Antoine Zammit, full-time lecturer within the Department of Spatial Planning and Infrastructure at the University of Malta, has been awarded a Ph.D with no corrections for his final thesis entitled Urban Design Quality Through Development Control: The Case Of Malta.

In their comments, both examiners had words of praise for Dr Zammit’s work, describing it as “an immaculate piece of work fully serving the Ph.D award”.

In his thesis, Dr Zammit takes Malta as a case study and questions the role of development control in delivering urban-design quality.

Dr Zammit’s Ph.D, which was partly funded by the Malta Government Scholarships Scheme, was primarily supervised by Matthew Carmona, an internationally acclaimed and best-selling author in urban design.

His examiners were Prof. John Punter from Cardiff University and Prof. Taner Oc, editor of Journal of Urban Design.

Dr Zammit graduated in 2002 with First Class Honours from the University of Malta as an architect and civil engineer and has been practising since.

In 2005, he obtained a Master’s with Distinction in planning and urban design from University College London, pursuing this area both professionally and academically, locally and overseas.