Michel Max Raynaud

Biography

Michel Max Raynaud Associate Professor   Co-head of the M.Sc.A. planning Director of the Ivanhoé Cambridge Observatory for Urban and Real Estate Development (OIC) Founder and Director of the Strategic Exchange Network for Sustainable Urban Africa (RESAUD) Member of the Research and Academic Partner Constituent Group of the United Nations General Assembly of Partners (GAP) Focal Point for the University of Montreal University Network Initiative UN Habitat (Habitat UNI) UN Habitat Mandated Expert Member of the Syntax Group (with Philippe Panerai, Jean Castex, Jean-Charles Depaule and Patrick Celeste) Architect (DPLG France) and urban planner (DEA France) Member of the Order of Architects of Ile-de-France (1981-2005) and Judicial Expert at the Court of Appeal of Paris (1999-2005, France) Michel Max Raynaud develops with and for the governments of cities and metropolises tools of negotiations and mediations for the improvement of the practices of governance. He directs the Ivanhoé Cambridge Observatory for Urban and Real Estate Development, which is responsible for promoting research on major urban programs. Together with UN Habitat, he founded the RESAUD program, a United Nations-accredited civil society organization that supports decision-makers in the implementation of the New Agenda for Cities and the Program. 2030 of the United Nations. He is an architect DPLG (France) and urban planner DIUAP (France) and has a long practice in France and abroad. During a career of 35 years, Michel Max Raynaud realized - as architect and independent urban planner - about forty buildings, renovations and interior fittings; he participated in the realization of major urban projects (new cities in France, EuroDisney). He has also participated alone or in association with about fifty national or international competitions.    Education URB 6751 Environmental Analysis and Urban Design AME 6917 Assembly workshop and urban project management AME 7301 Ph.D. Seminar on Planning AME 6916 Stakeholder Management (with Clément Demers) AME 6905 Internship Reports in Montage and Management of Development Projects AME 6911 Tutorials in editing and management of development projects URB 5319 Tutoring terminal projects at the bachelor's degree in urban planning AME 7303 Ph.D. Seminar on Planning (2010-2016) AME 6500 Scientific research in development. Theoretical foundations (2008-2014) AME 6753 Methods and practices in urban design (2008-2010) Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture of the Université de Montréal (2005-2006) Areas of expertise Participatory approach Land aspects Concertation and mediation Urban design and urban architecture Figuration and representation Project management History and theory of urbanism Research Methodology Urbanization and development in developing countries town planning

Research Interest

Michel Max Raynaud, Director of the Ivanhoe Cambridge Observatory for Urban and Real Estate Development, works on major urban programs, their editing and their impact (CODEX Program). As part of RESAUD with UN Habitat (Network of Strategic Exchanges for Sustainable Urban Africa) working in contractual partnerships with governments and universities to improve urban governance of urban security (land, housing, environmental, public and private) access to basic services). Her research interests focus on: 1 / stakeholders (citizens, politicians and entrepreneurs) and their role urban programs; 2 / on urban security in public spaces and 3 / on the challenges and challenges of metropolitan governance in developed and developing countries. During his professional career he also conducted research on typo-morphology, theoretical currents in urbanism, semiology in architecture and urban planning and the history of architecture and urbanism. Since 2014, Michel Max Raynaud, in the framework of his collaboration with UN Habitat, participated in the drafting of the New Program for the Cities of the United Nations (New Urban Agenda), adopted in October 2016 in Quito (Ecuador) during the meetings of Nairobi, Geneva, New York, Dakar, Guadalajara and Montreal; and participated in the first implementation of the New Governing Council (GC26) Program for the Cities of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) in May 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya.