Professor Alan Peters

Professor and Head of Urban and Regional Planning

Alan was until recently, Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Iowa. His work there included, amongst other things, the creation of large economic microsimulation models used to estimate the impact of regulation and taxation on new development. For the past decade and a half he has also been involved with the adaption of Graphic Information Systems (GIS) to planning and, more recently, the use of visualization technology to simulate the shape of future development and the impact of regulatory changes on that development.

Alan has published a number of books and monographs on planning, economic simulation and GIS. In his non-academic life, Alan has worked as a consultant and researcher in the US, Canada, the UK and his native South Africa. He holds a PhD from Rutgers University and an MScURP from the University of Natal. He is an avid sailor.

Alan is the new Director of the Planning Research Centre (PRC), for more information, please see the PRC website.