Michael Martin

Michael is a Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning and Director of Urban Design Programmes at the University of Sheffield, UK. Previously he was an Assistant Professor in Urban Design at Aalborg University, Denmark. Michael’s research and publications in urban design cover a range of themes specialising in child-friendly cities, sustainable mobility, urban regeneration, temporary urbanism, and placemaking processes. He is co-author of the 2025 book Applied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach, published by Routledge, New York.

He has undertaken research funded by charities, public bodies and local government in the UK and Denmark including the ESRC, Capital of Children/LEGO Foundation and the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation and published his results in leading international journals. He is Associate Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Urban Design and Planning (ICE).