Dr Carolyn Whitzman
PhD (McMaster), MA (Toronto), BA Hons (Concordia)
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning,
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
T: +61 (0)3 8344 8723,
F: +61 (0)3 8344 5532
E: whitzman@unimelb.edu.au
Profile
Dr Carolyn Whitzman, Certified Professional Planner; Member, Planning Institute of Australia
PhD (McMaster), MA (Toronto), BA(Hons) (Concordia)
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning
whitzman@unimelb.edu.au
Dr. Carolyn Whitzman is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning. She is the author of 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
- Gender and community planning, in historical and contemporary international contexts.
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.
Selected Publications:
Publications related to GAMUT research
(accepted) 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), to be published in 2009.
(in press) Whitzman, C., Romero, V., Tranter, P., Curtis, C., Duncan, M., 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), chapter accepted, expected publication date January 2009.
(2008) Whitzman, C. “Policies and Practices that Promote Children’s Independent Mobility”, Urban Planning International 23(5), 56-61.
Presentations on GAMUT research
(2008) Whitzman, C. “Planning for Living Well,” State Planning Conference, Ballarat, September 2008.
(2008) Whitzman, C., Burke, M., Romero, V., Tranter, P., Curtis, C. “Children’s Mobility”, panel for “Are Today’s Cities Destroying Childhood?” symposium, Griffith University, Brisbane, June 2008.
(2008) “Reshaping How We Live: the example of Children’s Independent Mobility”, Go For Your Life Think Tank, Melbourne, April 2008.
(2008) Whitzman, C. and Perkovic, J., “Women’s Safety Audits and Walking School Busses: the Diffusion/ De-fusion of Two Radical Planning Tools”, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning/Association of European Schools of Planning Joint Congress, Chicago, July 2008.
(2008) Whitzman, C. “Children’s Independent Mobility: Future Research Directions,” Future Urban Transport Conference, Volvo Research and Education Foundation, Berkeley, May 2008.
(2008) Whitzman, C. “ Institutional Barriers and Enablers to Children’s Independent Mobility”, Planning Institute National Congress, Sydney, April 2008.
(2006) Whitzman, C and Rudner, J. “Institutional Enablers for Children’s Right to the City,” Walk21 International Conference, Melbourne, October 2006.
(2006) “Planning for Health and Wellbeing: the case of childhood obesity,” Parliamentary Healthy Lifestyle Forum, Canberra, October 2006.
Journal Articles - Refereed
(in press) Whitzman, C., Andrew, C., and Shaw, M. “The Effectiveness of Women’s Safety Audits,” Security Journal special issue on women and safety, expected publication date March 2009.
(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 http://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.