Dr Carolyn Whitzman
PhD (McMaster), MA (Toronto), BA (Hons) (Concordia)
Certified Practicing Planner, Planning Institute of Australia
Associate Professor in Urban Planning
Email: whitzman@unimelb.edu.au
Dr. Carolyn Whitzman is an Associate Professor in Urban Planning. She is the author of Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood (University of British Columbia Press, 2009), The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender, and Violence Prevention: practical planning tools (Earthscan, 2008), and the co-author of Safe Cities: guidelines for planning, design, and management (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995). Previously, she worked for the City of Toronto on healthy city initiatives. Dr. Whitzman has an international reputation for her work on the prevention of violence.
Current research interests include:
- Policy enablers to increase independent mobility, physical activity, and active transport amongst children
- The development of integrated violence prevention initiatives at the local government level, within Australia and internationally
- Planning for healthy and socially inclusive communities
She is a Board Member of Women in Cities International, a member of the Planning Institute of Australia's National Education Committee, and a jury member for both the Planning Institute’s Social and Community Planning Award and the Women's Planning Network Rising Star Scholarship.
Teaching
705641 Participation and Negotiation
705637 Healthy Communities
702247 Cities: from Local to Global
Research Grants
(2009-12) UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women: With a group of academic and practitioners known as Women in Cities International (WICI –see below for other grants), Red Mujer y Habitat (Rosario Argentina), Jagori (Delhi India), Information Centre of the Independent Women’s Forum (Petrovadosk Russia) and Safer Cities Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) we are undertaking a three year project on “Gender Inclusive Cities: Increasing women's safety by identifying and disseminating effective and promising approaches that promote women's equal access to public spaces”. See www.womenincities.org.
(2006-10) Volvo Research and Education Foundation: I am a Partner in the Australian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT), a research centre based at the University of Melbourne and six other universities in Australia and Asia. We are researching the means for implementing a new role for collective and active transport (2006-2010)- total budget $5,167,221 – I am leading a project on Institutional Enablers for Children’s Independent Mobility with a total budget of $120,000, whose aim is to identify policies and programs that work to improve children’s physical activity, active transport, and independent mobility. See www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/gamut.
(2006-09) Australian Research Council Linkage competitive grant (with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation -VicHealth) “Gender, Violence Prevention and Local Governance: Making the Links”: a three year project with four Victorian local governments (Maribyrnong, Bendigo, Casey, Loddon) to help them develop integrated violence prevention strategies and influence the development of a state-wide framework and plan for violence prevention LP0667605 - $180,000. See www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/research/funded/glove.
Selected Publications
Research Books
(2009) Whitzman, C. Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood 1875-2002 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).
(2008) Whitzman, C. The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender, and Violence Prevention: practical planning tools (London: Earthscan)
Book Chapters
(2009) Whitzman, C., Romero, V., Duncan, M., Tranter, P., Curtis, C., and Burke, M. “From Battery-Reared to Free Range Children: the links between children’s independent mobility, active transport, physical activity and obesity”, E. Waters, B. Swinburn, R. Uauy, J. Seidell (eds.), Preventing Childhood Obesity: evidence, policy, and practice (Wiley Blackwell)
(2009) Whitzman, C. “Secure Cities” in T. Banerjee and A. Loukaitou-Sideris (eds.), Urban Design: Roots, Influences, and Trends – a Routledge Companion (Routledge)
(2009) Whitzman, C and Perkovic, J. “Women’s Safety Audits and Walking School Busses: the diffusion/de-fusion of two radical planning ideas,” P. Healey and R. Upton (eds.), Planning Ideas and Planning Practices: a critical look at international exchange in the planning field (Routledge)
(2006) Whitzman, C. 2006. “Planning for Health and Wellbeing,” in Barnett, G. (ed.), The Millenium Disease: responses to Australia’s obesity epidemic (Canberra: Australian Parliament), pp. 32-33.
(2004) Whitzman, C. 2004 “Safer Cities, Gender Mainstreaming, and Human Rights”, in Report of Valladolid 2004: the Right to Safety and the City, La Paz, R et al eds., (Valladolid, Spain: University of Valladolid School of Architecture Special Paper no. 3), pp. 23-27.
Journal Articles - Refereed
(2009) Whitzman, C., Andrew, C., Shaw, M., and Travers, K. “The Effectiveness of Women’s Safety Audits,” Security Journal 22(3), 205-218.
(2009) Whitzman, C. “Reinventing Planning Education,” Australian Planner 46(1), 14-21.
(2008) Whitzman, C. “Policies and Practices that Promote Children’s Independent Mobility”, Urban Planning International 23(5), 56-61.
(2008) Castelino, T., and Whitzman, C. “The Rhetoric and Reality of Family Violence Prevention in Victoria, Australia,” Journal of Family Studies 14(2-3), 310-321.
(2008) Whitzman, C. “Community Safety Indicators: are we measuring what counts?”, Urban Policy and Research, 26(2), pp. 197-211.
(2007) Whitzman, C. “Gender, Fear of Crime and the Challenge of Creating Safer Space”, Environment and Planning A, 39, pp. 2715-2732.
(2007) Whitzman, C. “Barriers to Planning Healthier Cities in Victoria, Australia”, International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability, 3(1), pp. 146-153.
(2007) Whitzman, C. “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner: long-term feminist planning initiatives in London, Toronto, Montreal, and Melbourne,” Planning Theory and Practice 8(2), pp. 203-225.
(2006) Whitzman, C. and Slater, T. “Ghetto Village Land: Myth and Housing Policy in Parkdale Toronto, 1883-2003”, Urban Affairs Review, 41(5), pp. 673-696.
(2006) Whitzman, C. “At the intersection of invisibilities: women, homelessness, and health outside the ‘big city’”, Gender, Place, and Culture, 13(4), pp. 383-399.
(2005) Whitzman, C. “Social Planning and Crime Prevention: lessons from innovative practices”, Australian Planner, 42(3), pp. 32-35.
(2005) Whitzman, C. “Safer Space in Toronto,” Urban Planning International 19(4), 58-61, 2005. [in Chinese]; English version published as a special report by York University Centre for Urban Studies, pp. 121-130, and published online at www.arts.yorku.ca/sosc/urbanst/publications.html.
(2005) Whitzman, C. “Cities: the good and the world class,” review essay for Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 14(1), pp. 182-186.
(2004) Whitzman, C. “The Crisis in Planning (Don’t Yawn! Don’t Turn the Page!)”, guest editorial for Urban Policy and Research, 22(4), pp. 341-343.
Major Reports
(2009) Whitzman, C. “Gender, Local Governance and Violence Prevention: final report”
(2008) Women in Cities International “Women’s Safety Audits: what works and where?”
(2008) West, S., Badham, M, Frere, M., Wiseman, J., Woolcock, G., Whitzman, C., Kelaher, M., Eltham, T. “A Strategic Framework for Creating Liveable New Communities”, for Growth Areas Authority
(2007) Whitzman, C. and Pike, L. “From Battery-Reared to Free-Range Children: institutional barriers and enablers to Children’s Independent Mobility in Victoria, Australia: a report on the first phase of research”