Dr. Ole Fryd

Ole Fryd is Associate Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning. His research focuses on the integration of strategic planning, physical urban design and environmental sustainability with a special emphasis on integrated urban water management and the planning and design of urban green infrastructure.

Ole Fryd has an interdisciplinary and context-based approach to urban environmental challenges and tries to support a better way forward through seminars, publications and projects on the ground. He continuously explores the role of urban green spaces as a means to address grand global challenges such as climate change, urbanisation and the provision of safe water and sanitation in developed and developing countries.

His professional experience includes positions as a researcher, lecturer, planner and consultant in Australia, Denmark, Greenland and Thailand.