Resilient City Biographies

	Participant Biographies Recilent City Lectures Spring 2002 complete biographies	Host of Video Stream Lecture
	Thomas J. Campanella abstract \| top is Lecturer in City Design and Development in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and a contributing writer for Wired magazine. He holds an MLA from Cornell University, completed his PhD at MIT in 1999, and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Campanella has published in Salon, Architectural Record, Metropolis, Places and the Harvard Architecture Review, and has contributed chapters to Imaging the City (Center for Urban Policy Research Press, 2001) and The Robot in the Garden (MIT Press, 2000). He is the author of Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), and the forthcoming book Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm (Yale University Press).
	Lawrence J. Vale abstract \|top is Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He holds an undergraduate degree from Amherst College, the SMArchS degree from MIT, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His books include The Limits of Civil Defence in the USA, Switzerland, Britain, and the Soviet Union: The Evolution of Policies Since 1945 (St. Martin's Press, 1987), Architecture, Power, and National Identity (Yale University Press, 1992), which received the 1994 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, and From the Puritans to the Projects: A History of Public Housing in America (Harvard University Press, 2000), which received the 2001 "Best Book in Urban Affairs" award from the Urban Affairs Association. Vale has served as a consultant to the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing. He has been a Rhodes Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of the Chester Rapkin Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, and a Place Research award from the Environmental Design Research Association.
	Max Page abstract \| top is Assistant Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he teaches urban, architectural, and public history. He is the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. He writes for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development and the popular uses of history. He is currently editing Constructing America: American Writings on Architecture, Urbanism, and Place, 1789 to the Present (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), a documentary history of American architecture, as well as Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Routledge, 2003), a collection of scholarly essays on the history of the historic preservation movement.
	Kevin Rozario abstract \| top is Assistant Professor in the American Studies program at Smith College. He holds a PhD in history from Yale University, and has previously taught at Oberlin and Wellesley colleges. This year, with the benefit of an NEH fellowship, he is working on a book entitled Nature's Evil Dreams: Disaster and the Making of Modern America. He recently published an essay "What Comes Down Must Go Up: Why Disasters have Been Good for American Capitalism" in Steven Biel, ed. American Disasters (New York University Press, 2002).
	Brian Ladd abstract \| top is an historian and former Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He holds a PhD from Yale University, and is the author of The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 1998) and Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914 (Harvard University Press, 1990), as well as several recent articles on East German urban planning. He is currently completing a documentary film on Berlin.
	Diane Davis abstract \|top is Associate Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is the author of Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century (1994; Spanish translation 1999). In addition to her extensive writings on the history and politics of urbanization and urban social movements in Mexico, Davis has published articles on local governance, leftist mayors, and democratic transition in Latin America in such journals as the Journal of Urban Affairs, Comparative Urban and Community Research, Politics and Society, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and the Journal of Urban History, among others. Editor of the research annual Political Power and Social Theory, Davis is the recent recipient of fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for her current research on police impunity and deteriorating rule of law in Mexico City, Moscow, and Johannesburg.
	Hashim Sarkis abstract \|top is a practicing architect in Lebanon, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches design studios and courses in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism. His projects includes a housing complex in Tyre, schools in North Lebanon and designs for public spaces in Beirut and Tripoli. He was previously a lecturer in the MIT Department of Architecture and a research associate in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Sarkis has also taught design studios at RISD and Yale University, and has been visiting lecturer at the American University of Beirut. He is executive editor of CASE, a publication series of case studies in architecture and urbanism, author of Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Plans and Photographs of Constantinos Doxiadis (Beirut: Dar an-Nahar, 2002); co-editor with Peter G. Rowe of Projecting Beirut (Prestel, 1998); and an occasional contributor to An-Nahar newspaper in Beirut. He received his BArch and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, his MArch from the GSD, and his PhD in architecture from Harvard University.
	Anthony S. Pitch abstract \| top is the author of The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 (United States Naval Institute, 1998), a selection of the History Book Club, with movie rights optioned by National Geographic. Chained Eagle, his biography of the longest-held American POW in North Vietnam, was a main selection of the Military Book Club. Pitch is currently working on a book about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He won a history prize while attending The King's School, Canterbury, England, and holds a BA from Rhodes University, South Africa. He was a journalist in England, Africa, and Israel before becoming Associated Press Broadcast Editor in Philadelphia and a senior writer in the books division of US News & World Report in Washington. Pitch has been interviewed by Brian Lamb on Book TV and his anecdotal history tours in Washington, D.C. have been featured on international television and C-Span.
	William Fulton abstract \| top is a journalist, urban planner, researcher, pundit, and best-selling author. He is president of Solimar Research Group, Inc., a public policy research firm currently engaged in projects with the Brookings Institution, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern California. Fulton was one of the principal authors of Sprawl Hits The Wall, a report on the future of Los Angeles released in March 2001 by USC. He is economic development columnist for Governing magazine, founding editor of California Planning & Development Report, and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times. His book The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, was recently released in paperback by Johns Hopkins University Press. His second book The Regional City: Planning For The End of Sprawl, co-authored with Peter Calthorpe, was published in 2001 by Island Press. Fulton holds a BA in Mass Communications from St. Bonaventure University, an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from The American University, and an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA.
