Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions

Notes on Contributors

Ackbar Abbas is a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. Previously he was chair of comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and also codirector of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at HKU. His research interests include globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, architecture, cinema, postcolonialism, and critical theory. His books include Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (1997) and Internationalizing Cultural Studies, coedited with John Erni (2005). He currently serves as a contributing editor to Public Culture. Sherry Ahrentzen is the Shimberg Professor of Housing Studies at the University of Florida, and formerly was associate director of the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family at Arizona State University. Her research—focusing on sustainable residential practices that foster the physical, social, and economic health of households—has been published extensively in journals, books, and magazines. The nature of her work is multidisciplinary and collaborative, and spans the housing studies spectrum from building construction and technology to interior and architectural design, from neighborhood development to community design. N O T E S O N C O N T R I B U T O R S 155 Alfonso Iracheta is an architect and urban and regional planner. He is head of the Urban and Environmental Studies Program at El Colegio Mexiquense, Zinacantepec, Mexico, and president of the National Urban Land Congress, FOROPOLIS, and Centro EURE in Mexico. Author of five books and coeditor of fifteen, and author of more than fifty articles and book chapters, Iracheta has lectured internationally on urban issues. He is a member of the HS-NET (Human Settlement Network) Advisory Board of UN-Habitat. Andrew Kincaid is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His book, Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment, was published in 2006. His articles have appeared in College Literature, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and Eire-Ireland. Currently he is working on a study of Irish maritime modernity, as well as on an exploration of the connections among urban planning, port cities, and security. Linda Krause is associate professor of architectural history and criticism in the Department of Architecture, and associate dean in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She also participates in the Buildings, Landscapes, Culture collaborative initiative with the History of Art Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research and teaching areas include nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural and urban design history, theory, and criticism. She has published articles on architectural and urban theory and coedited, with Patrice Petro, Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age (2003). Paula J. Massood is professor of film studies in the Department of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and on the doctoral faculty in the notes on contributors 156 Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film (2003) and editor of The Spike Lee Reader (2008), and has served as the film and theater subject editor for the African American National Biography project. She is currently completing a monograph on film and photography in Harlem for Rutgers University Press. Linda McCarthy is an associate professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, a faculty member of its Urban Studies Program, and a certified planner. Her research activities focus on urban and regional economic development and planning in the United States, Western Europe, and China. Her recent work has been on regional cooperation, competition among localities for private-sector investment and jobs, the globalization of the economy, the automobile industry, and brownfield redevelopment. Her publications comprise scholarly articles, book chapters, agency reports, and books, including The Geography of the World Economy (2008) with Paul Knox and John Agnew, and Urbanization (2012) with Paul Knox. Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. His teaching and research examine the relationships between landscape and contemporary urbanism. Waldheim coined the term landscape urbanism to describe the recent emergence of landscape as a medium of urban order for the contemporary city. He has authored numerous articles and chapters on the topic, and edited The Landscape Urbanism Reader (2006). He is a licensed architect and principal of Urban Agency, a multidisciplinary consultancy in design...