Nicholas Phelps is a Professor and Chair of Urban Planning in the School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also serves as a Visiting Professor at the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, China. Previously, he was Professor of Urban and Regional Development at the Bartlett School of Planning and Pro Vice Provost Regional (Southeast Asia) at University College London. Professor Phelps’s research and teaching interests span a wide range of topics, including the planning and politics of suburbanization, the economics of urban agglomeration, international planning, entrepreneurship, informality and economic development, and the economic geography of multinational enterprises and foreign direct investment. He has authored more than 80 internationally peer-reviewed journal articles and five influential books, including Interplaces, An Anatomy of Sprawl, Sequel to Suburbia, and Post-Suburban Europe. Professor Phelps earned his PhD from Newcastle University.

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