Michel Max Raynaud

Michel Max Raynaud is a full Professor at the Faculty of Planning (Faculté de l'aménagement), Université de Montréal, where he teaches project management and urban design. He serves as Vice-Doyen aux études supérieures since August 2023 and directs the Ivanhoe Cambridge Observatory for Urban and Real Estate Development. His career combines academic rigor with extensive international practice in urban planning and architecture.

• PhD in Urban Planning (Université de Montréal, 2010)
• Diplômé de l'École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles (1974)
• DPLG Architect (France, 1972)

Research Focus:

• Urban security in public spaces
• Governance of metropolitan areas in developed/developing countries
• Stakeholder roles in urban projects
• Post-conflict urban reconstruction
• History of 20th-century urbanism

Article Trends show consistent engagement with urban theory, stakeholder dynamics, and security challenges. His 2017-2018 works on Sub-Saharan African urbanism and abandoned urban structures reveal interdisciplinary interests in postcolonial urbanism and digital urbanism.

Supervision includes doctoral and master's theses on urban security, housing governance, and metropolitan transit planning. He leads the CODEX case study collection and collaborates with UN-Habitat on sustainable African urbanism through the RÉSAUD network.