Dr. Elek Pafka

Elek Pafka is an urban designer and researcher with a Master of Science degree from the Bauhaus University Weimar and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Since 2016 he is Lecturer in Urban Planning and Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the relationship between material density, urban form and the intensity of urban life, as well as methods of mapping the 'pulse' of the city. He has participated in research on transit orientated development, functional mix and walkability. He has co-edited the book Mapping Urbanities: Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities.