- Department Head, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Architecture
Dr. Galen D. Newman is Professor and Head in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning (LAUP) at Texas A&M University as well as the Youngblood Endowed Professor of Residential Land Development. He is also PI of the TAMU Superfund Center's Community Engagement Core (and Co-I for is Risk and Geospatial Sciences Core) as well as PI for the Community Engagement Core for the TAMU Center for Environmental Research. In LAUP, he formerly served as Associate Department Head, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program, Director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning Program, Associate Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, and Community Resilience Lead for the institute for Sustainable Communities. Dr. Newman's research interests include community resilience, urban regeneration, land use science, spatial analytics, and built environment performance. His work has been published in many high quality peer-reviewed outlets (over 130 journal articles) and has been funded through numerous internal and external funding sources including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences totaling over over 73 million dollars (70.51 million external and 2.55 million internal). He has also won many awards/recognitions for his research, including the Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), the Outstanding Educator Award from CELA, the Best Paper Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association, a Presidential Impact Fellow from Texas A&M University, a Most Influential Instructor from Design Intelligence, an Honor Award in Research from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in Professional Design, and is a Fellow of the ASLA. He has also led many efforts to provide service learning opportunities which have also won national and state awards including six American Society of Landscape Architects National Awards (ASLA), 30+ ASLA, Texas Chapter Awards, 2 American Planning Association, Texas Chapter Awards and being designated as a TAMU Service Learning Faculty Fellow, a TAMU Student Success Faculty Fellow, and TAMU Department Head Faculty Fellow, and a TAMU Presidential Impact Fellow. Other awards include the School of Architecture's Regan Interdisciplinary Research Award, the Association of Former Student's Award in Teaching at the College Level, and being named one of Design Intelligence's Most Admired Educators.
- Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning, Clemson University - (Clemson, South Carolina, United States) 2010
- LL.M. in Community Planning, Auburn University - (Auburn, Alabama, United States) 2006
- M.A. in Landscape Architecture, Auburn University - (Auburn, Alabama, United States) 2006
- B.S. in Environmental Design, Auburn University - (Auburn, Alabama, United States) 2003
Academic Articles118
- Ye, X., Newman, G., Lee, C., Van Zandt, S., & Jourdan, D. (2023). Toward Urban Artificial Intelligence for Developing Justice-Oriented Smart Cities. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 43(1), 6-7.
- Newman, G., Malecha, M., & Atoba, K. (2023). Integrating ToxPi outputs with ArcGIS Dashboards to identify neighborhood threat levels of contaminant transferal during flood events.. 68(1), 57-69.
- Kirsch, K. R., Newman, G. D., Zhu, R., McDonald, T. J., Xu, X., & Horney, J. A. (2022). Applying and Integrating Urban Contamination Factors into Community Garden Siting. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis. 6(2), 33.
- Newman, G., Lee, C., Van Zandt, S., Ye, X., & Jourdan, D. (2022). Toward a Unifying Definition and Approach for Quantifying Urban Policy Performance.. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 42(4), 510-511.
- Newman, G., Li, D., & Park, Y. (2022). The relationships between neighbourhood vacancy, probable PTSD, and health-related quality of life in flood-disaster-impacted communities. Urban Studies. 59(15), 3077-3097.
Chapters15
- Horney, J. A., Dwyer, C., Vendrell-Velez, B., & Newman, G. (2021). Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas. Urban Design and Human Flourishing. 23-37. Taylor & Francis.
- Kirsch, K. R., Horney, J. A., Sansom, G. T., & Newman, G. D. (2020). Breaking down the walls: challenges and lessons learned in interdisciplinary research. Zandt, S. V., Masterson, J. H., Newman, G. D., & Meyer, M. A. (Eds.), Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change. 75-86. Elsevier.
- Newman, G. D., & Qiao, Z. Introduction. Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise. 3-11. Taylor & Francis.
- Van Zandt, S., Masterson, J. H., Newman, G. D., & Meyer, M. A. Appendix. Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change. 193-200. Elsevier.
- Newman, G. D., & Qiao, Z. Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Statistical Area, League City, TX. Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise. 184-193. Taylor & Francis.
Conference Papers4
- Webb, A. M., Fowler, H., Kerne, A., Newman, G., Kim, J., & Mackay, W. E. (2019). Interstices: Sustained Spatial Relationships between Hands and Surfaces Reveal Anticipated Action. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-12.
- Lupfer, N., Fowler, H., Valdez, A., Webb, A. M., Merrill, J., Newman, G., & Kerne, A. (2018). Multiscale Design Strategies in a Landscape Architecture Classroom. Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 1081-1093.
- Du, J., Ye, X., Newman, G., & Retchless, D. Network Science-based Urban Forecast Dashboard.. Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities. 2022, 7-10.
- Arnold, M. A., Mackay, W. A., McDonald, G. V., Owings, A. D., Schnelle, M. A., & Newman, G. D. Landscape Plants for the South-Central United States-An Instructional Resource for Developing Sustainable Built Environments. Hortscience. 58(9), SR18-SR18.
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- Student Success Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching Excellence Competitive Award conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) - University Level 2018
- Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award conferred by Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture - (Addison, Texas, United States) - Junior Level 2017
- Outstanding Mentor Award conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) - Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture 2017
- LAND112 Land Arch Communicatn Ii Instructor
- LAND240 Hist Of Landscpe Arch Instructor
- LAND311 Landscape Design Iii Instructor
- LAND484 Summer Internship Instructor
- LAND484 Summer Internship:in-ab Instructor
- Tao, Zhihan (2023-07). Assessing Green Infrastructure's Impact on Flood Disaster Resilience: An Economic Perspective on Community Recovery from Tropical Storm Imelda. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Zhu, Rui (2023-06). Associations Between Existing and Re-Greened Vacant Urban Properties and Public Health Across City Types. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Wang, Huaqing (2021-07). Effects of Greenspace Morphology on Population Health. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Gu, Donghwan (2020-11). Redevelopment of Vacant Land: Planning Perspectives on Disaster Recovery. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Kim, You Jung (2019-03). Advancing Scenario Planning to Prepare for Uncertain Climate Change: Future Urban Growth Prediction and Flood Vulnerability. (Doctoral Dissertation)