DrGabriela Quintana Vigiola

Senior Lecturer

Discipline of Planning

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

Gabriela is the Course Director of UTS’s Planning and Urban Design online programs and teaches into both the online and face-to-face courses. She takes a student-centred approach that emphasises the development of skills that graduates will need to co-create the cities of the future.

She teaches the following subjects:

• Master-planning for Urban Renewal (planning studio)
• Urban Design Fundamentals
• Urban design studios (various)
• Planning and Urban Design History and Theories
• Development Negotiation and Community Engagement
• Research seminars (various)




Gabriela supervises qualitative research projects, particularly those with a focus on informality, questions of place, and the social aspects of sustainability. She is currently supervising three PhD projects:

• Challenging the Established Institutions? Paratransit Platforms in Bogota, Colombia
• Study on the Residents' Demands for the Communal Spaces of High-rise Residential Buildings
• The Security of Public Places: Principles and Practice for an Integrated Public Realm