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Dr. Wolfram Hoefer is a Professor and serves as Director of the Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES). CUES is a collaboration between the Rutgers departments of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sciences, providing an opportunity to combine the best science, engineering, and design expertise to address urban environmental issues.
He holds a doctoral degree from Technische Universtät München 2000 and is a licensed landscape architect in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
Dr. Hoefer developed numerous community outreach projects in the field of adaptive re-use of brownfields, urban resiliency, and infrastructure. His research and teaching focus is the cultural interpretation of brownfields as potential elements of the public realm. Further he is investigating the different cultural interpretations of landscapes by the general public in North America and Europe and how they influence public participation processes as well as professional approaches towards planning and design solutions for adaptive re-use of brownfields.
One example is the 2025 book Climate Bridge (Rutgers University Press). Under his leadership, an international team of editors brought together a collection of 21 essays that offer an international perspective on how to address these challenges at the government public interface. His most recent book Suburban Cultural Landscapes (Routledge) places a focus on the concept of cultural landscape and its role for planning and design for place identity in the suburban context
He is the recipient of a 2021 Excellence in Design Studio Teaching by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).
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Center of Urban Environmental Sustainability
Interview with Carolyn Ehrlich, Chief of Staff Woodbridge Township, NJ, local TV Canal Greenable Woodbridge.
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