Michaël Neuman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3910911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaël Neuman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaël |
| FAMILY NAME | Neuman |
| SIGNATURE | NEUMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Humanitarianism and Liberal Democracies
The war in Gaza reveals a profound transformation in the humanitarian sector. While Joël Glasman sees it as a breaking point, Michaël Neuman believes that Gaza is instead the culmination of a process that has already begun: the criminalisation of the enemy, political hardening, and a gradual shift away from the liberal framework. Both agree that non-governmental organisations (NGOs), traditionally supported by Western democracies, are seeing thes…
Dossier 994 » La famille Neuman et l’aryanisation d’un domaine agricole dans le Cher
Applied research by design
This article reports on one experimental case of interdisciplinary collaboration on a design and planning exercise across several scales – local through urban to regional – and sectors – private, public, scholarly, and interest groups. The case is a collaborative and interdisciplinary design charrette on sustainable urbanism for envisioning the future of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Florence in Italy. The experiment entailed the attempt to in…
The power of infrastructure that shapes spatial strategy
As infrastructure is key to the prosperity and sustainability of cities, this article discusses whether London’s and the central government’s critical investments in infrastructure capacity in recent years have been sufficient, and, especially for the government, whether they are understood spatially. Taking recent projects like Crossrail, HS2 and the National Infrastructure Plan into consideration, it explains what is being done to keep ahead of…
Investigating Extreme Violence
The search and rescue of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on the Mediterranean has become a site of major political contestation in Europe, on the seas, in parliaments and government offices and in online public opinion. This article summarises one particular set of controversies, namely, false claims that the non-government organisations conducting such search and rescue operations are actively ‘colluding’ with people smugglers to ferry peo…
Sustainable urban systems
Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving re…
Retrospective mortality among refugees from the Central African Republic arriving in Chad, 2014
The results of these two surveys describe a part of the toll of the violent events of December 2013 and January 2014 in the Central African Republic
Medical Humanitarianism
Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of practice, which opens with a foreword by Peter Piot, the eminent microbiologist who discovered the Ebola virus and is director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and concludes with a postface by Peter Redfield, whose pioneering research has provided new insights into humanitarian work thanks to its anthropological approach, was surely no disappointment to these two illustrious readers.…
The Imaginative Institution
Every 20 years since 1920, Madrid has undergone an urban planning cycle in which a city plan was prepared, adopted by law, and implemented by a new institution. This preparation-adoption-institutionalization sequence, along with the institution's structures and procedures, have persisted - with some exceptions - despite frequent upheavals in society. The planning institution itself played a lead role in maintaining continuity, traumatic history n…
Aid in Danger
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Optimizing high-speed rail routes using a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS)
Infrastructure planning for sustainable cities
No abstract available
Centenary paper
This paper assesses the legacy of Catalan engineer-planner Ildefons Cerda. It highlights his 1859 plan for Barcelona and his 1867 text The General Theory of Urbanisation. It exposes elements of the theory, methods, and plan of this planning pioneer; and situates them in the context of the times, and in the context of the emergence of the modern urban planning movement. The paper also indicates the importance of the Cerda plan for planning in Barc…
Humanitarian negotiations revealed
From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged "clash of civilizations", our "humanitarian space" is shrinking. Put another way, the freedom of action and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded due to the radicalisation of conflicts and the reaffirmation of state sovereignty over aid actors and policies. The purpose of this book is to challenge this assump…
The Futures of the City Region
Urban space is so replete with descriptions that Pandora's jar could not contain them. Like in the Greek myth of Pandora, the plethora of urban spatial descriptions is almost a curse on those who a
Infiltrating infrastructures
The author considers infrastructure to be more than just those structures and services that lie under buildings and streets to move goods and people through the city. He sees them as life supports for a city, channeling water, energy, information, people, goods and wastes to and from the objects supported. These infrastructure components, when networked, add value to the area served. Large scale, capital-intensive services like highways and other…
Notes on the Uses and Scope of City Planning Theory
This mapping article highlights two concerns about city planning theory: its uses and roles in urban planning, and its scope. Regarding its main uses or functions, there are four: explanation, prediction, justification, and normative guidance. Each of these four roles is briefly explained before moving on to the core of the article regarding the scope of planning theory, as the use of city planning theory bears directly on its reach, and vice ver…
