Prof  Michael Hebbert - Personal details

Role: Professor of Town Planning

Email: m.hebbert@manchester.ac.uk

Websites

• School of Environment and Development

Michael was appointed Professor of Town Planning at the University of Manchester in 1994. He is a chartered member of the Royal Town PIanning Institute and has wide interests in the history and practice of town planning. He is active within three of the School of Environment & Development's research units: the Centre for Urban Policy Studies (CUPS), the Global Urban Research Centre (GURC) and Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC).

Michael joined Manchester from the London School of Economics where he had directed the interdepartmental programme in Regional and Urban Planning Studies. In 1973-1979 he taught town planning theory and history at Oxford Polytechnic, having obtained his PhD in Geography at the University of Reading (with Peter Hall) and read History at Merton College, Oxford in the late sixties. He currently serves on the council of the International Planning History Society and the editorial boards of Planning Perspectives, Progress in Planning (editor 2002-8), Journal of Planning History, disP - The Planning Review, and Space and Polity.