Michiel Dehaene (° 1971, Leuven) is associate professor in urbanism at the department of Architecture and Urban Planning of Ghent University where he teaches courses in Urban Analysis and Design. (1971) He holds a Master Degree in Engineering-Architecture (KULeuven 1994), a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (Harvard University 1997) and a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (KULeuven 2002). He is an expert on urban and sub-urban renewal, the (planning)history of dispersed urban development, sustainable cities and food planning. He is the chairman of the Flemish Jury of Urban Renewal Projects in Flanders. He is a cofounder of the ‘Stadsacademie’(urban academy), a transdisciplinary co-laboratorium of Ghent University and the City of Ghent working with students, academics, civil servants and civil society based partners on wicked, sustainability related urban questions. His long term work has been structured around the incorporation of urban theories and theories of urbanization within the fields of planning and design, moving away from normative design theory. This work includes systematic work on urban development models and territorial strategies that support the agroecological production of food. With Chiara Tornaghi he leads the JPI SUGI Urbanising in Place project on the development of an Agroecological Urbanism.