Susan Parham
Dr Susan Parham is an urban designer, town planner and political economist with a PhD in Urban Sociology from the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. She began writing about food and cities in the late 1980s and since then has continued to explore the complex interplay between urban development, design and planning and sustainable food systems and cultures. Dr Parham has worked as both a planning and urban design practitioner and academic in Australia and Europe, including roles...See more
Dr Susan Parham is an urban designer, town planner and political economist with a PhD in Urban Sociology from the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. She began writing about food and cities in the late 1980s and since then has continued to explore the complex interplay between urban development, design and planning and sustainable food systems and cultures. Dr Parham has worked as both a planning and urban design practitioner and academic in Australia and Europe, including roles as a rapporteur and programme analyst for the OECD, and is currently Head of Urbanism at the University of Hertfordshire. She is Vice Chair of the charity Living Streets, a former chair of the Council for European Urbanism, which she helped to found in 2002, and a Fellow of the RSA. See less
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