User:Aboodoo

Anzir Boodoo, Independent/Freelance Urbanist and sometime puppeteer, Leeds, UK

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

Wikipedian Connections

 * Chippyy
 * Scarletharlot69
 * Leela0808

Aboodoo (talk) Aboodoo (talk) 22:55, 5 May 2018 (UTC)