People's Architecture
	BIO  |  QUOTE   |  PRESENTATION     JOHN FRIEDMANN John Friedmann Professor emeritus, School of Public Affairs, UCLA; Honorary Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia; MA and Ph.D., University of Chicago (1955). Founding chair of Urban Planning Program, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA, 1969. Professor emeritus, School of Public Affairs, UCLA (1995). Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne (1998-2001). Honorary Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia (2001-). Friedmann is affiliated with the Center for Chinese Studies at UBC. Professor Friedmann has had a distinguished career in public service, private consulting, and the academy. In his early years, he worked on the regional studies staff of the Tennessee Valley Authority, followed by five years of work in various capacities with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Brazil and the Republic of Korea. He has held academic appointments with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961-1964) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago (1965-1969). He joined the faculty of UCLA in 1969 to direct the newly created Planning Program in what became the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. Over the years, he has been a frequent consultant to, among others, the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, and the United Nations. In 2005, he was invited by the Foreign Affairs Department of Canada to address a meeting of the Deputy Ministers and other high officials of the Federal Government on world urbanization and related policies. His major research interests have been in urban and regional development and planning theory. His best known works include Regional Development and Planning: A Reader (with W. Alonso) (1964), Regional Development Policy: A Case Study of Venezuela (1966), Retracking America: A Theory of Transactive Planning (1973), The Good Society (1975), Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning (with C. Weaver) (1979), Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action (1988), Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development (1992), Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age (with M. Douglass), and The Urban Prospect (2002). China's Urban Transition was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2005. Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Farsi, and Portuguese. Friedmann's current research interests are divided between the politics of city-regional governance and urbanization processes in China. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Friedmann has been honoured by the Government of Chile (1969) and holds honorary doctorates from the Catholic University of Chile and the University of Dortmund. In 1988, he was given an award for distinguished service to education in planning by the American Collegiate Schools of Planning. In 2006, he was the recipient of the first UN-Habitat Lecture Award for lifetime achievement in the service of human settlements.