Kheir Al-Kodmany

Dr. Kheir Al-Kodmany is a Professor of Spatial Planning and Urban Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His research and teaching cover a wide-spectrum of topics, including vertical urbanism, sustainable design, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), visualization systems, public participation, crowd management, economic development, and skyscrapers. He has published 7 major influential books and over 100 papers with citations (2383), h-index (23), i10-index (42). His books are often described as “treasure,” “almost an encyclopedia,” “everything you would want to know about the architecture and urban design of..,” “a stroke of a genius,” etc. He serves on 20 editorial boards of professional journals. He is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and engages in training senior planners across the globe. Dr. Al-Kodmany taught for 25 years at UIC and 5 years at UIUC. He secured grants in the total of several hundreds of thousands of dollars and authored visualization software. He ranks among top ten faculty according to a study titled “Faculty Quality at U.S. Graduate Planning Schools, A National Research Council–Style Study,” by the Journal of Planning Literature. He received numerous awards including the American Planning Association Award for “Revise, Recreate, Rezone