Anzir Boodoo, Independent/Freelance Urbanist and sometime puppeteer, Leeds, UK
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A fledgling Wikipedian, mainly attempting to edit the real world, and hoping to contribute more to Wikipedia.
Areas of interest & expertise:
- Urban Planning, Design & History
- Studied University Modules in Town Planning, Urban Morphology & Urban Design
- (Lapsed) Member of the International Seminar on Urban Form and occasional reviewer for their journal Urban Morphology
- Member of the Town and Country Planning Association
- Member and Mailing List Manager for Planners Network UK
- Masterplanning (particularly New Towns, also manager of the New Towns mailing list on JISCmail)
- Interaction between Urban Form and Perception/Emotion (abandoned PhD topic at Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds)
- Experience of the Urban Environment, including Sensewalking and Street Performance
- Psychogeography
- Public Transport, and railways / rapid transit in particular
- Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK and member of the Policy Committee (North East Region)
- Lapsed member of the Institution of Railway Operators (Aff.IRO)
- Former public transport planner and researcher of the railway industry in the UK
- On the Editorial Board of World Streets and the "New Mobility Agenda"
- Former reviewer for the Journal of Transport Planning and Technology
- Committee Member, Carfree UK (part of the World Carfree Network). Joint organiser of "Towards Carfree Cities IX" and attended Parliamentary Committee on the Eco-towns programme
- Sustainability, particularly on the urban level. Joint coordinator of Green Drinks Leeds and involved with a number of local environmental initiatives
- Poetry, puppetry, songwriting and storytelling, leading into folktales, myth and legend
- Disability Issues, mainly around mobility, education and employment. ME/CFS sufferer
- Fine coffee and chocolate
My academia.edu profile has more information on my academic work