	Edward Linenthal abstract \| top is the Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture and the Chancellor's Public Scholar at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. His books include Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields (University of Illinois Press, 1993), Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (Viking Press, 1995), and co-edited with Tom Engelhardt, History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past (Henry Holt, 1996). His latest book, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, was released by Oxford University Press in November 2001.
	Carola Hein abstract \| top is Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program. She trained in Hamburg (Diplom-Ingenieurin) and Brussels (Architecte) and obtained her doctorate at the Hochschule fŸr bildende KŸnste in Hamburg in 1995 on the topic of "Hauptstadt Europa." She has published and lectured widely on topics of contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning. From 1995 to 1999 she was a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kogakuin University, studying the reconstruction of Japanese cities after World War II and the Western influence on Japanese urban planning.
	William Mitchell abstract \| top is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. He taught previously at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, UCLA, Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, and Cambridge, and was Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia in 1999. Mitchell holds a BArch from the University of Melbourne, an MED from Yale University, and an MA from Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Melbourne and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His books include e-topia: Urban Life, Jim --But Not As We Know It (MIT Press, 1999); City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1995); The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (MIT Press, 1992); and The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition (MIT Press, 1990). He is currently Chair of The National Academies Committee on Information Technology and Creativity.
	Anthony M. Townsend abstract \| top is a PhD candidate in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Lecturer in Public Administration at New York University. He has published numerous research articles and chapters on the impacts of new communications technologies on urban and regional development. He serves as a technology consultant to major information technology companies including Nortel Networks, Quova, and Telegeography, Inc and is currently conducting cyberdistrict feasibility studies in Jersey City and Newark, New Jersey. Most recently, he co-founded NYCwireless, a volunteer organization that provides free wireless Internet access in public parks in New York City.
	Julian Beinart abstract \| top is Professor of Architecture at MIT, where he teaches classes on the theory of city form as well as urban design studios. His projects and writing have been published widely. Recent writings have focused on a new plan for Chandigarh, proposed at the fiftieth anniversary of the city; the Olympic Games and city form; the form of urban grids; the application of economic instruments to cities in the nineteenth century; and image construction in premodern cities. He practices as an architect and urban designer in many parts of the world, including Jerusalem. He is currently collaborating with architect Charles Correa on the design of the new brain and cognitive sciences center at MIT. Beinart holds a BArch from the University of Cape Town, an MArch from MIT and an MCP from Yale University.
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	Participant Biographies Recilent City Lectures Spring 2002 complete biographies	Host of Video Stream Lecture
	Thomas J. Campanella abstract \| top is Lecturer in City Design and Development in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and a contributing writer for Wired magazine. He holds an MLA from Cornell University, completed his PhD at MIT in 1999, and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Campanella has published in Salon, Architectural Record, Metropolis, Places and the Harvard Architecture Review, and has contributed chapters to Imaging the City (Center for Urban Policy Research Press, 2001) and The Robot in the Garden (MIT Press, 2000). He is the author of Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), and the forthcoming book Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm (Yale University Press).
	Lawrence J. Vale abstract \|top is Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He holds an undergraduate degree from Amherst College, the SMArchS degree from MIT, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His books include The Limits of Civil Defence in the USA, Switzerland, Britain, and the Soviet Union: The Evolution of Policies Since 1945 (St. Martin's Press, 1987), Architecture, Power, and National Identity (Yale University Press, 1992), which received the 1994 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, and From the Puritans to the Projects: A History of Public Housing in America (Harvard University Press, 2000), which received the 2001 "Best Book in Urban Affairs" award from the Urban Affairs Association. Vale has served as a consultant to the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing. He has been a Rhodes Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of the Chester Rapkin Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, and a Place Research award from the Environmental Design Research Association.
	Max Page abstract \| top is Assistant Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he teaches urban, architectural, and public history. He is the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. He writes for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development and the popular uses of history. He is currently editing Constructing America: American Writings on Architecture, Urbanism, and Place, 1789 to the Present (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), a documentary history of American architecture, as well as Giving Preserving a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Routledge, 2003), a collection of scholarly essays on the history of the historic preservation movement.
	Kevin Rozario abstract \| top is Assistant Professor in the American Studies program at Smith College. He holds a PhD in history from Yale University, and has previously taught at Oberlin and Wellesley colleges. This year, with the benefit of an NEH fellowship, he is working on a book entitled Nature's Evil Dreams: Disaster and the Making of Modern America. He recently published an essay "What Comes Down Must Go Up: Why Disasters have Been Good for American Capitalism" in Steven Biel, ed. American Disasters (New York University Press, 2002).
	Brian Ladd abstract \| top is an historian and former Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He holds a PhD from Yale University, and is the author of The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 1998) and Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914 (Harvard University Press, 1990), as well as several recent articles on East German urban planning. He is currently completing a documentary film on Berlin.
