Editorial Board Members

Dr. Wolfgang Scholz is an urban planner and researcher. In 2006, he received his PhD on informal urbanization in Zanzibar/Tanzania, he served as DAAD lecturer in Tanzania 2007-2009 and in 2012 he was appointed as associate professor for Urban Planning at the German University of Technology (GUtech) in Muscat, Oman. Currently, he is the acting head of the Department International Planning Studies, Faculty of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University. He has more than 15 years of research experience in the field of informal urban development in the Global South, urban infrastructure and mobility as well as teaching experience in urban design, planning theory, theories and models of spatial development, both in the Global North and in the Global South.