Dr Annie Matan is a transport and urban planning policy and research professional focused on promoting sustainable transport needs within urban communities. She has a particular focus on what makes places walkable, including a PhD in walkable urban design requirements and theory. She has worked for State and Local Government, Academia and consultancy. Annie is a Transport Policy Analyst at the City of Sydney. Prior to this, she was a Senior Project Officer (Transport), City of Fremantle, Australia, Lecturer and Research Fellow at Curtin University, Australia, and a researcher at Gehl Architects and the West Australian Planning Commission. Annie’s research and policy focus is on enabling walkable environments, including an emphasis on place, health, infrastructure and policy needs. In particular, she is interested with how people interact with the built environment and the human health outcomes of planning decisions. With co-author Prof. Newman, she recently released People Cities: The Life and Legacy of Jan Gehl (2016, Island Press; Chinese 2018; Japanese edition 2021). Other publications include Methods to Enable Walkability (Marinova and Hartz-Karp, 2018) and Health, Transport and Urban Planning: Quantifying the Links between Urban Assessment Models and Human Health (with Newman, Trubka, Beattie and Selvey, 2015).