	Diane Davis abstract \|top is Associate Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is the author of Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century (1994; Spanish translation 1999). In addition to her extensive writings on the history and politics of urbanization and urban social movements in Mexico, Davis has published articles on local governance, leftist mayors, and democratic transition in Latin America in such journals as the Journal of Urban Affairs, Comparative Urban and Community Research, Politics and Society, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and the Journal of Urban History, among others. Editor of the research annual Political Power and Social Theory, Davis is the recent recipient of fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for her current research on police impunity and deteriorating rule of law in Mexico City, Moscow, and Johannesburg.
	Hashim Sarkis abstract \|top is a practicing architect in Lebanon, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches design studios and courses in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism. His projects includes a housing complex in Tyre, schools in North Lebanon and designs for public spaces in Beirut and Tripoli. He was previously a lecturer in the MIT Department of Architecture and a research associate in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Sarkis has also taught design studios at RISD and Yale University, and has been visiting lecturer at the American University of Beirut. He is executive editor of CASE, a publication series of case studies in architecture and urbanism, author of Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Plans and Photographs of Constantinos Doxiadis (Beirut: Dar an-Nahar, 2002); co-editor with Peter G. Rowe of Projecting Beirut (Prestel, 1998); and an occasional contributor to An-Nahar newspaper in Beirut. He received his BArch and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, his MArch from the GSD, and his PhD in architecture from Harvard University.
	Anthony S. Pitch abstract \| top is the author of The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 (United States Naval Institute, 1998), a selection of the History Book Club, with movie rights optioned by National Geographic. Chained Eagle, his biography of the longest-held American POW in North Vietnam, was a main selection of the Military Book Club. Pitch is currently working on a book about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He won a history prize while attending The King's School, Canterbury, England, and holds a BA from Rhodes University, South Africa. He was a journalist in England, Africa, and Israel before becoming Associated Press Broadcast Editor in Philadelphia and a senior writer in the books division of US News & World Report in Washington. Pitch has been interviewed by Brian Lamb on Book TV and his anecdotal history tours in Washington, D.C. have been featured on international television and C-Span.
	William Fulton abstract \| top is a journalist, urban planner, researcher, pundit, and best-selling author. He is president of Solimar Research Group, Inc., a public policy research firm currently engaged in projects with the Brookings Institution, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern California. Fulton was one of the principal authors of Sprawl Hits The Wall, a report on the future of Los Angeles released in March 2001 by USC. He is economic development columnist for Governing magazine, founding editor of California Planning & Development Report, and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times. His book The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, was recently released in paperback by Johns Hopkins University Press. His second book The Regional City: Planning For The End of Sprawl, co-authored with Peter Calthorpe, was published in 2001 by Island Press. Fulton holds a BA in Mass Communications from St. Bonaventure University, an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from The American University, and an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA.
	Edward Linenthal abstract \| top is the Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture and the Chancellor's Public Scholar at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. His books include Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields (University of Illinois Press, 1993), Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (Viking Press, 1995), and co-edited with Tom Engelhardt, History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past (Henry Holt, 1996). His latest book, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, was released by Oxford University Press in November 2001.
	Carola Hein abstract \| top is Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program. She trained in Hamburg (Diplom-Ingenieurin) and Brussels (Architecte) and obtained her doctorate at the Hochschule fŸr bildende KŸnste in Hamburg in 1995 on the topic of "Hauptstadt Europa." She has published and lectured widely on topics of contemporary and historical architectural and urban planning. From 1995 to 1999 she was a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kogakuin University, studying the reconstruction of Japanese cities after World War II and the Western influence on Japanese urban planning.
	William Mitchell abstract \| top is Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. He taught previously at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, UCLA, Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, and Cambridge, and was Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia in 1999. Mitchell holds a BArch from the University of Melbourne, an MED from Yale University, and an MA from Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Melbourne and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His books include e-topia: Urban Life, Jim --But Not As We Know It (MIT Press, 1999); City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1995); The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (MIT Press, 1992); and The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition (MIT Press, 1990). He is currently Chair of The National Academies Committee on Information Technology and Creativity.
	Anthony M. Townsend abstract \| top is a PhD candidate in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Lecturer in Public Administration at New York University. He has published numerous research articles and chapters on the impacts of new communications technologies on urban and regional development. He serves as a technology consultant to major information technology companies including Nortel Networks, Quova, and Telegeography, Inc and is currently conducting cyberdistrict feasibility studies in Jersey City and Newark, New Jersey. Most recently, he co-founded NYCwireless, a volunteer organization that provides free wireless Internet access in public parks in New York City.
	Julian Beinart abstract \| top is Professor of Architecture at MIT, where he teaches classes on the theory of city form as well as urban design studios. His projects and writing have been published widely. Recent writings have focused on a new plan for Chandigarh, proposed at the fiftieth anniversary of the city; the Olympic Games and city form; the form of urban grids; the application of economic instruments to cities in the nineteenth century; and image construction in premodern cities. He practices as an architect and urban designer in many parts of the world, including Jerusalem. He is currently collaborating with architect Charles Correa on the design of the new brain and cognitive sciences center at MIT. Beinart holds a BArch from the University of Cape Town, an MArch from MIT and an MCP from Yale University.
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