Cities and in 2016, he was recognized by Planning magazine as one of "Five Academic Planners You Should Know" based on the second highest Google Scholar h-index for citations among 997 urban planning academics in the U.S. and Canada. Professor Cervero was a contributing author to the 2014 IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) Fifth Assessment Report and was lead author on UN-Habitat’s 2013 Global Report on Sustainable Mobility. Professor Cervero continues to serve on the editorial boards of academic journals, including Urban Studies, Transport Policy, and Journal of the American Planning Association.