Ela Babalık Editor

Ela Babalık is Professor of City and Regional Planning, and a transport policy expert. Having been a member of the academic staff for over 25 years at the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Middle East Technically University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, she is teaching urban transport planning and transport policy as a part-time instructor at METU as well as carrying out training and policymaking projects and consultancy work at the national and international level. Her areas of expertise include transport policy, sustainable mobility, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and planning education.

Andrea Frank is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Birmingham, UK. Other than in the UK, she previously has held academic appointments in the USA, Germany and Indonesia. Her areas of expertise include sustainability, public participation, creativity, planning pedagogy and education for planning as well as international and comparative planning. With Christopher Silver, she is co-editor of Urban Planning Education: Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects (2018) and Teaching Urban and Regional Planning (with A.R. Pires, 2021).

Olivier Sykes is Associate Professor in European Spatial Planning and Discipline Lead for Planning at the University of Liverpool. His research and teaching address the fields of European spatial planning, international planning studies and comparative urban policy and regeneration. He is co-author of International Planning Studies – an introduction (2023) and co-editor of Planning in a Failing State – reforming spatial governance in England (2024).