Ryan Locke is the director of the upcoming Master of Arts in Architecture and Urbanism at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. He is an urbanist, researcher, and international educator focused on the promotion of human-scale cities and public space design, use, and advocacy.
He holds a Master degree in Urban Planning and Urban Design, and a Doctoral degree in Urban and Regional Studies from the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH – The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His doctoral research, “City Re-Making Approaches in Contemporary Urbanism” focused on processes of urban decline and revitalization, and the role of place-based strategies in the context of shrinking cities, with research carried out in Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York and New Orleans.
While at KTH, he was the co-founder and co-director of the international Master of Urbanism Studies program, where he taught the course Public Life Studies and Tools for Urban Analysis. He was a member of the research group ‘Urban Form and Human Behavior’ at the Center for the Future of Places (KTH). Research and teaching interests include: the history and theory of urban form, the study and application of urban morphology, development and use of public spaces, and postindustrial shrinking cities.
Ryan was previously a project manager and coordinator working with the Ax:son Johnson Foundation, the Future of Places conference series, and the International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) conference series; working to develop, promote, and deliver a range of events and educational forums related to architecture and urbanism.
He is a current member of Ro3kvit, The Urban Coalition for Ukraine.
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