The Compact City Fallacy
The problems of urban sprawl have long been recognized. The classic response to sprawl has been compact settlements of one form or another. Yet the profession’s modern origins stem from responses to overcrowding. Relieving crowding by letting in more light and air led to less compact urban form. This paradox remains unresolved despite recent compact city, smart growth, healthy community, and new urbanist efforts. This article reviews empirical da…
Communicate This! Does Consensus Lead to Advocacy and Pluralism
This article preseints a critique of communicative planning theory. especially its consensus based variatrion. Limitations in communicative planning theory are pinpointed. ConlselnsLIs processes as practiced anid theorized in the UnitedStates tend to be divorced fromn powei-, to shun iroportanit issoLes,anid to result in genieral and thin agreements. Consensus pi-o- cesses also rely oni position-based an-d interest- based methods that overlook no…
Planning, Governing, and the Image of the City
Historical changes in planning and its theory in the last century show planners and theorists turning away from the physical plan and its image of the city in favor of analytical modes of planning in the 1960s and 1970s and of discursive modes since the 1980s. In this article, I analyze those changes in the context of another historical change that has affected planning: the shift from government to governance. Until recently, urban planning was …
The Compact City Fallacy
The problems of urban sprawl have long been recognized. The classic response to sprawl has been compact settlements of one form or another. Yet the profession’s modern origins stem from responses to overcrowding. Relieving crowding by letting in more light and air led to less compact urban form. This paradox remains unresolved despite recent compact city, smart growth, healthy community, and new urbanist efforts. This article reviews empirical da…
The Futures of the City Region
Urban space is so replete with descriptions that Pandora's jar could not contain them. Like in the Greek myth of Pandora, the plethora of urban spatial descriptions is almost a curse on those who a
Sustainable urban systems
Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving re…
Communicate This! Does Consensus Lead to Advocacy and Pluralism
This article preseints a critique of communicative planning theory. especially its consensus based variatrion. Limitations in communicative planning theory are pinpointed. ConlselnsLIs processes as practiced anid theorized in the UnitedStates tend to be divorced fromn powei-, to shun iroportanit issoLes,anid to result in genieral and thin agreements. Consensus pi-o- cesses also rely oni position-based an-d interest- based methods that overlook no…
Notes on the Uses and Scope of City Planning Theory
This mapping article highlights two concerns about city planning theory: its uses and roles in urban planning, and its scope. Regarding its main uses or functions, there are four: explanation, prediction, justification, and normative guidance. Each of these four roles is briefly explained before moving on to the core of the article regarding the scope of planning theory, as the use of city planning theory bears directly on its reach, and vice ver…
Planning, Governing, and the Image of the City
Historical changes in planning and its theory in the last century show planners and theorists turning away from the physical plan and its image of the city in favor of analytical modes of planning in the 1960s and 1970s and of discursive modes since the 1980s. In this article, I analyze those changes in the context of another historical change that has affected planning: the shift from government to governance. Until recently, urban planning was …
Planning, Governing, and the Image of the City
Historical changes in planning and its theory in the last century show planners and theorists turning away from the physical plan and its image of the city in favor of analytical modes of planning in the 1960s and 1970s and of discursive modes since the 1980s. In this article, I analyze those changes in the context of another historical change that has affected planning: the shift from government to governance. Until recently, urban planning was …
Communicate This! Does Consensus Lead to Advocacy and Pluralism
This article preseints a critique of communicative planning theory. especially its consensus based variatrion. Limitations in communicative planning theory are pinpointed. ConlselnsLIs processes as practiced anid theorized in the UnitedStates tend to be divorced fromn powei-, to shun iroportanit issoLes,anid to result in genieral and thin agreements. Consensus pi-o- cesses also rely oni position-based an-d interest- based methods that overlook no…
Notes on the Uses and Scope of City Planning Theory
This mapping article highlights two concerns about city planning theory: its uses and roles in urban planning, and its scope. Regarding its main uses or functions, there are four: explanation, prediction, justification, and normative guidance. Each of these four roles is briefly explained before moving on to the core of the article regarding the scope of planning theory, as the use of city planning theory bears directly on its reach, and vice ver…
The Compact City Fallacy
The problems of urban sprawl have long been recognized. The classic response to sprawl has been compact settlements of one form or another. Yet the profession’s modern origins stem from responses to overcrowding. Relieving crowding by letting in more light and air led to less compact urban form. This paradox remains unresolved despite recent compact city, smart growth, healthy community, and new urbanist efforts. This article reviews empirical da…
