Rate My Professor Courtney Babb

Dr. Courtney Babb is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Design and the Built Environment within the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He earned his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from Curtin University in 2014. His academic career at Curtin began as a Lecturer in 2015 and progressed to Senior Lecturer. Babb's research focuses on institutional design and change in spatial planning, transport institutions and the politics of resisting automobility, transitions to low-energy transport systems, urban mobility, urban governance, planning history and theory, climate adaptation, urban logistics, disaster risk reduction in new housing developments, micromobility in urban logistics, and decarbonising transport. He has contributed to projects examining inner-city parking policy dynamics, multifunctional green-blue-smart infrastructure, crime prevention through environmental design audits, sustainability trade-offs in bushfire policy for wildland-urban interfaces, planning for cycling and walking, placemaking in car-dependent cities, and children's active travel and wellbeing. His work has been featured in Curtin University's 'The Future Of' podcast series on smart cities, discussing urban efficiency, surveillance, data, and institutional work in multi-stakeholder innovation.