Benno Engels

Dr. Benno Engels

Senior Lecturer

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Benno Engels is a senior lecturer within the Urban Planning program within the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University.

Research fields

  • 3304 Urban and regional planning
  • 440404 Political economy and social change
  • 440610 Social geography
  • 330402 History and theory of the built environment (excl. architecture)
  • 440712 Social policy

Supervisor projects

  • Feeding [off] the Frenzy: When the Media Enter the Mortgage Market
  • 4 Feb 2019
  • From Crisis to Crisis: Understanding Changes to Victorian Rental Housing Policy from the Global Financial Crisis to COVID-19
  • 1 Mar 2018
  • The Historical Development of the Provision of Certainty in Melbourne Metropolitan Planning 
  • 1 Aug 2014

Teaching interests

Supervisor interest areas:

Urban political economy, urban planning history, strategic metropolitan planning, social policy and planning issues, housing including gentrification studies, plus social theory especially neo-Marxian.

Supervisor projects:

6 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions and more than 15 Honours thesis projects.

Research interests

Urban and Regional Planning, Policy and Administration, Human Geography, Other Built Environment and Design, Other studies in Human Society.

Research Areas:

Urban political economy, urban planning history, strategic metropolitan planning, social policy and planning issues, housing including gentrification studies, plus social theory especially neo-Marxian.
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