EcoCityLab People
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Dr. Rafael E. Pizarro, Director and EcoCityLab Founder |
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Dr. Rafael Pizarro has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA), a Master of Environmental Planning (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA), and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia). He has been DAAD Visiting Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), a Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Planning at the University of Sydney (Australia), and has taught part time and given courses at the University of Southern California (USA), at the Technological University of Monterrey (Mexico), at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Colombia), at Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), and at Universidad de America (Colombia). He has also been a professional architect in Colombia, a City Planner for the City of Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona (USA), and participated in the design of an ecocity for the Prefecture of HuLuDao in China.
Dr. Pizarro’s research focuses on sustainable urban development with special emphasis on the production of sustainable neighbourhoods. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has co-edited Dialogues in Urban Planning: Towards Sustainable Regions with Tony Gilmour and Edward Blakely (Sydney University Press 2008) and Southern California and the World with Eric Heikkila (Praeger 2002). He has lectured and presented more than 30 research papers at academic congresses worldwide. He has also been member of the Australian National City & Regional Planning Research Group on Climate Change and of the Group for Academic Studies and Research on Colombian Caribbean Cities.
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Jana Milosovicova, Co-Director |
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Jana Milosovicova, a holder of a Master of Science Degree in Urban Design (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) and a Diploma Degree in Landscape Architecture (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), has devoted her career to projects that deal with aspects of environmentally sustainable urban development. Jana's internationally gained knowledge and experience in the interrelated fields of urban design, planning and landscape architecture that she has acquired in collaboration with EcoCityLab, TU Berlin, Peter Robinson Assoc. Sustainable Urbanism (Sydney), simpson+wilson architects (Sydney) and others contribute to her better understanding of and dealing with the interdisciplinary aspects of urban design and development. Jana is aware that only a holistic approach to sustainability (from well-thought-out interventions in the built environment to behavioral change) will help creating liveable and more sustainable urban environments and environmentally aware communities. In Jana’s approach to sustainable urban development, one particularly relevant field of research and intervention is climate-sensitive urban design: how urban design and planning can influence urban climate and how such disciplines should develop towards better addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation in temperate climate cities. Jana’s most recent and comprehensive work in this area is her Master’s Thesis in Urban Design titled "Climate Sensitive Urban Design in the Moderate Climate Zone: Responding to Future Heatwaves. Case Study Berlin - Heidestrasse/Europacity" (2010).
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