Mr. Brian Mark Evans
Chief Urbanist, City of Glasgow, UK
Brian Mark Evans is a geographer, urban and regional planner, landscape designer and urbanist. He is professor of urbanism and landscape at the Glasgow School of Art and Director of the Glasgow Urban Laboratory Research Group, Scotland, UK. In 2019, he was appointed City Urbanist for Glasgow, to act in a civic role as independent strategic adviser on people, design and the city to the City’s leadership team. He has a doctorate in urbanism and design awarded by the University of Glasgow.
He is an adviser to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and was lead writer for the Habitat III Regional Report on Housing and Urban Development in the Economic Commission for Europe Region (UNECE).
Professor Evans has worked in North America, European and Scandinavia countries, the Russian Federation, Turkey, the Balkans and the Peoples Republic of China. He is a widely published author on urbanism, the future city and the inherited landscape and a founder of the Academy of Urbanism for the UK and Ireland. From 1989-2015 he was a senior partner with an international practice of landscape architects and urban designers based in Glasgow, London and internationally.
He is an adviser to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and was lead writer for the Habitat III Regional Report on Housing and Urban Development in the Economic Commission for Europe Region (UNECE).
Professor Evans has worked in North America, European and Scandinavia countries, the Russian Federation, Turkey, the Balkans and the Peoples Republic of China. He is a widely published author on urbanism, the future city and the inherited landscape and a founder of the Academy of Urbanism for the UK and Ireland. From 1989-2015 he was a senior partner with an international practice of landscape architects and urban designers based in Glasgow, London and internationally.