Tim Campbell is the Chairman of The Urban Age Institute which fosters leadership and innovation between and among cities in areas of strategic urban planning, urban policy and management, sustainable environmental planning, and poverty reduction.
He retired from the World Bank in December of 2005 after 17 years working in various capacities in the urban sector. He has worked for more than 35 years in urban development with experience in scores of countries and hundreds of cities in Latin America, South and East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. He pioneered the Bank’s city development strategies and was the Bank-wide coordinator for CDS, a new analytical tool focusing on cities as the unit of analysis in national development. From 1995 to 1997, he served as a member of the Advisory Group in Latin America and the Caribbean Region and was the Region’s Chief of the Urban and Water Unit (1993-1995).
Before joining the Bank, he was a private consultant and University Professor. His consulting clients included private sector firms, governments, and international organizations. He taught at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Tim holds a B.A. in Political Science from U. C. Berkeley a Masters in City and Regional Planning from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from M I.T
His latest book Beyond Smart Cities - How Cities Network, Learn, and Innovate will be published by Earthscan in early 2012.
This book shows how networks already operating in most cities are used - and sometimes misused - to foster and strengthen connections, to achieve breakthroughs, and to catalyze and convert information and knowledge into a high-value richness of innovation. Going beyond smart cities means understanding how cities construct, convert and manipulate the matrix of relationships that grow naturally in urban environments.
Previous books include The Quiet Revolution, which explores the rise of political participation in cities with the onset of decentralization in Latin America from 1983-1995 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003)
Leadership and Innovation
(World Bank, 2004) is a collection of case studies about the innovation process observed in leading local governments in Latin America.
Areas of expertise cover urban learning and innovation, strategic planning, policy evaluation, decentralization, project implementation, and socio economic and environmental impact analysis related to urban and regional development. Project areas include urban strategies, urban planning; decentralization policies; urban and rural development; compulsory relocation; emergency relief; environmental change; and housing, water, sanitation, and renewable energy for low-income population
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