Deden Rukmana | Global South Megacity Planning

This channel is created and maintained by Dr. Deden Rukmana. He is a professor and director of the Master of City and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received a PhD degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University and completed master’s degrees from the University of Southern California as well as Bandung Institute of Technology. He also has eight years of experience as urban planner in Indonesia. 

His research centers on homelessness, health disparities, food insecurity and environmental justice. He is also interested in international development planning, particularly on development challenges in Indonesian cities and megacities in the Global South. He has published over 40 articles and book chapters. He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South (2020) and a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Urban Indonesia (2022).