Exploring food and urbanism II editorial

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Susan Parham

Susan Parham is Associate Professor and Director of the University of Hertfordshire’s Urbanism Unit (UHUU), Academic Director of the International Garden Cities Institute (IGCI) and a Research Associate at the Laboratory for Building Cultures at the École Nationale Supérieure Architecture Grenoble. Susan has written a number of books, book chapters and academic papers on research areas including food and spatial design, garden cities and new towns, sustainable building and construction, ‘sprawl’ retrofitting, transport oriented, compact and sustainable cities and community engagement on planning and urbanism. Susan has a background as a political economist, town planner, urban designer and urban sociologist. Previously Susan was a policy analyst and rapporteur for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a Royal Society for the Arts Fellow.