Dick Urban Vestbro
	Name: Dick Urban Vestbro Born: 24th of April 1940 in Solna, Sweden Address: School of Architecture and the Built Environment, The Royal Institute of Techno­logy (KTH), Drottning Kristinas väg 30, SE-100 44 Stockholm, phone 46-8-7908522; fax 46-8-7908580; email: dickurba@infra.kth.se
Exams 1965        Degree of Architecture, The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH 1975         Doctor of Technology in Building Function Analysis, School of Architecture, The Lund Institute of Technology (thesis "Social Life and Dwelling Space. An Analysis of Three House Types in Dar es Salaam"). 1984            Title of "docent" (post-doc qualification) in Building Function Analysis, KTH.   Employments 1974-99  Senior Lecturer/Assoc. Prof. in Building Function Analysis, School of Architecture, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. 1997-99           Acting Prof. of Div of Built Environment Analysis, KTH. 1997-99          Head (Prefect) of Dept. of Architecture and Townplanning, KTH. 1999-05   Professor of Built Environment Analysis, Head of Unit. 2005- Professor emeritus, Part-time engagement, The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH     Teaching activities Teaching activities comprise the following: •  Participation in courses Human Settlements and Housing and Sustainable Urban and Rural Development, within the international Master Programme Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure.  •  Supervision of Master thesis work (a total of ca 90 theses in the period 1973-2008). •  Supervision of thesis work of doctoral students (8 completed, 3 ongoing).   Recent research activities •    Developmental aspects of house and urban design in low-income countries. •    Housing and neighbourhood typologies in relation to densities (floor areas ratios) and urban lifestyles in low- income countries. •    Gender and sustainability aspects of collective housing in Scandinavian countries. •    The role of professionals for enabling housing strategies in low-income countries •    Citizen participation in physical planning in Stockholm   Special assignments 1987-   Co-chair, then Secretary of ARC•PEACE, International Architects Designers Plan­ners for Social Responsibility (with consultative status in the UN) 1990- Member of the Board of Editors of the journal Open House International 1996-2000    Member of the Board of the International Association for People-Environ­ment Studies (IAPS), network co-ordinator. 1997-2004             Chairman of the international Master Programme Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure given at KTH, Stockholm. 1998-   Swedish Co-ordinator of a Sida-sponsored research co-operation programme between Ardhi University), Dar es Salaam, and Swedish academic institutions. 2001-      Swedish Co-ordinator of a Sida-sponsored research co-operation programme between the Faculty of Technology, Makerere University, Kampala, and Swedish academic institutions. 2003-2006      Chair of the Steering Comittee of the Baltic University Urban Forum (implementing sustainable strategies in city development). 2006- Initiator and Board member of Architecture Sans Frontières-Sweden 2007- Secretary of Architecture Sans Frontières-International (ASF-Int) Recent publication •    "Collective Housing in Scandinavia - How Feminism Revised a Modernist Experiment", in Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol 14, No 4 (Winter 1997). •    “People-Environment Studies - with or without Modernism? Lessons from Swedish Experiences”, paper for the IAPS 15 Conference Shifting Balances, Changing Roles in Policy, Research and Design, Eindhoven 11-15 July 1998. •    How should the Post-Apartheid City be Planned? (together with a group of students), Div. of Built Environment Analysis, KTH, 1999. •    “From Collective Housing to Cohousing – A Summary of Research”, the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Vol 17, No2 (Summer, 2000). •    The role of design and planning professionals for solving the global housing problem, Report from a Workshop at the Conference ‘Challenges for Science and Engineering in the 21st Century’, organised by the International Network for Engineers and Scientists (INES), Stockholm, 14-18 June 2000, published by ARC•PEACE International Architects Designers Planners for Social Respon­sibility and the Div of Built Environment Analysis, KTH, Stockholm 2001 (editor and author of one chapter). •    Architecture as Politics. The Role of Design and Planning for Peace and Sustainable Develop­ment, ARC•PEACE International Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsibility in collaboration with the Div. of Built Environment Analysis, KTH, Stockholm, 2002 (editor and author of two chapters). •    “Modernism as a Tool for Development”, in Open House International, Vol 28, No 3, 2003 (with Barnabas Nawangwe). •    “Saving by Sharing. Collective Housing for Sustainable Lifestyles”, paper presented at the IAPS 18 conference Evaluation in Progress, Vienna, July 7-10, 2004. •    ”Collective Housing – for the Emancipation of Men?”, paper presented at the IAPS 18 conference Evaluation in Progress, Vienna, July 7-10, 2004. •    “What is the urban settlement crisis and how to solve it?”, paper for compendium in the course Human Settlements and Housing, Master program Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure, KTH, October 2004. •    Methodologies in Housing Research, The Urban International Press, 2005 (editor together with Yonca Hürol and Nicholas Wilkinson, and author of chapter “Participant Observation – a Method for Inside Views”). •    “Conflicting perspectives in the development of Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm”, 2005 •    ”The role of design and planning for solving the global housing problems”, speech presented at the conference Advances in Engineering and Technology, Entebbe, Uganda, July 2006. •    ”House types and urban sprawl in developing countries”, paper presented at the 19th Conference of International Association of People-Environments Studies (IAPS), September 11-16, 2006, in Alexandria, Egypt. •  Enabling Housing Strategies, Keynote lecture at the International Conference “Towards Low-Cost Housing”, Cairo, Egypt, 29-31 May, 2007. •    ”The Relevance of Architectural Modernism to Countries in Transition”, manuscript written together with Barnabas Nawangwe for the book On Global Grounds, edited by prof Julia Nevárez, New York (forthcoming).   Updated 2008-08-25