Faculty

Jeremy Németh

Assistant Professor and Director, Urban Design Program

Department
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Planning and Design 

Degrees Held
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• PhD Planning and Public Policy - Rutgers University (2007)
• MS Building and Urban Design - University College London (2001)
• BA Architecture - University of California, Berkeley (2000)
  

Recent Courses

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• City Design Policy
• Planning Methods I
• Planning Studio II
• Urban Design Studio I 
• Urban Form Theory

Research Interests
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• Security and the privatization of public space [securecities.com]
• Planning in shrinking cities
• Politics of public space
   

Selected Publications
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• 2010. The closed city: Downtown security zones and the loss of public space. Revise and resubmit in Environment and Planning A.
• 2010. The privatization of public space: Modeling and measuring publicness. Under review in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.
• 2009. Lost space: Security zones and New York City’s shrinking public space. Forthcoming in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (with J. Hollander).
• 2009. Defining a public: Managing privately owned public space. Urban Studies, 46(11): 2463-2490.
• 2007. Toward a methodology for measuring the security of publicly accessible spaces. Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 73, No. 3: 283-297 (with S. Schmidt).
• 2006. Conflict, exclusion, relocation: Skateboarding and public space. Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 11, No. 3: 297-318.
• 2006. Suburban bypass roads and interjurisdictional politics: A case study. World Transport Policy and Practice, Vol. 12, No. 1: 15-29 (with A. Lichtenstein, S. Schmidt).
• 2004. Redefining security in public space: The case of LOVE Park. IEEE Technology and Society, Vol. 23, No. 4: 19-20. (Translated in Portuguese in Urbanismo, Vol. 8, No. 2: 28-29).
  
  

Grants and Projects
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• 2008-present. Lost space: Security zones and the shrinking of public space ($20,000). Center for Faculty Development. University of Colorado Denver.
  
• 2008. Denver Union Station public space study ($8000). Studio course supported by Open Space Initiative Group. College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver.
  - Winner of APA Colorado Student Project Award (2008)
  - Print coverage: Rocky Mountain News, Denver Daily News, Silver & Gold Record
  - Television coverage: CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, CW
  
• 2007. Control by design: Encouraging diversity in Denver's public spaces ($5000). Faculty Seed Funding Grant. College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver.
  
• 2007. Inner ring suburb design/redevelopment study ($3500). Funded by and prepared for Wheat Ridge 2020, Wheat Ridge, CO. Center for Sustainable Urbanism, College of Architecture & Planning, University of Colorado Denver.
  
  
  

Selected Service
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• 2009-present. Director, Master of Urban Design program, University of Colorado Denver.
  
• 2008-2009. Interim Director, Master of Urban Design program, University of Colorado Denver.
  
• 2007-present. Coordinator, Physical Planning / Placemaking concentration, Planning and Design program, University of Colorado Denver.
  
• 2007-present. Board member, Birambye International Sustainability Group (www.birambye.org), Boulder, Colorado.
  
• 2007-present. Invited juror for urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture studio presentations.
  
• 2005-present. Manuscript review, Urban Studies, Journal of Transport and Land Use, Children Youth and Environment Journal.