About

I’m a writer and educator whose work has been published in a variety of academic and popular arenas, including the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Urban Design and the Journal of Planning History, among others. I currently serve as the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the University of Southern California…

Research

It’s hard to sum up all of the things that interest me: urban history, urban planning, public space, heritage conservation, cultural landscapes… If pressed, I would say that I write about the rhetorical practices of urban planners and the consequences of those practices for cities and the people who live in them. This seems to…

Teaching

I have developed and currently teach classes on planning, urban design and heritage conservation at the University of Southern California. In the Sol Price School of Public Policy, I teach a large introductory class for first year planning students, as well as the planning program’s gateway urban design course. In the School of Architecture, I…