Aseem Inam Professor & Chair in Urban Design at Cardiff University & Director of TRULAB

Aseem Inam is Professor and Chair in Urban Design at Cardiff University and
Director of TRULAB: Laboratory for Designing Urban Transformation, a pioneering
research-driven urban practice. Previously, Dr. Inam was the John Bousfield
Distinguished Scholar at the University of Toronto and the founding Director of the
Graduate Program in Urban Practice at the Parsons School of Design in New York
City. He is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters and books,
including Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities, and
Designing Urban Transformation. He has practiced as an activist and urbanist in
Brazil, France, Greece, Haiti, India, Morocco, United Kingdom and United States.
He is currently a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow, working on a book about the
true—and surprising—nature of contemporary urbanism.