Michael Gunder passed away unexpectedly in his sleep in the early hours of March 14, 2021, just two weeks after his 67th birthday. He had moved to Cyprus in 2019 after retiring from his position as associate professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, where he obtained a PhD in Planning in 1994. Throughout his 25 years there, he rose to prominence as a leading theorist in planning philosophy, as the managing editor of the scholarly journal Planning Theory, and as the author of numerous influential academic articles and book chapters. With Jean Hillier he co-wrote Planning in Ten Words or Less: A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning in 2009, co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory in 2017, and at the time of his death, was co-editing the forthcoming Handbook on Planning and Power, to be published in 2022.

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