PLPR is an international association with hundreds of members and subscribers.
Each month we meet members for short update interviews about their work. Below are some interviews conducted with members in the past months.
March/April 2026
Interview with Nicolás Del Canto
A new interview with Nicolás Del Canto is now live. As he nears the end of his PhD at the University of Liverpool, he reflects on his journey from Chile to the UK, his research on planning deregulation in England, and what housing policy reveals about power, inequality, and the built environment.
February 2026
Interview with Nir Mualam
This month we caught up with Prof. Nir Mualam who has served as Co-Secretary General of PLPR for the past 4 years. Nir has been managing the website, the listserv, and has edited (and reintroduced) our monthly newsletter. Before he leaves, we wanted to catch up with his latest work and projects.
December 2025
Interview with Camille Le Bivic
Camille is researcher on spatial planning and land development issues in rural areas. This month we discussed her recent research projects on the purchase of agricultural land and the impacts of seal level rise on land management.
October 2025
Interview with Guanchi Zhang
This month we are happy to introduce Prof. Guanchi Zhang and discuss his work on how vulnerable residents affect land use planning.
August 2025
Interview with Johari Amar
Johari Hussein Nassor Amar (preferred name Johari Amar), is a Lecturer in Property and Leads the Sustainable Built Environments Research Group (SBERG), Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
This month we touched base with Johari Amar, to discuss her work on property valuation and heritage protection.
May-June 2025
Interview with Gabriela Debrunner
This month we managed to catch up with Gabriela Debrunner, a long time member of our association. Well, for those of you who don’t know, Gabi is a human geographer and environmental social scientist. She will take up a position as Assistant Professor in «Planning and Housing» (PLanH) at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability (IGD) at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) as of August 1st, 2025.
May 2025
Interview with Willem Korthals Altes
Willem Korthals Altes is a professor in Land Development, in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Willem has been with PLPR for over a decade, and this month we sat down with him to discuss his recent research projects
December 2024
Interview with Stefano Cozzolino
Stefano Cozzolino is a Senior Researcher at the ILS (Dortmund) and a Lecturer at RWTH Aachen University, where he teaches in the international Master’s Program Transforming City Regions. This month we got together to discuss urban beauty.
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November 2024
Interview with Doan Quang Cuong
Doan Quang Cuong is a PhD candidate at the Department of Urban Planning and Design, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
October 2024
Interview with Prof. Nil Uzun
This month we got together with Nil Uzun, Professor in City and Regional Planning at the Middle East Technical University (METU), Türkiye.
September 2024
Interview with Samuel Njuguna, UN-Habitat
Samuel Njuguna is an Urban Law and Governance Expert, at UN-Habitat, Nairobi. Samuel is a lawyer with a Master’s Degree in International Law from the University of Manchester, UK and a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya.
August 2024
Interview with Ass. Prof. Bettina Rentsch
Bettina Rentsch, Assistant Professor für European Private Law, Conflict of Laws and Comparative Law at Freie Universität Berlin, external Postdoctoral Researcher at Heidelberg University
June 2024
Interview with Prof. Gabriel Eckstein.
Gabriel Eckstein, Professor of Law, Director of the Energy, Environmental, & Natural Resource Systems Law Program, and Director of the Environmental & Natural Resource Systems Law Clinic at Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
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May 2024
Interview with Prof. Andreas Hengstermann.
Andreas is a veteran PLPR member. In march 2024 he was elected as PLPR’s vice president. We caught up with him for a short interview just before an exciting move to Norway. Read Here
May 2024
Interview with Prof. Katie McClymont.
Katie participated in PLPR 2023 in Michigan. We missed her dearly, so we caught up with for a brief update. For members who don’t know her, please meet Katie McClymont, Associate Prof. of Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol.
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March 2024
Interview with Mr. Dongsheng He.
Dongsheng participated in PLPR 2024 in Munich, so it was a good excuse for us to sit down with him and catch up. SO…
Meet Dongsheng He, PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Hong Kong, China
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February 2024
Interview with Dr. Peter Lacoere
We were very happy to catch up with Dr. Peter Lacoere who was one of our hosts in PLPR 2022 a couple of years ago. SO…
meet Peter Lacoere, Lecturer and researcher at HOGENT University of Applied Science and Arts (research center DRUM) and Guest Professor at KULeuven, Departement of Architecture, Belgium
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