Infiltrating infrastructures
The author considers infrastructure to be more than just those structures and services that lie under buildings and streets to move goods and people through the city. He sees them as life supports for a city, channeling water, energy, information, people, goods and wastes to and from the objects supported. These infrastructure components, when networked, add value to the area served. Large scale, capital-intensive services like highways and other…
The Futures of the City Region
Urban space is so replete with descriptions that Pandora's jar could not contain them. Like in the Greek myth of Pandora, the plethora of urban spatial descriptions is almost a curse on those who a
Centenary paper
This paper assesses the legacy of Catalan engineer-planner Ildefons Cerda. It highlights his 1859 plan for Barcelona and his 1867 text The General Theory of Urbanisation. It exposes elements of the theory, methods, and plan of this planning pioneer; and situates them in the context of the times, and in the context of the emergence of the modern urban planning movement. The paper also indicates the importance of the Cerda plan for planning in Barc…
Humanitarian negotiations revealed
From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged "clash of civilizations", our "humanitarian space" is shrinking. Put another way, the freedom of action and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded due to the radicalisation of conflicts and the reaffirmation of state sovereignty over aid actors and policies. The purpose of this book is to challenge this assump…
Infrastructure planning for sustainable cities
No abstract available
Aid in Danger
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Optimizing high-speed rail routes using a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS)
The Imaginative Institution
Every 20 years since 1920, Madrid has undergone an urban planning cycle in which a city plan was prepared, adopted by law, and implemented by a new institution. This preparation-adoption-institutionalization sequence, along with the institution's structures and procedures, have persisted - with some exceptions - despite frequent upheavals in society. The planning institution itself played a lead role in maintaining continuity, traumatic history n…
Retrospective mortality among refugees from the Central African Republic arriving in Chad, 2014
The results of these two surveys describe a part of the toll of the violent events of December 2013 and January 2014 in the Central African Republic
Medical Humanitarianism
Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of practice, which opens with a foreword by Peter Piot, the eminent microbiologist who discovered the Ebola virus and is director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and concludes with a postface by Peter Redfield, whose pioneering research has provided new insights into humanitarian work thanks to its anthropological approach, was surely no disappointment to these two illustrious readers.…
Sustainable urban systems
Rapid urbanisation generates risks and opportunities for sustainable development. Urban policy and decision makers are challenged by the complexity of cities as social-ecological-technical systems. Consequently there is an increasing need for collaborative knowledge development that supports a whole-of-system view, and transformational change at multiple scales. Such holistic urban approaches are rare in practice. A co-design process involving re…
The power of infrastructure that shapes spatial strategy
As infrastructure is key to the prosperity and sustainability of cities, this article discusses whether London’s and the central government’s critical investments in infrastructure capacity in recent years have been sufficient, and, especially for the government, whether they are understood spatially. Taking recent projects like Crossrail, HS2 and the National Infrastructure Plan into consideration, it explains what is being done to keep ahead of…
Investigating Extreme Violence
The search and rescue of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on the Mediterranean has become a site of major political contestation in Europe, on the seas, in parliaments and government offices and in online public opinion. This article summarises one particular set of controversies, namely, false claims that the non-government organisations conducting such search and rescue operations are actively ‘colluding’ with people smugglers to ferry peo…
Applied research by design
This article reports on one experimental case of interdisciplinary collaboration on a design and planning exercise across several scales – local through urban to regional – and sectors – private, public, scholarly, and interest groups. The case is a collaborative and interdisciplinary design charrette on sustainable urbanism for envisioning the future of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Florence in Italy. The experiment entailed the attempt to in…
Dossier 994 » La famille Neuman et l’aryanisation d’un domaine agricole dans le Cher
Humanitarianism and Liberal Democracies
The war in Gaza reveals a profound transformation in the humanitarian sector. While Joël Glasman sees it as a breaking point, Michaël Neuman believes that Gaza is instead the culmination of a process that has already begun: the criminalisation of the enemy, political hardening, and a gradual shift away from the liberal framework. Both agree that non-governmental organisations (NGOs), traditionally supported by Western democracies, are seeing thes…
Sociology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Urban planning (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Civil engineering (5 works)