Simon Gusah MPIA, ANIA

Melbourne, Australia Australia

Executive Secretary & Member, Board of Trustees, Nigeria Resilient Cities Network (NRCN)

Simon is a Urban Development Planner with an interest in Community, Housing and Urban Infrastructure delivery. His appreciation for urban complexity has been applied working on urban infrastructure planning in the informal urban economy for international and local clients. This has shaped his thinking around urban development issues to appreciate that economic ‘inclusion’ means that the way services and infrastructure are designed and delivered needs to be adapted to the needs of users, in a bottom-up manner. It should not be imposed unreflectively from the top-down. He has a sound grasp of livelihood issues and the recursive, inseparable relationship between the formal and informal eco...