Newman, Galen individual record
Professor
overview

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.

education and training
selected publications
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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • Van Zandt, S., Masterson, J. H., Newman, G. D., & Meyer, M. A. Appendix. Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change. 193-200. Elsevier.
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  • Newman, G. D., & Qiao, Z. Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Statistical Area, League City, TX. Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise. 184-193. Taylor & Francis.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
in the news
chaired theses and dissertations
Email
gnewman@tamu.edu
First Name
Galen
Last Name
Newman
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; 3137 TAMU -Langford A 304
College Station, TX 77843-3137
USA