Making Sense of Planning and Development for the Post-Pandemic Cities

Professor Kh Md Nahiduzzaman is a Nordic-trained Canadian urban planner with a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and an M.Phil. in Geography from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Before joining the School of Architecture, Planning and Design (SAP+D) at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco, he was a faculty member at the Faculty of Applied Science in the University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan, Canada. He has also taught at the Department of City and Regional Planning in King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Urban Planning and the Environment in the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Currently, Prof. Nahiduzzaman is responsible for co-coordinating the PhD program and the TOP (Territorial Observatory Performance) Lab at SAP+D, UM6P. His research focuses on urban resilience, urban transformational planning, human-centered smart cities, digital twins, and indigenous knowledge in climate risk and vulnerability assessment and policies. A recognized expert in these fields, he collaborates on research projects with governments, industrial partners, and communities worldwide, including Canada, Italy, Spain, Romania, France, Germany, Czech Republic, USA, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, China, Kazakhstan, and Bangladesh.

Prof. Nahiduzzaman has secured over $5 million in research grants from prestigious national and international funding agencies. He has (co-)authored more than 100 scientific manuscripts in highly regarded journals, books, and proceedings. His contributions to non-structural flood mitigation, floodplain mapping, and land use planning strategies in BC have had significant impact on provincial policies.

He serves as Executive and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Urban Management (Elsevier), Editor-in-Chief of the City Development: Issues and Best Practices (ICCCASU) journal, and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Urban Planning and Development (ASCE). He actively participates in various national and international scientific committees and think tanks, such as the ICCCASU (International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization), ICCSA (International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications), the African Smart City Forum, the Casablanca Smart City Conference, and International Conference of the Arab Society for Computation in Architecture, Art and Design (ASCAAD).

Prof. Nahiduzzaman serves as a co-chair of the "Smart and Connected Cities" track in the US-Africa Frontiers program, which will take place on February 18-20, 2025, in Kigali, Rwanda. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic.

教授 Kh Md Nahiduzzaman 是一位接受北歐訓練的加拿大城市規劃師，擁有瑞典皇家科技學院 (KTH) 的城市規劃博士學位及挪威科技大學 (NTNU) 的地理碩士學位。在加入摩洛哥穆罕默德六世理工大學 (UM6P) 的建築、規劃與設計學院 (SAP+D) 之前，他曾是加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞大學 (UBC) 奧肯那根分校應用科學學院的教職員。他也曾在沙烏地阿拉伯的法赫德石油與礦業大學 (KFUPM) 的城市與區域規劃系以及瑞典皇家科技學院的城市規劃與環境系任教。

目前，Nahiduzzaman 教授負責協調 UM6P SAP+D 的博士課程及 TOP (Territorial Observatory Performance) 實驗室。他的研究專注於城市韌性、城市轉型規劃、人本智慧城市、數位雙胞胎，以及在氣候風險與脆弱性評估及政策中的原住民知識。作為這些領域的公認專家，他與全球各地的政府、產業夥伴及社區合作進行研究項目，包括加拿大、義大利、西班牙、羅馬尼亞、法國、德國、捷克共和國、美國、摩洛哥、沙烏地阿拉伯、中國、哈薩克及孟加拉國。

Nahiduzzaman 教授已從多個知名的國內外資助機構獲得超過 500 萬美元的研究經費。他已在高度受尊重的期刊、書籍及會議論文中（共同）撰寫超過 100 篇科學手稿。他在不列顛哥倫比亞省的非結構性洪水緩解、洪泛區繪圖及土地使用規劃策略方面的貢獻對省級政策產生了重大影響。

他擔任《城市管理期刊》（Elsevier）的執行編輯及書評編輯、《城市發展：議題與最佳實踐》（ICCCASU）期刊的主編，以及《城市規劃與發展期刊》（ASCE）的編輯委員會成員。他積極參與各種國內外的科學委員會及智庫，如 ICCCASU（國際加拿大、中國及非洲可持續城市化會議）、ICCSA（國際計算科學及其應用會議）、非洲智慧城市論壇、卡薩布蘭卡智慧城市會議，以及阿拉伯計算建築、藝術與設計協會（ASCAAD）的國際會議。

Nahiduzzaman 教授擔任美國-非洲前沿計畫中「智慧與連結城市」專題的共同主席，該活動將於 2025 年 2 月 18-20 日在盧旺達基加利舉行。他目前是捷克共和國茲林的托馬斯·巴塔大學區域發展、公部門管理與法律系的訪問學者。